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| Classical Theatre Company: The Triumph of Love Brazos Bookstore | Fri., February 13, 7:00pm | Kirby-West U | |
French playwright Pierre de Marivaux hasn’t enjoyed the same long-term success his contemporaries Molière and Racine have, but that doesn’t stop Houston’s Classical Theatre Company from presenting his work. Today they’ll partner with Brazos Bookstore for a staged... More >> |
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| National Acrobats of China Jones Hall |
Sat., February 14, 2:00pm more dates/times |
Downtown/ Midtown | |
The National Acrobats of China have been wowing audiences around the world for 50 years. Today, it’s our turn. Thirty-five athletes, expert in martial arts, acrobatics and illusion, take the stage performing seemingly impossible feats. Set to traditional Chinese music, the routines... More >> |
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| Arms and the Man Company OnStage | Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 9 until Sat., February 14, 8:00pm | Outer Loop - SW | |
 War and love — is there any better combination for a comedy? If George Bernard Shaw is the one putting the two together, then the story is bound to be both funny and smart. Arms and the Man is an old-fashioned romantic comedy of the very best sort — it asks you to think even as... More >> |
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| A Bronx Tale Hobby Center for the Performing Arts | Daily from Tue., February 3 until Sun., February 8 | Downtown/ Midtown | |
 Chazz Palminteri was a young, out-of-work actor in 1989 when he wrote the play that changed his life. “I said, ‘If they won’t give me a part, I’ll write one myself.’ I went to the store, got five pads of yellow paper and started writing A Bronx Tale.” Based on his... More >> |
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| Bud, Not Buddy Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market |
Every week Saturday from Sat., February 7 until Sat., February 21, 4:00pm more dates/times |
Montrose | |
In Bud, Not Buddy, it’s 1936, the midst of the Great Depression and Bud is a boy who doesn’t have a lot of choices. He can stay with an abusive foster family or he can hit the road and look for the man who might be his father. Bud doesn’t have much to go on, just some clues his... More >> |
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| Caught in the Net Bay Area Harbour Playhouse |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 23 until Sun., February 15, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Outside Houston | |
 Ray Cooney’s Caught in the Net features John Smith, a London taxi driver with a secret — well, two actually. He’s a bigamist. So far both his families have remained happily ignorant of each other, but his delicate balancing act is about to be upturned. His daughter from family A... More >> |
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| Cheaters Pasadena Little Theatre | Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., January 30 until Sun., February 8 | Heights | |
 She wants to get married, he doesn’t. Their solution? Dinner with both sets of future in-laws to talk things over. What they don’t know is that his mom is doing it with her dad, and his dad is knocking boots with her mom. (That adds extra meaning to “Pass the butter,... More >> |
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| Compleat Female Stage Beauty Midtown Art Center | Every week Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., February 12 until Sat., February 28, 8:00pm | Third Ward | |
When you’re a 17th-century boy who likes boys and plays girls’ roles in the theater, the last thing you need is the boys’ artistic monopoly on female characters getting revoked on the whim of a monarch. That’s where thespian Ned Kynaston finds himself in Compleat Female... More >> |
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| Dryope and Iole Theatre Suburbia |
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 25 until Sun., February 1, 3:00pm more dates/times |
Outer Loop - NW | |
 It’s hard to make the Great Depression funny, but playwright Nancy Kiefer manages to do to just that in Dryope and Iole. (Kiefer, theater fans will remember, wrote The Illustrated Woman.) Set in the poverty and desolation of the Depression, the play examines women’s relationships... More >> |
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| Encore Players: The Odd Couple (The Female Version) Katy Performing Arts Society |
Fri., February 13, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Outside Houston | |
You have your choice of slobs this weekend — two local theater groups are performing Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. The Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center is presenting an updated, female rendition, while Texas Repertory Theatre is going for the standard male version. Cast with... More >> |
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| Eurydice Alley Theatre | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., January 30 until Sun., March 1 | Downtown/ Midtown | |
