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Texas Repertory Theatre: Steel Magnolias Texas Repertory Theatre Company |
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., March 27 until Sat., April 11 |
Outer Loop - NW |
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The title says it all — Steel Magnolias. Playwright Robert Harling’s most well-known work, Steel Magnolias is the touching story of a group of Southern women who seem to be delicate and fragile but are in fact as strong as iron. With undying optimism, well-worn friendship and the... More >> |
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Company OnStage: Alice in Wonderland Company OnStage |
Every week Saturday from Sat., March 7 until Sat., April 11, 11:00am
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Outer Loop - SW |
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It’s a different rabbit hole in this Alice in Wonderland. A troupe of performers is after Alice, hoping to take her back to Wonderland for another chance to tell her story. 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Through April 11. Company Onstage, 536 Westbury Square. For information, call 713-726-1219 or... More >> |
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The Convenient Woman DiverseWorks |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., April 3 until Sat., April 11, 8:00pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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It’s entertaining to watch the women of Real Housewives and Top Model. But less entertaining is the cold, hard fact that women are still confused and tormented by society’s notions of body image and gender roles. In The Convenient Woman, a dance-theater performance showing today at... More >> |
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Doubt: A Parable Company OnStage |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., March 6 until Sat., April 11, 8:00pm |
Outer Loop - SW |
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The first line of Doubt: A Parable is, “What do you do when you’re not sure?” Playwright John Patrick Shanley spends the rest of the show not answering the question. Although it’s set in 1964, Doubt discusses issues that are hot buttons today. A hard-line nun accuses a... More >> |
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Catastrophic Theatre: Hunter Gatherers Stages Repertory Theatre |
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., March 25 until Sat., April 11, 8:00pm |
River Oaks |
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Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s farce Hunter Gatherers is about modern couples — and it isn’t. Pam and Richard are having their friends Wendy and Tom over for their yearly get-together. Things start off normally enough; there’s the usual animal sacrifice, then some sex, a little... More >> |
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Ensemble Theatre: Constant Star Ensemble Theatre |
Every week Thursday from Thu., March 19 until Sun., April 12, 7:30pm
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Downtown/ Midtown |
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The focus of Constant Star, Post-Reconstruction pioneer Ida B. Wells took on the United States railroad system, President McKinley and W.E.B. Du Bois. At the turn of the last century Ms. Wells, the daughter of freed slaves, changed history when she sued the Chesapeake Ohio and Southwestern... More >> |
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Shunya Theatre: Everybody Loves a Good Tsunami Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex |
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., April 3 until Sun., April 12, 8:00pm |
East End |
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 When disaster strikes, there are the victims, and then there are all those well-meaning do-gooders who want to help those victims. Sujit Saraf's Everyone Loves a Good Tsunami, presented here by Shunya Theatre, a Houston group devoted to providing a theatrical voice for the South Asian-American... More >> |
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Masquerade Theatre: Children of Eden Hobby Center for the Performing Arts |
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., April 16 until Sun., April 19, 8:00pm
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Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Stephen Schwartz, the man behind Godspell and Wicked, tackles the conflict between fathers and sons, mothers and daughters in Children of Eden, presented here by Masquerade Theatre. Filled with rock, folk and gospel music, Children uses two ancient stories, the Garden of Eden and the Great... More >> |
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Theatre Southwest: The Seven Year Itch Theatre Southwest |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., April 10 until Sat., May 2, 8:00pm
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Outer Loop - SW |
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 The film version of The Seven Year Itch gave us Marilyn Monroe in a white dress standing over a New York City subway grate, its hot air blowing up her skirt while she writhed suggestively. That was as sexy as the 1950s ever got. Today Theatre Southwest’s production of The Seven Year Itch... More >> |
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Sordid Lives Stage Door Theater |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., April 10 until Sun., April 19, 8:00pm
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Outside Houston |
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 It’s a jumble of crazy relatives, country music, drunks, cheaters, a female ex-con, a Vietnam vet with two wooden legs and a Tammy Wynette-look-alike transvestite who’s in the nuthouse in the stage comedy Sordid Lives (what else could it be called?). 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 3... More >> |
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Alley Theatre: Mauritius Alley Theatre |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., April 10 until Sun., May 3 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 The world of philately may not seem the stuff of great drama, but if anyone can make studying rare stamps interesting theater, it’s playwright Theresa Rebeck. Those who saw the Alley Theatre’s productions of Bad Dates or The Scene can attest to Rebeck’s fine theatrical acumen.... More >> |
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The Wizard of Oz Hobby Center for the Performing Arts |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., April 7 until Sun., April 19 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 If you think The Wizard of Oz is a little kid’s story, think again. Sure, there’s the pastel countryside and a sweet little girl who just wants to go home. But there’s also a killer tornado, a really mean witch and some sharp-toothed flying monkeys. Things get pretty scary for... More >> |
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Lonestar and Laundry & Bourbon Freneticore Theater |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., April 3 until Sat., April 18, 8:00pm |
East End |
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Pandora Theatre mounts its first production in the newly remodeled Frenetic Theater with a pair of James McLure’s one-act plays. First, there’s Lonestar, which is set in the 1970s on a hot summer night in Maynard, Texas. Brawny Vietnam vet Roy and his brother Ray are passing the time... More >> |
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Buy One Get Five Free Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts |
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., April 3 until Sat., April 11
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Downtown/ Midtown |
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Amy Lanasa is from the grand state of Texas, which seems to have served her well — the up-and-coming playwright garnered a Best Short Play award at the 2001 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival for poking fun at her fellow Lone Star residents. Buy One Get Five Free, the farce... More >> |
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Wallflower Stages Repertory Theatre |
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., April 3 until Sun., April 19 |
River Oaks |
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The age of YouTube has turned shy girls into revolutionaries. That’s the premise behind Deborah Stein’s Wallflower, getting its world premiere today at Stages Repertory Theatre. The writer sees the world in unpredictable ways. Her past plays include Bone Portraits, about the history... More >> |
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Working, the Musical ACE Theatre |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., April 3 until Tue., April 28, 8:00pm |
Outer Loop - NW |
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Stephen Schwartz knows a thing or two about musicals. After all, he wrote some of the most popular ones ever to hit Broadway — Wicked, Pippin and Godspell. Still, when it came to transforming Studs Turkel’s book Working, a collection of interviews with everyday working people, into... 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
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Lower Shepherd-Kirby |
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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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Weekly Daytime Opera Talks Glassell School of Art |
Every week Monday, 1:00pm-2:30pm |
Montrose |
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The Country Playhouse presents Laughing Stock Country Playhouse |
Every week Friday, Saturday, 7:30pm
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Outer Loop - NW |
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Featured at the Center Houston GLBT Community Center |
Second Friday of every month |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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A Phoenix Too Frequent Grace Theater |
Daily from Thu., April 9 until Sat., April 11 |
Lower Shepherd-Kirby |
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Alley Theatre: Mauritius Pay-What-You-Can Alley Theatre |
Sat., April 11, 2:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Discovery Green: The Texas Mime Theatre Discovery Green Conservancy |
Sat., April 18, 12:00pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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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
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Kirby-West U |
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Alley Theatre: Mauritius: TalkBack Alley Theatre |
Tue., April 21, 7:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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