Anchored by strong performances from Jenn Harris and Miriam A. Laube, the production reminds the audience how tragedy tests us running through Nov 3rd.
Lawlor, 75, died Feb. 26, following a decade-long battle with Alzheimer's.
Della & Tim (JULIA GIBSON & MICHAEL PEMBERTON) the married couple in "The Cake" at the Alley through July 1st bear more than a superficial resemblance to TV's Roseanne & Dan Connor.
After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Drew Cloud's existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake. "Drew Cloud is a pseudonym th…
"The midcentury ideal " of literature as an aesthetically and philosophically complex activity, and of criticism as its engaged and admiring decoding " is gone. In its place stands the idea …
The interim artistic director at the Alley Theatre is weighing the best response to the query of, "What will be Gregory Boyd's legacy?" Boyd, who left in January, helped grow the company's r…
More than 20 current and former Alley employees have told the Houston Chronicle that Gregory Boyd's 28-year, Tony-winning tenure at the theater was tainted by abusive behavior, particularly …
Alley administrators, Gregory Boyd, 66, and several board members refused to respond to requests for interviews about the surprising departure, which comes after Boyd signed a five-year cont…
Gregory Boyd, who served as artistic director for 29 years (and signed a five-year contract renewal in 2016), told staff that he had planned to retire after the end of last season but stayed…
The study of theater has always been a slightly odd fit with higher education. Theater's departmental needs are so different from the norm: Where other programs require smart classrooms, des…
Each summer, they produce a musical with a cast of 30-some lawyers (and judges), who sing, dance, clown and act their hearts out to raise money for legal charities. The show raised $105,000…
With a little paraphrasing, the classic show tune makes a perfect theme song for pianist and educator Roger Woest. In 2004, Woest found a way to combine two of his favorite activities, maki…
Nottage, whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, has been well represented in Houston in recent years - with her "Intimate Apparel" produced at Main …
The final work in the phenomenal 17-year collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, "The Sound of Music" has been an audience favorite since it premiered …
Since most of her work has been experimental in form, "Straight White Men" may be considered atypical - a naturalistic play set in the family room of a middle-class home. The eldest, once c…
Of all the classic musicals that composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein created together, "The Sound of Music," their final collaboration, is the most familiar. Stage reviv…
The unusual format, rather than the content itself, is the chief interest in this modestly enjoyable novelty, making its area premiere at Theater LaB Houston. For the rest of the show, man …
Classical Theatre Company's startlingly effective production of Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama "A Doll's House" demonstrates its command and originality, even before the action begins. Johns…
First and foremost, it marks the powerful Houston premiere of Robert Schenkkan's engrossing drama about Lyndon B. Johnson's tumultuous first year in the White House - one of the most deservi…
Magical transformations abound - and we're not refering just to the lyric fairy tale's plot about a lovesick water nymph who risks becoming human in hopes of winning the love of a prince she…
The Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner roars with life in the Ensemble Theatre's vibrant production, astutely directed by Eileen Morris and showcasing Alex Morris' powerhouse performance as stro…
[...] the play boasts as compelling an opening scene as could be imagined, as Johnson takes the oath of office in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Nove…
Houston Grand Opera's 2016-17 season will include the world premiere of a Jake Heggie opera based on the classic Frank Capra film "It's a Wonderful Life," as well as the return of John Adam'…
A particularly apt illustration adorns the program cover for Stages Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Brendan Bourque-Sheil's comedy "The Book of Maggie" - a signpost whose arrows variou…
"Fun Home," winner of the 2015 Tony Award as best musical, and the new stage version of "An American in Paris," which won four 2015 Tonys including best choreography, will make their Houston…