If you happen to have all of your essential needs covered at the moment, well, good for you. Below you ll find a short list of the best virtual bets coming up to help you pass the time until we re all that lucky. And soon (hopefully) your fellow Houstonians will get a chance to enjoy them, too, as they ll surely be looking for ways to forget this freezing hell as soon as possible.
Last call: Main Street Theater’s production of Caridad Svich’s
The Book of Magdalene will end its digital run on February 21, and it’s a can’t miss.
The biblical, and now sainted, Mary of Magdala has sloughed through quite a journey during the last two thousand years. As a beloved disciple of Christ, she helped bankroll his ministry, saw him crucified, buried, and was the first person to witness his resurrection. When the patriarchy of the church fathers thought threatened, she was ceremoniously rebooted into a vision of repentant whore.
Pope Gregory the Great, now also a saint, did that to her in a series of homilies in 591 A.D. when he shoehorned all the references to any of the “sinful women” who had fleeting association to Jesus – the adulteress dragged before Christ for his judgment, the woman with the “bad name” who anointed his feet with oil and dried them with her hair – into the Mary Magdalene we know today. To this day she remains sinful but blessed.
Main Street Theater presents the initial digital premiere of The Book of Magdalene by Caridad Svich, the first ever showing of her new work. In the edge-lands, in the weird .
A.D. Players at The George Theater announced in January that they were going virtual for the rest of their season and the move to cyberspace begins this Friday, February 12, with
A Speck-Tacular Evening of Stories and Songs with Emily & Jake Speck. You can join A.D. Players Executive Director Jake Speck and his wife Emily Tello Speck to hear their story, from finding each other to finding their place here in Houston, and to enjoy some familiar musical theater tunes. (Take a sneak peek at Emily rehearsing Sara Bareilles’s “She Used to Be Mine” from
Waitresshere). You can purchase a ticket for $35 here, and the show will be available to stream through February 28.
8 showstopping Houston plays and performances to catch in February
Rebirth of a Nation.
Photo by Danielle Levitt February may be the shortest month of the year, but Houston theater and performing arts companies plan to keep us busy this month with a winter’s worth of world premieres, new take on classics, and music galore to stream at home. Love is certainly in the air for some theaters. Black History Month brings us some new visions of the past. And we even have some cool outdoor, live cabaret on the lineup. Here are your best bets for February theater in Houston.