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Love Goes to Press
November 23-December 23, Love Goes to Press will appear on stage at Main Street Theater. Love Goes to Press is set in a WWII American press camp stationed near the Italian front lines. Here, two...
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Laughing at the End of the World
With only three days to go til the (supposed) end of existence as we know it, we’ve still got a few things to cross off our list. Canoeing down Buffalo Bayou, scaling Memorial City Medical Center to...
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A Very Charlie Brown Christmas, Improv Edition
When you get down to the root of Charles Schulz’ Peanuts you see a child plagued by deep insecurities, a skeptical outlook on life, and extreme early-onset male pattern baldness. It’s reflective of...
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Main Street Theater Presents Memory House
If you’re 20 or older and have ever been a teenager on the verge of adulthood, you probably recall the confusion of trying to make sense of your position in life and whatever that coming of age...
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A Weekend With Picasso
As we all know, whether you’re an art fanatic or could care less, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. He was a painter, sculptor, ceramist, set designer,...
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The Cargo Space
By Laura Coburn From the Houston Ballet to the Houston Grand Opera to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston prides itself on the arts. However, not every city in the world has access to renowned performing...
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Non-Italicized Tamarie Cooper’s FPH Interview
By Mills-McCoin Photo by George Hixson On July 12 of this year, Non-Italicized Tamarie Cooper (a name I have chosen to represent the interviewee and will henceforth be identified as “NITC”) released...
View ArticleA Catastrophic Christmas (in July)
By Luna Oliveira Driving across downtown in any direction of I-10, the city’s skyline appears like the rough edge of the shell that holds one of Houston’s most valuable pearls: the Catastrophic...
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Circus in town
The circus is back in town in more ways than one. Cirque de Soleil presents the extravaganza Amaluna, currently at Sam Houston Race. The word derived from Latin means mother moon. This particular...
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FPH Interview: Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich has been a constant force in movies since the 1960s, first as a critic and movie historian and then as a successful director. His latest film the screwball comedy sex farce She’s...
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Peter Pan 360
Peter Pan based on a play by J. M. Barrie, written in 1904, has seen many permutations. The story, subtitled The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, amazes kids and occasionally stirs up interest in adults. A...
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Victoria Price presents Phibes
When Victoria Price, the daughter of Vincent Price, rolls into the Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park, Sunday, September 27, to introduce a screening of The Abominable Dr. Phibes (quite the film for the...
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Toruk extends Avatar saga
There’s a new Na’vi in town. A new Cirque de Soleil show, Toruk – The First Flight comes to Houston (Toyota Center) for seven shows starting Thursday, February 11 through Sunday, February 14,...
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Chi-Raq
The average bear might recognize the following names of classic Greek playwrights: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristophanes. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of extant writings from that...
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Jan. 21-31: The Amazing Acro-Cats
There are some new cats in town. In what has become an annual event Samantha Martin brings her Amazing Acro-Cats to Houston for several purrformances starting Thursday, January 21 and running until...
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All the Way with LBJ
What: All the Way, written by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. A chronicle of the 11-months of the Lyndon Johnson presidency from his swearing in after JFK’s assassination in 1963 to...
View ArticleAround the World in 80 Days
What: Around the World in 80 Days. Where: The Alley Theatre. When: Running on the main stage through April 3. Why: Stage adaption of the Jules Verne adventure novel absolutely zings with fast paced...
View ArticleCabaret
What: Cabaret Where: Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (300 Bagby) When: Running daily until Sunday, March 27 Why: Come for the recognizable songs, stay for the dynamic stage presentation. A...
View ArticleGrounded
What: Grounded, a one-person play by George Brant Where: The Alley Theatre When: Running now through April 17 Why: A female Air Force pilot is reassigned to the Chair Force of drone warfare at a base...
View ArticleThe Christians
Religion pushes buttons. The play The Christians pushed said buttons big time. With the stage set up like an amphitheater the actors play to the audience as if they were conducting a sermon in a...
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