Arts & Culture
Local Arts Groups Use Costume Shops To Produce Face Masks
Posted on · Houston artists are finding creative ways to help first responders in this time of crisis.
Tag: main street theater
Houston Matters
Binge On Irish Ghost Stories For St. Patty’s Day
Posted on · Main Street Theater presents The Weir, a play about several locals at an Irish pub swapping ghost stories.
Houston Matters
Full Show: Houstonians React To Mosque Shootings, And Irish Ghost Stories (March 15, 2019)
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: Houstonians react to Mosque shootings, we discuss The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week’s news, listeners share the good news in their lives, and we learn about Main Street Theater's production of The Weir.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3106: Indeterminacy
Posted on · Episode: 3106 In which Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle undoes the Fabric of Reality. Today, we look for reality.
Education News
How Some Houston Schools Are Combining Fine Arts And Core Classes
Posted on · It's called arts integration.
Houston Matters
Main Street Theater Explores ‘Working’ in the 21st Century
Posted on · In a convergence of arts and culture in Houston, the work of a famed public radio interviewer, and the childhood of another public radio interviewer (Houston Matters host Craig Cohen), Main Street Theater will present a production of Working, beginning May 21 and running through June 19, 2016. It's an adaptation of the 1970s musical […]
Full Show
Fair Housing and Making a Murderer: Tuesday’s Show (May 17, 2016)
Posted on · Earlier this month, the U.S. Justice Department announced that the City of Beaumont agreed to pay $475,000 and change its zoning and land use practices to resolve a lawsuit alleging it discriminated against people with intellectual or developmental disabilities who sought to live in small group homes in the city's residential neighborhoods. The settlement stems […]
Theater & Film
Caryl Churchill’s Love And Information At Main Street Theater
Posted on · Boundary-pushing play about the effect of technology on human relationships closes this weekend.
Houston Matters
Main Street Theater Unveiling Renovation in Rice Village
Posted on · The newly renovated Main Street Theater off Times Boulevard in Rice Village is reopening this weekend. Completion of the 3-and-a-half million dollar project coincides with the theater’s 40th season. Houston Matters Maggie Martin got a glimpse of the renovation and has this report. (Above: Rebecca Udden (left) and Joe Kirkendall stand inside the lobby of […]
Full Show
Prostitution in Houston and ‘The Brain’ on PBS: Wednesday’s Show (October 14, 2015)
Posted on · On this edition of Houston Matters, conversations about neuroscience: First, we talk with Houston-based neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, the host of a new PBS series called The Brain. The first of six hour-long episodes premieres tonight (10/14) at 9 on TV 8. Eagleman directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine. […]
Arts & Culture
A Peek Behind The Curtain Of Main Street Theater’s Renovation
Posted on · Comfy seats, a higher ceiling, and larger restrooms are just a few of the improvements to expect after Main Street Theater's upgrade.
Houston Matters
‘Into the Woods’ Picks Up Where Fairy Tales End
Posted on · This is the final week to head to the Rice Village playhouse and catch Main Street Theaterâs production of Into the Woods. The beloved Stephen Sondheim musical interweaves the telling of several classic fairy tales, like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk â stories we all know, and in which the […]
Full Show
Turning STEM into STEAM, Houston Skiers, Into the Woods at Main Street Theater: Houston Matters for Tues., Feb. 11, 2014
Posted on · We sure do love our acronyms, don't we? We watch HBO, type LOL, eat PB&J. In education circles, an acronym of choice for some years now has been STEM – a reference to science, technology, engineering and math – four fields of study in which many would like to see the next generation of Americans […]
Opera & Musical Theater
Sondheim’s Into the Woods at Main Street Theater
Posted on · At its Rice Village location, Main Street Theater is currently presenting Stephen Sondheim’s “fairy tale” musical, Into the Woods. Director Andrew Ruthven and Christina Stroup, who sings the role of the Witch, talk to St.John Flynn about the production.
Opera & Musical Theater
A Civil War Christmas at Main Street Theater
Posted on · This holiday season, Main Street Theater is presenting the Houston premiere of A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel. Director Troy Scheid and cast member Shawn Hamilton talk to St.John Flynn about this fresh take on the Christmas story.