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Houston art rumblings: Another theater jumps into the renovation craze, trying to update its Rice Village digs

By Joel Luks

05.14.13 | 10:47 am

How do you solve a problem like Main Street's theater? Doing what this coterie of entertainment professionals does best: Charming their way into the wallets of art-loving consumers. Leave i ...

Main Street Theater presents White as Snow, Red as Blood

05.10.13 - 05.12.13

Fourteen students of Main Street Theater's Education Department explore the darker side of the Snow White tale in White as Snow, Red as Blood by V. Glasgow Koste. Think you know the story

Main Street Theater Capital Campaign Kickoff Event "No Place Like Home"

Main Street Theater

05.13.13

Join to celebrate the beginning of Main Street Theater's capital campaign and learn more about this step to find a permanent home for this theater company. Guests are asked to RSVP to Capi

Main Street Theater presents Close Up Space by Molly Smith Metzler

Main Street Theater

05.18.13 - 06.16.13

Powerful literary editor Paul Barrow fights a losing battle against the lowering of linguistic standards instead of helping his daughter Harper deal with the death of her mother. But when Harper sh

Main Street Theater presents Charlotte's Web

04.20.13 - 05.18.13

The beloved story of a spider named Charlotte who devises a plan to save her friend Wilbur, the pig, Charlottes Web has received numerous awards including the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1970 for

The Arthropologist

No ordinary blueberry pie: Mother and daughter battle in intense Russian adoption drama

By Nancy Wozny

01.27.13 | 12:02 pm

As the mother of sons, I've always been curious about the mother-daughter relationship. Which is exactly why I jumped at the chance to chat with playwright Kathleen Tolan, whose play Memory Hou ...

ParentsPost

Lively theater for lively children: Five "don't miss" family-friendly performances this winter

By Bernadette Verzosa

01.18.13 | 10:00 am

As we weather through the chilly days of a Houston winter, we can seek refuge and escape in the city’s theaters. Families can imagine being transported to exotic lands with the spirited story ...

Main Street Theater presents A Wrinkle in Time

01.26.13 - 02.16.13

On a "dark and stormy night," Meg Murry and her little brother Charles Wallace set out on a voyage through space and time to rescue their father, encountering Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which and Mrs

Main Street Theater presents Miss Nelson Is Missing!

03.02.13 - 04.06.13

The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing through the air. They were the worst-behaved class in the whole school. But when Miss Nelson disap

Main Street Theater and the Prague Shakespeare Festival present Shakespeare's Henry V

Main Street Theater

03.16.13 - 04.28.13

In the early 15th century, and King Henry V has just assumed the throne. When the Dauphin sends Henry an insulting message in response to England's claims to certain parts of France, Henry deci