Thursday, August 13, 2015
The city is a rarity in boasting resident professional companies in each of the performing arts: ballet, theater, symphony and opera.
Alley Theatre, Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, Hou…
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"The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," a fascinating Tennessee Williams rarity, makes its Houston premiere this week as an Equity Showcase production - a labor of love for director Ron …
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:38PMJ.M. Barrie's classic stage fantasy "Peter Pan" has been adapted in many ways - from the Broadway musical beloved by several generations, to the equally enduring Disney animated film, to bal…
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This year's Houston Shakespeare Festival scores big with a powerful, tautly focused "Macbeth."
With forceful, straightforward direction by Jack Young, and particularly strong performances by…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 06:00PM"The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare's odd comedy with a dark streak, often is called a "problem play." It's also somewhat problematic.
The Houston Shakespeare Festival's current production…
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The new Queensbury Theatre - actually, the former Country Playhouse, reborn with a new name and new building - opens Thursday with a 50th-anniversary production of one of musical theater's b…
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With favorite funny men Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick starring, and genius director and choreographer Susan Stroman at the helm, the show became Broadway's biggest hit of the early 21st …
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Main Street Theater's 2015-16 season will include Houston premieres of the 57-scene Love and Information and Silent Sky, based on the true story of a pioneering woman scientist.
[...] in th…
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Between 75 percent and 80 percent of the work is finished, and the construction crew will be out of the building by July 15, managing director Dean Gladden said, giving the Alley's staff two…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 01:12AMThe Alley Theatre's key improvements include the addition of a four-story fly loft above the Hubbard Stage, allowing scenery and equipment to be suspended out of the audience's view; and an …
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"An American in Paris," "Fun Home," "The Visit" and "Something Rotten" are this year's Tony nominees as best musical - as varied and worthy a bunch as Tony has fielded in several years.
The…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 04:28PM[...] The Curious Incident" follows the same path as "War Horse," another memorable National Theatre production, which transferred to Broadway after London success and won the 2011 Tony.
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SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 04:24PMCanadian pianist, playwright, actor and singer Hershey Felder makes a surprisingly reasonable facsimile in his solo show "George Gershwin Alone," presented by the Alley Theatre in its interi…
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Expectations were sky-high for this Lincoln Center Theater production, as it reunites key talents, including director Bartlett Sher and star Kelli O'Hara, responsible for the unforgettable 2…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 05:16PMRodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" is back - with a difference, in the lavish and enjoyable touring production of the recent Broadway hit.
Yet she's acquired a social conscience and mor…
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When composer George Gershwin died of a brain tumor in 1937 at the age of 38, the loss felt like a body blow to American culture.
Yet almost 80 years later, the legacy of one of the 20th ce…
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With ingenious direction by Kenn McLaughlin, high-stepping choreography by Kristin Warren, strong performances by leads Tom Frey and Bridget Beirne, and the entire company entering wholehear…
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Broadway version debuting at Hobby Center gives heroine a social conscience while staying true to Rodgers and Hammerstein
"Cinderella" has been retold innumerable ways - but only one boasts…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 06:36PMStriking newsboys in 1899 New York are the focal point of "Newsies," but every musical needs a leading lady.
In the national tour of the recent Broadway hit, Styles plays Katherine, the plu…
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Disney Theatrical's 2012 Broadway hit, making its Houston premiere with the vibrantly performed touring production at Hobby Center, boasts the additional satisfaction of salvaging a great pr…
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Substantially retooled for the stage, the show arrived on Broadway in 2012 to favorable press and adoring, capacity audiences.
"Newsies" began as a screenplay by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 04:59PMStages offers cult favorite 'Mack and Mabel'
Since its premiere in 1974, "Mack and Mabel" has been a favorite hard-luck show, a production with so much going for it it should have been a sm…
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Yet the beloved Meredith Willson musical holds up amazingly well, demonstrated by Theatre Under The Stars' current production.
Life was (or seemed) all barbershop quartets, Fourth of July c…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 04:00PMThe play depicts two senior gents who once competed for the love of the same (now deceased) woman and still can't get along - yet wind up on the same park bench each day, irritating yet some…
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"The Spiritualist" benefits from a fascinating premise - always a head start for any play, and a bit of insurance along the way, should the idea's realization prove imperfect.
In the case o…
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Ah, but the recurring use of the famous "Liebestod" - the ever-resolving but never quite resolved "Love-Death" music of the opera's final scene - clues us in that, for all the shenanigans, K…
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Gunn has returned to Houston Grand Opera for his much-anticipated role debut as the titular "demon barber" in "Sweeney Todd," composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's chef d'oeuvre.
Yet ons…
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With Houston Grand Opera's thrilling production of "Sweeney Todd," one of the musical theater's greatest works has come full circle.
Yet with the scope of its story, the scale of its passio…
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Houston premieres of the recent off-Broadway hits "Dogfight" and "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," plus the Judy Garland bio-play "End of the Rainbow," are among the highlights of Stag…
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle Subscription at 04:43PMThe Alley is playing host, presenting the Houston debut of the admired British troupe Kneehigh Theatre, in "Tristan & Yseult," one of the company's signature productions, opening Wednesday a…
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Director Carlus Padrissa's arresting visuals often dovetail nicely with the mood and meaning of the music, especially the splashy projections on ever-shifting panels, the production's primar…
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