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Dolly songs, ‘Spring’ and a summer mellerdrammer
By Randall Jobe
Stages Repertory Theatre presents Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, directed by Katie Barton with music Direction by Ben Hope. The iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes to life in this unique musical about struggle and success, love and faith, rowdiness and redemption and home and family. It features more than two dozen classis hits including “I Walk The Lineâ€, “A Boy Named Sueâ€, “Folsom Prison Blues†and “Ring of Fire.†It’s a foot-stompin’, crowd-pleasin’ musical portrait of The Man in Black. Through September 2. Stages also presents the return of extremely popular and talented Denise Fennell in Sister’s Summer School Catechism: God Never Takes A Vacation. The diocese has decided to offer summer school for those who need additional classroom time. Sister leads hysterical discussions about whether Jesus had to go to summer school and appropriate summer vacations for practicing Catholics. Classroom participation is a must, but being Catholic is not! August 1 through September 9. 3201Allen Parkway. Tickets: StagesTheatre.com or 713-527-0123.
A.D. Players presents Neil Simon’s God’s Favorite. The jokes and tests of faith fly fast and furious in this contemporary morality tale of business tycoon Joe Benjamin, a modern-day “Job†with troubles aplenty thanks to the Almighty. Joe and his family live a comfortable life on Long Island until they receive a visit from Sidney Lipton who claims to be a Messenger of God. Through August 5, 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. A.D. Players’ The George Theater, 5420 Westheimer Road. Tickets: 713-526 2721 or boxoffice@ADPlayers.org.
Main Street Theater presents Doug Atkins in Jonathan Tolins’s Buyer & Cellar. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, Alex More has a story to tell. He takes a day job
working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar (a-hem, Barbra Streisand!). One day the lady herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their connection ever make it upstairs in the real world? An outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the love-hate relationship between gay men and divas, and the oddest of odd jobs. Through August 12. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 3 p.m. 2540 Times Boulevard. Tickets: 713-524-6706.
IconoTheatrix, a new youth theatre, presents Spring Awakening, a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Ebony Bell directs. Thursday through Sunday, July 26 through August 5. At Obsidian Theater, 3522 White Oak Drive. Tickets: IconoTheatrix.org or 832-889-7637.
University of Houston School of Theatre presents Houston Shakespeare Festival.
Since 1975, HSF has brought together local and nationally acclaimed artists to deliver free performances of the Bard’s greatest (and occasionally lesser known) plays. This year, the festival presents quite the difference in tone with arguably literature’s greatest tragedy, Hamlet, and one of Shakespeare’s broadest, yet timeless comedies, The Comedy of Errors, featuring not one but two sets of identical twins for the height in hysterical hijinks. July 27 through August 5. Miller Outdoor Theatre, 6000 Hermann Park Drive. Tickets: Free; available for pickup at box office behind theatre, 10:30 a.m. ’til 1 p.m. day of performance, while they last. Maximum four tickets per person (over 16) for covered seating.
Island East End Theatre Company (ETC) present 9 to 5 The Musical. Three unlikely friends take control of their office and learn there is nothing they can’t do – even in a “man’s world.†Music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. Kim Mytelka directs. Through August 5. 2317 Mechanic Street, Galveston. Tickets: 409-762-3556.
Theatre Suburbia presents She Was Only Marginally Modest or Have You No Shame?, a summer mellerdrammer by Ver Harden. Elvin Moriarty directs. Friday through Sunday, through August 25. 4106 Way Out West Drive. Tickets: TheatreSuburbia.org or 713-682-3525.
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