DiverseWorks presents a screening of The Exquisite Moving Corpse. Sixty artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute. Most of the footage was shot, shared, and edited while participating artists worked in quarantine. Artists Chip Lord, Jack Massing and Sean Miller made the first three minutes and then handed it off to an evolving list of artists whom they invited – a jump into the unknown! Read more

She’s baaaaaaack! Tamarie and her gang of merry misfits are returning to the stage—an actual stage—for a hilarious, irreverent, all-new musical extravaganza featuring an original score played by a live band and performances from some of Houston's funniest, wildest, quirkiest, sometimes raunchiest actors.Read more

Krishnaa A calling to Lord Krishna… is a collection of short Bharatnatyam pieces by Rukmini Vijayakumar, an Indian choreographer, Bharatanatyam dancer, and actress. The Krishnaa production is a collection of traditional pieces each one addressing Lord Krishna, seen from differing perspectives. Read more

On a dark and desolate snowy night, successful romance novelist, Paul, crashes his car into a snowbank and is rescued by his “number one fan,” Annie, who brings the unconscious Paul back to her isolated home. While Paul recovers, Annie reads an unpublished manuscript of his latest novel and becomes distraught when she learns that the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Holding him hostage, Annie forces Paul to write a new novel where Misery survives, and he wonders if Annie has any intention of ever letting him go. When loneliness confuses fictional characters for beloved friends, and passion leads to distortion, can either of them survive the misery? Read more

Illiterate yet affable, Bobby Reyburn loves to do impressions and watch soap operas. He’s also a member of the Aryan nation sitting on death row, convicted of an unimaginable hate crime. John Brennan is an articulate, well-educated convict and editor of the prison newspaper, The Death Row Advocate. Following executions, John publishes obituaries that tell the stories of the executed but never mentions the crimes committed. John's writing draws national attention and the interest of a journalist who wants to do a story about him. As each awaits his final fate under the watchful eye of their female guard, they confront, comfort, and change each other. Inspired by the story of a real-life Texas death row inmate, Coyote on a Fence explores the questions: Can one be redeemed in the final hours of life? Is everyone redeemable even if they aren’t seeking redemption?Read more

When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after patriarch Dad up and disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. A vanished father, a pill-popping mother, and three sisters harboring shady little secrets becomes a mixture of brutal honesty and hurtful truth as old wounds reopen and new ones form. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for best play that same year, August: Osage County examines how people function within dysfunction.Read more

Three playwrights from three Houston area high schools premiere their one-act plays at the 2022 Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. Student Playwright Festival: 

Stay Sunny by Pearl Reagler, directed by Curtis Barber: Four teenagers join a group phone call to try and make sense of a mysterious impending disaster.

Absquatulate: To leave without saying goodbye. by Alexandra Askew, directed by Holly Vogt Wilkison: A family struggling with the unexpected loss of one of their own must learn how to live with each other as their dynamics shift and tensions rise while they grieve.

Hand Me Downs by Kaleigh Medlow, directed by E.J.: The journey of three generations of Black women is explored as the women hand down a blouse from daughter to daughter, while simultaneously handing down generational trauma and tendencies.Read more