231 stories 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…
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…
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 …
Yet "The Little Match Girl" sparked GrooveLily's offbeat concert-style musical "Striking 12," previewing Thursday and opening Friday as part of Theatre Under The Stars' "Underground" series …
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…
Music 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 …
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…
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…
The 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…
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…
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…
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…
9 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Given 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…
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…
The 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 of …
