Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical
It doesn’t matter that the plot is minimal, that the music is loud, or that the acting is...
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Review: Fela!
Raucous and defiant, electrifying and exhilarating, Fela! is a very different musical, blending a wide variety of attitudes and moods, sometimes angry, sometimes coy, sometimes soothing, sometimes sexy, sometimes groping for the mysterious and spiritual. Sprouting from the hybrid Afrobeat songs (jazz, funk, highlife, traditional Yoruban chants [...]
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Musical
An Interview with Wade McCollum Wade McCollum as last seen in Dallas as a ripped and highly sexual...
Dance to the Beat
When Fela! premiered on Broadway four years ago, cure it re-introduced the music of the revolutionary Nigerian composer...
Morning Returns
The Catastrophic Theatre’s Mickle Maher Connection If you missed The Catastrophic Theatre’s production of Mickle Maher’s There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, don’t stress, it’s coming back, May 10-27 at their new digs on the docks. Catastrophic has quite an impressive track record with Maher, starting with The Strangerer, followed by [...]
A Python Primer
Spamalot Returns to TUTS The knights who say “ni”, along with killer rabbits, flying cows and other assorted antics, arrive at the Hobby Center this month when Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) presents Monty Python’s Spamalot, a self-proclaimed “rip off” of the movie Monty Python [...]
Bold Plays
Life Under Mildred’s Umbrella In the early days of the new millennium, while still a creative writing undergrad at University of Houston, Jennifer Decker fielded an unexpected request from one of her professors. This professor, she was told, was writing a play. And she seemed, just maybe [...]
After All These Years
At 90, Miller Outdoor Theatre is still the Heart of Houston It would be hard to pick an...
From Hero to Icon
The phrase “character actor” might not come to mind when you think of a former Hollywood hunk who...
Broke-ology
Broke-ology is the science of being broke and trying to survive,” says Ennis King to his younger brother Malcolm in Nathan Louis Jackson’s absorbing Broke-ology, on stage at the Ensemble Theatre (through April 14). While that may be Ennis’ self-styled definition of it all, the play [...]
Strings and Shadows
Getting Behind Houston’s Puppet Scene There is something incredibly uncanny about puppets. As children we are drawn to their whimsical powers; as adults they weird us out. They are inanimate objects that can magically move and talk. We know that there is someone behind them [...]