Tom Stell
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OTHELLO THE REMIX Announces Cast (Aug 23, 2019)
BWW Review: A DRAG CHRISTMAS CAROL lip syncs for its life at Obsidian Theater! (Dec 7, 2018)
Obsidian Theater Presents A New Holiday Tradition With A DRAG CHRISTMAS CAROL (Nov 5, 2018)
OTHELLO THE REMIX Announces Cast (Aug 23, 2019)
BWW Review: A DRAG CHRISTMAS CAROL lip syncs for its life at Obsidian Theater! (Dec 7, 2018)
Obsidian Theater Presents A New Holiday Tradition With A DRAG CHRISTMAS CAROL (Nov 5, 2018)
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OTHELLO THE REMIX Announces Cast
The Obsidian Theatre has announced the Houston premiere of The Q Brother's OTHELLO: The Remix, originally presented on Broadway by John Leguizamo. Brothers and collaborators JQ and GQ have a body of work that span 20 years adapting Shakespeare's work (Funk It Up About Nothin', I Heart Juliet , and The Bomb-itty of Errors.) a?oeSince living and working in New York City, I've been a long time fan of the Q-Brothers and all of their material. When this project was presented to me by The Obsidian Theatre I was beyond excited to have the pristine opportunity to direct and choreograph such an iconic theatrical gem,a?? said Bryan-Keyth Wilson
The Obsidian Theatre has announced the Houston premiere of The Q Brother's OTHELLO: The Remix, originally presented on Broadway by John Leguizamo. Brothers and collaborators JQ and GQ have a body of work that span 20 years adapting Shakespeare's work (Funk It Up About Nothin', I Heart Juliet , and The Bomb-itty of Errors.) a?oeSince living and working in New York City, I've been a long time fan of the Q-Brothers and all of their material. When this project was presented to me by The Obsidian Theatre I was beyond excited to have the pristine opportunity to direct and choreograph such an iconic theatrical gem,a?? said Bryan-Keyth Wilson
BWW Review: A DRAG CHRISTMAS CAROL lip syncs for its life at Obsidian Theater!
This is an irreverent retelling with no apologies about what it is doing. The performers know this, and camp it up to the level of… well… that drag queen who hosts the whole thing.
This is an irreverent retelling with no apologies about what it is doing. The performers know this, and camp it up to the level of… well… that drag queen who hosts the whole thing.
Obsidian Theater Presents A New Holiday Tradition With A DRAG CHRISTMAS CAROL
Obsidian Theater creates a new holiday tradition with the original work, A Drag Christmas Carol. Featuring Miss Gay Texas America 2018, Regina Blake-DuBois, this jukebox musical runs November 29 - December 15, 2018.
Obsidian Theater creates a new holiday tradition with the original work, A Drag Christmas Carol. Featuring Miss Gay Texas America 2018, Regina Blake-DuBois, this jukebox musical runs November 29 - December 15, 2018.
BWW Review: EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL camps out at Obsidian Theater
It's basically THE SOUND OF MUSIC set in a cabin and good fun for the entire family! Well…. Addams Family perhaps.
It's basically THE SOUND OF MUSIC set in a cabin and good fun for the entire family! Well…. Addams Family perhaps.
EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL Ushers In Halloween At Obsidian Theater
Obsidian Theater ushers in Halloween with the campy, bloody musical, Evil Dead: The Musical. This outrageously, wicked musical runs September 27 - October 27 and will include two late night shows with blood splash zone and an after-show Halloween party.
Obsidian Theater ushers in Halloween with the campy, bloody musical, Evil Dead: The Musical. This outrageously, wicked musical runs September 27 - October 27 and will include two late night shows with blood splash zone and an after-show Halloween party.
Join Obsidian Theater at The Kit Kat Club this Spring During CABARET: DAS MUSICAL
Winner of four Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards and three Outer Circle Critic Awards, the 1998 revival of Cabaret is the first musical of the Obsidian Theater's 2018 season. Come forget all of your troubles at the Kit Kat Club, April 12 - May 5, 2018.
