There’s less than a month to go before Super Bowl 60 kicks off in Santa Clara, California. While the Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers,…
Read more Tracking 2026 Super Bowl ticket pricesThere’s less than a month to go before Super Bowl 60 kicks off in Santa Clara, California. While the Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers,…
Read more Tracking 2026 Super Bowl ticket pricesFootball fans have accused FIFA of a “monumental betrayal” after the latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate. The governing body allocates eight per cent of…
Read more FIFA accused of ‘monumental betrayal’ over new World Cup ticket pricesHere 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 PressAlthough Opera in the Heights mounts a most credible A Little Night Music (1973), Stephen Sondheim’s most accessible musical, there’s a pall over Lambert Hall. If you’re reading…
Read more Sondheim in Waltz Time: A Little Night Music at Opera in the Heights – 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 PressMiss Pat explains it all as she returns to Houston for a weekend continuing at Houston Improv on Saturday, November 8. ‘Every hole I get,” the television comedian…
Read more Why Miss Pat Still Tours Doing Stand-up – Houston Press“At least people need a laugh right now,” the Scottish joker Kevin Bridges sighs when asked why he chose now to make his North American debut. “I always…
Read more Scottish comic Kevin Bridges picks quite the time for his American debut – 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 PressGiacomo Puccini’s penultimate opera, Il trittico (“The triptych”) premiered at the prestigious New York City’s Metropolitan Opera after the successful opening at that company of his Girl of…
Read more Il Trittico: Puccini’s Masterful Triptych – 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 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 StagesHalloween season is upon us, and it’s about to get bloodier and boozier thanks to the Drunk Shakespeare Society, which will once again present Lori Wolter Hudson’s Drunk…
Read more Get Bloodier and Boozier This Halloween with Drunk DraculaDan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is one of the bestselling books of all time, so successful that Hollywood brought it to the big screen with A-lister Tom…
Read more Alley Theatre Puts Together a Sleek Da Vinci CodeIt’s the last Best Bets of September, and the arts are in full swing around Houston. To close out the month, we’ve got an epic of a stage…
Read more Best Bets: The Lehman Trilogy, Fiesta Sinfónica, and Manhattan Short Film Festival