Theatre Port

The Doctor's Dilemma
by George Bernard Shaw

September 9 – October 3, 2010

A doctor who has developed a cure for tuberculosis can take only one more patient. He must decide between a kindly, poor, medical colleague and a charming young artist who is a genius but a scoundrel with a young and vivacious wife (with whom the doctor is somewhat in love).
Throughout history and certainly in the present day, there are medical treatments so scarce or costly that some people can have them while others cannot. Who is to decide, and on what grounds is the decision to be made...

Free Performances at the Miller Outdoor Theater

September 10 & 11, 2010

Contemporary ballet company Dominic Walsh Dance Theater will kick-off its electrifying 2010-2011 season with Fall for Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on September 10 and 11, 2010, at 8:00 PM at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park.
This dynamic mixed repertory program will feature audience favorites including: Matthew Bourne’s White Swan duet from his Tony award-winning Swan Lake; Walsh’s dramatic solo The Dying Swan; memorable duets from Walsh’s smash hit Romeo & Juliet; Small Hour, a breathtaking duet by Czech choreographer Václav Kuneš; and Walsh’s mysterious, yet whimsical I Napoletani which will leave you smiling and craving pizza...

Theatre Southwest is pleased to present
Laura
by Vera Casparay and George Sklar

September 3 - 25, 2010

A mysterious Manhattan beauty haunts the
detective who's trying to solve her murder. A stylish, tantalizing game of intrigue, where everybody's a suspect. Laura is directed by Malinda L. Beckham and assisted by Amanda Bonfitto...

The Great Storm
Ten short comedies and dramas written by Houston-area playwrights

September 9 - 18, 2010

The newly formed Thunderclap Productions, composed of four award-winning, Houston-area playwrights, will present an evening of ten original short plays – both dramas and comedies – to commemorate the second anniversary of Hurricane Ike...

A Behanding in Spokane
by Martin McDonagh
August 27 - September 26, 2010

New York Times calls the play "perfect, demented, ecstatic, sadistic and imaginative." The Wall Street Journal promises that "You'll spend 90 minutes laughing nonstop." Martin McDonagh returns to the Alley with his first play set in America, the outrageously funny A Behanding in Spokane , recently on Broadway. The mysterious, gun-toting Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for decades. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we're set for an uproarious ride of love, hate, desperation and hope...