231 stories by "Everett Evans"
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 …
For 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…
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…
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…
After 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…
The 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…
Ingrid 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…
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…
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…
[...] the wacky world of professional wrestling invades Stages with the company's Houston premiere of "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," opening Friday.
The play's central figure, and …
The reconfigured seating creates better sight lines and brings the audience closer to the actors.
Improvements throughout the building, from lobby to bar, have made it more spacious, comfor…
Though far from perfect and never completely conquering doubts about the notorious outlaw couple's suitability as musical protagonists, the show has much to recommend it.
Ivan Menchell's bo…
Artistic director Gregory Boyd faced a tough decision with the Alley Theatre's eagerly anticipated reopening after its yearlong, $46.5 million renovation.
With his oft-demonstrated love of …
The trick to adapting one of Roald Dahl's classic children's books for the stage or screen is finding just the right tone and corresponding visual profile.
The 1996 film "James and the Gian…
Holbrook will appear "in conversation" with Alley artistic director Gregory Boyd, launching the series of interviews with notable writers, actors and directors.
Holbrook is best known for h…
With its bleak worldview, arbitrary devices and bizarre flourishes, the play is catnip for the artistes of Catastrophic Theatre, Houston's foremost alternative theater company.
[...] direct…
Gypsy Snider, who devised the acrobatic and aerial movement for the tour, was in Houston last week to lead the periodic brush-up rehearsal of the show's physical feats.
Snider created the c…
The touring tent-show presentation of J.M. Barrie's classic has been doing sufficiently strong business to extend its run - originally announced through Oct. 4 - through Oct. 25.
For more t…
The play sets out to portray the romance of African-American Freeman and Latina Angelita, and the challenges generated chiefly by prejudices and preconceptions of friends and family - and pe…
They're young. They're in love. They rob banks. They kill people.
And now, they sing.
What's more, they sing Frank Wildhorn songs - to Broadway critics, apparently the most heinous crime of…
The Alley Theatre, the first of Houston's arts companies to forge a national reputation, has been central to the city's claims as an arts mecca. Recently, though, the theater has fallen behi…
Houston will get an authentic taste of New York's downtown arts scene with the Joe's Pub Series at Midtown Arts and Theatre Center (MATCH). The series launches in November with performances …
Free tours will allow the public a first look at the renovated theater complex, its backstage area and public spaces.
Mayor Annise Parker, along with cultural and civic leaders, will partic…
In the play, Angelita and Freeman, both college students in New York, find their relationship challenged by the prejudices and misconceptions of family and friends.
First staged at a small …
