Next to Normal,
with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
at Island ETC (East-End Theatre Company)
March 17th- April 08,2017

This ‘feel everything’ rock musical has earned accolades around the world for it tender, insightful, and funny portrayal of a family trying bravely to come to terms with life, love, and loss.

NEXT TO NORMAL is about the seemingly perfect Goodman family. Their only problem is that sometimes mother Diana seems just a little too happy. Her husband Dan worries all the time. Their daughter Natalie is intent on getting a scholarship to Yale and leaving home.

And their son Gabe, well…that’s another story entirely.

Alley Theatre presents the internationally acclaimed production
Let the Right One In
presented by the National Theatre of Scotland.
February 22 and continues through March 19, 2017 in the Hubbard Theatre.

From John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, the director and playwright of 2016’s spectacular smash Harry Potter and the Cursed Child comes this spellbinding piece of theatrical storytelling.

Supernatural thriller Let the Right One In is a brutal and tender vampire myth told through the turbulence of a coming-of-age romance.

Oskar, a lonely boy from a broken home, is bullied at school and longing for friendship. Eli, the young girl who moves in next door, doesn’t attend school and rarely leaves home.

Classical Theatre Company presents Strindberg’s rarely produced final play, the supernatural drama,
The Ghost Sonata
ny August Strindberg
February 8 – February 26, 2017.

Following 2012’s production of Miss Julie, Classical Theatre Company will produce its second play by the Swedish great August Strindberg in The Ghost Sonata.

This dark examination of family was originally produced in 1908 and has disturbed audiences ever since.

“Strindberg had a very unhappy family life – particularly his childhood. This play was his attempt to exorcise those ghosts through this supernatural drama,” says CTC chief John Johnston. “We’re excited to bring this rarely produced play to our Houston audiences. We’ve done a good job over the years in exposing our audiences to age-old plays that they’ve never seen on stage before. Most theatergoers are familiar with his other plays like Miss Julie, The Father, or A Dream Play, but The Ghost Sonata was his last great play, and perhaps his most overlooked.”

Theatre Southwest presents
The Whale
by Samuel D. Hunter
February 17 - March 11, 2017

On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six- hundred pound recluse hides away in his apartment and slowly eats himself to death. Desperate to reconnect with his long-estranged daughter, he reaches out to her, only to find a viciously sharp-tongued and wildly unhappy teen.

PASSING STRANGE
Music, lyrics and book by Mark Stewart “Stew”
February 9 - March 4

The Tony Award winning comedy-drama rock musical about a young African American's artistic journey of self-discovery

Obsidian Theater in association with SRO Productions will stage the Tony and Drama Desk award-winning Broadway rock musical Passing Strange for 14 performances – February 9 though March 4.

Main Street Theater (MST) continues its 2016 – 2017 MainStage season with Tony Award Winner for Best Play,
Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn.
February 11 - March 12
Main Street Theater – Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd.

“No one understands my trip to Copenhagen. Time and time again I’ve explained it. To Bohr himself, and Margrethe. To interrogators and intelligence officers, to journalists and historians. The more I’ve explained, the deeper the uncertainty has become. Well, I shall be happy to make one more attempt.”– Heisenberg in Copenhagen