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Shakespeare & Company's 2025 Women Of Will Directing Fellowship Accepting Applications
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 31, 2025

Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Mass., is presenting the return of the Tina Packer Women of Will Directing Fellowship. Learn how to apply.

Shakespeare & Company's 2025 Women Of Will Directing Fellowship Accepting Applications
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 31, 2025

Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Mass., has announced the return of the Tina Packer Women of Will Directing Fellowship, launched in 2024 to further the development of early-career directors who identify as women and have a passion for Shakespeare.

Ford's Theatre Announces Cast and Creatives of SISTER ACT
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 23, 2025

Ford's Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault has announced the cast and creative team of the production of Sister Act. Nia Savoy-Dock returns to Ford's to take on the role of the indelible Deloris Van Cartier.

Houston Contemporary Dance Company and Open Dance Project Will Perform BUTTERFLY EFFECT
by Stephi Wild - Sep 24, 2024

Asia Society Texas will present Butterfly Effect: An Evening with Houston Contemporary Dance Company and Open Dance Project,a stunning performance bringing together Houston's two leading contemporary dance companies.

Houston Performing Arts And Culture Programs Partner To Present BUTTERFLY EFFECT 
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 17, 2024

Performing Arts and Culture programs at Asia Society Texas, Houston Contemporary Dance Company and Open Dance Project will present Butterfly Effect, a weekend of stunning performances bringing together Houston's two leading contemporary dance companies.

FRIGID New York and Pale Girl Productions to Present AWKWARD TEENAGE YEARS
by Blair Ingenthron - Sep 1, 2024

FRIGID New York in collaboration with Pale Girl Productions will present the September installment of their bi-monthly comedy storytelling show, Awkward Teenage Years on Wednesday, September 4 at 7:30pm at UNDER St. Marks.

Review: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Shakespeare & Company
by Marc Savitt - Jul 21, 2024

Shakespeare & Company’s colorful, fun, and zany production is set in the seaside Vaudeville of New York City, 1912 – a mystical and sometimes strange place filled with as much magic and mischief as sailors and sea captains!

Shakespeare & Company to Present THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Beginning Next Week
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 6, 2024

William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors takes over Shakespeare & Company's outdoor mainstage this summer, directed by Kate Kohler Amory July 13 through August 18 at the Arthur S. Waldstein Amphitheatre.

AWKWARD TEENAGE YEARS to Play at UNDER St. Marks in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 5, 2024

AWKWARD TEENAGE YEARS, a new play, will be performed at UNDER St. Marks on July 10. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

ODP's RED LANSCAPE: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE IN TEXAS Opens at Moody in June
by Blair Ingenthron - May 18, 2024

The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University and Open Dance Project present Red Landscape: Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas 1912 - 1918, an immersive dance theater performance devised by the ODP ensemble under the choreographic direction of Annie Arnoult at the Moody's Lois Chiles Studio Theater June 7 - 15, 2024. 

Open Dance Project At The Moody Presents RED LANDSCAPE: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE IN TEXAS 1912-1918
by A.A. Cristi - May 7, 2024

Experience the fusion of dance and visual arts in OPEN DANCE PROJECT's performance inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe's Texas period, starting June 7 at the Moody Center for the Arts.

Review: FRONTIERS SANS FRONTIERS at Spooky Action Theater
by Tavish Young - Apr 29, 2024

Frontiers Sans Frontiers is good. It's refreshing, biting, funny, and relevant. From April 25th to May 19th, under a few trashbags and discarded cups of tea, DC theatre goers may be able to find Spooky Action Theater's production of Frontiers Sans Frontiers.

Review: In THE BOOK OF GRACE from Rapid Lemon, a Penchant for Grand Themes and Intoxicating Characters, Outstanding Cast
by Jack L. B. Gohn - Jan 15, 2024

Playwright Suzan Lori-Parks evidently likes to swing for the fences. In The Book of Grace, now being presented by Rapid Lemon, he is fearless in presenting an extravagantly exaggerated and often violent version of the realities she sees in our country today. Despair seems the only reasonable response – and yet optimism, however irrational, cannot be absolutely extinguished. Parks exhibits an extravagant talent and a penchant for grand themes – and a pervasive if not totally dominant skepticism.

Review: THE TURN OF THE SCREW messes with the truth at CATASTROPHIC THEATRE
by Brett Cullum - Nov 22, 2023

But one thing I promise you, you have never seen it done like this before. And you probably won’t ever get another chance to see something quite this inventive in any given year of Houston theater. This is a thrill to witness, and unlike anything out there. It manages to be THE BLAIR WITCH of stage stories, something you almost can’t explain fully.

Review: Lots To Like In ChesShakes Production of Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT
by Cybele Pomeroy - Oct 11, 2023

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company ensemble performers are quick on their feet, perfect in their enunciation, energetic and expressive as they deliver Shakespearean favorite plot elements of upper class people in forests, merriment, witty banter, love triangles, and everyone getting married. The action is fast-paced, the set stunning and immersive.

TAMARIE'S TOTALLY TRUE REVUE (PLUS LIES TOO!) Premieres June 23rd at The MATCH!
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 6, 2023

It's officially summer which means it's Tamarie Time! The Tamarie Cooper Show has, for years, been a cult hit and can't-miss Houston summer tradition.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's Black Classical Acting Ensemble Returns With MACBETH
by Stephi Wild - May 26, 2023

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s (CSC) Black Classical Acting Ensemble (BCAE) will present Macbeth this summer in the historic ruins of the Patapsco Female Institute. A riveting tale of ambition and murder, Macbeth runs June 16 - July 23, with previews June 14-15. Press night is on June 16. 

The World Premiere of A MAROON'S GUIDE TO TIME & SPACE Comes to Houston in May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 20, 2023

The latest new work from Houston writer, actor, and director Candice D’Meza is a multidisciplinary, immersive theatre piece that blends live performance, music, video, and omniscient cosmic forces to travel the future-telling visions and seizure-fever dreams of heroic abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman.

Review: PLAY IS THE THING FOR GUESTS OF CSC'S CAPULET COSTUME BALL, HONORING THEATER COMPANY'S 20TH at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
by Daniel Collins - Nov 22, 2022

What did our critic think of PLAY IS THE THING FOR GUESTS OF CSC’S CAPULET COSTUME BALL, HONORING THEATER COMPANY’S 20TH at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company?

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Presents A New Baltimore-Inspired Adaptation Of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 11, 2022

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) continues its 20th anniversary season with a brand-new adaptation of the holiday classic, A Christmas Carol.