231 stories by "Everett Evans"
Despite the trendy drag element and the contemporary sound of Cyndi Lauper's invigorating score, at heart, this is an old-fashioned, wholesome show.
The national tour, presenting the show's…
Bernadette Peters is: A a Broadway legend; B a Broadway institution; C a national treasure. Arguably the top female musical-theater star of her generation and certainly one of the greatest …
Every production from the Montreal circus empire has some defining premise to provide continuity and hold the show together.
[...] as a Cirque show has few spoken words, the situational set…
Bright and early this morning, as Houston sits down to breakfast, three dozen stage hands will swarm the Houston Grand Opera's cavernous stage and begin the intricate task of dismantling the…
Cyndi Lauper has been a prime force in pop music since her debut album, "She's So Unusual," in 1983.
[...] as composer and lyricist for the 2013 Broadway musical "Kinky Boots," she was an u…
"All the Way," Robert Schenkkan's Tony-winning drama depicting the tumultuous first year of Lyndon Baines Johnson's presidency, will make its regional premiere in January as part of the Alle…
The Alley Theatre's current production suggests director Gregory Body decided to go for broke with the play's extremes, pushing a bit further in all directions.
Despite a few moments of exc…
"Fly," at the Ensemble Theatre, registers as an earnest, stirring tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, who made history during World War II as the United States' first black military pilots.
Tre…
The special affection long-time Houston Grand Opera patrons have for "The Magic Flute" can be attributed, at least in part, to the charming Maurice Sendak-designed production the company pre…
Houston premieres of three Tony-winning musicals fresh from Broadway - the mordantly witty "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the rhapsodically romantic "The Bridges of Madison County…
Alley Theatre artistic director Gregory Boyd made a smart move before deciding which Shakespeare play would be the next he'd select for production at his theater.
No surprise, really, since…
A world premiere by Carlisle Floyd, a rare staging of Antonin Dvorák's fairy-tale opera "Rusalka" and a new-to-Houston production of Peter Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" are among the eye-…
Denise Fennell, in Stages' production of "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," the celebrated one-woman play famously originated by Lily Tomlin; and Jim Brochu in "Char…
What is that oddly serene, extremely pregnant young woman doing hitchhiking in a torrential downpour?
"Cloud Tectonics" certainly supplies an intriguing opening image - and in José Rivera'…
Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force. Because most trained at one of two airfields near Tuskegee, Ala., they came to be…
The protagonist of "Tigers Be Still" opens the play with that over-confident declaration of victory over the craziness and darkness in her life.
[...] the words themselves, not to mention t…
The outrageous musical satire made its Houston debut with the national tour's two-week stand in September 2013.
Mischievously skewering religion and musicals through its tale of two monumen…
The incomparable music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim give the cast of Main Street Theater's "Putting It Together" abundant opportunities and challenges - and the talented team usually rises…
Simplicity is a core strength of "My Name Is Asher Lev," Aaron Posner's sensitive dramatization of Chaim Potok's much-loved novel about a gifted young Jewish painter whose devotion to art br…
Director Diane Paulus' Tony-winning revival of "Pippin," the Carole King jukebox hit "Beautiful" and a stage version of "I Love Lucy" are the newsy items in Broadway at Hobby Center's 2015-1…
Director Diane Paulus' Tony-winning revival of "Pippin," the Carole King jukebox hit "Beautiful" and a stage version of "I Love Lucy" are the newsy items in Broadway at Hobby Center's 2015-1…
The scaffold climbing much of the Alley Theatre and the crane reaching from Texas Avenue to a large opening where part of the roof used to be only hint at the massive makeover underway on th…
Yes, he is blessed with an exceptional artistic gift, apparent from his early childhood, and he grows to maturity with a great sense of responsibility to develop that gift and use it properl…
Hapless yet indestructible, Annie wandered through an endless series of adventures, usually accompanied by her steadfast canine pal, Sandy, with billionaire industrialist Daddy Warbucks as h…
Artistic director John Johnston has said he's never found a production that truly satisfied him - because most omit too many of Dickens' words (such as the opening, "Marley was dead, to begi…
