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It was just over a week ago that Brandon Morgan got a call from the Houston Grand Opera offering him a supernumerary role in their upcoming production of Salome. He eagerly agreed. Then just days later, he received the email that so many performers in …
Read MoreThe theater has always been the place we go to in times of trouble. Sitting in the dark with our fellow humans, experiencing stories about the people we share the world with, provides us with insight, distraction, a sense of community and at times a mu…
Read MoreOh, what a difference a day makes. Last Thursday our inboxes were flooded with messages from theaters outlining the precautions being taken to disinfect their spaces and ensuring us that the show would safely go on. Then Friday happened. The Alley was …
Read More“Dear Patrons, Your health and safety is important to us. We want to assure you that our priority is making sure you feel safe and informed.” Emails like this one from A.D. Players started flooding inboxes late last week as theaters all over Houston as…
Read MoreFor months now I’ve been urging everyone I meet who has even the slightest affection for the theater to make sure they see Come From Away when it plays in Houston. “I absolutely adore every second of this show, you will too”, I promise. “Great”, they a…
Read MoreIt was January 2016 and Houston playwright Brendan Bourque-Sheil was on top of the world. Stages Repertory Theatre, one of the biggest companies in town, was opening his new play, The Book of Maggie, with a full bells and whistles production. A mainsta…
Read MoreThere are shows where the performances are so superb, they distract, making a less than stellar play seem better than it is. Conversely, a decent enough play may be made less palatable by a weak performance. Both of these scenarios are present in Dirt …
Read MoreAbout ten minutes into Lawrence Wright’s, Camp David, we find President Jimmy Carter, on his knees, praying. “Please don’t let me screw this up,” Carter beseeches God, while acknowledging that the road ahead will be challenging. So challenging in fact,…
Read MoreOf the many smart touches Director Mekeva McNeil brings to Rec Room Arts’ production of Antionette’s Nwandu’s, Pass Over, perhaps the most astute is her decision to eschew the curtain call. A blank stage is all we’re given to indicate the end of the sh…
Read MoreOn paper, it doesn’t work. A musical without any epic love story or giant conflict, no big dance or chorus numbers, a plot that barely sets up a narrative and then fails to resolve anything, where the leading man doesn’t sing and the Israelis and Egypt…
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