Castro's Beard
By Brian Stewart
Directed by Kenn McLaughlin

October 6-24

Stages Repertory Theatre opens its 26th season with the regional premiere of Castro’s Beard. The play follows four CIA agents as they develop a plan to eliminate Castro and “liberate” Cuba. From a Mob hit to poisoned shoes and exploding cigars, their schemes range from the merely unworkable to the truly bizarre. Even more jaw-dropping than the ideas themselves is the fact that they’re all based in reality...
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The Houston Press’ annual issue of the Best of Houston 2004 has hit the newsstands. The following is a roundup of the artists and theatres that made this year’s list…

Urban Aphrodite was a hit!
Thanks to all of you who came out to witness the wetness!
We have been asked to create our second installment of women's erotica entitled, Urban Aphrodite, Too!

We are taking more submissions from a national arena for this event, so if you are a woman, and have some erotic poetry, prose, small scenes, basically anything you can put down on paper, we will review it for inclusion in our show...The deadline is December 1, 2004

Please submit the works to Include your name, a number where you can be reached, the year the piece was written and an email address...Get juicy out there! This is a dAdA Production.
(remove NOSPAM from email address)

A.R. Gurney's latest WASP comedy to make SW premiere:
Sept. 22nd -October 23rd at 8pm at Theatrelab

Direct from it’s critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run Theater LaB Houston to present the Southwest Premiere of the new social and political comedy Mrs. Farnsworth.
Mrs. Farnsworth
Written by A.R. Gurney

Margery Farnsworth, Connecticut society wife and mother, signs up for a writing course with the intent of penning a tell all book about her youthful indiscretions with a Yale undergraduate who may (or may not) have become the most powerful man in the world. Continuing Education instructor Gordon Bell is all too happy to help...
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$19 "Cheap Thrills" Tickets

First there was Summer Chills - now there's "Cheap Thrills!" New this season, the Alley's $19 "Cheap Thrills" ticket program makes low-priced tickets available for Tuesday and Sunday evening performances of every regular Alley production on the Hubbard Stage...

New York director Steven Yuhasz will begin rehearsals in Brenham this month at Unity Theatre for the Broadway hit country and western musical PUMP BOYS & DINETTES. Mr. Yuhasz recently directed and wrote the musical TUSK for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The past three years he has been assistant director to Tony Award winning director/choreographer Susan Stroman for Madison Square Garden’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL starring Jim Dale, Tim Curry, and F. Murray Abraham. Last season, Mr. Yuhasz produced the Off-Broadway 70’s retro musical STREAKIN’! and ESCAPE FROM PTERODACTYL ISLAND, the smash hit of the New York Fringe...