FRI 11/11 Ah, if only we could all just dance out our problems together. A Palestinian children's troupe from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip is spearheading the...
FRI 11/4 For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf debuted on Broadway in 1976, at a time when black women's stories just weren't told on stage....
If you have sweet memories of Judy Garland skipping down the yellow brick road with her trio of misfits, beset by a cackling Margaret Hamilton and aided by a giddy Billie Burke...
THU 10/20 Aaron Landsman's site-specific play, What You've Done, is the sometimes mysterious, sometimes hilarious, always intimate tale of Rain, a young woman who vanishes and...
WED 10/19 The year is 999 AD, and the Vikings want to loot and plunder England. Ye olde king, woeful over the impending apocalypse of the new millennium, gives his blessing to...
THU 10/6 It might be the stellar lineup of veteran talent that draws audiences to the world premiere of Tony-winning writer Ken Ludwig's new comedy Be My Baby -- and rightly...
SAT 10/1 In real life, he'd be just another cranky old man. But armed with a microphone and an acerbic wit, 68-year-old George Carlin is known as an edgy performer. The caustic...
THU 9/22 The ballet world doesn't pass its torches often, so when a young choreographer is featured alongside top-shelf dancemakers -- as is the case in Houston Ballet's...
Back in 1979, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber turned Eva Perón's up-by-the-bootstraps tale into one of Broadway's most famous musicals. Beautiful, sexy and epic in...
FRI 9/9 It's difficult to combine, say, curry with french fries or a sari with jeans. But it can be achieved -- tastefully and stylishly -- with a little creativity. Such is...
SAT 9/3 "I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day," quoth the immortal poets of KISS, setting the standard of hard-rockin' debauchery for generations to come. This...
THU 8/25 Fans of serious fretboard pyrotechnics won't want to miss this. Austin ax-wielder Eric Johnson is an international legend, employing a wide and deep stylistic palette...
THU 8/18 Some college kids are getting together this weekend to talk about sex. Shocking, no? But before you "whatever" this one away, note that the dialogue in the play Sex...
Jokes about your favorite fast-food joint may seem lame. But Bruce Bruce is laughing all the way to the bank, thanks to his riffs on wings 'n' thighs. The Atlanta-based comic,...
SAT 8/6 Can't tell if you're a tepee or a wigwam? Maybe you're just "two tents." Ha! Groaning yet? At the Turkey Awards, the Houston Storytellers Guild's annual fund-raising...
SAT 7/30 "She's a goddess." "She's my hero." "You know, her band influenced Kurt Cobain." When told about this snippet of overheard audience conversation at one of her recent...
Bestiality was never so cerebral as it is in John Harvey's one-woman tale Hotel Pasiphae, the latest offering by local theater troupe Mildred's Umbrella. Inspired by Greek...
FRI 7/15 Poet Marie Brown is a smooth, jazzy poet who scats with a Billie Holiday-esque grace. But behind her grace is a subtle fury. The San Antonio native started writing...
THU 7/7 Playwright Ted Swindley knows a thing or two about good country music. Two summers ago, Stages Repertory Theatre opened Swindley's Always...Pasty Cline, featuring songs...
Tall, dapper, smoother than silk and able to make white America swoon during the segregated '50s, Nat King Cole was a helluva role model for a black kid. That's the premise...
