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Winners Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards


by BWW Awards - January 11, 2024

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Houston! Winners include Theatre Southwest, Alley Theatre and more!...

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Houston Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Houston Awards; RIDE THE CYCLONE, THE OLDEST BOY, Theatre Southwest & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 18, 2023

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Houston Awards; RIDE THE CYCLONE, THE OLDEST BOY, Theatre Southwest & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 11, 2023

It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Houston Awards December 5th Standings; RIDE THE CYCLONE Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 05, 2023

It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards; THE OLDEST BOY Leads Best Play!


by BWW Awards - November 27, 2023

Happy Holidays! The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards; RIDE THE CYCLONE Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - November 20, 2023

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 20th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

First Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards; Theatre Southwest Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW Awards - November 13, 2023

The first wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 13th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Winners Announced For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards


by BWW Awards - January 24, 2023

The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards, honoring the best in regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022....

12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards; Alley Theatre Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW - December 19, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Past Shows

Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly!
5/17 - 6/2/2024


This musical bursts with humor, romance, energetic dance and some of the greatest songs in musical theatre history.

Run for Your Wife
Run for Your Wife
10/20 - 11/5/2023


Run for Your Wife by Ray Cooney  concerns bigamist John Smith, a London cab driver with two wives, two lives and a very precisely planned ...

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas


Best Little Whorehouse in Texas opens at www.Playhouse1960.com this Friday, May 19th, 8PM. Shows every Friday and Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 3PM through June ...

Neil Simon's Plaza Suite
Neil Simon's Plaza Suite
3/31 - 4/16/2023


Plaza Suite by Neil Simon Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the ...

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
12/2 - 12/18/2022


Playhouse 1960 presents Disney's Beauty and the Beast.  The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who ...

Something Rotten!
Something Rotten!
7/22 - 7/31/2022


Something RottenSet in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that ...

Shakespeare in Hollywood
Shakespeare in Hollywood
4/8 - 4/24/2022


Ken Ludwigs Shakespeare in HollywoodTake the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood, populated by real-life, yet delightfully exaggerated, personalities of the movie scene. Add a ...

The Foreigner
The Foreigner
1/7 - 1/23/2022


Playhouse 1960 opens 2022 with The Foreigner, a fun, two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue. The story takes place in a fishing lodge in ...

Annie
Annie
12/3 - 12/18/2021


AnnieBased on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best ...

Annie
Annie
12/3 - 12/18/2021


Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best ...

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
10/22 - 11/7/2021


Little Shop of HorrorsA deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop Of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over ...

Little Shop Of Horrors
Little Shop Of Horrors
10/22 - 11/7/2021


A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smash musical, Little Shop Of Horrors has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years. Howard ...

9 to 5, the Musical
9 to 5, the Musical
7/16 - 8/1/2021


9 to 5 The Musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. ...

Gypsy
Gypsy
5/28 - 6/12/2021


Playhouse 1960 proudly presents Gypsy, the musical. Based on the 1957 memoirs of world-famous striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy begins at the end of ...

Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo


Charlotte and George Hay are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac (the revised, one nostril version) and ...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
3/5 - 2/14/2021


Playhouse 1960 presents the classic dark comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring. We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar ...

Sordid Lives
Sordid Lives
1/15 - 1/31/2021


Playhouse 1960 presents Del Shore's Sordid Lives, a black comedy about white trash! When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink ...

Playhouse 1960 SPOOKY Virtual Cabaret Fundraiser


Join us for our 2nd Virtual Cabaret Fundraiser, where some of the Playhouse 1960 Family favorites put their spin on your Spooky favorites....

Sordid Lives
4/10 - 4/26/2020


Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project is proud to present SORDID LIVES - Celebrity Edition, Monday, August 15, 2011 at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, 25 N. ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
1/17 - 2/2/2020


Playhouse 1960 presents Steel Magnolias to begin 2020. A fan favorite, Steel Magnolias opens January 17, 2020 at 8:00 pm followed by a champagne reception. ...

Angel Street (Gaslight)
10/25 - 11/10/2019


A Broadway hit first produced on the West End under the title Gaslight and filmed twice, Angel Street tells the story of the Manninghams, who ...

Four Weddings And An Elvis
9/13 - 9/29/2019


Cary Players Community Theatre Inc...

