Renee Rivon

OLD BLACK & WHITE HOLLYWOOD Comes to the Loft Ensemble
by Stephi Wild - Feb 13, 2025

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood has announced its next mainstage production, the world premiere of Old Black & White Hollywood by ShaWanna Renee Rivon. Learn more here!

Casts Set for Alley Theatre's 2024 Alley All New Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 17, 2024

Alley Theatre revealed the cast for the 2024 Alley All New Festival, featuring a lineup of actors set to bring new works to life. The festival will showcase innovative plays and performances. Learn more!

Alley Theatre 2024-25 Season Single Tickets on Sale
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 5, 2024

Tickets to the Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre's 2024-25 season are now available for purchase. Learn how to purchase!

Interview: Destyne R. Miller of SEVEN GUITARS at August Wilson In The Park
by Armando Urdiales - Aug 1, 2024

Read our interview with Destyne R. Miller of SEVEN GUITARS at August Wilson In The Park.

Casting Announced For Final Week of The Blank Theatre's 32nd Annual Young Playwrights Festival
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 27, 2024

Casting has been announced for the fourth and final week of The Blank Theatre's 32nd Annual Young Playwrights Festival. The last three of 12 winning plays by young playwrights aged 15–19 will be presented live onstage August 1–4.

Review: FADE TO BLACK PLAY FESTIVAL from SHABACH ENTERPRISES at the MATCH
by Brett Cullum - Jun 20, 2024

The playwriting talent on display here is awe-inspiring, and I found myself sucked in shortly after each set change and new scenario. What fascinates me most about this year is that the subject material has shifted a bit overall. FADE TO BLACK has always addressed racial issues, but now the works are taking aim at gender roles, fantasy scenarios, and even horror tropes.

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts Will Expand Discovery Series for 2024-25 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 8, 2024

The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts will continue to expand its ExxonMobil Discovery Series to serve an estimated 20,000 students in the 2024-25 season, doubling the number of performances previously offered.

Performing Arts Houston Reveals 2024/25 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 1, 2024

Season highlights include a new Global Voices Music Series celebrating traditions from around the world and a limited engagement with illusionist Scott Silven that will transform the Eldorado Ballroom into an immersive Scottish Victorian dinner theater.

Photos: First Look at Loft Ensemble's POWER TO THE QUEENDOM
by Blair Ingenthron - Mar 3, 2024

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood is presenting the world premiere of Power to the Queendom by ShaWanna Renee Rivon. Check out photos here!

POWER TO THE QUEENDOM Comes to the Loft Ensemble Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Feb 15, 2024

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood has announced its next production in Sawyer’s Playhouse, the world premiere of Power to the Queendom by ShaWanna Renee Rivon. 

Loft Ensemble Reveals 11th Anniversary Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Jul 31, 2023

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood has announced its 11th anniversary season. The slate of plays, chosen by the company’s member-elected artistic committee, represent a desire to celebrate new voices while re-examining the fundamentals of theatrical storytelling. Learn more about the lineup here!

Review: 4TH WALL THEATRE CO.'s SHOWS PROWESS IN EXCEPTIONAL FAIRVIEW
by Armando Urdiales - May 30, 2023

Do you ever watch a film and think about what you do in the conflict? Does your concept of that conflict change? How would you react if you were in Thano's snap or your father said you couldn't interact with the human world because you live underwater? Now add those ideas and mix them with thoughts of race. These contemplations are at the heart of Jackie Sibblies Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fairview, which is currently open at 4th Wall Theatre Co. 

Photos: First Look at FAIRVIEW at 4th Wall Theatre
by Blair Ingenthron - May 28, 2023

4th Wall Theatre's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, FAIRVIEW runs through June 17, 2023. FAIRVIEW, which ran at Theatre for a New Audience in NYC to SOLD OUT audiences and with multiple extensions can FINALLY be seen right here in Houston, TX at the home for 'Extraordinary performance, up close,' 4th Wall Theatre Company. Check out production photos here!

4th Wall Theatre Company to Present FAIRVIEW Beginning in May
by Blair Ingenthron - Apr 30, 2023

4th Wall Theatre will close its 2022-2023 season with the Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece, FAIRVIEW from May 26 – June 17, 2023.

UH School of Theatre & Dance Announces 2022-23 Season Featuring 10 Productions
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 19, 2022

The School of Theatre & Dance at the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston has announced its 2022-23 season. Featuring 10 productions, the season promises to be one of the school's most ambitious in recent memory.

Review: Alric Davis' BASHFUL, AND THE NOIZE Creates an Emotional Journey at Sankofa Collective
by Armando Urdiales - Sep 14, 2022

Where to begin to explain Alric Davis' semi-autobiographical play Bashful, and the Noize. Equal parts Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop, Pasek and Paul's Dear Evan Hansen, and Simon Stephens A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Davis' play is an amalgamation of storylines that are equal parts celebratory of black American life, but also is a play that needs some improvement. While I know this has been a 9 year journey for young Davis, this play has the guts to one day truly be outstanding. There is some polishing that can be done to have the play truly excel and eventually become as iconic and discussed as James Ijames Fat Ham, or Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Gloria.

BWW Review: Stages Blends Superhero Comics and Social Justice in Black Super Hero Magic Mama
by Armando Urdiales - May 2, 2022

With the classic comic Boom! and Pow!, Stages continues its excellent season with Inda Craig-Galvain's Black Super Hero Magic Mama. Hot off the heels of the epic jukebox musical, You Are Cordially... by ShaWanna Renee Rivon, Black Super Hero Magic Mama truly represents the magnificence of Houston theatre. 

Alley Theatre Announces Programming For The 2022 Alley All New Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 15, 2022

The Alley Theatre announces the line-up for the 2022 Alley All New Festival, June 16 - June 26, 2022. The Festival will feature five new plays including readings, workshop performances, and an early draft preview. Festival playwrights include Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Austin-based Kirk Lynn completing a Thornton Wilder work, Kemp Powers, Don X. Nguyen, and Alley commissioned artist and Houstonian ShaWanna Renee Rivon. 

BWW Review: YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SIT IN Is a Dream of a Production at Stages Theatre
by Armando Urdiales - Apr 11, 2022

The story goes that Stages staff member, Eboni Bell Darcy, was part of the discussion for the theater's reopening season. Ideas evidently floated around in the zoom call. It was Eboni's idea for Stages to commission their own jukebox musical. This excellent idea led to the creation of ShaWanna Renee Rivon's YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SIT IN. One would think that a musical highlighting Houston's generational social justice problems would be what some call a 'downer.' Instead, Rivon's creation has become, at least for me, the crowning achievement of the 21-22 Houston theater season.

BWW Review: Stages SUNRISE COVEN is a Homegrown Inspiration and a Wonderous World Premiere
by Armando Urdiales - Apr 4, 2022

This spring, Brendan Bourque-Sheil's story of a woman dealing with life's impossible changes is one of Houston's best plays. Set in the fictional town of Buxtop, Texas, the protagonist, Hallie (Susan Koozin), wakes up after an overdose and the resultant story is about how a person copes with almost impossible odds.