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A Python Primer

Abby Koenig·
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 [...]
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Bold Plays

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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 [...]
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Broke-ology

Holly Beretto·
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 [...]
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Strings and Shadows

Abby Koenig·
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 [...]
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Review: Man of La Mancha

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Some musicals are based on B-movies, others have even less sturdy beginnings. In contrast, Man of La Mancha is based on Cervantes’ 1605 seminal masterpiece Don Quixote, considered the very first novel. It doesn’t get much better than that when it comes to source material. The Theatre [...]
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Review: God of Carnage

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I’ll admit: my first reaction to the news that Stark Naked Theatre Company had inserted French playwright Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage into its current season between Body Awareness and Macbeth was, “Oh no, not that thing again!” It was only a year ago that I caught [...]
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