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Review: CRY IT OUT at MILDRED'S UMBRELLA

Sometimes, a play does what no other artistic medium can do. It can feel intimate, immediate, and alive. CRY IT OUT from MILDRED’S UMBRELLA is one of those living productions that feels like you are watching three real women deal with being a mother and looking at how that is going to affect every aspect of their lives.
CRY IT OUT By Molly Smith Metzler Announced At Mildred's Umbrella Theater

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company begins their 2024-2025 season with CRY IT OUT by Molly Smith Metzler, running September 12-28, 2024 at Spring Street Studios.
CRY IT OUT Comes to Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company in September

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company begins their 2024-2025 season with CRY IT OUT by Molly Smith Metzler.
Review: O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE at MILDRED'S UMBRELLA

O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE does what any good play sets out to do; it makes you feel. Your heart breaks for the lead character; her struggle and journey are effective and moving. There is a lot here to savor, and it maintains the prestige of what this company routinely produces.
O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE  Comes to Mildred's Umbrella This Week

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company wraps up their season with the “rolling” world premiere of O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE by playwright Jami Brandli, winner of the 2023 Jane Chambers Award.
Mildred's Umbrella Participates In #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE (A National Reading) On November 6

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 all over the country perform readings on the same evening of competitively selected plays about gun violence written by teenagers.
Mildred's Umbrella Participates In The National Project: #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE

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 all over the country perform readings on the same evening of competitively selected plays about gun violence written by teenagers. Learn more about the event here!
Review: Tensions Rise in Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress at Main Street Theater

Tension. Defined in the dictionary as mental or emotional strain. This simple seven letter word sums up the production of Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress currently playing at Main Street Theater. Don't be confused though, this tension that discusses race, politics, and other contemporary issues is expertly done.
Regional Premiere of TROUBLE IN MIND IS is Coming to Main Street Theater in September

Main Street Theater will open its 47th Season with the regional premiere of Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress. The production opens Saturday night, September 17 at 7:30pm and runs through October 17.
Firecracker Productions Closes Its Season With BOB: A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS

Firecracker Productions closes its season with Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's 'Bob: A Life in Five Acts' at Garza Studios. BOB will run Fridays and Saturdays, April 22- May 7 at 8pm.
Firecracker Productions Announces 2021-2022 Season

February introduces two Houston premieres with short plays Burden of Proof by Houston's own Cris Eli Blak, and Wedding Bash by Andrew Leeds and Lindsay Kraft. The season closes in the late spring with the epic journey of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Bob: A Life in Five Acts, the highly unusual life of Bob and his lifelong quest to become a Great Man.
Mildred's Umbrella Theater Presents FEMFEST HOUSTON: VIRUS EDITION

Mildred's 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 plays by women. FEMFEST HOUSTON:VIRUS EDITION will be streamed one at a time between May 24 and June 24, 2021. Tickets are free, with a donation appreciated. 
FEMFEST HOUSTON: VIRUS EDITION to be Presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company will continue their digital 2021-2022 season with the fourth installment of our reading series, FEMFEST HOUSTON, a series that focuses on new plays by women. This round will be VIRUS EDITION.. with 3 new plays by women that were inspired by the Pandemic. 
Mildred's Umbrella Theater Presents FEMFEST HOUSTON: VIRUS EDITION

Mildred's 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 plays by women.
FEMFEST HOUSTON: VIRUS EDITION to be Presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company will continue their digital 2021-2022 season with the fourth installment of our reading series, FEMFEST HOUSTON, a series that focuses on new plays by women. This round will be VIRUS EDITION.. with 3 new plays by women that were inspired by the Pandemic. 
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Presents OH MY GOD By Anat Gov

Evelyn Rubenstein JCC presents Oh My God by Anat Gov, a filmed production presented in collaboration with Mildreda??s Umbrella Theatre Company, with the support of the Consulate General to Israel in Houston.
Mildred's Umbrella Theater & Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston Present OH MY GOD by Anat Gov

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company kicks off their 2020-2021 season in collaboration with The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, with the production of OH MY GOD, by renowned Israeli playwright, Anat Gov.
MIldred's Umbrella Announces 2020-2021 Season

Mildred's Umbrella Theater has put a hold on live productions until December 2020, to insure the safety of patrons and artists. 
BWW Review: SOLDIER'S FUGUE Marches into MAIN STREET THEATER

Narratively ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE simply combines three soldiers in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq.  They represent a grandfather, a father, and a son who all go through similar experiences in the wars of their respective eras.
Main Street Theater Presents ELIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE Powerful Portrait Of A Puerto Rican Military Family

Main Street Theater (MST) is offering Houston audiences the beautifully human and heartbreaking Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue. Elliota?? is the first in a trilogy of plays by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Quiara Alegría Hudes' (In the Heights). Houston theatergoers will have the rare opportunity to follow Hudes' Elliot Trilogy with  Stages' production of Water by the Spoonful, Part II, also running in February. Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company will produce a staged reading of the final installment of the trilogy, The Happiest Song Plays Last, at MST during the first week of March.

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