The Rice
By Jeff Millar
Directed by Rebecca Greene Udden

September 9 - October 10, 2004

Found in the abandoned front office of the old Rice Hotel: a file containing a photograph of a beautiful woman, an unpaid room bill totaling hundreds of dollars for Mrs. Ike West, Jr., and a letter exposing her as a fraud. From these fragments reporter Jeff Millar has constructed a fascinating story - part fact, part fiction - of how that mystery woman spent those seven days in 1957...
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Date   9/16/2004
Time   10:30 PM
Event   Wendy Chicago
Location   Axiom, 2524 McKinney
Description Directed by IBP member Walt Zipprian
USA, 2004, 20 min.

Curated by Lisa Haymes
Director Walt Zipprian and Star Wendy Chicago will be at the screening.

"Wendy Chicago" screening part of Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Filmmaker and IBP company Member Walt Zipprian 'discovered' Wendy Chicago at a drag show for performers over fifty and was immediately fascinated by her carefree style. Seventy plus years old, generally intoxicated, rarely knowing the words to the song she's lip syncing, Wendy lives...

Bobbindoctrin 1st Annual Puppet Festival

A festival of five-minute puppet plays by local Houston arts of all media.
The ever so populist Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theater's staging a festival and we want YOU to do all the work!

We'll give you the stage to direct and perform your own five minute puppetry vignettes to the amazement of all your friends and people you also do not know! We want you to come take part in a diverse and eclectic mix of low and high brow performances...

Over the River and Through the Woods,
the comedy by Joe DiPietro
Aug. 27 thru Sept. 18, 2004 on Friday and Saturday


From the writer who brought you "I Love You're Perfect, Now Change!" comes this tale: Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. He sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream...

Dracula, sexy vampirettes, madmen galore...

Who: Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company
What: Dracula Fundraiser
When: August 28, 2004 7pm-11pm
Where: 1415 Bar and Grill at 1415 California

Does this sound like a Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company production? Ah, yes. Especially when the author of this Dracula is none other than Mac Wellman, the second-coming of Gertrude Stein and the master of “syntactical scat.” The show is not until October at 1415 Bar and Grill.

But wouldn’t you like to see a preview of this monstrosity now?

August 13-15, 2004

HYPE (Houston Young Playwrights Exchange) is in its 8th consecutive year at the Alley Theatre. The program is designed to showcase local young playwrights in a professional theatrical setting for the public to enjoy. With the guidance of the Alley staff, the teens selected are able to workshop and further develop their scripts. The following plays have been selected for the summer staged reading...