Wednesday, January 24, 2018

If Houston's Alley Theatre's Longtime Artistic Director "Retired" Why Was He Paid $383,000 Severance?

More than 20 current and former Alley employees have told the Houston Chronicle that Gregory Boyd's 28-year, Tony-winning tenure at the theater was tainted by abusive behavior, particularly …

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Friday, January 12, 2018

What Provoked The Sudden Departure Of Houston's Alley Theatre Director

Alley administrators, Gregory Boyd, 66, and several board members refused to respond to requests for interviews about the surprising departure, which comes after Boyd signed a five-year cont…

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Night Court lawyers take the stage for a good cause by Everett Evans

Each summer, they produce a musical with a cast of 30-some lawyers (and judges), who sing, dance, clown and act their hearts out to raise money for legal charities. The show raised $105,000…

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Houston Hero: Roger WoestPianist has perfect pitch for fundraising by Everett Evans

With a little paraphrasing, the classic show tune makes a perfect theme song for pianist and educator Roger Woest. In 2004, Woest found a way to combine two of his favorite activities, maki…

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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

American playwright Lynn Nottage wins prestigious prize by Everett Evans

Nottage, whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, has been well represented in Houston in recent years - with her "Intimate Apparel" produced at Main …

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

'Sound of Music' soars anew with inspired revival by Everett Evans

The final work in the phenomenal 17-year collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, "The Sound of Music" has been an audience favorite since it premiered …

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Forgive them, they're 'Straight White Men' by Everett Evans

Since most of her work has been experimental in form, "Straight White Men" may be considered atypical - a naturalistic play set in the family room of a middle-class home. The eldest, once c…

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Friday, February 12, 2016

Breathing fresh life into a familiar story: director Jack O'Brien reimagines 'The Sound of Music' by Everett Evans

Of all the classic musicals that composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein created together, "The Sound of Music," their final collaboration, is the most familiar. Stage reviv…

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

'52 Pick Up' reshuffles standard love story by Everett Evans

The unusual format, rather than the content itself, is the chief interest in this modestly enjoyable novelty, making its area premiere at Theater LaB Houston. For the rest of the show, man …

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Creative staging makes for haunting 'Doll's House' by Everett Evans

Classical Theatre Company's startlingly effective production of Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama "A Doll's House" demonstrates its command and originality, even before the action begins. Johns…

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Friday, February 5, 2016

'All the Way' captures complicated realities of LBJ's tenure by Everett Evans

First and foremost, it marks the powerful Houston premiere of Robert Schenkkan's engrossing drama about Lyndon B. Johnson's tumultuous first year in the White House - one of the most deservi…

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Monday, February 1, 2016

HGO excels with unsentimental 'Rusalka' by Everett Evans

Magical transformations abound - and we're not refering just to the lyric fairy tale's plot about a lovesick water nymph who risks becoming human in hopes of winning the love of a prince she…

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Friday, January 29, 2016

'Fences' delivers humor, compassion, authenticity, bite by Everett Evans

The Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner roars with life in the Ensemble Theatre's vibrant production, astutely directed by Eileen Morris and showcasing Alex Morris' powerhouse performance as stro…

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'All the Way' makes riveting drama of LBJ presidency by Everett Evans

[...] the play boasts as compelling an opening scene as could be imagined, as Johnson takes the oath of office in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Nove…

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

HGO will present "It's a Wonderful Life" as opera next season by Everett Evans

Houston Grand Opera's 2016-17 season will include the world premiere of a Jake Heggie opera based on the classic Frank Capra film "It's a Wonderful Life," as well as the return of John Adam'…

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Wacky play traipses all over afterlife's map by Everett Evans

A particularly apt illustration adorns the program cover for Stages Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Brendan Bourque-Sheil's comedy "The Book of Maggie" - a signpost whose arrows variou…

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Monday, January 25, 2016

'Fun Home,' 'American in Paris' coming to TUTS by Everett Evans

"Fun Home," winner of the 2015 Tony Award as best musical, and the new stage version of "An American in Paris," which won four 2015 Tonys including best choreography, will make their Houston…

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A groovier "Figaro" survives opening night illness by Everett Evans

After staging the same production of "The Marriage of Figaro" for a quarter-century, it was time for Houston Grand Opera to try a fresh take on Mozart's masterpiece. 

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Friday, January 22, 2016

Soprano sensation Ana Maria Martinez stars in Houston Grand Opera's lyric fairy tale by Everett Evans

The finest of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's 10 operas, the "lyric fairy tale" - as he and librettist Jaroslav Kvapil described it - has been a favorite with audiences in the composer's hom…

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Ensemble embraces August Wilson's 'Fences' by Everett Evans

Given August Wilson's status as the pre-eminent dramatist of African-American life, it's little wonder veteran director Eileen Morris feels a special sense of mission each time she takes on …

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2016-17 season of Broadway at the Hobby Center includes "The Curious Incident" and "The King and I" by Everett Evans

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the 2015 Tony winner as best play, and Lincoln Center Theater's definitive revival of the classic "The King and I," 2015's Tony winner as…

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Artistry, emotion ring true in ‘Bridges’ by Everett Evans

On Broadway in spring 2014, "The Bridges of Madison County" impressed as a distinguished piece of musical theater writing, expertly realized - indeed, one of the most beautiful and moving ne…

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Friday, January 15, 2016

'The Bridges of Madison County' is a bittersweet story that easily translated from book to film to stage by Everett Evans

The Bridges of Madison County" has found new life as a musical chiefly because award-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown wanted the chance to write "a really heartfelt, full-bodied …

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HGO prepares a more modern take on "Marriage of Figaro" by Everett Evans

In the view of the Sunday Times, the production "affirms Mozart's most beloved masterpiece as both of its time and perennially modern, Grandage oiling the comic mechanisms of Da Ponte's libr…

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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Here's what's playing on Houston's theater stages by Everett Evans

National touring company brings the Houston premiere of Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman's critically acclaimed, Tony-winning musical, based on Robert James Waller's bittersweet novel ch…

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Friday, January 8, 2016

Houston Chamber Choir wins national honors by Everett Evans

[...] Robert Simpson, the choir's founder and artistic director, has received the Prize in the Choral Conducting category. Founded in 2009 and awarded annually, the American Prize is a seri…

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Monday, December 28, 2015

'Bullets' a bang-up, Roaring '20s blast by Everett Evans

Idealistic playwright David can get his high-minded drama produced only with the backing of mob boss Nick Valenti, who insists on casting his talentless girlfriend Olive in a key role - the …

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

2015 was a constructive year for arts scene by Molly Glentzer and Everett Evans

Museums broke ground on major expansion projects that will dramatically change the landscape in a few years, theater companies revitalized their spaces, and local small arts groups of all ki…

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Mobsters and music take Broadway by storm in 'Bullets' by Everett Evans

"Bullets Over Broadway," one of writer-director Woody Allen's funniest and most cleverly plotted movies, is a natural for translation to the musical stage. Start with its setting in the 192…

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Friday, December 18, 2015

Hollywood's best Christmas films made in the 1940s by Everett Evans

3 It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Director Frank Capra's ultimate masterpiece is the "King Lear" of Christmas movies in the depth of despair faced by protagonist George Bailey. [...] amusing…

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For offbeat holiday entertainment, see 'Striking 12' by Everett Evans

Theatre Under The Stars' stylish presentation bolsters the Houston premiere of this offbeat, intimate, concert-style show, suited to TUTS' "Underground" series. Intended as a cross between …

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards