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Those interested in seeing a fresh new work are in luck. Wordsmyth Theater Company presents a staged reading of Houston playwright Abby Koenig's original play, COMPLAINT BOX AND/OR GOOD TIMES, tonight January 25, 2016 at 7:30 pm.

10-year-olds, Jesse and Leslie, forge a friendship and the fantasy kingdom, Terabithia to endure the harsh realities of their lives.

The Boiling Point Players continues its 2015 - 2016 season with cabaret A NEW DAWN, showing this weekend on January 21st.

The actors add to the relaxed atmosphere. No one is too good to play for a laugh, which is quintessential Shakespeare. The bard includes a pickled-herring gas joke. The TWELFTH NIGHT actors ensure you laugh at it.

'What if your life isn't wonderful? What if your life's a loveless shit-show that's unlikely to get better? What if the world may actually be better off without you? Can you still find a reason to live then?,' asks playwright and THE BOOK OF MAGGIE author Brendan Bourque-Sheil.

This January, Main Street Theater and the Prague Shakespeare Company have come together to stage PSC's most popular show, David Ives' sexually-charged power struggle VENUS IN FUR.

The artist and artistic director explains the impetus behind the FADE TO BLACK READING SERIES and shares a few secrets about the nine plays included as well as his thoughts on the current theater scene's failure to support new works by African-American playwrights.

On the heels of TWELFTH NIGHT's love and marriage and VENUS IN FUR's bondage and masochism, Main Street Theater brings LOVE AND INFORMATION by Caryl Churchill, a play-or, more accurately, a series of little plays about the role of technology in contemporary relationships.

THE SANTALAND DIARIES, a one man show based on great American humorist David Sedaris' essay on his time as a department store Christmas Elf, is back at the Alley Theatre

Main Street Theater (MST) presents William Shakespeare's romantic comedy TWELFTH NIGHT, wherein Duke Orsino gets more love than he bargained for in this tangled romantic comedy.

Alley Company Artist Melissa Pritchett ( Mary Pidgeon and Christmas Past) talks performing the Alley tradition, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, in the newly renovated Alley theatre.

A CHRISTMAS STORY, movie or musical, centers around 9-year-old Ralphie, a child desperate for his Christmas wish - a Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle.

You have some time to create one more memory of Stevenson's version (before Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch dazzles us with his version next year). Let Demi soloist Christopher Gray be your guide. In his interview with BroadwayWorld.com, he talks the ins and outs, the ups and downs, and the pleasures and pains of this year's THE NUTCRACKER.

Another treat in the midst of cold weather for Houstonians- Portman & Wright's THE LITTLE PRINCE, the second opera in HGO's holiday series. The two act opera, sung entirely in English, is based on French literary giant Antoine de Saint-Exupery's fantastical novella of the same name. A pilot, hopelessly stranded in the desert, makes the acquaintance of a Little Prince and, in their journey to safety, the two meet a cast of colorful characters and spark up an unlikely friendship.

SILENT SKY, the entrancing play by Lauren Gunderson, based on the real-life story of pioneering female astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, shows through December 6 on the Main Street Theater stage.

BroadwayWorld talks to PANTO SNOW QUEEN: UNFROZEN director and Stages Repertory Theatre, Kenn McLaughlin.

Classical Theatre Company Executive Artistic Director John Johnston and Resident Company Artist Matthew Keenan have adapted the A CHRISTMAS CAROL, producing a much lauded production last season. Like Frosty the Snowman, the CTC adaption of the holiday favorite has returned for the winter.

BroadwayWorld.com is giving away two pairs of tickets to the Houston, Texas Cinema Broadcast of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's THE WINTER'S TALE! Enter today!

Actress and playwright Ingrid Garner portrays her grandmother among others in ELEANOR'S STORY: AN AMERICAN GIRL IN HITLER'S GERMANY.

We talk to actor Brian Flores (Pippin). Fresh out of school, the young actor schools us on PIPPIN.