By Randall Jobe The Alley Theatrepresents the final performances of Crimes of the Heart,Beth Henley’s 1981 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Circle Awards winner. The author’s first play brings you to the Mississippi home of the Magrath sisters. Babe has just shot her husband because she didn’t like his looks. This brings middle sister

By Randall Jobe The Music Box Theater salutes Broadway in the final performance of Best of Broadway. The talented resident cast promises to provide non-stop entertainment while performing songs from Tony award winning musicals from across the decades. This troupe’s music-filled and hilarious cabaret features such favorites as the classic “Luck Be A Lady Tonightâ€

By Randall Jobe The Catastrophic Theatre presents the Houston premiere of Booty Candy. Based on Robert O’Hara’s semi-autobiographical and wildly subversive comedy about a young gay man, Sutter, on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms and his grandmother’s nursing home. At times poignant, shocking, hilarious and wise, Booty

By Chris Azzopardi There’s something for every color of the rainbow included in this year’s music-release roster. The list is long, but here’s a taste: debuts from Pitch Perfect star Ben Platt and hair-toss kween Lizzo, songwriter showcases from Patty Griffin and Lana Del Rey, a gay icon (Madonna), emerging gay icons (Ariana Grande, Carly

By Randall Jobe Queensbury Theatre presents the World Premiere of For Tonight. When their parents die of a mysterious illness in their small Welsh village, surviving siblings Thomas, Hayden and Nettie are forced to fend for themselves. Inspired by the Romani who once shared their home, Haydon heads off to Liverpool, guitar in hand, to

By Randall Jobe The Alley Theatre presents the world premier of The Carpenter, a new comedy of mistaken identities and family secrets. Dan is a self-made man from blue collar Houston, while his fiancé is from Dallas—Highland Park, to be exact. As they arrive at her father’s palatial mansion for her wedding, Dan starts to

The Ensemble Theatre presents Too Heavy for Your Pocket, by Jiréh Breon Holder and directed by Eileen J. Morris. The play is a beautifully written look at the personal cost and private struggles behind public events and speaks powerfully about the bonds of friendship and what defines true family.   Holder, inspired by the movies Selma and The Butler, began

A.D. Players at The George is pleased to open the new year with Tuesdays With Morrie, a story of friendship, love and what it means to truly live. A.D. Players is thrilled to present this play with two Broadway veterans helming the two-person script, Kevin Cooney and Jake Speck. Mitch Albom’s book, Tuesdays With Morrie

By Randall Jobe It’s 2019, the beginning of a new year, but local theaters are in mid-season and are continuing to bring you the best in professionally presented productions. Houston has a strong reputation throughout the country for quality theater and we are lucky to have easy access to many wonderful venues and exciting shows.

By Randall Jobe Although we are about to start a new year, the 2018-2019 theater season is in full swing and promising audiences delights, frights and innovations. The past year was full of wonderful productions from the large, established venues as well as the mighty, if often struggling, smaller theater troupes. Houston can proudly extoll