10 best Houston in-person and virtual plays and performances for May
Photo by Lynn Lane
Photo by Lawrence Elizabeth Knox; courtesy of Houston Ballet. Houston Grand Opera s Marian s Song will show live and in-person at Miller Outdoor Theater.
Photo by Lynn Lane We’re going live (and in-person) this May. Finally, along with plenty of streaming goodness, this month brings Houston a few performing arts shows on stage in front of an outdoor audience. While we might not be quite ready to throw open all the doors of our many theaters and performing venues yet, Miller Outdoor Theater brings us back to the seats and the hill for the excitement of being an audience again.
Apollo 8
By
Holly Beretto
4/30/2021 at 10:17am
Kevin Dean, artistic director at A.D. Players at the George Theater, thinks thereâs a lot of parallels between 1968 and 2020.
â1968 was an extraordinarily challenging year in our history,â he says. âThere was political upheaval over the Vietnam War; it was the height of the Civil Rights movement. And 2020 was tumultuous too.â
Both years, however, saw the resilience and triumph of the human spirit.
We know all about the resilience of 2020 ⦠seeing as we lived it, but in 1968, that came in the form of Apollo 8, NASAâs first crewed spacecraft to orbit the moon. Now, Houston audiences can relive that historic moment in the world premiere of A.D. PlayersâÂ
Gainesville Theatre Alliance Announces Spring 2021 Virtual Season
The season features Songs for a New World, and The Tempest.by BWW News Desk Gainesville Theatre Alliance has announced two digital offerings to close their 2020-21 season. Due to continued COVID-19 restrictions at both Brenau University and the University of North Georgia, both shows will be filmed and edited through a collaboration with UNG s Film Department and streamed to audiences for free.
Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown (his introduction to Broadway) asks the audience to follow a series of individuals into the breach to find something new. Surrounded by guides, the seekers in this song cycle traverse the unknown to find happiness, contentment, and rest-safe in the knowledge that everyone needs some help along the way. With a cast of eighteen rather than Broadway s four, Gainesville Theatre Alliance s take on this experimental production, directed by Tracey Elaine Chessum (GTA Associate Artistic D