20
Theatres listed in the Houston Area |
Professional/Semi
Pro Theatres here defined as theatres that compensate their
actors. Some more than others. Some of the smaller
theatres will usually provide a shared profit or some other
monetary compensation. While Theatres with * next to them
are equity and provide scale or similar. Use the list below
to "hop" to a specific Profile.
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Alley Theatre
dos Chicas Productions
Express Childrens Theatre
East
End Theatre Company
Ensemble Theatre
Fan Factory
Grand Old Opera House
Infernal Bridegroom
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Interactive
Theate Company
Mildred's Umbrella
Main Street Theatre
Shunya Theatre
Stages Repertory Theatre
Strand Theatre
Theatre Lab
Theatre Illuminata
Theatre New West
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Theatres of Houston |
AD
Players*
A.D.
Players
2710 W Alabama
Houston, TX 77098
National
Touring Company:
713.526.2721 ext. 115
touring@adplayers.org |
"For
30 years the A.D. Players has been offering a statement of
faith and hope through theater to audiences in Houston, TX,
the United States, and the worldwide community. Founded in
1967 by Houston actress, author and playwright, Jeannette
Clift George, the purpose of the A.D. Players is to be an
ongoing theatrical ministry, through various mediums of communication,
that reaches people throughout the world by affecting the
communities in which they live with the creative signature
of God."
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Alley
Theatre*
Phone:
1-800-259-ALLE or 713-228-8421.
Address: Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002
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The
Alley Theatre is the big regional all-Equity repertory theater.
They have Broadway-caliber actors and production crew. They
don't always succeed, but it's always interesting, especially
since Gregory Boyd got made artistic director a couple of years
ago. They do a 10 play season on 2 stages.
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dos
chicas Productions:
The
company has performed at several locations over the years:
Commerce Street Art Warehouse, TemplO (Zocalo), and MidTown
Performing Arts Space. Currently, all productions are held
upstairs at Helios,
411 Westheimer, where they are part of their artists collective
and also have two commune members on their Board of Directors.
No
set "company" either, although they do have actors
who perform regularly. "The word "company"
is too limiting and inclusive – it implies that only
a certain set of people are allowed in, and that just is not
the case with us. We welcome new people and love diversity.
We do compensate our actors for their time as well."
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dos
chicas theater commune was formed in the summer of 1997 by three
friends who were tired of the over-produced works they were
doing in area community theaters. The first production consisted
of two-one acts: "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" and "Sleeping
Beauty or Coma" by Charles Busch. These were performed
on the second floor of No Tsu Oh (EZ Credit Theater) in downtown
Houston. A
non-profit,Theatre that does not have a website, and don't
have a mission statement.But the "...goal from the start
has been to have fun – fun for the actors and production
crew as well as fun for the audience. Life is too short to
get mired down in the petty squabbles that seem to pop up
in most small theaters. Along the road to fun, we try to put
up works that are infrequently produced (for Houston, at least)
and reflect our own unique take on the piece."
To date, they have produced 21 shows. Of those 21, 4 were
original works written by company members. Playwrights produced
include Nicky Silver, Sam Shepherd, Jean-Paul
Sartre, Vaclav Havel, Tennessee Williams, William Shakespeare,
and Harold Pinter.
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East
End Theatre Company
(ISLAND ETC.)
2001 Postoffice Street
Galveston Island, Texas 77550
Phone: (409) 762-3556Fax: (409) 762-3379
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New
Theatre on Glaveston Island...
More info coming soon. |
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Ensemble
Theatre*
At 3535 Main St. For information,
call 713/520-0055
77002
Phone: (713) 520-0055 |
Ensemble
Theater: The oldest and most distinguished professional theater
in the Southwest devoted to the African-American experience.
The Ensemble boast two stages and a full season of productions. |
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Express
Childrens Theatre
P.O. Box 980817
Houston, TX 77098
(713) 759-1314
email: expresstheatre@ev1 |
Express Children’s
Theatre presents professional, culturally diverse theatre designed
to entertain and educate.
With hundreds of performances each year, Express has already
touched more than 2 million young lives with our mission of
creating and presenting professional, culturally diverse performing
arts for children and families.
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Fan
Factory
Performs at Midtown Arts Center
1423 Holman
Houston, Texas 77004
Phone:
832-465-4563
Email: webmaster@fanfactory.org |
The
Fan Factory Theatre Company Mission Statement
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Nurture unity through diversity.
· Broaden the spectrum of Houston's theatre experience
with classic, modern and original productions.
· Inspire, challenge, and encourage artists.
Develop awareness through education and creativity.
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Grand
Old Opera House
Address:
2020 Post office, Galveston
Phone:(409) 765-1894 or (713) 480-1894 or 1-800-821-1894 |
The
Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston does a season of touring
shows,reviews, musicals, etc. It's worth a trip just to see
the theater, which has been beautifully restored.
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| Houston
Shakespeare Festival |
A
great gig for equity players and good experience for those who
are not. 2 shows in repertory every summer in August. |
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Infernal
Bridegroom Productions
At
The Axiom:
2524 Mckinney H, Texas, 77003
PH: 713-522-8443
Fax:713-527-9538 |
Alternative,
Fresh, Slightly Sexy, and Exciting theatre can be found at
Houston's truly innovative theatre troupe. Every year their
reputation:Locally and Nationally continues to grow. HAve
a cool web site too!
