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Curtain Call is finally here! A new Houston Fine Arts podcast show is now in production and will debut on Friday, 10:00 AM January 13th.

Hosted by Houston's own Manning Mpinduzi-Mott, Curtain Call debuts with a thoughtful and inspring interview of two of Houston’s most venerable talents.

The Alley Theatre will add R.C. Sherriff’s brilliant and compelling World War I drama Journey’s End, to its 2005-2006 Hubbard Stage season. Journey’s End is set during the last great German offensive of the war and concerns a group of British soldiers, showing the effects battle has on them—physically, mentally and spiritually—and celebrates the resilience of the human heart even during the most extreme of circumstances...

Attention local playwrights, and would-be playwrights, every summer (for the past eight years or so) Theatre Southwest has been giving local and National playwrights a forum through the Festival of Originals. (NOTE: Deadline has been extended until April 1st!)Each year the TSW-FOO eagerly awaits the submission of original plays for it's local festival. Five plays are chosen, from entries from the Houston area, as well as some received from across the country...

Sunday Social at Ouisie's Table Ongoing series looks at "putting on a show" with Stages Repertory Theatre

Just as the new arts season is to begin, Rob Bundy, artistic director of Stages Repertory Theatre and Kenn McLaughlin, the theatre's managing director, come to Ouisie's Table to talk about Stages' new season and what goes into choosing the shows that make it. This promises to be a true backstage pass to the creative process of producing performance art for audience consumption...

Collide at Fringe Festival with new musical Byzantium

Making a leap from Houston venues to New York stages, Theatre Collide will produce the world premiere of Byzantium, a musical co-authored by Steven Jamail, Troy Scheid, and John Kaiser, as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. To be staged by Off-Broadway director Cailín Heffernan and designed by Tony-nominated scenic designer Kevin Rigdon of the Alley Theatre, the production features a distinguished cast of Broadway and Off-Broadway actors...