Winner of three Tony Awards® and the Olivier Award for Best Play, the Broadway and West End sensation LIFE OF PI is “an exhilarating evening of theater” (The Wall Street Journal).

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Life of Pi

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

For some, there’s nothing better than retirement, but when Eddie Lee’s wife, Iris, joins him in retirement, the truth about his “ladies man” ways resurface. To avoid her, Eddie retreats to the sanctuary of neighborhood restaurants where coffee refills are free and the rest of his retired friends, with marital problems of their own, wait faithfully for him. When a mystery woman moves in the abandoned house down the street, with her Creole’ wiles, melt in your mouth coconut cake, and medicine cabinet secrets, Eddie is not the only one who pays her a visit; a visit that threatens to change all their lives forever.

Coconut Cake

Ensemble Theatre

 What are we to do in the face of evil?  How are we to respond when we're called to grace and peace?  How to Die: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is an intricate weaving of the life of the famous pastor and theologian, who, upset by the complacency he saw in the German church toward the Nazi party, makes the hardest decision he's ever had to make--a willing attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. This thoughtful and engaging drama pulls the thread of Bonhoeffer’s life as he finds himself woven into an unexpected tapestry where he would daily be confronted by the need to stand for the truth of the Gospel in the face of crushing hostility and punishment.

How to Die: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A.D. Players Theater

A powerful play about swagger, determination and sticking together. It’s 1997 and the WNBA is changing the game. Every player on Plainnole’s Lady Train basketball team now dreams of going pro — but first, they’ll have to navigate the pressures of being young, gifted, Black, and female in rural Arkansas. Candrice Jones’s adrenaline packed play about a high school basketball team explores the fierce strength of young Black women in the South and what it means to be part of a team.

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Seven assassins walk into a bar… No, it’s not the start of a joke; it’s the title of the brand new play by Houston actor/playwright Dain Geist. The play takes place in a bar for the wake of a respected-if-not-always-beloved colleague, a legendary assassin named Bartleby. Six fellow assassins have gathered to pay their respects and raise a glass to Bartleby, who happens to be “laid out” right there in the bar. A hilarious, dark comedy about morality, camaraderie, and what it means just to get by in life, this world premiere is filled with swift-moving dialogue and an ending that’s sure to leave audiences gasping.

Seven Assassins Walk into a Bar

Main Street Theater – Rice Village

This uproarious comedy is one of the funniest shows to ever hit the American stage. Froggy, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base in the deep hills of Georgia, brings his friend Charlie, a pathologically shy Englishman who has just learned of his wife's newest infidelity, to a friendly lodge for a period of rest and relaxation. In order to protect him from having to speak with anyone, Froggy tells the residents of the lodge that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. But some folks in these parts of Georgia don't take too kindly to foreigners.

The Foreigner

Inspired by actual events, Camp Logan is an award-winning World War I military drama about the devastating explosion of racial tensions that resulted in the 1917 Houston riot, involving an all-black Army regiment stationed in Houston, Texas.

Camp Logan

Everyone's favorite dysfunctional East Texas family is back!  Two years later, the Dinkel family is gathering back on Mee-Maw's beloved ranch on Christmas Day to celebrate Ginny and Hugo's wedding. But Hugo, the new Head Coach of the Houston NHL expansion team, is stuck in Dallas, snowed in by a whopping eighth of an inch. Hugo's absence forces Gretta, Erik, and Van to once again run a poorly conceived (but well-meaning) scheme to keep the truth from the ultra-anxious Ginny. As they restlessly wait for Hugo's arrival during the winter "storm of the century", a handsome cowboy from a neighboring ranch threatens to upend Erik's plan to win the heart of Hugo's beautiful French-Canadian sister. Blake and Mya, second year students at Texas A&M and UT respectively, have discovered the vitriolic nature of their newfound politics and hate each other again.  And a massive and legendary wild hog lurks on the edge of the ranch, threatening to destroy more than just the wedding and Christmas. The characters you know and love return for another night of Christmas hilarity and poignancy, including a certain critter who’s also not been wasting any time!

