Here it is the day after Kathy Ng’s World Premiere of Beautiful Princess Disorder at Catastrophic Theatre and the vertigo from the mood swings is still hanging around.…
Read more Beautiful Princess Disorder Will Knock Your Tiara Off – Houston PressThere are two distinct locales for this critique: the Regency manse at Pemberley (Georgiana and Kitty, Christmas at Pemberley at Main Street) and C.S. Lewis’ mystical realm of…
Read more Christmas Theater 2025, Part II – Houston PressTake the Soul Train to Christmas If you can disregard the paint-by-numbers plotting of Ekundayo Bandele’s Take the Soul Train to Christmas, now playing at Ensemble Theatre, you…
Read more Christmas Theater 2025, Part I – Houston PressIt’s not unprecedented to have dark moments in a bio-musical. Tina – The Tina Turner Musical documents the singer’s ongoing physical abuse at the hands of her husband,…
Read more Analyzing Diamond – Houston PressThe story of Neil Diamond has been built into a musical telling how a boy from Brooklyn New York ended up writing and performing music that sold more…
Read more A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical Arrives – Houston PressIt’s an interesting notion to think that audiences who loved Dirt Dogs’ stellar production of Tracy Letts’ play, Bug, last season will similarly be smitten with the company’s…
Read more The Minutes Are Missing – Houston PressThe snarky, wonderful The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee began as an improv sketch conceived by Rebecca Feldman, then as a play written by her called C-R-E-S-P-U-S-C-U-L-E,…
Read more Putnam County: A Spelling Bee Unlike One You’ve Ever Seen – Houston PressDon’t spoil the ending. Don’t spoil the twist. Don’t spoil the surprise. Don’t spoil the show. This refrain drums through my critic’s brain with every review I write.…
Read more Immersive Goes Gorgeously Western – Houston PressFor a spooky play that traffics in grave robbing, fog-enshrouded nights, serious anatomy lessons, and what ethical lengths a loving father – a famous surgeon in 1899 London…
Read more Alley Theatre’s World Premiere of The Body Snatcher – Houston PressThis week, as Alley Artistic Director Rob Melrose settles in his seat to watch a play at London’s West End, it won’t be just any production he’s seeing.…
Read more Alley Theatre Sees its Investment in New Plays Pay Off – Houston PressAgamemnon, commander of the Greek forces that invaded Troy, survived the 10 years of the Trojan War, only to come home and be murdered by his wife and…
Read more Generations of Rage in Electra at Classical Theatre – Houston PressLet’s get the headline out of the way first – and we do mean this article’s literal headline. In past theater seasons, we’ve highlighted the fresh talents everyone…
Read more Ones to Watch in Houston’s Theater Scene 2025-2026 – Houston PressGrave robbing was a real thing in Victorian times and not always for the very worst of reasons. Yes, the people who dealt in this trade were in…
Read more Body SnatchersRags to riches to rags. This ancient axiom neatly describes Stefano Massini’s epic play The Lehman Trilogy, now mesmerizing at Stages. Adapted from the Italian (and its five-hour…
Read more The Fall of the House of Lehman: The Lehman Trilogy at StagesOdd and quirky, musically smooth, emotionally resonant, wise, and a little raunchy (thanks to Aunt Debra), Kimberly Akimbo has racked up innumerable theater awards from the Tonys, Drama…
Read more 16, Going on 72: Kimberly Akimbo at Broadway at the HobbyThe Alley Theatre knew back in July it had a winner on its hands, already adding five performances because of the high demand for The Da Vinci Code…
Read more Signs, Symbols and Biblical References: The Da Vinci Code Goes On Stage at Alley TheatreHamm is blind, paralyzed, and can’t stand. Despite this, he’s the one who sets the rules in his living quarters in a post apocalyptic world. Clov, who cannot…
Read more End Game at Catastrophic Theatre: Despair Not. There is Hope and Comedy in This Samuel Beckett Work.Mark St. Germain’s Dancing Lessons, now playing at Match via Lionwoman Productions TX, is what you’d call Sweet. This pleasant rom-com takes a very serious subject, Asperger’s syndrome,…
Read more Smooth Moves from Lionwoman’s Dancing LessonsWhen the curtain goes up, Kimberly Akimbo stands center stage holding a pair of ice skates and a necklace. There is no sound — rare for the start…
Read more Tony Award Winner Kimberly Akimbo Heads for the Hobby CenterPurlie Victorious — its full title is Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch — is about to make its regional premiere at Main Street Theater,…
Read more Purlie Victorious: A Comedy With Serious Subjects Set in the ’50s Jim Crow Era