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Past Shows
Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company is participating for the third time in the national reading of #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE, a project where theaters ...
In collaboration with Esurient Arts, and directed by Dabrina Sandifer, the production was created by a diverse group of six female artists in Mildreds Umbrella ...
EL HURACÁN
11/11
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11/21/2021
El Huracn honors four generations of Cuban-American women who navigate lifes tempests together. Valeria drifts as dementia floods her mind. Ximena sinks as unforgiveness surges ...
Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their 2021-2022 season with the final digital project, LADY GREY (in ever lower light) by renowned playwright, Will Eno. Directed ...
Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2021-2022 season with the fourth installment of our reading series, FEMFEST HOUSTON, a series that focuses on new ...
Annika is the multi-millionaire CEO of a doomsday prepper subscription box service. She is also trapped inside the massive custom bunker that she built to ...
Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2020-2021 season with the video release of THE DROWNING GIRLS by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic. ...
Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2020-2021 season with the third installment of our reading series, FEMFEST HOUSTON, a series that focuses on new ...
Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2020-2021 season with FINE WINE, a series of classic monologues written for ingenue actresses, but instead performed by ...
Oh My God
10/13
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10/25/2020
OH MY GOD is a dark comedy that explores what could happen if God walked into a therapists office. Ella, a psychotherapist with problems of ...
TOOTH & TAIL is part fairy-tale, part rescue mission, part love story, and all adventure. Family friendly! TOOTH & TAIL has been developed and workshopped ...
Michal Aharoni, Anat Gov, Hana Vazana Grinwald; trans: Anthony Barris, Natalie Feinstein; dir: Jon Harvey, Elizabeth Keel, Leighza Walker....
For ten years we've been collecting new, weird short plays for Museum of Dysfunction. This year, we're going back into the files to bring you ...
Travel back to 16th century Spain with this madcap re-telling of Spanish history and colonialism. Columbus has just returned from the New World, Queen Isabella ...
My Mind is Free
1/18
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1/22/2019
MILDREDS UMBRELLA HIGHLIGHTS THE ISSUE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING WITH U.S. PREMIEREREADING OF MY MIND IS FREE BY UK PLAYWRIGHT SAM HALL In honor of Human ...
Responding to the events of the past few years, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) is proud to present CONSENTING BODIES, a series of play readings ...
Kicking off a series of projects geared toward raising awareness for local service organizations, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) is bringing a reading of Terrance ...
DIANA follows a young working class English woman who unexpectedly comes into a large sum of money and decides to live a life of extreme ...
The Moors
8/30
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9/15/2018
Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) is kicking off the 2018-19 season with Jen Silverman’s critically acclaimed black comedy, THE MOORS, playing August 30-September 15 at ...
Since 2008, Mildred’s Umbrella (MU) has celebrated the dark, quirky, and absurd with a collection of short pieces submitted by emerging and established playwrights. Now ...
Closing out a six-year tenure in Spring Street Studios, Mildred’s Umbrella (MU) is reviving a fan favorite from its days at Midtown Arts Center with ...
Step into the mind of Tony-award-winning playwright Lisa Kron with this thoughtful and funny examination of how our relationships with our community, family, and friends ...
Jef Johnson brings his spontaneous play, OPEN SPACE, back for two nights only! By invitation of Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company , Native Houstonian Jef Johnson ...
Tooth & Tail
1/8
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1/9/2018
Adding to an already exciting season, Mildred’s Umbrella (MU) is excited to share a new fantasy from local playwright and University of Houston student Elizabeth ...
Feathers and Teeth
10/19
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11/4/2017
Set in a sleepy factory town at the end of the 1970’s, this horror comedy from Devious Maids writer Charise Castro Smith centers on teenaged ...
In A Word
7/27
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8/12/2017
Kicking off its 16th season, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) takes a trip through memory, perception, and grief with the Houston premiere of IN A ...
For the ninth year running, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) will produce two weekends of new works at its annual Museum of Dysfunction short play ...
Set amidst a family vacation at an idyllic lake house in upstate New York, A HEROINE FREE SUMMER examines what happens when a family becomes ...
The Johns
1/19
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2/4/2017
Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company continues its 2016-2017 season with the regional premiere of THE JOHNS by Mary Bonnett, producing artistic director for Chicago’s Her Story ...
Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company continues its 2016-2017 season with the regional premiere of DRY LAND by recent Yale graduate and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist ...
Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company opens its 2016-2017 season with THE MAIDS by Jean Genet. Loosely based on the infamous Papín sisters who brutally murdered their ...
Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company and Wordsmyth Theatre proudly present Museum of Dysfunction VIII: A SHOWCASE OF SHORTS. Now in its eighth year, this annual short ...
Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company (MU) is proud to present the regional premiere of The Drowning Girls, a modern interpretation and poetic retelling of the “Brides ...