251 stories from Houston Chronicle
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 …
Houston Chronicle theater critic Everett Evans reviews Houston Grand Opera's production of "Tosca."
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…
Houston Chronicle theater critic Everett Evans reviews the national touring production of the Tony-winning revival of "Pippin." It plays at the Hobby Center through Sunday.
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…
