For children who are hospitalized or undergoing treatment, anything that provides momentary diversion and lifts the spirit is welcome. Through its Healing Arts program, Young Audiences of H…
[...] under Stages Repertory Theatre artistic director Kenn McLaughlin's inventive and theatrically invigorating direction, a terrific seven-actor cast makes the most of the script's humor, …
"What I Learned" is not a political play, but a romantic comedy set among campaign staffers as they relish their victory and anticipate remaining part of the team that will bring a new day t…
The presenter of chamber music and jazz will continue its trademark multimedia programs exploring connections between arts disciplines, as in a Marcel Proust Project combining excerpts from …
[...] with eager-to-please direction and choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and genial leads in husband-and-wife "American Idol" alumni Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo, the production is relat…
ABC's pre-broadcast description describes the show thus: "With unprecedented access, Sawyer goes behind-the-scenes to show viewers what happened beyond the frame in those famous movie scenes…
Bayou City Theatrics, a small and relatively new company, has taken on a big challenge by tackling a beloved, large-scale classic in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" - especially wi…
The title may sound irreverent - dismissive even - but don't think playwright Aaron Posner is giving the bird to Anton Chekhov's seminal classic "The Seagull" with his acclaimed 21st-century…
Based on the 2007 film of the same title, the folk-style musical makes its Houston debut with the touring company at Hobby Center, with personable leads Stuart Ward and Dani de Waal heading …
Broadway legend Audra McDonald was in spectacular voice for her concert Tuesday night at Wortham Theater Center, a gala inaugurating the University of Houston Moores School of Music's Madiso…
Part of the fun in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is just how monumentally un-smoothly things run, not only for the play's four bewildered young lovers but for its crew of bumbling craftsmen tu…
[...] like many recent popular movies, "Once" has found a second life on stage. The show makes its Houston premiere with the national touring company, opening Tuesday at Hobby Center. Writ…
Through the struggles and triumphs of one family, held together by several generations of formidable women, the play chronicles Croatia's tumultuous history - from the remnants of monarchy, …
"Troubled" is too mild a word for Stuart, the 16-year-old protagonist of "The Blackest Shore," Mark Schultz's play making its world premiere at Catastrophic Theatre. Yet a friendship that d…
Renowned as author of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Twain also was a beloved presence on the lecture circuit. Twain's years on the lecture circuit cue…
Latest of the Montreal company's spectacles to reach Houston, "Amaluna" represents considerable advances in giving each the traveling tent shows (the company has got quite a few) a distincti…
[...] committed to participate are opera great Bryn Terfel (April 26, 2016) and concert pianist Lang Lang (Sept. 15, 2016). Since emerging from the Juilliard School, McDonald has been an in…
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…