The Texas Repertory Theatre Co., the beloved professional theatre of North Houston for two decades, is now offering their repertoire of award-winning plays at Lambert Hall in the historic Houston Heights!
Now Available for Booking!
TENDERLY: The Rosemary Clooney Musical offers a fresh, remarkably personal, and poignant picture of the woman whose unparalleled talent and unbridled personality made her a legend. In TENDERLY, Rosemary Clooney’s journey starts with her simple Kentucky childhood and follows her rise to Hollywood stardom. With her signature songs woven in and out, we learn both the story of her successes on film, radio, and TV, as well as her struggles in her personal life – with a career fading during the advent of rock-and-roll and her struggles with personal relationships and depression. Audiences stand and cheer as they rejoice at her triumphant comeback and even more successful career as a jazz singer. It features many of Mrs. Clooney’s signature hits, including “Hey There (You with the Stars in your Eyes),” “Tenderly,” and “Come On-A My House.”
“This is an intimate and intriguing tale of triumphing over adversity.”
--London Theatre Reviews
“Stirring and splendid."
--BroadwayWorld.com
The Texas Repertory Theatre Co.'s new production features the outstanding talents of husband and wife team Julia and Mark X Laskowski in a dynamic and inspiring performance that highlights their gifts in a world-class evening of musical theatre. Produced in a fast-paced, fluid staging that directs the audience's focus toward the multi-layered interpretations of the performers, this show is sure to entertain and engage the audiences with its humor, pathos, and musicality. This crowd-pleasing evening is a sure-fire theatrical triumph performed by two outstanding artists whose rare virtuosity and theatrical talent are showcased as never before.
This beloved Pulitzer Prize winning play is a timeless, moving, funny, and ultimately hopeful reflection of race relations in America's deep South, told through the unlikely relationship between two endearing characters. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, the relationship grows over 25 years into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them. their iconic tale of pride, changing times, and the transformative power of friendship has warmed the hearts of millions worldwide. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award-winning film, Driving Miss Daisy is a good-hearted, humorous, and affecting study of a most unlikely relationship, and is a play that gives off the warm glow of human affirmation and hope.
“DRIVING MISS DAISY is a total delight.” —NY Daily News.
Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award, Educating Rita is a thoughtful and heartwarming comedy about how friendship and learning can effect positive changes in a person's life. When married hairdresser Rita enrolls in a university course to expand her horizons, little does she realize where the journey will take her. Frank is a tutor of English in middle age whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books. Enter Rita, a forthright hairdresser who is eager to learn. Their relationship as teacher and student blossoms, ultimately giving Frank a new sense of self and Rita the confidence she so desires.
God's Megaphone: A Visit with CS Lewis
A sharp and incisive look into the nature of relationships, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal bristles with poetic precision, rich humor and extraordinary emotional force. This Nobel Prize winning play illuminates a triangle that begins when long time lovers Jerry and Emma meet after her marriage to her husband Robert dissolves, and then backtracks all the way to when their affair first began. As the years spin backwards, a complex web of secrets about the trio emerges and calls into question the nature of their intimacy -- as friends, as partners, and as spouses. A play about love, lust, and time, Betrayal poetically explores the fascinating rift between memory and reality.