Friday, December 11, 2015
In Joseph Robinette's amusing book, faithful to the incidents in the film, and especially in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's sprightly score, the show tells its simple story with agreeable dire…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 10:42AMMusic for Life, the choir's parent company, works in seven African countries to provide educational opportunities for children who are in need because of poverty or the death of one or both …
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The strengths of composition are intertwined with the ingenious production created by original director Francesca Zambello, neatly restaged for this run by Ellen Douglas Schlaefer, and the i…
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Behind the scenes, the show's heroes are Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the up-and-coming songwriting team most responsible for the property's successful transition from beloved Christmas movie…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 04:50PMThe shows range from Euripides' classic tragedy "The Trojan Women," premiered in 415 B.C., to top contemporary playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Mother****er With the Hat," a talked-abou…
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For the fifth consecutive year, productions by the University of Houston's Moores Opera Center have earned top honors from the National Opera Association's annual Opera Production Competitio…
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Yet with both those productions still running, and with most major cities having hosted multiple tours - always in exact replication of the original - one may have sensed a slight dimming of…
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The Catastrophic Theatre, Houston's foremost alternative stage company, will move its operations to the Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston in January.
Before the first show at MATCH, t…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 04:37PM9 MGM's 1938 "A Christmas Carol," a faithful and compact film version, benefits from Reginald Owen's well-rounded portrayal and the studio's neat production values.
Apart from the framing s…
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The emotional violence running rampant through "Everything Will Be Different" is enough to make "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" look like "Peg o' My Heart."
The Catastrophic Theatre is pr…
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Long Yu, artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, has canceled his Nov. 27-29 performances with the Houston Symphony.
Replacing Yu and making his Houston S…
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about the disfigured genius obsessed with a beautiful young soprano is the composer's biggest hit and the longest-running show in Broadway history.
Touring com…
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With its admirable Houston premiere of Lauren Gunderson's "Silent Sky," both the company and founding artistic director Rebecca Greene Udden are working confidently in characteristic mode.
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The Anti-Defamation League will present "Voices in Harmony: 2015 Houston in Concert Against Hate" Wednesday at Wortham Theater Center.
The evening of music, inspiration and appreciation fea…
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In its four decades under founding artistic director Rebecca Greene Udden, Main Street has developed into one of the city's most reliable companies, known for stressing scripts of literary m…
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Sets had to incorporate them, actors had to step around them, audience members occasionally had to lean this way or that to keep their eyes on the players.
When Main Street moved from Autry…
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For its first staging of "Eugene Onegin" since 2002, Houston Grand Opera has turned to director Robert Carsen's production introduced at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1997 - and it proves…
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Lore has it that in the film's initial release, the queen's violent transformation into the witch so terrified tots in the audience that, after the movie's run at Radio City Music Hall, many…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 12:54PMGiven her situation, we realize early on that we can't accept everything Juiliana tells us as fact.
Because she is the play's narrator, with everything filtered through her perspective, "Th…
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The opera boasts one of the tautest librettos, with no superfluous tangents to distract from its gripping narrative, almost exclusively devoted to the three colorful leads and the volatile i…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:37PMThe added shows will play the same dates previously announced for the shows they are replacing - "80 Days" running March 4-April 3 and "The Christians" running April 22–May 15 - as part o…
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When a play centers on a mystery of one sort or another, deciding how much to reveal about the content can be tricky.
In the Alley's production, company stalwart and Broadway veteran Josie …
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:30PMFor one of the world's most popular composers, whose ballet scores and orchestral works are among the most familiar and frequently performed, the comparative infrequency with which his opera…
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John Rubinstein, then 25, made his Broadway debut originating the title role in "Pippin" when the iconic hit premiered in October 1972 - 43 years ago this month.
In the national tour of the…
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Professional wrestling is synonymous with outrageous personalities, over-the-top stunts, exploitative promotions and in-your-face rants aimed at opponents, the audience and the TV cameras.
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Three works will stage workshop performances with bare-bones design, following a four-week development period.
Frankel was literary manager at New York's Public Theatre, where she ran the l…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:05PMAfter rave reviews and four Tonys, including best revival and direction, "Pippin" hits Houston with the national tour's stand at Hobby Center, opening Tuesday.
In succession, he tries soldi…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:03PMThe Alley Theatre presented the original, John Balderston and Hamilton Deane's straight-faced adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel - the version most often staged through the years.
Avant-gard…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:02PMIngrid Garner's solo show is based on her grandmother's experiences as an American girl whose family had moved to Germany seeking work during the Depression and wound up unable to return hom…
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Main Street is opening its 2015-16 Theater for Youth series with a musical based on Margaret Wise Brown's popular children's book.
The occasion has prompted a more elaborate production than…
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Dennis Kelly's book is witty, droll and astutely pointed.
Besides conveying real sympathy for the put-upon heroine, the script upholds Dahl's implicit critique of the disheartening anti-int…
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