A Texas Carol Part Deux

After 5 years, the Grayson's discovered marriage is not all bliss and bouquets. The routine of daily activities creates friction and puts the relationship in jeopardy. "For Better, For Worse" takes on a whole new meaning in this hilarious, adrenaline-fueled escapade.

Divorce Saved My Marriage

Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston

Cuánto vale una heladera (How much is a refrigerator worth) is a funny and touching story about a woman who demands a new refrigerator after the one she bought burns out due to a power surge. This generates absurd situations that are too close to our reality. Written by one of the most widely read authors in Argentina and worldwide, the work subtly addresses, through humor, the theme of reclaiming identity in a modern, globalized, and bureaucratic world.

Cuánto vale una heladera/Mesa de Saldos/Verona

Mama is up early to prepare an important meal and, even with her family on hand to help, time is running short. Tensions simmer with the Tucker women all under one roof, but things come to a boil as the violence hovering around the periphery of their lives begins to intrude upon the sanctity of Mama’s kitchen. A powerful gathering of three generations of African American women as they tangle with each other while attempting to meet a deadline for the eponymous one pot meal.

Stew

A group of telefundraisers attempt to raise money for an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, to be performed by local superhero team “The Fathom Town Enforcers.”

Spirits to Enforce

TEATRX annual festival encapsulates Hispanic Heritage Month by exploring rich and inspiring short stories through live theatre and cinema.

6th Annual La Vida Es Cortos/Life is Shorts Festival

“It was nine-thirty on a Christmas Eve…” Arthur Kipps is obsessed with a curse he believes has been cast over him and his family by the specter of a “Woman in Black,” for it is believed that anyone who sees her will die. He hires a skeptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story to exorcise the fear that grips his soul. Things begin innocently enough, but as they reach further into Arthur’s darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds… Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story is alive and well in this spine-tingler of a play!

The Woman in Black

Main Street Theater

It’s 1937, and three generations of porters are hard at work on the luxurious Panama Limited train. Midwest blues songs flavor their journey from Chicago to New Orleans as the porters confront dark secrets from their past and tough truths about their future together. This captivating coming of age story is woven with iconic blues music.

Pullman Porter Blues

Winner of the 2022 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, A Case for the Existence of God is a transcendent work of empathy and catharsis by MacArthur Fellow Samuel D. Hunter, writer of the recent Oscar-nominated film The Whale. After meeting at their daughters’ daycare, Ryan and Keith form an unlikely friendship, navigating fatherhood, loneliness, and the confounding terms of a mortgage loan.

A Case for the Existence of God

The Gordy

A tongue-tied solicitor has bitten off more than he can chew overseeing the sale of a crumbling, possibly haunted house that, um, used to be a brothel. Then in the course of one hectic night and morning, two couples, the solicitor and realtor, each immersed in their own personal problems, end up in more of a mess than ever. And it all happens in a highly ingenious and original theatrical setting in which all the rooms, passages and stairs of this three-story house are on a single level. Did we mention there’s a ghost?! Let’s just say that in this British farce by the brilliant Alan Ayckbourn, hilarity definitely ensues!

Taking Steps

Shakespeare may be the O.G., but this crew takes The Tragedy of Othello to a whole new level in this lit hip-hop remix. The onstage DJ spins Shakespeare’s legendary masterpiece of jealousy, revenge, and passion over original bars and rhyme. A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Othello: The Remix has a catalog of platinum accolades and press, making it the most celebrated reinvention of the Bard in years.

Othello: The Remix

Angus Black has finally made his transition and you don’t want to miss the reading of the will. The intriguing journey to hear the final wishes is hilarious for everyone, unless you are next to join Angus! Come, keep your wits about you, and help investigate who did it! See you On Midnight, Friday the 13th!

On Midnight, Friday the Thirteenth

Deep in the heart of Georgia.  1948.  Having recently demolished another car, the aging Daisy Werthan, a Jewish woman, must rely on the services of a chauffeur to help her get around.  Her son hires Hoke, a thoughtful and good-natured Black man to do the job. Daisy is obstinate and refuses to let Hoke drive her.  But in a series of absorbing interactions spanning twenty-five years, Miss Daisy slowly relents and the two become friends and pillars of support for one another, united by the racism and anti-Semitism that permeates their everyday lives.

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