The Garden Theatre
Into the Woods
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesInto the Woods tells the story of The Baker and his Wife who long to have a child of their own. The neighborhood Witch throws a wrench in their plan when she reveals that she has placed a curse on their family, forbidding them to ever have children. There is a way to reverse the …
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesWhite Rabbit Red Rabbit is a worldwide phenomenon that was first produced in 2011. Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour is forbidden from leaving his native Iran after refusing to participate in military service, which is required of all men in the country. Soleimanpour wrote the piece hoping that it would be produced worldwide. If he could not …
Not A Day Goes By: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesNot a Day Goes By reunites the Into The Woods cast (the last Houston cast of a Sondheim piece while he was living) along with select Houston vocalists for a one-night only engagement highlighting his work. The concert will span from Sondheim's most popular shows to some of his less performed works including Passion, Merrily …
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesCruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical is based on the iconic 1999 film starring Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Geller. The musical pulls you into the manipulative world of Manhattan’s most dangerous liaisons: Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil. Fueled by revenge and passion, the diabolically charming step-siblings place a bet on whether or not …
The Color Purple
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Garden Theatre and The Sankofa Collective have joined forces to bring the beautiful story of The Color Purple to the stage. This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 35 years forms the arc of this epic story. With a …
Assassins
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United StatesA multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins …