Theater & Dance

Songs and Stories

Head Inside the Studio with Stages Studio Sessions

The new eight-week series is bringing fresh performances from some of Houston's audience-favorites straight to your laptop.

08/20/2020 By Emma Schkloven

Virtual Reality

Stages Premieres Sensitive Production, 'Making Of' Documentary

The Zoom-captured performance of Sensitive Guys is accompanied by a separate video exploring the challenges of making a production virtual.

08/14/2020 By Chameli Belk-Gupta

Opera Nights In

HGO Replaces Its Cancelled Performances with a Full Slate of Digital Content

The new programming includes concert events, actual operas, a special documentary project, and a lot of familiar faces.

08/11/2020 By Emma Schkloven

Hold the Curtain

4th Wall Delays the Start of Its 10th Anniversary Season

The new season will begin in January with Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Between Riverside and Crazy.

08/10/2020 By Emma Schkloven

Curtain closes

Opera in the Heights Bids Adieu to Fall Productions

The spring repertoire is still moving forward in the wake of furloughs and salary cuts.

07/28/2020 By Emma Schkloven

Moon Meets the Movement

REVIEW: Stages Shoots for the Stars While Tackling Earthly Issues in Pieces of the Moon

Stages' season starter doesn't shy away from painful history in a radio-style performance that harkens to an old-school era of theater.

07/28/2020 By Doni Wilson

New Voices

Meet the Future of American Playwriting

The featured playwrights in Landing Theatre Co.'s 2020 New American Voices Playwriting Festival share their inspirations behind this year's selections.

07/28/2020 By Chameli Belk-Gupta

Sonnets and Soliloquies

Main Street Theater's Brings Live Shakespeare to Our Screens

It just isn’t summer without BYOBard.

07/24/2020 By Katelyn Landry

Ballet Blues

Houston Ballet Cancels The Nutcracker

The beloved dance company announces 2020-2021 season changes, staff cuts.

07/20/2020 By Emma Schkloven

The Show Won't Go On

Miller Outdoor Theatre Cancels the Rest of Its Summer Season

The theater hopes to resume in September, and its summer schedule has been postponed to 2021.

07/13/2020 By Emma Schkloven

Season Switcheroo

TUTS Rearranges 2020-2021 Season in Response to Ongoing Pandemic

Don’t worry, the season’s still all there. It just begins in December.

06/15/2020 By Emma Schkloven

The Show Must Go On(line)

Mildred's Umbrella's FemFest Houston Goes Virtual

When the pandemic made holding its planned staged readings impossible in-person, Mildred's Umbrella produced its entire festival through Zoom.

06/02/2020 By Chameli Belk-Gupta

Well, We Feel Helpless

Hamilton's 2020 Return to Houston Cancelled

The highly-anticipated national touring production is officially the latest theatrical casualty of the novel coronavirus.

05/05/2020 Photography by Emma Schkloven

COVIDia Dell'arte

Houston Theater Community Sews Masks to Save Lives

“Thank God we’re all fabric hoarders.”

04/17/2020 By Alissa Smith

Do you know where bluebonnets come from?

New Musical Brings Lady in Blue to Houston Stage

The world premiere of Lady of Agreda tells the story of María de Ágreda, the Spanish abbess and mystic with a special tie to Texas.

03/12/2020 By Alissa Smith

"Oh, you pretty things"

Houston Ballet Staging Company's 150th World Premiere as Part of Forged in Houston

NOTE: This event has been postponed until May due to COVID19.

03/12/2020 By Olivia Flores Alvarez

A Voice of Change

HGO Finds Historic Resonance in Marian's Song

The new opera, which makes its world premiere this week, brings the triumphant story of vocalist Marian Anderson to life.

03/05/2020 By Emma Schkloven

Welcome to the rock

REVIEW: Come From Away at the Hobby Center Takes Audiences to New Heights

In between rousing group numbers and hilarious dialogue, the musical's message of compassion soars.

03/04/2020 By Emma Schkloven

Stop the World

See a Houston Love Story in Come From Away

The Broadway darling arrives at the Hobby Center with a tale that involves the Bayou City.

03/02/2020 By Holly Beretto

Steppin' Out

Jay Owens Is Determined to Save the Houston Two-Step

Flo-Motion Dance Association is preserving the Houston tradition one dance class at a time.

03/02/2020 By Gwendolyn Knapp

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