THE SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE
30th Anniversary Celebration
Request for Houston Women Playwrights
~call for entries

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize will celebrate its 30th Anniversary in 2008. The celebration will take place on March 9 and 10 at the Alley Theatre. As part of this event, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is launching a Houston Special Project highlighting the accomplishments of women in theatre in Houston...

Have an appetite to solve a murder mystery? Have we got a deal for you! The Country Playhouse presents Murder Mystery Dessert Theatre for two nights only, Oct 12 & 13 at 8pm. It'll be an evening of both desserts and dastardly deeds, featuring fiendish plots..

Best of Houston 2007:

Once again The Houston Press announces the "Best of Houston" in its 2007 edition. The following is a list of the winners in the performing arts section..

Join Mildred's Umbrella Theater co. and Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre for:
The 'Rotten to the Core' Gala!

October 6, 2007 from 7:00pm- 12:00am

Come out and party with Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company and Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre! All proceeds from the party will go to the “Rotten to the Core” fund, which will enable the two companies to tour their recent collaboration, Rot, an original play by local playwright John Harvey...

Autumn Follies Gata at MST

October 5, 2007

The event is a celebrity-studded, one-night-only benefit performance of the specially-created musical theater piece The Best Little Icehouse in Texas with cameo appearances by local celebrities including Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz, Astros great Larry Dierker, and Bravo’s Project Runway Season 2 Winner (and local LOT 8 boutique owner) Chloe Dao, Fox 26 Morning News Team's Lanny Griffith, Andrews Kurth attorney Sylvia Matthews, Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia, PBS’s Ernie Manouse and Doug Mueller, Momentum Audi’s Jared Lang, and Health & Fitness Sports Magazine’s Lisa Malosky. Professional actors Doris Davis, Katharine Randolph, and Joel Sandel will be anchoring the production...

Deborah Nowinski, Artistic Director/Founder of Dionysus Theatre has received the prestigious KPRC/JEFFERSON AWARD for September 2007. Dionysus Theatre is a non profit organization that brings the theater experience to actors with disabilities along with actors who are non-disabled. They are the only inclusive standing theater in the state of Texas.

“What a triumph for Dionysus Theatre,” said Nowinski...