All Houston Theatre Shows

Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel follows confident matchmaker Emma Woodhouse as her attempts to arrange the romantic lives of those around her lead to unexpected complications. Directed by Sharon Ott in a co-production with A.D. Players.

The opera season concludes on April 24 with Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, presented as a special benefit concert performance. Widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest operas, Peter Grimes tells the powerful story of an outsider struggling against suspicion, prejudice and social isolation. This unforgettable performance will feature three-time GRAMMY Award-winning Houston native soprano Latonia Moore alongside the Moores School Symphony Orchestra, UH Choirs and student soloists, bringing Britten's extraordinary score and gripping drama to life.

Cole Escola’s dark comedy reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a frustrated and deeply unhappy woman in the weeks before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The intentionally outrageous historical comedy explores her ambitions, desires, and chaotic personal life through an absurd and irreverent lens.

Life aboard the Mississippi riverboat Cotton Blossom brings performers together across generations in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s landmark musical. Francesca Zambello’s production follows love, loss, and racial injustice, with a score including Ol’ Man River. Performed in English with projected English text. Approximately 2 hours 45 minutes, including one intermission. Contains historically racist language and situations, and gunshot effects.

Through eleven satirical exhibits, this comedy confronts stereotypes of Black life in America, blending outrageous humor with moments of reflection about history, identity, and liberation.

A New Kind Of Future. An aging woman reconnects with her past through artificial intelligence designed to look and speak like her late husband. This tender drama explores memory, family, reflection, and the stories we cling to. As technology advances, it asks: what does it mean to be remembered?

Arcadia moves back and forth between 1809 and the present day at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition as the Arcadian landscape is transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens while young Lady Thomasina and her tutor explore intellectual ideas amid passion and intrigue. In the present day, the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars research a possible scandal at the estate involving Lord Byron. With humor and heart, Arcadia explores truth, time, classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex and passion.

When close friends suddenly arrive at Agnes and Tobias’s home seeking refuge from a mysterious fear, an already on-edge household is pushed further off balance.

A genre bending horror comedy where every laugh brings you one step closer to the dark.

In an unremarkable town on an uneventful evening, something truly terrible happens. An ordinary family is thrust into a desperate game of survival against forces that are anything but human. As one impossible night spirals further beyond comprehension, they discover that the only thing more dangerous than what is waiting outside their door is what they refuse to face inside it.

Funny, frightening, and wholly unpredictable, Rec Room reunites with longtime collaborator Ike Holter (Sender, Exit Strategy, Put Your House in Order) for The Light Fantastic, blending old school horror and razor sharp comedy into one unforgettable theatrical experience. In Rec Room's intimate theatre, the distance between audience and performance disappears, placing every terrifying twist just a few feet away.

by IKE HOLTER

directed by SOPHIA WATT

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.

Sweeping, soulful, and radiating with hope, this beloved musical, which won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, has captivated audiences the world over. Set on a vibrant Caribbean island alive with music, movement, and magic, this folktale is loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid and based on Rose Guy’s My Love, My Love. After her village is destroyed by a fierce hurricane, fearless young peasant girl Ti Moune is rescued by playful island gods. When she falls in love with a wealthy boy from the other side of her island, she is swept on a journey of love, adventure, and self discovery. With soaring music and breathtaking dance, Ti Moune’s journey is a testament to determination and optimism.

This dramatic comedy weaves together adoption, illness, baseball, and family secrets. Two sisters, former hard girls from south of Boston, revisit their youth as they face the future.

Written by Catherine Butterfield and directed by Joseph “Chepe” Lockett.