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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.
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…
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 …
"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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
[...] 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…
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 …
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…
"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…
