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Life Is Happy and Sad DiverseWorks
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Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., December 3 until Sat., December 19, 8:00pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Cutting-edge Catastrophic Theatre Artistic Director Jason Nodler created the play Life Is Happy and Sad as a prequel to his 2006 cult musical from Infernal Bridegroom Productions, Speeding Motorcycle. The play is based on the music and life of Daniel Johnston, Austin's only manic-depressive... More >> |
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The Ensemble Theatre: Christmas with Great Aunt Ensemble Theatre
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Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 21 until Fri., December 18 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Fresh from their other raise-the-roof, packed-house collaborations for Ensemble Theatre - The Wiz, The Twelve Ways of Christmas and Ain't Misbehavin' - director/choreographer Patdro Harris and musical director Carlton Leake join their considerable theatrical forces with Houston writer Thomas... More >> |
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Texas Repertory Theatre: Miracle on 34th Street Texas Repertory Theatre Company
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Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., November 19 until Wed., December 23 |
Outer Loop - NW |
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 Valentine Davies's Christmas favorite Miracle on 34th Street gets a remake by the Texas Repertory Theatre Company. The play, a crisp mix of comedy and cynicism, hope and magic, starts when a Macy's Santa, coincidently named Kris Kringle, says he's actually the real Santa. Kringle gets thrown in... More >> |
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever University of Houston Main Campus
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Sat., December 5, 1:00pm |
Third Ward |
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 The six Herdman kids are pretty awful - they have rude, crude and unruly down to a science in the kid's stage comedy The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Much to everyone's dismay, the rug-rat six-pack shows up at church one day (they find out snacks are handed out during Sunday school) and stumble... More >> |
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The Story of My Life Theater LaB
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Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., October 30 until Sun., December 6, 8:00pm
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Heights |
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 Theatre LaB Houston presents the regional premiere of The Story of My Life. The moving musical centers on a writer, Thomas (played by Stephen Myers), and a bookstore owner, Alvin (John Dunn), who have known each other since childhood. Home to deliver the eulogy at Alvin’s funeral, Thomas... More >> |
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The Producers Playhouse 1960
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Every week Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 27 until Sat., December 19, 8:00pm |
Outer Loop - NW |
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 Mousy accountant Leo and failed Broadway producer Max have a plan: put on the worst play in the history of the world (a musical called Springtime for Hitler, in which the Germans win the war), watch it immediately fold and then abscond with all the investors' money. It sounds like a good scheme... More >> |
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Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company: Margo Veil Midtown Art Center
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Every week Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., December 3 until Sat., December 19 |
Third Ward |
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 Jennifer Decker, artistic director of Mildred's Umbrella, has made her theater into a place where all things experimental are welcome. So when Margo Veil, a play by the avant-garde writer Len Jenkins, appeared in her mailbox, she was intrigued. She says Jenkins "apparently had had a... More >> |
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The Sound of Music Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., December 8 until Sun., December 20 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 Here it is — Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, otherwise known as your long-awaited break from Nutcrackers and Scrooges alike. Offered by Theatre Under the Stars, the show about the amazingly talented Von Trapp family (with the kids played by local actors) and their lovely and... More >> |
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A Christmas Carol Alley Theatre
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., November 20 until Sun., December 27 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 No matter how many times we see Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, it always has a timely - and much needed - message. (Thanks, Black Friday.) Get your annual reminder about the true meaning of the holidays care of the Alley Theatre. "Dickens's classic virtually created, in Victorian times,... More >> |
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Santaland Diaries Alley Theatre
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Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 28 until Sun., December 27 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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 David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries is the world-renowned author/humorist's tale of working as an elf in the Christmas wonderland display at Macy's New York. So as you can guess, it's a stocking filled with sarcasm and biting wit. Sedaris's plastic wonderland is filled with stilted Santas, crying... More >> |
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A Christmas Carol: Unscripted ComedySportz
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Every week Saturday from Sat., December 5 until Sat., December 26, 10:30pm |
Outer Loop - NW |
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 The improv athletes of ComedySportz will put a slightly different spin on Dickens's most famous tale with A Christmas Carol: Unscripted this season as they meld the basic plot and characters of Ebenezer Scrooge's familiar story with ideas taken from the audience before show time. With no... More >> |
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Panto Sleeping Beauty Stages Repertory Theatre
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Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., November 18 until Sun., January 3 |
River Oaks |
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 Stages Repertory Theatre is mounting a slightly different holiday show this year, Panto Sleeping Beauty. "Last season, Panto Cinderella was a great success," says Eva Laporte, resource development manager for the company. "It was such a treat that we decided to do Sleeping Beauty this year.... More >> |
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Quail Valley Church Christmas Program Sugar Land Town Square
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Sat., December 5, 5:00pm |
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Music is the Thing with Carlton Leake Ensemble Theatre
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Thu., December 10 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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La Rondine Cinemark 18 - Webster Metropolitan Opera Live in HD
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Thu., December 10, 12:00pm |
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Improv 101 for Beginners ComedySportz
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Sun., December 13 |
Outer Loop - NW |
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The Evil That Men Do ...The Stage Play<.i> Grace International Church
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Sun., December 20 |
Outer Loop - SW |
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La Rondine (ENCORE) Cinemark Katy TX Metropolitan Opera Live in HD
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Mon., December 21, 7:00pm |
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Master Class Main Street Theater
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Sat., January 2 |
Montrose |
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Literacy through the Art of Cooking and Theatre Talento Bilingue de Houston
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Sat., January 16, 2:00pm |
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Wonderland $10 Tix Alley Theatre
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Sat., January 16, 2:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Wonderland Audio Description and Open Captioning Alley Theatre
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Sat., January 16, 2:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Wonderland Talk Back Alley Theatre
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Tue., January 26, 7:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Wonderland - ActOUT Alley Theatre
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Thu., January 28 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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From Conception to Birth: The Making of a Play with Don Wilson Glenn Ensemble Theatre
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Fri., January 29 |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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