Five By Tenn: An Evening of Shorter Plays by Tennessee Williams
MATCH Houston 3400 Main St., Houston, TXThe creator of such American stage classics as "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Cat on a Hit Tin Roof," and "The Glass Menagerie," Williams also published over seventy one-act plays. Five by Tenn draws from a collection written between 1941 and 1958. A New Orleans landlord tries to collect rent from a couple of delusional derelicts …
Glengarry Glen Ross
MATCH Houston 3400 Main St., Houston, TXDirt Dogs Theatre Co.’s inaugural season concludes with David Mamet’s "Glengarry Glen Ross." Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for drama, the biting comedy follows a group of Chicago real estate agents who desperately attempt to sell plots of undesirable land to unwitting buyers. Their tactics toward their prospects, and each other, expose the ugly …
Life X 3
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TXFrom the award-winning playwright of Art and God of Carnage comes a witty and acerbic view of how the simplest and most random of events can change the outcomes in life. Henry and Sonia are planning a dinner party for Henry’s influential co-worker Hubert and his wife Inez. When the dinner guests arrive on the …
A Steady Rain
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TXA Steady Rain explores the complexities of a lifelong bond tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago. Joey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten and, after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny's wife and kids; Denny keeps …
Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.: Coyote on a Fence
MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston 3400 Main St, Houston, TXDirt Dogs Theatre Company presents the challenging, explosive Coyote on a Fence. 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 …