A story of adolescent anarchy, of teenagers silenced and controlled by a censoring society, and the devastating consequences of the freedom students find outside of the classroom. 'Spring Awakening,' the groundbreaking Tony Award-winning musical, will have an intimate and powerful restaging at Rec Room. The much-loved rock score will be brought to life with live musicians in Houston's smallest theater.

Spring Awakening

Rec Room

From the final meeting of two lovers to the inception of an illicit affair, a love triangle unfolds backward as power dynamics shift in exhilarating and unexpected ways in Harold Pinter’s masterpiece. The most fundamental axioms of love and friendship are open for reassessment, as we witness Emma, Jerry, and Robert navigate their own brutal and unexpected feelings about each other and themselves. Their story unfolds through cutting dialogue and ominous tension, courtesy of one of the 20th century’s dramatic titans.

Betrayal

Sports: for some, a trivial diversion; for many others, a way to perceive and experience something greater than ourselves. An opportunity to break away from the ordinary and catch a glimpse of the extraordinary and transcendent, even if only in forty-eight-minute increments. Over a ten-year span, for two friends, it becomes a means to articulate everything they would otherwise be unable to express. Shawn and Matt’s lives, from tragedy to triumph and everything in between, are narrated through the lens of LeBron James’ career milestones in Rajiv Joseph’s poignant story of friendship and the profound meanings inherent in a time-honored American pastime (Yes, we know it was invented by a Canadian).

King James

You will not live forever. At 12 years old what do you do with this knowledge? 
A festival of disobedience, magic, and make-believe pulled from J.M. Barrie’s original story about a strange boy who comes through the window of an ordinary family and takes the children on an adventure. Set in a Edwardian attic in 1980, before the loss of imaginative play at the onset of the internet. An enchanted production about bedtime and storytime, of defiance and humility, of prudent girls, lost boys, pirates, ticking crocs, going home, mothers, fathers, dogs, dreams, and the infamously horrendous grown-up Captain Hook.

Peter Pan

On the edge of the wilderness, four friends gather at a backyard party to honor their mentor and the newly inaugurated president of a conservative Catholic university. It has been years since they last met and as the celebration runs deep into the night, their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and a vicious fight to be understood. 

Heroes Of The Fourth Turning

Robin wants a kid. But she’s not doing it the old-fashioned way. She’s found him online. And now he’s here. In this theatre. And her wife is not on-board. The impacts of Robin’s decision ripple through her newly-formed family creating consequences animal in nature. Caught in the middle, the child launches himself on a lone wolf’s journey to find a pack he can call his own.

Wolf Play

Every parent makes mistakes. But what if you could fix them? Redo the moment? Would you? A psychological thriller that blends scientific speculation with a stunning portrait of the relationship between fathers and sons. 

Caryl Churchill’s A Number is a powerful, unpredictable and devastating play that delves into the morality of genetic experiments, the essence of paternal love and the debate of nature versus nurture. 

A Number

Christmas Eve: Bettina and her husband Albert aren’t happy. Bettina’s mother is staying for the holidays, which is awkward, not least because Bettina’s mother met a man on the train, and now she’s invited him over for dinner. 'Winter Solstice,' a razor-sharp comedy by award-winning German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, plays with liberalism's inability to immunize itself against fascism’s rhetorical power in this wildly theatrical and inventive production.

Rec Room Arts

Nov 21 - Dec 14, 2024

Winter Solstice

5 - 28 Sep, 2024

Spring Awakening

Jun 15 - Jul 6, 2024

Betrayal

Rec Room Arts