 If you like your stories to follow a nice, straight line, you might find Eurydice a bit of a challenge. Not because the plot wanders, but because playwright Sarah Ruhl’s use of language is simultaneously jarring and poetic. You can guess from the title that this is a retelling of the... More >> |
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| Express Children's Theatre Presents Kian Long, Texas Pioneer Express Children's Theatre | Every week Saturday from Sat., February 7 until Sat., March 7, 2:00pm | Outer Loop - NW | |
Jane Long was one of the first white women to settle in Texas in the 1820s, and her story is well known. But Long didn’t come alone. Her slave and companion Kian was with her. Together they survived harrowing dangers and encountered a Texas on the brink of revolution. The children’s... More >> |
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| Grandpa Hasn't Moved in Days Radio Music Theatre |
Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., January 15 until Sat., May 9, 8:30pm more dates/times |
Lower Shepherd-Kirby | |
Radio Music Theatre presents the drop-dead-funny show Grandpa Hasn’t Moved in Days. Grandpa Ned Fertle has passed away, and an assortment of outrageous Fertle family members and neighbors in Dumpster (all played by the three members of the comedy company) have come to say goodbye. This is... More >> |
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| The Hero Squad vs. The Princess Snatchers Grace Theater | Daily from Wed., January 28 until Fri., February 27 | Lower Shepherd-Kirby | |
The Hero Squad has a daunting task ahead of them: They have to figure out if Nikolai Oshkoshbgoshikov is an evil mastermind, or just a misunderstood guy with a really, really long name. (E-vil mastermind! E-vil mastermind!) They’ll find out in today’s performance of the... More >> |
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| The Man Who Saved New Orleans Ensemble Theatre |
Wed., January 28, 7:30pm more dates/times |
Downtown/ Midtown | |
Playwright Thomas Meloncon’s new play is called The Man Who Saved New Orleans. It’s a misnomer, of course, because we all know nobody saved New Orleans. Meloncon explains the title refers to one of the characters, not the city. “Arthur Prejean is an 86-year-old blind man who... More >> |
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| The Odd Couple Texas Repertory Theatre Company |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., February 6 until Sun., February 22, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Outer Loop - NW | |
You have your choice of slobs this weekend — two local theater groups are performing Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. The Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center is presenting an updated, female rendition, while Texas Repertory Theatre is going for the standard male version. Cast with... More >> |
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| Playhouse 1960: The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie Playhouse 1960 | Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 23 until Sat., February 14, 8:00pm | Outer Loop - NW | |
You can’t believe your eyes at an Agatha Christie mystery, because nothing is what it seems to be. It’s no different for The Unexpected Guest. As the show begins, Michael Starkwedder has had some car trouble, and he goes to a nearby house for help. Instead of a helping hand, he finds... More >> |
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| The Sorcerer's Other Apprentice Company OnStage |
Every week Saturday from Sat., January 12 until Sat., February 14, 11:00am more dates/times |
Outer Loop - SW | |
 Chip, Chip, Chip, what are you doing? You’re The Sorcerer’s Other Apprentice, not the sorcerer. But not to worry, master wizard Merwyn has planned a trip that should teach you a lesson or two. Now, pay close attention, because if the dragon doesn’t get you, the uppity princess... More >> |
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| Legally Blonde the Musical Hobby Center for the Performing Arts |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Tue., February 10 until Sun., February 22, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Downtown/ Midtown | |
A blond bombshell might not be your typical lawyer, but then again Elle Woods, the pink-loving princess at the center of Legally Blonde the Musical, isn’t typical. Proving that beauty and brains really do go together, the powder-puff sorority girl follows her ex to Harvard Law School, and... More >> |
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| The Country Playhouse presents Laughing Stock Country Playhouse |
Sun., September 23, 2:30pm more dates/times |
Outer Loop - NW | |
| Featured at the Center Houston GLBT Community Center | Second Friday of every month | Downtown/ Midtown | |
| Rocky Horror Picture Show Premiere NASA 8 Dollar Cinema | Every week Saturday, 11:59pm | Outside Houston | |
| Weekly Daytime Opera Talks Glassell School of Art | Every week Monday, 1:00pm-2:30pm | Montrose | |
| 29th Youth Theater Season: Bud, Not Buddy Main Street Theater |
Every week Saturday from Sat., February 7 until Sat., February 21, 1:00pm more dates/times |
Kirby-West U | |
| 29th Youth Theater Season: Sideways Stories from Wayside School Main Street Theater |
Every week Saturday from Sat., April 18 until Sat., May 16, 1:00pm more dates/times |
Kirby-West U | |
