If/Then Can’t Have It Both Ways
If/Then is a new touring musical aptly titled for it has two dueling personalities. It can be clever/confusing, bright/dark, fun/maudlin, sincere/fake.
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Love is in the Cards: Linda Phenix Returns to Theatre LaB Houston for 52 Pick Up
Linda Phenix returns to directing with the Theatre LaB Houston production of TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi's romantic comedy of chance, 52 Pick-Up, featuring Houston acting couple, Robin Van Zandt and James Monaghan, Feb. 5-28 at the MATCH. Like the name of the card game, 52 Pick-Up involves the actors throwing the cards into the air to determine the order of the scenes.
Love and Loss: The Bridges of Madison County at TUTS
I might very well be the last American woman over the age of 25 who has neither seen the Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood movie The Bridges of Madison County nor read the 90s zeitgeist novel by Robert James Waller that it’s based on.
Flawed Characters
Martyr at Second Thought Theatre
LBJ Takes the Stage: Alley Theatre and Dallas Theater Center Team Up for All the Way
Lyndon Baines Johnson has surely been called almost every name in every book, especially here in his home state of Texas. But “idealist” hasn’t typically been one of them.
What We Loved & More: A + C Writers Look Back at 2015 and Ahead to 2016
We asked the A + C family what performances stood out for them in 2015 and what they are most looking forward to in 2016. Enjoy their findings and recommendations.
Becoming Nannerl: The Other Mozart
The story begins with a portrait by Johann Nepomuk della Croce of a family: father, son and a daughter with spectacularly big hair.
Take the trip to Clarkston
In Clarkston, now playing an extended premier run at Dallas Theater Center through Jan 31, playwright Samuel D. Hunter uses familiar holiday themes of loneliness and redemption to gift us an endearing story filled with plenty of good spirits but also hurt, heartache and an interpretive ending.
Coming Home: Bree Welch
Bree Welch made a triumphant return to Texas, playing Henry in Henry V at Houston's Classical Theatre Company.
Clarkston at Dallas Theater Center
Dallas Theater Center presents the world premiere of 2014 MacArthur Foundation Fellow Samuel D. Hunter’s new play, Clarkston, Dec. 3-Jan. 31 at Wyly Theater.
Blood Wedding
Cara Mia Theatre Co's production of Lorca's Spanish Masterpiece
First-Hand: Shakespeare in Print and Performance at the Harry Ransom Center
In 1616, William Shakespeare was buried at Holy Trinity church, Stratford-Upon-Avon. A prayer was inscribed on his grave, asking that his bones never be removed from the church and cursing any who might attempt to do so.