It is said that the low points in life are what makes the high points that much sweeter. We experience this sensation all the time on a smaller scale. Like when you showed up to that Christmas party and you didn’t know anyone else there so you got a drink and a plate of food which you sat awkwardly alone to eat, staring out into the crowd of people you didn’t know, feeling like an awkward loser. So when that girl you haven’t seen since high school shows up you greet her like she was your best long lost friend, ... Read More »

November 23-December 23, Love Goes to Press will appear on stage at Main Street Theater. Love Goes to Press is set in a WWII American press camp stationed near the Italian front lines. Here, two talented female journalist, Jane Mason and Annabelle Jones, beguile their male colleagues and confront the complexities of romance. Written in 1946 by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles–who themselves were international journalist– Love Goes to Press mixes contemporary social views with the charming dialogue and moral lessons reminiscent of other barely post-war works-like the never disappointing, always classic It’s A Wonder Life; (yea, it had to be a holiday reference). Jane Mason and ... Read More »

By: John Pluecker Towards the end of City Council Meeting: Performed Participatory Democracy last night at Palm Center, a young boy behind me whined, “This is so weird.” I tend to agree. The emotional climax of the show was one of the most bizarre moments I’ve experienced in a while: a political consultant reading a surrealist think-piece on local politics on behalf of a local council member, interspersed with praise songs from the choir of the evangelical Iglesia de Ríos de Aceite, set in the courtroom of local African-American political powerhouse, Judge Zinetta Burney. All the while the directors of ... Read More »

Playwright Miki Johnson discusses Fleaven - a play that "sings and plays, rhymes and raps, dances and roller-skates its way through a Seussian disco dreamscape." Read More »

People, for the most part, avoid vulnerability. That’s obviously not without legitimate reason. It’s obstructive having strangers observe our odd little worlds – the ones we are accustomed to piloting away from foreign pupils. When such unwanted spectators take a closer seat, we feel awkward, disturbed and bothered. Our personal and private selves conflict, causing tension in ourselves and the relationships we share with others. This is precisely what happens in Annie Bakers nationally produced play Body Awareness. Joyce, an outspoken professor, and prototype for feminist liberal academics,endures such conflict when a headstrong male photographer rooms as a house guest with Joyce, her partner Phyllus, and Phyluss’ ... Read More »

October 14th, at Theater Lab Houston, Steven Fales will be entering the black box arena to perform the second part of his one man act trilogy, Confessions of a Mormon Boy. Missionary Position (part II) is a fantastical memoir based on journals and notebooks Fales kept while completing his two-year mission in Portugal. In 90 minutes of what some have regarded as a cathartic confessional, Fales lets the public into the secrets of your household Mormon missionary. It may not be the overly righteous, conservative endeavor us lesser heathens thought it to be. In fact, the act begins with a startling self realization.While undergoing musical theater ... Read More »

Class tension, lusty plights, and the persuasion of suicide – sounds like an Adam’s Family reunion gone sour. But it’s not. Instead, think of your classic servant-master relationship, capricious damsel not really in distress, and a quasi-tragic ending. Roll these elements up in a conscience effort to stray away from Shakespearian anything, and you’ll have enough parts necessary (more or less ) to assemble the naturalistic play Miss Julie. Such a task may be overwhelming, exasperating, exaggerated, and a little bit on the ridiculous side of art making. But in this post-post-pre-post modern post world we live in, someone has to make it work. Thus enters Classical ... Read More »

By: Erin Dyer Performance of Keren Cytter’s Show Real Drama at DiverseWorks Theatre starts today, Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 7:30pm. The show will continue to run at the same time each day following its opening until Oct. 13, its last running night. A celebratory Happy Hour provided by Saint Arnold will commence at 5pm before the show begins. Admission for today’s show is on a Pay What You Want basis, and tickets Oct. 11-13 are $15 for General Admission or $10 for DiverseWorks members, students, and seniors. Widely talented artist Keren Cytter is the mastermind writer and director behind Show ... Read More »

Director Justin Davis talks about his Dr. Who inspired improv comedy show. Read More »

By: Erin Dyer Grown-Up Story Time (GUST) at Rudyard’s British Pub on Waugh entertains bar patrons every third Tuesday of the month. GUST is hosted by BooTown, a nonprofit arts company, founded in 2025, whose mission to create theatre through a collaborative process. BooTown’s artistic director, Emily Hynds, says that Grown-Up Story Time has become a staple in the Houston community. Tomorrow night, August 21, and every third Tuesday, a rotating squad of expert story-readers will read submitted “grown-up” stories to the eager ears of Rudyard’s bar patrons. The stories to be read monthly are handpicked out of many submissions, ... Read More »