Scene Change: A Former Theater Artist Explores Houston’s Reinvigorated Theaters
Theater is a close-knit community, but such a collaborative art form demands presence, and it’s easy to disappear—all you have to do is not show up.
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Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Matt Hune Launch the Rec Room
Though only two months old, Houston’s latest performing arts venue, the Rec Room, has established itself as a quirky alternative to traditional theater companies.
Deep Woods & The Courage To Question: De Kus (The Kiss) at Stages Repertory Theatre
A woman takes a walk through the woods. She travels with a destination weighing heavy in her mind, an appointment to keep, yet along the way she meets a stranger by happenstance and everything changes.
‘Dreamless’ Is a Simple Play With a Big Heart
Dreamless, the latest at Ochre House Theater, is a loosely drawn sketch of a play. It’s a free-form...
The Ensemble Theatre Celebrates 40 with a Stellar Season
It all began in the trunk of a car. George Hawkins, lean and possessed of a mega-watt smile, spent the 1960s and the early 1970s captivated by the African-American Theater Movement.
Design in Texas: Ryan McGettigan
Set designer Ryan McGettigan’s bold designs have graced the stages of many of the theater companies in Houston.
Archaeology of the Stage: Hidden Room Theatre and the Ransom Center
Austin’s Hidden Room Theatre is steadily building an international reputation for their almost archaeological approach to performance.
The Troublemakers: A young generation of Dallas theater makers pursue socio-political activism in their work
In Dallas, a generation of young playwrights is beginning to flex dramatic muscle in pursuit of social change, pushing their work past the impulse to create art for art’s sake.
Bare Bones Shaw: Bedlam Comes to Stark Naked
This summer, Houston drama-lovers need to brace themselves for bedlam— stark naked bedlam that is, as a local favorite theater brings to town one of Off Broadway’s hottest companies for a new vision of George Bernard Shaw’s classic Saint Joan, June 2-18 at Studio 101 in Spring Street Studios.
Digital Detectives Probe a Dystopian Future in The Nether at the Alley
A cop and suspect stare at each other from across a table in a stark and claustrophobic interrogation room. These first moments of Jennifer Haley’s The Nether at the Alley Theatre (Through May 29) reveal a setup we’ve seen before on a thousand police and procedural shows.
Wrestling on the Blue Carpet: Nancy and Tarra on The Christians at the Alley
Arts + Culture editor Nancy Wozny and Houston theater writer Tarra Gaines take a break from the usual review format to discuss Lucas Hnath's The Christians, running at the Alley Theatre through May 15.