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Etchings

PCT Productions

Etchings

A staged reading of a new play by Christopher Grum

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, two strangers meet by chance at the National 9/11 Memorial. What begins as an uneasy conversation about family, grief, and memory gradually reveals the hidden burdens each has carried for decades. Etchings is an intimate two-person drama that explores how tragedy shapes us, how memory changes us, and whether our loved ones should be defined by the worst moments of their lives.Read more

Direct Hits III

Sketch Supercollider

Direct Hits III

A best-of celebration of home-grown Houston sketch comedy

Sketch Supercollider: Direct Hits III is a fast-paced celebration of home-grown Houston sketch comedy, bringing together some of the funniest and most memorable original work created across the community over the past year. Featuring a wide range of writers, directors, performers, and comedic voices, the show offers a lively snapshot of Houston sketch right now.Read more

Who's Holiday!

The Garden Theatre

Who's Holiday!

By Matthew Lombardo; Starring Chaney Moore

The Garden Theatre's holiday tradition is back for the third year in a row! Chaney Moore returns as Cindy Lou Who in Who's Holiday! for a rollicking good time!

Who's Holiday! is a wildly funny and heartfelt adults-only comedy that tells the story of Cindy Lou Who, now all grown up and residing in a beaten-down trailer in the snowy hills of Mount Crumpit, as she recalls (in between bong rips) that Christmas Eve she first met the Grinch and the twisted turn of events her life has now taken.Read more

Murder Murder Kill Kill Kill

The Catastrophic Theatre

Murder Murder Kill Kill Kill

World Premiere by Brian Jucha & the Catastrophic ensemble

Brian Jucha is not only Houston’s reigning champ of ensemble-based, experimental dance-theatre. If you’ve seen his work, you know he is also a master of high camp and that his performances are littered with found text and unlikely pop culture references, all in service of a disarmingly moving hall of mirrors. This year he’s taking on Paris’ Grand Guignol, the theatre of fear and horror, to ask the question: “Is there really a serial killer in Houston or are these people just seeing things? And also, what is up with all these bayous?” Directed and choreographed by Brian Jucha.Read more

Mr. & Mrs. Fitch

Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.

Mr. & Mrs. Fitch

Written by Douglas Carter Beane, Directed by Ron Jones, Regional Premiere

A scandal. A marriage. A truth too complicated for headlines.

What happens when certainty becomes impossible? In Douglas Carter Beane’s sparkling comedy Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, a prominent conservative columnist and his impeccably composed wife find their carefully curated world thrown into chaos by a scandal that defies easy explanation. As rumors swirl and assumptions unravel, the couple is forced to confront questions of identity, faith, marriage, and the limits of certainty itself.

Brilliantly witty, unexpectedly moving, and delightfully irreverent, Mr. & Mrs. Fitch skewers modern politics, media culture, and social conventions with Beane’s trademark intelligence and razor-sharp humor. Beneath its sophisticated comedy lies a thoughtful exploration of authenticity, acceptance, and the courage required to embrace life's complexities. Both provocative and deeply humane, this contemporary comedy invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and reconsider what they think they know.Read more

Dog Sees God

When CB’s dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group’s bullying, offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits.

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10 Out of 12

The Catastrophic Theatre

10 Out of 12

by Anne Washburn; Directed by Jason Nodler

10 out of 12 is an immersive, meta-theatrical, inside-the-scenes peek at those grueling 12-hour tech rehearsals, those studies in human behavior, which lead up to opening night. Audiences will be given earpieces to eavesdrop on coms and private conversations as theatre artists come and go from the seats around them. Tensions run high, there is an injury, a breakdown, a mutiny. Why would anyone sign up for this again and again? By the end of this surprisingly warm, surprisingly funny play-before-a-play by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play), you just might find your answer. Directed by Jason Nodler.Read more

The Humans

Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.

The Humans

Written by Stephen Karam, Directed by Malinda L. Beckham

A Thanksgiving dinner served with equal parts love and dread.

Thanksgiving. One apartment. Three generations. Countless disappointments.

In Stephen Karam’s The Humans, a family gathers for a holiday dinner, bringing with them decades of love, obligation, secrets, and quiet heartbreak. As the evening wears on, familiar roles begin to fracture. Parents struggle to hold on to relevance, children wrestle with uncertain futures, and partners confront the distance between the lives they imagined and the lives they are living.

With blistering honesty and dark, unsettling humor, Karam exposes the invisible tensions that simmer beneath even the closest relationships. Every conversation becomes a negotiation of loyalty. Every act of love carries the weight of expectation. What begins as a family gathering slowly transforms into a riveting portrait of people desperate to connect, even as fear, regret, and disappointment threaten to pull them apart.

Raw, intimate, and quietly devastating, The Humans is a haunting examination of what remains when the stories families tell about themselves can no longer withstand the truth.Read more

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