Bayou City Concert Musicals presents "Alone Together: The Songs of Arthur Schwartz"

05.06.13 - 05.20.13

While not a household name, Arthur Schwartz was a towering figure in American popular music. He wrote his first published song in 1923 while studying to become a lawyer. With encouragement from Lor

Shake Your Groove Thing

Royal lineup: Priscilla, Evita & We Will Rock You are Queens of TUTS new musical season

By Joel Luks

02.16.13 | 8:00 am

Transsexuals, queens, half-human creatures, witches with issues and presidential first ladies are some of the characters who will work their magic onstage at the Hobby Center for the Performing Art ...

Ambitious production

Sweet songs and difficult conversation: HGO's Show Boat raises powerful racial themes

By Joseph Campana

01.18.13 | 6:00 am

Sometimes you just can't help loving something. Certainly, that's true of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, which audiences have loved since its debut in 1927. With its book and lyrics by Os ...

Theatre Under The Stars presents Peter Pan

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

12.11.12 - 12.23.12

Tony-Award nominee Cathy Rigby takes flight in an all new production of Peter Pan. Discover the magic all over again of this two-time Emmy Award winning and two-time Tony Award nominated production

At the Hobby Center

Election with a heart: Rice alum Ryann Ferguson returns to Houston with a high-energy high school musical

By Sarah Rufca

09.16.11 | 12:30 pm

Members of TUTS' Humphrey School of Musical Theatre — some of Houston's most promising high school theater students — have performed works by Disney and The Who for the public. ...

Just what Houston needs: "Rain"

Beatles tribute and Riverdance farewell tour added to Gexa Energy Broadway series

By Joel Luks

08.18.11 | 5:50 pm

Go big or go home. That seems to be the modus operandi of Gexa Energy Broadway at the Hobby Center, which is adding two big shows to an already packed lineup of productions in the 2011-12 seas ...

"White Christmas in July" hosted by Theater Under the Stars

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

07.17.11

Christmas in July has never been cooler. Join Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) as 16,000 pounds of snow falls from noon to 2 p.m. at the Hobby Center. Escape the summer heat under a blanket of f

Bayou City Concert Musicals' Annual Summer Lecture Series

06.19.11 - 07.10.11

The '70s was one of the most exciting decades of musical theater, with the emergence of Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman and the legendary team of Kander and Ebb. Young composers Andrew Lloyd Webbe

Theater Under the Stars presents Urban Cowboy: The Musical

Miller Outdoor Theatre

07.14.11 - 07.19.11

Based on the 1980 film featuring John Travolta and Debra Winger, Urban Cowboy chronicles Bud Davis, a country boy who moves to the big city for an oil refinery job, and his whirlwind romance with l

Curtains Up

It's Curtains for Guiding Light's dynamic duo Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer

By Steven Thomson

04.04.11 | 12:36 pm

Soap opera stars Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer spent 28 years as a star-crossed couple on Guiding Light. When the classic soap opera ended in 2009, fans were devastated. But now Newman and Zimm ...