Peter and the Starcatcher
Presented by Stageworks Theatre (formerly Houston Family Arts Center) at Stageworks Theatre (formerly Houston Family Arts Center)
April 28-May 21, 2017

Stageworks Theatre presents its sixth production of the season, Peter and the Starcatcher, a play by Rick Elice, music by Wayne Barker; based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Directed by Rachel Landon, the show runs April 28 – May 21 at The Garza Mainstage.

Come see how friends become foes and how a young, mischievous boy got his name-Peter.

Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be “The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up” (a.k.a. Peter Pan). A wildly theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels, the play was conceived for the stage by directors Roger Rees and Alex Timbers and written by Rick Elice with music by Wayne Barker.

The Landing Theatre Company
presents the Regional Premiere of
In Darfur by Winter Miller. Directed by Troy Scheid.
April 23 - May 13, 2017

Presented by The Landing Theatre Company (LTC) at The Landing Theatre @ the Docks

Without Winter Miller, you might not know about the genocide that is occurring in Darfur.

Commissioned by the Guthrie Theater and the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and presented at The Public Theater in NY, IN DARFUR is the provocative account of three intertwined lives at a camp for internally displaced persons in Darfur.

The story follows an aid worker’s mission to save and protect lives, a journalist’s pursuit to deliver a “Page One” story and a Darfuri woman’s quest for safety. It is a searing story of urgency and international significance and how one voice can bring awareness to the entire world in the pursuit of change and peace.

Classical Theatre Company presents
The Barber of Seville
by Pierre Beaumarchais
April 5 through April 23, 2017

Most everyone is familiar with the opera The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, but few know that the opera is based on the 1775 play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.

In fact, the play has never before been professionally produced in Houston’s long history.

Beaumarchais’ play is the origin for such iconic characters as Count Almaviva, Bartholo, Rosine, and of course, Figaro.

The Catastrophic Theatre presents
Snow White.
by Donald Barthelme
April 7 through May 6 at MATCH Houston.

Snow White is tired of being “just a horsewife” to Bill, Dan, Edward, Hubert, Henry, Clem and Kevin, who, in her estimation, “only add up to the equivalent of about two real men.”

While the seven men toil in commercial real estate and manufacture exotic high-end baby foods, she whiles away her days reading Mao Tse-tung, drinking vodka with orange juice, and impatiently waiting for the prince promised to her by history.

This world premiere production of Snow White is a theatrical adaptation of the groundbreaking, experimental novel by the iconic, postmodern novelist, poet, and early faculty member of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, the late Donald Barthelme.

Becky's New Car
Presented by Theatre Southwest at Theatre Southwest
Running April 7 through 29, 2017.

Theatre Southwest presents Becky’s New Car by Steven Dietz. Directed by Mimi Holloway.

Have you ever been tempted to flee your own life?

Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage—with no prospects for change on the horizon.

Unity Theatre presents Doubt, A Parable. A Drama by John Patrick Shanley.
Playing March 30 – April 9, 2017.

Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, in this powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she has suspicions about the young Father Flynn.