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Houston Shakespeare Festival Miller Outdoor Theatre |
Tue., August 4
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Outer Loop - SE |
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 This year's Houston Shakespeare Festival features two "very entertaining shows for the summer," says Brandy Robichau, associate director of community relations for the University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance. First is Twelfth Night, one of Big Will's most beloved comedies. Remember... More >> |
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ExxonMobil Summer Chills - The Crucifer of Blood Alley Theatre |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., July 15 until Sun., August 16 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 At the Alley Theatre’s The Crucifer of Blood, an ExxonMobil Summer Chills production, Holmes and his sidekick Watson are busy with a mysterious case involving a cursed treasure chest from exotic Victorian India. The story, adapted by Paul Giovanni from Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of... More >> |
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Texas Repertory Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie Texas Repertory Theatre Company |
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., July 16 until Sun., August 16 |
Outer Loop - NW |
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 See the first-ever local professional production of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Texas Repertory Theatre. The show, which features new songs from the 2002 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival, is set in the roaring '20s. It's the story of an ingenue who sets out to conquer the Big Apple and... More >> |
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The Ornery Theatre: Rough for Theatre I and II Super Happy Fun Land |
Fri., August 7, 8:00pm
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Heights |
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 It’s cool enough that two Samuel Beckett shows are on the program. But Ornery Theatre is actually producing two “very rarely produced” fragments not published till the ‘70s, says Michael Switzer, the director and producer of Rough for Theatre I and Rough for Theatre II.... More >> |
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Frenetic Fringe Festival Freneticore Theater |
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., August 7 until Sun., August 23 |
East End |
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 The 2nd Annual Frenetic Fringe Festival is all about timing. “It’s a very concentrated type of festival that requires absolutely no patience,” says co-creator Robert Thoth. If you don’t like what you’re seeing, “wait 15 minutes,” he says. Chances are, one of... More >> |
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The Tamarie Cooper Show Stages Repertory Theatre |
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., July 30 until Sat., August 29, 8:00pm
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River Oaks |
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 Be happy, Houston - our lady of the beautiful red hair has risen once again and she's bigger (as in, very pregnant) and better than ever. That's Tamarie Cooper, for those poor souls who've never seen one of the grande dame's grand musicals. They always happen in the summer, and they're always... More >> |
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Tuna Does Vegas The Grand 1894 Opera House |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., August 7 until Sun., August 16 |
Galveston |
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 What happens when Vera Carp, a proud member of the Smut Snatchers of the New Order, ends up in Las Vegas? A whole lot of laughing, at least that’s what Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard are hoping for in Tuna Does Vegas. They are the silly threesome behind the Greater Tuna stories,... More >> |
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The Andrews Brothers Stages Repertory Theatre |
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., July 30 until Sun., August 30 |
River Oaks |
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 You’ve heard of the Andrews Sisters? Now meet The Andrews Brothers, four brothers working as stagehands for a USO show in the South Pacific during WWII. When the Andrews Sisters are quarantined with chicken pox, the boys don wigs and high heels and take their place. It’s a... More >> |
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Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company: Last Easter Gremillion & Co. Fine Art Inc. |
Every week Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., July 30 until Sat., August 15 |
Kirby-West U |
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 Any play that works Irving Berlin, the incomparable Baroque painter Caravaggio and Judy Garland all into the plot needs to be seen. Such is the case with prolific English playwright Bryony Lavery's Last Easter. Presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company, the show follows lighting designer... More >> |
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Violet HITS Theatre |
Thu., August 13, 7:30pm
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Heights |
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 The central character of Violet has seen a whole lot of pain in her life. When she was just a girl back in the North Carolina mountains, her father accidentally hacked her in the face with his ax. Since then, very few people have looked past the scars to see her. Now it's 1964, Violet's a young... More >> |
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10 x 10 Country Playhouse |
Fri., August 14, 8:00pm
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Outer Loop - NW |
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 If you love the idea of attending stage plays but have a serious problem paying attention to anything over ten minutes long (blame the blasted Internet!), Scriptwriters/Houston has just the evening for you: The 19th installment of 10 x 10, ten ten-minute plays by local authors presented by the... More >> |
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The 12th Annual Festival of Originals Theatre Southwest |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., July 17 until Sat., August 8 |
Outer Loop - SW |
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Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Berry Center |
Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., July 24 until Sat., August 8, 8:00pm
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Ps and Qs: The ABCs of Manners Main Street Theater |
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., July 5 until Sun., August 9 |
Montrose |
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Dirty Dealings in Dixie Theatre Suburbia |
Every week Sunday from Sun., July 26 until Sat., August 29, 3:00pm
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Outer Loop - NW |
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Steel Magnolias Grace Theater |
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., July 2 until Sun., August 30 |
Lower Shepherd-Kirby |
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You Can't Take it With You Grace Theater |
Daily from Fri., July 3 until Sun., August 30 |
Lower Shepherd-Kirby |
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Theatre Under the Stars: 13 Hobby Center for the Performing Arts |
Daily from Thu., September 10 until Sat., September 12 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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TUTS Performance Studio Hobby Center for the Performing Arts |
Every week Saturday from Sat., September 19 until Sat., November 21 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Cirque Shanghai-Bai Xi The Grand 1894 Opera House |
Sat., November 7 |
Galveston |
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Camelot The Grand 1894 Opera House |
Sun., November 15 |
Galveston |
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La Rondine Cinemark 18 - Webster |
Thu., December 10, 12:00pm |
Outside Houston |
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Improv 101 for Beginners ComedySportz |
Sun., December 13 |
Outer Loop - NW |
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La Rondine (ENCORE) Cinemark Katy TX |
Mon., December 21, 7:00pm |
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Leading Ladies The Grand 1894 Opera House |
Fri., February 19 |
Galveston |
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