Winner of four Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards and three Outer Circle Critic Awards, the 1998 revival of Cabaret is the first musical of the Obsidian Theater's 2018 season. Come forget all of your troubles at the Kit Kat Club, April 12 - May 5, 2018.
Obsidian Theater Announces 2018 Season
This season Obsidian Theater takes you from the Kit Kat Club in Hitler's Germany to the swamplands of South Carolina to pressure filled NYC and even an abandoned cabin in the woods.
This season Obsidian Theater takes you from the Kit Kat Club in Hitler's Germany to the swamplands of South Carolina to pressure filled NYC and even an abandoned cabin in the woods.
MR. BURNS: A Post-Electric Play Closes Obsidian Theater's 2017 Season
How does 'The Simpsons' become almost a religion, 75 years after a global catastrophe? Obsidian Theater answers that question, October 26 - November 18 with Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play.
How does 'The Simpsons' become almost a religion, 75 years after a global catastrophe? Obsidian Theater answers that question, October 26 - November 18 with Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play.
Photo Flash: Find Out Whodunit in THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Obsidian Theater in association with Standing Room Only Productions is excited to bring the musical comedy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to Houston audiences. This hilarious whodunit will run September 28-October 14 at Obsidian Theater. With book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, this show within a show is based on the final unfinished novel of the same name by Charles Dickens, who left his story unfinished when he passed away in 1870. Due to the novel being incomplete, the identity of the murderer, or the question of Drood's ultimate fate, was never revealed.
Obsidian Theater in association with Standing Room Only Productions is excited to bring the musical comedy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to Houston audiences. This hilarious whodunit will run September 28-October 14 at Obsidian Theater. With book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, this show within a show is based on the final unfinished novel of the same name by Charles Dickens, who left his story unfinished when he passed away in 1870. Due to the novel being incomplete, the identity of the murderer, or the question of Drood's ultimate fate, was never revealed.
Obsidian Theater and SRO Present THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Obsidian Theater in association with Standing Room Only Productions is excited to bring the musical comedy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to Houston audiences.
Obsidian Theater in association with Standing Room Only Productions is excited to bring the musical comedy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to Houston audiences.
BWW Review: 1984 is Doubleplusungood at Obsidian Theater
It's certainly a relevant piece for our time, and I applaud the intention of bringing it to life in this era of political debate and mistrust of the media. But if you're going to dig this one up then have the nerve to make it feel dangerously close to the outside world.
It's certainly a relevant piece for our time, and I applaud the intention of bringing it to life in this era of political debate and mistrust of the media. But if you're going to dig this one up then have the nerve to make it feel dangerously close to the outside world.
1984 Brings Dystopia to Obsidian Theater
Obsidian Theater in association with SRO Productions will stage 1984 this June at Obsidian Theater, 3522 White Oak Drive Houston, TX 77007. 1984 is an adaptation by Michael Gene Sullivan of George Orwell's masterpiece novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. The play, which takes place in a dystopian future, revolves around the protagonist Winston Smith and his resistance to Big Brother, the Inner Party and its omnipresent government driven by surveillance, propaganda, and manipulation.
Obsidian Theater in association with SRO Productions will stage 1984 this June at Obsidian Theater, 3522 White Oak Drive Houston, TX 77007. 1984 is an adaptation by Michael Gene Sullivan of George Orwell's masterpiece novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. The play, which takes place in a dystopian future, revolves around the protagonist Winston Smith and his resistance to Big Brother, the Inner Party and its omnipresent government driven by surveillance, propaganda, and manipulation.
The Classic Novel 1984 Comes to Obsidian Theater
1984 by George Orwell adapted for the stage by Michael Gene Sullivan From endless war, fake news and the surveillance state, 1984 speaks to us form the past about our future.
1984 by George Orwell adapted for the stage by Michael Gene Sullivan From endless war, fake news and the surveillance state, 1984 speaks to us form the past about our future.
Photo Flash: Obsidian Theater Presents ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
A love story that transcends the ages. A master of the Roman Empire risks everything for the love of one of history's most fascinating women. As Rome plunges into war, Mark Antony, one of Rome's greatest champions and political leaders, is torn between his duty to his country and his love for Cleopatra, Egypt's firey queen.
