Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Curtain Up: Houston’s Main Street Theater Celebrates 40 Years and a Newly Renovated Space

Holly Beretto·October 23, 2015

“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.”

Houston Theater

Theatre LaB Houston at The MATCH

JOHN DeMERS·October 21, 2015

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.

Theater

Ringside Emotional Head Butt: Stages Repertory Theatre’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Tarra Gaines·October 20, 2015

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.

Theater

String & Shadows: Puppets Across the Lone Star State

Joel Luks·October 16, 2015

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...

Theater

Undermain Theatre gets Meta in The Droll Or, a Stage Play about the END of Theatre

Jennifer Smart·October 5, 2015

Playwrights and filmmakers alike have a long history of creating art about creating art.

Dallas/Ft Worth Reviews Theater

Alley Theatre’s Second Life

JOHN DeMERS·September 25, 2015

A conversation with Gregory Boyd and Dean R. Gladden

Houston Theater

Donald Fowler, Jack the Ripper and a Dallas-born musical: WaterTower Theatre Premieres Creep

Jennifer Smart·September 22, 2015

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.

Dallas/Ft Worth Theater