7 best Houston in-person and virtual plays and performances for June Houston Grand Opera s imaginative new production of
Hansel and Gretel sets live performances amid original animation.
HGO Courtesy Photo For local theater-lovers who thought the day would never arrive, June brings the summer surprise of in-person, indoor shows. While most companies won’t make the big leap inside until fall, a few theaters are taking a vaccinated trial (mostly musical) run to bring audiences back inside this month. Those not quite ready to take their seats in the same space as fellow audience members and performing artists needn’t worry: plenty of streaming options abound.
Remember all those news stories and videos of people around the world thanking frontline workers in various forms for their herculean efforts during the darkest days of the pandemic? The clanging of pots on balconies for hospital workers. The standing ovations for paramedics. The effusive thank you’s, often accompanied by healthy tips, to grocery store workers and food delivery drivers.
These folks got, and are still getting oodles of much-deserved love.
But now, as our infections lessen, our vaccine numbers uptick and we release from isolation, Strange Bird Immersive thinks we owe kudos in another direction.
Well, two directions actually. We need to thank each other for staying home and we need to pay homage to the spaces that housed us this past year. Sure, being cooped up was hard and yes, our homes often felt like prisons on those particularly difficult days, but we and the walls that kept us apart and each other safe did really important work. Work that should be celebrated