The special affection long-time Houston Grand Opera patrons have for "The Magic Flute" can be attributed, at least in part, to the charming Maurice Sendak-designed production the company pre…
Houston premieres of three Tony-winning musicals fresh from Broadway - the mordantly witty "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the rhapsodically romantic "The Bridges of Madison County…
Alley Theatre artistic director Gregory Boyd made a smart move before deciding which Shakespeare play would be the next he'd select for production at his theater. No surprise, really, since…
A world premiere by Carlisle Floyd, a rare staging of Antonin Dvorák's fairy-tale opera "Rusalka" and a new-to-Houston production of Peter Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" are among the eye-…
Denise Fennell, in Stages' production of "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," the celebrated one-woman play famously originated by Lily Tomlin; and Jim Brochu in "Char…
What is that oddly serene, extremely pregnant young woman doing hitchhiking in a torrential downpour? "Cloud Tectonics" certainly supplies an intriguing opening image - and in José Rivera'…
Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Force. Because most trained at one of two airfields near Tuskegee, Ala., they came to be…
The protagonist of "Tigers Be Still" opens the play with that over-confident declaration of victory over the craziness and darkness in her life. [...] the words themselves, not to mention t…
The outrageous musical satire made its Houston debut with the national tour's two-week stand in September 2013. Mischievously skewering religion and musicals through its tale of two monumen…
The incomparable music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim give the cast of Main Street Theater's "Putting It Together" abundant opportunities and challenges - and the talented team usually rises…
Simplicity is a core strength of "My Name Is Asher Lev," Aaron Posner's sensitive dramatization of Chaim Potok's much-loved novel about a gifted young Jewish painter whose devotion to art br…
Director Diane Paulus' Tony-winning revival of "Pippin," the Carole King jukebox hit "Beautiful" and a stage version of "I Love Lucy" are the newsy items in Broadway at Hobby Center's 2015-1…
Director Diane Paulus' Tony-winning revival of "Pippin," the Carole King jukebox hit "Beautiful" and a stage version of "I Love Lucy" are the newsy items in Broadway at Hobby Center's 2015-1…
The scaffold climbing much of the Alley Theatre and the crane reaching from Texas Avenue to a large opening where part of the roof used to be only hint at the massive makeover underway on th…
Yes, he is blessed with an exceptional artistic gift, apparent from his early childhood, and he grows to maturity with a great sense of responsibility to develop that gift and use it properl…
Actor Todd Waite grew up accustomed to the cold weather of his native Canada " but since joining the resident company of Houston's Alley Theatre in 2000, he's come to appreciate a different …
Hapless yet indestructible, Annie wandered through an endless series of adventures, usually accompanied by her steadfast canine pal, Sandy, with billionaire industrialist Daddy Warbucks as h…
Artistic director John Johnston has said he's never found a production that truly satisfied him - because most omit too many of Dickens' words (such as the opening, "Marley was dead, to begi…
Hailing Schultz as "a fresh voice in American theater," artistic director Jason Nodler is following the same course he's taken with other emerging playwrights, such as Mickle Maher and Miki …
Feverishly applying ink to paper, he "wept and laughed and wept again" - as he described his disposition in a letter - and later, "walked about the black streets of London fifteen and twenty…
Whether because of some dazzling new additions, like the climactic "Let Christmas Shine," the spectacular use of dimensional projections as backdrops, or simply overall tightening, fleeter p…
Guy applies to Macy's flagship store in Manhattan, intending a few weeks as a Christmas season sales clerk - but unexpectedly winds up playing an elf in Santaland. [...] wouldn't you know i…
Denise Fennell is back for her sixth Stages run as irrepressible Sister, this time in "Sister's Christmas Catechism" - another solo comedy show in the apparently inexhaustible "Late Nite Cat…
Any aspiring playwright's dream-come-true is an actual production of her play. Kendall Kaminksy, a senior at the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance, gets that this week with …
Former Houstonian Terrence Spivey, artistic director of Cleveland's historic Karamu House theater, will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology's 2015 confer…