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CATS: Still ‘Purrfection’ After 28 Years

In the nearly three decades since its initial debut, the timeless musical “CATS” has become a global Broadway icon.   What began as a risky move on the part of a star composer is now regarded as a masterpiece that revolutionized musical theater, having been translated into more than 20 languages and grossing billions over the [...]

Haute Hobbies: The Houston Hobby Center

Judging solely from its name, one would expect the Houston Hobby Center to be a quaint community center that hosts quilting bees and scrap-booking parties.  But upon seeing the HHC, a visitor quickly realizes that it’s anything but a place for Texan soccer moms to do arts and crafts.  Made of 60-foot sheets of glass, [...]

Pocket Sandwich: The Most Fun You Can Have in a Dallas Theater

It’s rare a venue that allows patrons to throw food at the performers, let alone encourages it.  Dallas’ Pocket Sandwich Theatre does both, supplying each theater-goer with a tray of popcorn prior to each performance, and urging them to hurl handfuls at the stage –and at each other– as the show begins.  Impromptu popcorn fights [...]

Cirque Du Soleil’s Kooza, Under the Grand Chapiteau

“Due to the nature of the acts, changes in the cast occur frequently” states the foot of the show’s official website and makes me feel even more uneasy than the preview video. Trying to achieve some level of physical fitness excellence all my life I thought I knew what’s impossible when it comes to a [...]

Cabaret Voltaire’s Octomom! the Musical

CABARET VOLTAIRE is a non-profit avant-garde organization in Los Angeles, dedicated to maintaining the artistic integrity, passion and innovation that happened in Zurich Dada 1916. The father of the Cabaret, Christian Voltaire, multi-faceted theater/film artist, wrote and produced the theatrical play, The DADAists, about the painters and poets who began the infamous DADA art movement. [...]