Proof
Proof
9/13 - 9/29/2019


Playhouse 1960 Main Stage presents David Auburns Proof directed by Meredith Ann Gaines to open its 2019 2020 season. The production opens September 13 @ ...

A Catered Affair
6/14 - 6/30/2019


The anarchy of Englishman John O’Keefe’s 18th century comic masterpiece gets a savvy makeover as it’s transported into a lavishly rowdy Muleshoe, Texas in the ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
3/1 - 3/17/2019


Playhouse 1960 presents God of Carnage. Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play, God of Carnage relates an evening in the lives of ...

Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls
1/18 - 2/3/2019


Playhouse 1960 opens 2019 with Tim Firths Calendar Girls. When Annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money ...

Newsies
Newsies
12/7 - 12/22/2018


Playhouse 1960 announces their production of Newsies for the holiday season. Set in turn-of-the century New York City, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack ...

The World Goes Round
The World Goes "Round
9/14 - 9/30/2018


Playhouse 1960 is proud to open its 45th Anniversary Season with the Kander and Ebb musical review, The World Goes ‘Round. Enter the world of ...

Into the Woods
Into the Woods
7/20 - 8/5/2018


Playhouse 1960 proudly presents Into the Woods. Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. ...

Grease
Grease
7/14 - 7/29/2017


Sister Act
Sister Act
6/9 - 6/25/2017


Sister Act is the feel-good musical comedy smash based on the hit 1992 film that has audiences jumping to their feet! Featuring original music by ...

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged


All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London’s longest-running comedy ...

The Lion King JR.
The Lion King JR.
5/6 - 5/21/2017


Disney's The Lion King has captivated the imagination of audiences around the world. The African savanna comes to life the stage with Simba, Rafiki, and ...

ANYTHING GOES-BEAUMONT'87
1/14 - 1/29/2017


In the Heights
6/10 - 6/25/2016


In the Heights is a vibrant musical bursting with salsa, merengue, and hip-hop rhythms, transporting you to the heart of Washington Heights, a predominantly Dominican ...

Playhouse 1960's Short Play Festival aka SPF 1960


Playhouse 1960 is proud to announce its inaugural Short Play Festival aka SPF 1960. SPF 1960 will run May 12, 13, 14, 19, 20 and ...

CRIMES OF THE HEART
CRIMES OF THE HEART
4/17 - 5/2/2015


At the core of the tragic comedy are the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi ...

The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone
6/13 - 6/28/2014


The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical with book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison. It ...

Aladdin, Jr.
Aladdin, Jr.
5/3 - 5/18/2014


Aladdin Jr. is a one-act, seven-scene theatre musical adapted from the animated Disney film Aladdin which is an adaptation of the folk tale Aladdin....

The Children's Hour
The Children's Hour
5/2 - 5/17/2014


The Children's Hour is a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two ...

Into the Woods, Jr.
Into the Woods, Jr.
3/15 - 4/6/2014


The musical has been adapted into a child-friendly version for use by schools...

Boeing, Boeing
Boeing, Boeing
3/14 - 4/5/2014


Boeing-Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti. The English language adaptation, translated by Beverley Cross, was first staged in London at ...

Private Lives
Private Lives
1/24 - 2/15/2014


Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are ...

2014 Revue
2014 Revue
1/3 - 1/5/2014

Oliver
Oliver
12/6 - 12/22/2013


Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
10/5 - 10/27/2013


Little Shop of Horrors is a comedy horror rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who ...

Enchanted April
Enchanted April
10/4 - 10/26/2013


Enchanted April is a play about the power of nature and nurture. Two women, so unhappily married, so degraded, so self-righteous, find each other....

School House Rock
School House Rock
9/7 - 9/15/2013


Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. ...

A Chorus Line
7/12 - 8/3/2013


A CHORUS LINE is a stunning musical-verite about a chorus audition for a Broadway musical. It tells of the achingly poignant ambitions of professional Broadway ...


A Houston Favorite! This happy go lucky view of small town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the ...

The Joker Fired Twice
4/19 - 5/11/2013


This film-noir spoof is chock full of the late-night characters that populated Hammett or Chandler crime novels and has more twists than a Danish bakery. ...

All My Sons
3/8 - 3/23/2013


A tremendously impressive drama that received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. During the war Joe Keller and Herbert Deever ran ...

The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music
12/2 - 12/18/2011


The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious ...

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