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Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.

Houston theatre company creating multi-faceted productions with challenging, human-centered stories.

Houston theatre company creating multi-faceted productions with challenging, human-centered stories.

Current & Upcoming Shows

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Dinner with Friends

10/22/26 - 11/7/26 at the MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston

The end of a marriage is never just between two people. Beneath the veneer of successful careers, elegant dinners, and decades-long friendships lies a more complicated truth. In Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends, a shocking divorce sends ripples through the lives of two couples who thought they knew one another and themselves. What follows is a razor-sharp, darkly funny examination of love, loyalty, desire, and the stories we tell to sustain our closest relationships.

Sophisticated, provocative, and emotionally devastating, Dinner with Friends peels back the layers of modern marriage to reveal the fragile fault lines beneath. Margulies’ incisive dialogue and unflinching honesty make this contemporary classic as relevant today as ever, challenging audiences to ask: How well do we really know the people we love?

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The Humans

5/20/27 - 6/5/27 at the MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston

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.

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Mr. & Mrs. Fitch

2/18/27 - 3/6/27 at the MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston

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.

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