Fictional Nebraska: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s The Totalitarians at Kitchen Dog Theater
A charismatic political candidate with memorable hair who relies more on passion than facts — sound familiar?
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Global Theater: The Texas/Prague Partnership
There is no commercial nonstop flight from any city in Texas to any city in the Czech Republic, including the country’s lovely and historic capital, Prague.
Drama in the House: Matt Hune’s Living Room Series
Matt Hune's Living Room Series
Tumbling Through Time and Memory: Sharr White’s The Other Place at the Alley Theatre
Somewhat lost amid all the hullabaloo and celebrations surrounding the Alley Theatre’s grand reopening and the major renovation of the Hubbard Stage was the little-fanfared return of performances to the smaller Neuhaus Stage, where many of the Alley’s more quirky and contemporary play picks are placed each season.
Theater Imitates Art: McNay Museum Exhibition Highlights Influence of Art on Theater
If you were asked to design sets and costumes evoking 16th century Italy, where would you start?
Curtain Up: Houston’s Main Street Theater Celebrates 40 Years and a Newly Renovated Space
“This is a real milestone!” Main Street Theater executive artistic director Rebecca Greene Udden offers a wide smile, somewhere between extreme pride and a sense of wonder. “It’s our 40th year, and it’s a time to move forward and try new things.”
Theatre LaB Houston at The MATCH
A + C theater writer John DeMers caught up with TLH founder Gerald LaBita to talk about the company’s beginnings and its bright future at the MATCH.
Ringside Emotional Head Butt: Stages Repertory Theatre’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
I have a (admittedly unoriginal) theory that sooner or later, no matter what the perceived subject matter, every writer ends up writing about the act of storytelling, and every playwright ends up writing about acting during the act of storytelling.
String & Shadows: Puppets Across the Lone Star State
Creating strange beings and bringing them to life only to discover that not only will they not obey you, they seem determined to thwart you...
Undermain Theatre gets Meta in The Droll Or, a Stage Play about the END of Theatre
Playwrights and filmmakers alike have a long history of creating art about creating art.
Alley Theatre’s Second Life
A conversation with Gregory Boyd and Dean R. Gladden
Donald Fowler, Jack the Ripper and a Dallas-born musical: WaterTower Theatre Premieres Creep
When Creep opens on Oct. 5 at WaterTower Theatre, a large cast of Londoners will indeed be talking, and singing, and dancing, performing Fowler’s stylistic musical interpretation of the larger than life myth surrounding Jack the Ripper.