There 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 PressDespite Ossie Davis’s Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch garnering some famous fans after opening in 1961, folks like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X,…
Read more Purlie Victorious Still Triumphs at Main Street TheaterPurlie 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 EraIt’s a play about grief that’s unsentimental and easy to absorb and so personal. That’s how Pamela Vogel describes The Year of Magical Thinking about to open at…
Read more Employing Magical Thinking to Get Past the Crushing Loss of Loved Ones at Main Street TheaterMain Street Theater gives us plenty of chills for these sweaty summer nights via its superlative rendition of Stephen Malatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s Victorian gothic ghost story,…
Read more Mysterious and Foreboding, The Woman in Black Comes to Eerie Life at Main Street TheaterPictures of Black civil rights leaders pepper the forest green walls of the office on stage. The office bulletin board is haphazardly scattered with various community events. Papers…
Read more The Deeper Meaning of Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word at Main Street“The N-Word has been around since 1619. It’s been a part of American history, American literature and there’s so much controversy over the use of it, who can…
Read more Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word on Stage at Main Street Theater
