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Substantially retooled for the stage, the show arrived on Broadway in 2012 to favorable press and adoring, capacity audiences.
"Newsies" began as a screenplay by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White…
Stages offers cult favorite 'Mack and Mabel'
Since its premiere in 1974, "Mack and Mabel" has been a favorite hard-luck show, a production with so much going for it it should have been a sm…
Yet the beloved Meredith Willson musical holds up amazingly well, demonstrated by Theatre Under The Stars' current production.
Life was (or seemed) all barbershop quartets, Fourth of July c…
The play depicts two senior gents who once competed for the love of the same (now deceased) woman and still can't get along - yet wind up on the same park bench each day, irritating yet some…
"The Spiritualist" benefits from a fascinating premise - always a head start for any play, and a bit of insurance along the way, should the idea's realization prove imperfect.
In the case o…
Ah, but the recurring use of the famous "Liebestod" - the ever-resolving but never quite resolved "Love-Death" music of the opera's final scene - clues us in that, for all the shenanigans, K…
Gunn has returned to Houston Grand Opera for his much-anticipated role debut as the titular "demon barber" in "Sweeney Todd," composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's chef d'oeuvre.
Yet ons…
With Houston Grand Opera's thrilling production of "Sweeney Todd," one of the musical theater's greatest works has come full circle.
Yet with the scope of its story, the scale of its passio…
Houston premieres of the recent off-Broadway hits "Dogfight" and "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," plus the Judy Garland bio-play "End of the Rainbow," are among the highlights of Stag…
The Alley is playing host, presenting the Houston debut of the admired British troupe Kneehigh Theatre, in "Tristan & Yseult," one of the company's signature productions, opening Wednesday a…
Houston premieres of GrooveLily's offbeat "Striking 12," Frank Wildhorn's "Bonnie and Clyde" and the off-Broadway musical "Heathers" will constitute Theatre Under The Stars' 2015-16 "Undergr…
Director Carlus Padrissa's arresting visuals often dovetail nicely with the mood and meaning of the music, especially the splashy projections on ever-shifting panels, the production's primar…
Stunning critics and audiences alike is nothing new for "Sweeney Todd," the audacious musical thriller widely regarded as composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece.
The remarkabl…
Anton Chekhov's final classic is an acknowledged masterpiece of world theater - but like all his works, poses tricky challenges.
The play centers on Lubov and Gaev, a middle-aged sister and…
The fifth Maher play produced by Houston's Catastrophic Theatre, "The Hunchback Variations" takes the form of a panel discussion on theatrical sound effects.
Quasimodo re-creates the variou…
Say "opera" to many people and the first image that comes to mind will be a formidable blond woman, wearing a winged helmet, carrying a spear and singing her lungs out.
Given that Wonder Wo…
Whatever the peculiar mystique, Jack Heifner's three-woman comedy "Vanities" - a sort of "Three Little Cheerleaders and How They Grew" - became a surprise success in the late 1970s.
Concurr…
The concertmaster traditionally plays a leadership role with any orchestra - guiding the violins, the orchestra's largest section, and is crucial to the overall ensemble's cohesiveness and e…
"The Hunchback Variations" - starring none other than Quasimodo, Victor Hugo's immortal bell-ringer of Notre Dame - makes its Houston premiere Friday.
The play's author is Mickle Maher, a f…
An island community faces a censorship crisis because, as letters begin to fall from an inscription on the town monument, the governing council begins banning the letters one by one - from b…
The transatlantic comedy hit "One Man, Two Guvnors," the sci-fi thriller "The Nether" and the medical drama "The Other Place" will make their Houston premieres in the Alley Theatre's 2015-16…
Astutely staged by playwright Theresa Rebeck in her directing debut and artfully acted by a uniformly fine cast, "All My Sons" remains impressive in sheer human impact as an understanding po…
Was it THE Robert Durst? -the notorious and eccentric gazillionaire who once again stands accused of foul play?
If the absent donor was indeed THE Robert Durst, missing Saturday's event wou…
'All My Sons' probes ethics, consequences
Since 2015 is the centenary of Arthur Miller, America's pre-eminent dramatist of ethical issues and social conscience, Alley Theatre artistic direc…
Acclaimed song stylist Hilary Kole, who has won an avid following in New York's jazz and cabaret scene, says she never would have become a singer if not for Judy Garland.
Kole gratefully re…