A love story that transcends the ages. A master of the Roman Empire risks everything for the love of one of history's most fascinating women. As Rome plunges into war, Mark Antony, one of Rome's greatest champions and political leaders, is torn between his duty to his country and his love for Cleopatra, Egypt's firey queen.
Obsidian Theater presents ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
A love story that transcends the ages. A master of the Roman Empire risks everything for the love of one of history's most fascinating women. As Rome plunges into war, Mark Antony, one of Rome's greatest champions and political leaders, is torn between his duty to his country and his love for Cleopatra, Egypt's firey queen. Intertwined with this love story, Antony and Cleopatra is an epic packed with political intrigue, betrayal, scandal, and international power struggles, themes that will seem all too familiar to the modern world. Antony and Cleopatra globetrots from country to country, battle to battle, all within the intimate walls of Obsidian Theater, one of Houston's most lauded and critically acclaimed producing houses.
A love story that transcends the ages. A master of the Roman Empire risks everything for the love of one of history's most fascinating women. As Rome plunges into war, Mark Antony, one of Rome's greatest champions and political leaders, is torn between his duty to his country and his love for Cleopatra, Egypt's firey queen. Intertwined with this love story, Antony and Cleopatra is an epic packed with political intrigue, betrayal, scandal, and international power struggles, themes that will seem all too familiar to the modern world. Antony and Cleopatra globetrots from country to country, battle to battle, all within the intimate walls of Obsidian Theater, one of Houston's most lauded and critically acclaimed producing houses.
Photo Flash: Lyricist Stew Visits SRO's PASSING STRANGE at the Obsidian Theater
Stew, who wrote the book and lyrics for PASSING STRANGE, recently attended Standing Room Only Productions' presentation of PASSING STRANGE at the Obsidian Theater. BroadwayWorld has a peek at photos from his visit below!
Stew, who wrote the book and lyrics for PASSING STRANGE, recently attended Standing Room Only Productions' presentation of PASSING STRANGE at the Obsidian Theater. BroadwayWorld has a peek at photos from his visit below!
Photo Flash: Obsidian Theatre's PASSING STRANGE Rocks the Stage
Obsidian Theater in association with SRO Productions will stage the Tony and Drama Desk award-winning Broadway rock musical PASSING STRANGE for 14 performances - February 9 though March 4. Written by Stew and with music by Heidi Rodewald and Stew, PASSING STRANGE is a comedy-drama rock musical about a young black man's journey of self-discovery about family, cultures, spirituality, love, drugs, sex and music.
Obsidian Theater in association with SRO Productions will stage the Tony and Drama Desk award-winning Broadway rock musical PASSING STRANGE for 14 performances - February 9 though March 4. Written by Stew and with music by Heidi Rodewald and Stew, PASSING STRANGE is a comedy-drama rock musical about a young black man's journey of self-discovery about family, cultures, spirituality, love, drugs, sex and music.
Photo Flash: Obsidian Theater Presents PASSING STRANGE
A young black man leaves his California home to find his art and what is real in Europe.
A young black man leaves his California home to find his art and what is real in Europe.
Obsidian Theater to Open 2017 Season with PASSING STRANGE
Theater in association with SRO Productions will stage the Tony and Drama Desk Award winning Broadway musical PASSING STRANGE for 14 performances at Theater - Feb 9 though March 4. Written by Stew and with music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, PASSING STRANGE is a comedy-drama rock musical about a young black man's journey of self-discovery about family, cultures, spirituality, love, drugs, sex and music.
Theater in association with SRO Productions will stage the Tony and Drama Desk Award winning Broadway musical PASSING STRANGE for 14 performances at Theater - Feb 9 though March 4. Written by Stew and with music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, PASSING STRANGE is a comedy-drama rock musical about a young black man's journey of self-discovery about family, cultures, spirituality, love, drugs, sex and music.
Merger Alert - Obsidian Theater and SRO Productions
Award-winning Obsidian Theater, known for producing bold, diverse plays, will merge with SRO Productions, an award-winning producer of fearless musicals.
Award-winning Obsidian Theater, known for producing bold, diverse plays, will merge with SRO Productions, an award-winning producer of fearless musicals.
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