One
theatre space: As well as a bar and performance space for
the musical bands they support. $=Stipends |
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Interactive
Theatre:
(Currently Relocating) |
Providing
fun and exciting work and creative childrens fare. Also provides
classes for children. |
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Main
Street Theatre*
Main
Street Theater
2540 Times Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77005
Box Office: 713-524-6706
Youth Theater Group Sales: 713-524-7998
Business Office: 713-524-3622
MSYT and KOS Admin.: 713-524-9196
email: info@mainstreettheater.com |
"Main
Street Theater, one of several theater companies established
during the 1970's, was founded to meet two needs: to offer Houston
theatergoers a more varied and challenging selection of plays
and musicals and to provide a venue for training, employment
and exposure for our city's professional theater artists. .."
Equity
Company produces 6 shows a year as well as Children's Productions.
Has two theatre venues
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Mildred's
Umbrella
e-mail:mildredsumbrella
at hotmail.com |
"Mildreds
Umbrella is a small,floating theater troupe. We started two
years ago at Theater New West, they did an original script
called "Kama Sutra".Their second show was "Eros,
A Circus", another original script which was performed
at Helios. They only do original work by local writers, and
have been reviewed by the Houston Press both times so far.
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Shunya
Theatre
Shunya Theatre
832-274-9998
Contact us : info@shunyatheatre.org
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A new Houston-based non-profit
theatre troupe, dedicated to providing a voice to The South
Asian community.
Shunya literally means zero, nothing, or emptiness in Sanskrit.
The name comes from the Buddhist concept of nothing
as the ultimate goal of realization. The Buddhist shunya,
the Hindu brahman, and the Jain atman are all closely linked.
In India,
theatre traditions have always been intertwined with spiritual
pursuits. Further, the name also alludes to Peter Brook’s
(whose
production of the Hindu epic the Mahabharata won him both
acclaim and controversy) concept of the empty space. The theatre
is shunya or empty until we come together as artists and patrons
to bring it to life with our collective imagination. When
you start with nothing, anything is possible.
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Steges
Repertory Theatre
Stages
Repertory Theatre
3201 Allen Parkway
Suite 101
Houston, Texas 77019-1897
Box
Office 713-527-0123
Administration and Production 713-527-0220
Fax 713-527-8669
2
stages: Yeager Theatre; Arena Stage.
Main Stage Productions as well as professional Children's
company: Early Stages |
Stages
Repertory Theatre is a professional Equity theater dedicated
to providing Houston's diverse audiences with challenging, provocative
theater produced with the highest artistic standards. From ground-breaking
new works to modern classics, Stages brings the best of today’s
theater home to Houston. Born
in the basement of a brewery in 1978, Stages was created as
Houston's "maverick" theater - a place where new
ideas and new voices could be heard and appreciated. The response
was overwhelming, and Stages quickly became an integral part
of the Houston theater community.
In
1985 Stages moved to its current two-theater facility in the
historic Star Engraving Building on Allen Parkway, and this
relocation paved the way for the introduction of EarlyStages,
which is dedicated to producing intelligent, high-quality
theater for children and their families.
Rob
Bundy was named Artistic Director in 1996
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Strand
Theatre
Address:
2317 Ship's Mechanic Row, Galveston
Phone: (409) 763-4591 |
Strand
Street Theater
A nice classic looking theatre in Galveston that does a variety
of productions. |
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Lab |
An
"Alternative" semi pro theatre. The Company manages
to bring in some exciting guest artists as well as produce new
innovative works.
They have one very small theatre, which only compounds their
OFF-Broadway comparisons |
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Theatre
Illuminata
Theatre Illuminata
P.O. Box 66785
Houston, TX 77266
e-mail: illuminatatx@yahoo.com
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Theatre
Illuminata was founded in 2001 by a group of
friends/collegues in Miami, FL. Being native Texans,
two of the founding members opened a Houston branch in
2002. Last year, Theatre Illuminata produced X-Treme
Cabaret (a fundraiser variety show), The Gnadiges
Fraulein and Shakespeare: Love & Wrath. Theatre
Illuminata will produce another X-Treme Cabaret
fundraiser and two more plays this year. A web site
is coming soon... |
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Theatre
New West
1415 California St.
713-394-0464 |
Information
Coming soon: |
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TUTS
Now
housed at The Hobby Center for performing arts
800
Bagby, Suite 200
Houston, TX 77002-2525
Phone: (713)558-2600 Fax: (713)558-2650
Single Tickets: (713)558-8887 E-mail: tuts@tuts.com |
Theatre
Under The Stars (TUTS), founded in 1968 by Frank M. Young,
is Houston’s acclaimed musical theatre production company.
Since producing, directing and conducting TUTS’ first
production, Bells Are Ringing, Mr. Young has guided the non-profit
company to national acclaim through 34 seasons of more than
200 musicals. The longest-running head of any major arts organization
in Houston, Mr. Young now serves as TUTS’ President
and CEO.
During
its 34 seasons, TUTS, which is one of America’s largest
non-profit producers of musical theatre, has produced a total
of 39 Premieres, including 11 World Premieres, one U.S. Premiere,
three Southwest Premieres, and 24 Houston Premieres.
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