Theatre Suburbia
Grace and Glorie
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesGrace, a feisty 90 year-old cancer patient, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved homestead cottage to die alone. Her volunteer hospice worker, Glorie, is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York. Glorie is tense, unhappy and guilt-ridden, her only child having been killed in …
A Little Murder Never Hurt Anyone by Theatre Suburbia
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesThis six-character comedy is a spoof of and love letter to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and to stage mysteries in general. The play opens with the rich, bored Matthew Perry promising to kill his rich, bored wife Julia so he can become a jet setter like his friend who recently lost his wife. …
An Evening With Sherlock Holmes
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesThe triad of one acts begins with "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", the tale of a British aristocrat, Sir Robert, who marries an American millionaire because his fortune has run out. However, on the wedding day, his young wife disappears. Sir Robert calls on Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of …
An Evening With Sherlock Holmes
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesThe triad of one acts begins with "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", the tale of a British aristocrat, Sir Robert, who marries an American millionaire because his fortune has run out. However, on the wedding day, his young wife disappears. Sir Robert calls on Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of …
The Wild Women of Winedale
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesThis joyful and exuberant, yet ultimately touching, comedy focuses on three women at crossroads in their lives — the Wild sisters of Winedale, Virginia — Fanny and Willa and their frustratingly quirky sister-in-law Johnnie Faye. This feisty and fun-loving trio has supported and cheered one another through life’s highs and lows through the years, including …
Theatre Suburbia presents The Glass Mendacity
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesTennessee Williams gets the illegitimate treatment as THE GLASS MENDACITY hilariously parodies his work in this "magnolia operetta." "By combining Williams's three most celebrated dramas, the authors have come up with plenty of powerhouse material for their irreverent magnolia operetta." -Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune "In the twisted world of THE GLASS MENDACITY, the ensemble's inspired …
Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesSir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, and Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle …
Murder At The Book Club
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesTheatre Suburbia presents Sam Haven’s murder mystery, “Murder At The Book Club”. This is one club where members' lives are not an open book! Tonight's meeting of the Queen Anne Murder Mystery Book Club takes a dark twist when a threatening telephone call sets the group on edge. Suddenly all the lights go out and …
Murderous Crossing
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesThe year is 1923 and audience members are passengers on board the HMS Victoria as it crosses the English Channel. The famous Inspector Clurrot has tracked down a homicidal mastermind hiding out on board. Meanwhile, the ship is the vessel of matrimony for the Contessa Follette and John D. Rothchild - a marriage encouraged through …
Theatre Suburbia presents “The Birds”
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesTheatre Suburbia presents Conor McPherson's "The Birds," based on a story by Daphen Du Maurier; a gripping, unsettling, and moving look at human relationships in the face of societal collapse. In an isolated house, two strangers take shelter from relentless masses of attacking birds. They find relative sanctuary but not comfort or peace; there’s no …
Theatre Suburbia Presents, “The Twilight of the Golds”
Theatre Suburbia 4106 Way Out West Dr., Houston, TX, United StatesA family, a pregnancy, and a revealing pre-natal test. If your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? That is the question posed in Jonathan Tollin's controversial dramedy, “The Twilight of the Golds.” All is well when Suzanne Gold and her close New York family discover that she is …