The classic and inspiring holiday drama, It's A Wonderful Life, is coming to the Houston Family Arts Center! This enduring story of love, life, friendship and hope opens on the Garza Main Stage, November 27th – December 20th.

Directed by Rachel Landon, this stage adaptation of the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, and Jo Swerling is a faithful, fast-moving stage adaptation of the classic film and is not only a joyful Christmas tale -- it's the gorgeous love story of George and Mary Bailey, a vivid portrait of the Greatest Generation, a descent into the darkest hour of a man trapped by circumstance, and a powerful meditation on what makes a meaningful life.

Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy
By Mark Schultz
November 13th to December 5th, 2015
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.
All tickets Pay-What-You-Can
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16-year-old Charlotte’s beautiful mother is dead. Turning to the story of Helen of Troy for comfort, Charlotte becomes convinced that beauty, fame, and the desire of others can help reconcile her with her mother’s memory and punish the world that took her away in the first place. Getting beauty tips from her popular friend, seeking career advice on how to be a !&#$! star from her guidance counselor, and searching for love from the football jock that barely even knows she exists, Charlotte searches in fantasy for what she cannot find in reality—destroying the life of the only friend she may have had in the process. But in the depths of pain, she comes to discover an unexpected grace.

Theater LaB Houston presents
The Theatre @ Boston Court's production of ​Tom Jacobson's
The Twentieth-Century Way
directed by Michael Michetti
starring
Will Bradley & Robert Mammana
Desire, reality and morality are artfully blurred in this award winning play about
entrapping and exposing gay men by police. The Twentieth-Century Way is that rare convergence of a great story with a novel form of theatricality. It's 1914. Two actors enter a bare stage for an audition.

Theatre Southwest presents Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang. Directed by Jay Menchaca. Running September 11 through October 3.

Season 59 begins! With the winner of the Tony award for best play

Vanya and Sonia live a quiet life in the farmhouse where they grew up. But their peace is disrupted when movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike.

Black Lab Theatre presents
Tigers Be Still
at Wildfish Theatre
January 15 - January 31, 2015
by Kim Rosenstock.
Directed by Jordan Jaffe.

A tiger has broken loose from the local zoo, but Sherry has bigger problems. She's a recent college graduate with a master's degree in art therapy, and like so many 20-somethings she finds herself back home, unemployed, and overwhelmed by her "quirky" family.

Death and a Rollercoaster
Various locations around Houston:
January 2 - January 24, 2015

BooTown Theatre presents the next installment of the River Bottom Series, a shadow puppet play called Death and a Rollercoaster.

In the late 90’s a small Texas town was shocked to find one of its own burning in a backyard. Those responsible rode rollercoasters in the summer heat as authorities searched. A young man quickly confessed but the surrounding events left a mark on the small community of friends.