231 stories by "Everett Evans"
[...] we're at that point in the relatively young 2014-15 season when some theaters are announcing changes for the near horizon - specifically, two shows that were to play this fall.
Catast…
The Alley has taken its lead from the celebrated 1977 Broadway revival, re-creating famed artist Edward Gorey's award-winning sets and costumes that so revitalized the warhorse on that occas…
The un-dead hotties of "True Blood" and "Twilight" may have given vampires a sexy rep, but no one can hold a flickering candle to the original bat man, Count Dracula. With the Alley Theatre'…
In a series of monologues (and some group recitations), various women describe how they view themselves in relation to their clothes, and vice versa, and discuss the significance of key arti…
Stages unveils the legend's newest avatar Friday with its regional premiere of "Marie Antoinette," playwright David Adjmi's post-modern, 21st-century take on the ill-fated 18th-century queen…
Released in 1936 (under its original title "Tell Your Children"), the movie illustrated how even one puff of "the devil's weed" could lead clean-cut teens to sexual degradation, auto theft, …
Ben has recently lost his job as a bank loan officer, but is establishing his own online business as a financial planning consultant.
For now, Kenny stocks shelves in a warehouse and Sharon…
Renowned illustrator and author Edward Gorey created wittily macabre pen-and-ink drawings of eccentric doings in Victorian and Edwardian settings. Artistic director Gregory Boyd is banking …
Main Street has given us many memorable Coward plays, beginning with a 1975 "Hay Fever" that was the company's first show under the Main Street moniker.
[...] its affecting realization of t…
Yet the Ensemble Theatre gets considerable comic and dramatic mileage from the subject with its Houston premiere of Joyce Sylvester's "Women in the Pit."
A few questionable choices in the s…
[...] if residual affection for the film convinces a company to revive the flawed stage version, they've got to move beyond that connection and make the project seem worthwhile in its own ri…
Set in "any first-ring suburb of a midsize city" (the title is metaphoric, not literal), the play depicts two couples whose get-together starts out ordinary but turns explosive.
Ben and Mar…
Actor Julian Sands will perform his solo show "A Celebration of Harold Pinter" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Alley Theatre @ UH.
The show combines Pinter's poems and prose with Sands' anecdotes an…
Both the 1982 movie and the 1995 Broadway musical are inextricably identified with the legendary Julie Andrews, for whom "Vic/Vic" was created in both media.
Though the original film remain…
What if Germany had won the Battle of Britain in 1940 and England had been forced to live under Nazi occupation?
That's the intriguing premise of Noël Coward's "Peace in Our Time," a dram…
The play centers on Tom Trevor, a moderate conservative senator considered a rising star in his party.
[...] they seem at odds with their party, rolling their eyes at the more intolerant st…
The two key reasons for doing the show, however, are well served in Krissy Richmond's sympathetic portrayal of the heroine and the orchestra's strong performance of Merrill's melodious score…
In Houston for Alley Theatre's production of a Horton Foote play, Betty Buckley reveals that intuition played a big part in her career
Actress Betty Buckley was barely a teen when she had a…
"New Girl in Town" makes its Houston debut this week, courtesy of Bayou City Concert Musicals - and it took only 57 years to get here.
A 1957 Broadway hit but seldom seen since, the show cer…
The 2014-15 Houston theater season will not be the most adventurous the city has seen - not by a long shot. But consider some mitigating circumstances.
The Alley Theatre is treading cautiou…
In successive flashes of light that quickly fade to darkness, the star is revealed in a series of characteristic poses - a striking start for the action.
Musing on the premise of "if I coul…
Characters behaving badly are the core of many playwrights' works - but not usually Horton Foote's.
Oh, there may be the wastrel brother or cousin skulking at the edges. But in most of Foot…
The Alley Theatre begins its year away from home next week. Yet the company's Houston premiere of "The Old Friends," opening Wednesday at the University of Houston's Wortham Theatre, has all…
Rather young for the part then, Edmundson nonetheless seemed natural casting as the larger-than-life fashion editor and tastemaker who tackled every project with style and gusto.
An additio…
Actress Sunny Thompson brings the legendary actress to life using the star's own words Yet Sunny Thompson has made such an impact in the solo play "Marilyn Forever Blonde!," it's obviously …
