The Black Excellence Tribute Returns With David Banner
Austinites are in for a major treat as The Black Excellence Tribute returns for its third year, with an all-star lineup of poets, performers, artists and more at Austin’s AISD Performing Arts Center Saturday, February...
Backstage With ‘Nixon in China’
Nixon in China, an original Houston Grand Opera (HGO) commission, premiered in 1987 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary right back where it started, on the HGO stage. The contemporary opera is a departure from...
‘Live by Night,’ Dead By Day
For once, "Live by Night" had me wishing the characters would shut up so that something could explode. Affleck has an undeniable knack for filming commotion. There's a car chase and shoot-out in this film that...
Into the Woods – Houston’s Theater Under the Stars
Houston’s Theater Under the Stars has unveiled another wonderful production, this time with the classic fairy tales we all grew up with re-imagined. Stephen Sondheim’s musical has been around for nearly 30 years, but it...
‘Cinderella’ Brings the Ball to Austin
It’s been said that a dream is a wish your heart makes when you’re fast asleep, and if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true. Well it seems that the...
A Ghost Story of Christmas – Alley Theater’s A Christmas Carol
50 pounds of confetti, 14 snow machines 240 pounds of dry ice and 27 wigs are just the beginning of the stunning visual effects in the Alley Theater’s production of “A Christmas Carol.” In its...
‘Rocky Horror Show’ Gets Freaky at TUTS
“Damnit, Janet!” It’s amazing how 43 years changes perception. In 1973, the outlandish and shocking stage musical “The Rocky Horror Show” debuted. While transvestites and sexual experimentation existed, it took much less to surprise an...
“How to Succeed” Prevails at the World Wide Wicket Company
Even window washers need dreams, and J. Pierrepont Finch (That’s F-I-N-C-H to you) is one window washer that you won’t soon forget. He’s the motivated go-getter who is also the main character in the 1961...
Houston’s Alley Theater Celebrates 400 year of Shakespeare
The Alley Theater Company along with theaters across the globe is celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare with different productions and performances centered around Shakespeare’s legacy. The largest production is A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by...
