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Fifteen holiday stories from the international best-selling author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten have been crafted into an engaging evening of storytelling and song. This charming show takes a funny, heartwarming and often poignant look at the struggle to find the spirit of the holidays amid the avalanche of commercialism, stress and chaos that crashes down every December. The many delightful stories include a small immigrant child who comes trick-or-treating in a cheap Santa mask a few days before Christmas, inadvertently delivering the true meaning of the season to a grown-up with a serious case of Scroogitis; hilarious musings about a love/hate relationship with the vibrant poinsettia that arrives in most homes every December and hangs on and on and on, long after the holidays have ended; and a beautiful, deeply moving tribute to the winter solstice, celebrating nature's precious annual gift of rebirth. This play is directed by Elvin Moriarty & Kristen Sheils and features Caitlin Karpetz, Suzanne King, Jen Rathbun, Tony D'Armata, Patrick Lukingbeal, Steven Shannon & Pamela Hensley with Polona Pearson & Julie Burks backstage and Christopher Krause in the tech booth.

The Back Porch at Theatre Suburbia is a new event dedicated to offering a stage for our local artists to shine on. Each series will present a variety of performances which could include music, theatre, comdedy and more. Join us on select Sundays... in general, the doors open at 6:30pm and the show starts at 7pm, but that varies occassionally, so check out the schedule. No reservations required. All performances are Pay What You Wish and donations are appreciated!

The National Leather Association is holding their annual toy drive to benefit clients of Thomas Street Health Services. If you're able, please help make this a joyous Christmas for a child in need. To contribute, please bring an unwrapped toy for a child of any age and place it in the decorated drop box here at Theatre Suburbia. The drop box will be in the lobby during all performances of Uh Oh, Here Comes Christmas which we hope you're planning to attend!

Growing old doesn't mean growing feeble... It's the 4th of July and the women of Happy Meadows Nursing Home have independence in mind! They're fed up with the rules, the regulations, and especially the food. When senior resident Holly receives a cry for heop from her grandson, she rallies her comrades-in-arms and the women plot a break out. Will Holly and her friends succeed? Perhaps with some fireworks, a large cam of creamed corn, and extensive lengths of rope, they might just have what it takes to outsmart the throughly vexed retimrement home director. This play was directed by Judy Reeves & Soraya Ahmadi and featured Jen Norten, Marylin Faulkner, Pamela Branstetter, Peggy Butler, Julie Burks & David Coles with Sam Martinez backstage.

Two sisters grew up in Bullfrog Waller. Millicent got away fast and is now a big-city highbrow with a wealthy husband, Brian, and a bookish college son, Patrick. Coreen, however, stayed in the country... until now. It’s the very night Millicent has made plans to take another step up the social ladder by attaching herself to the snobbish Kuppermans, Frances and Andrew and their daughter, Stephanie. How can Millicent keep her embarrassing past a secret when Coreen is as country as cornbread and grits? And why would Coreen leave Bullfrog Waller after all these years? Deceits and conceits ultimately reveal not just secrets, but what matters most in this award-winning comedy. This play was directed by Elvin Moriarty & Dixie Cooper and featured Crystal Tye, Laura Schlecht, Tony D'Armata, Djilali Abdesselam, Ericka Conway, David James Barron & London Tye with Michael Steinbach & Kathryn Collins backstage and Gwen Thomas in the tech booth.

Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them and they with her. Mags triumphs in the end as Fanny and Gardner actually step through the frame and become a work of art ineffable and timeless. This play was directed by Sam Martinez & Soraya Ahmadi and featured Barbara Brandt, Adrian Collinson & Carrie Lee Sparks with Maddie Koenig, Amelia Knowles & Kathryn Collins backstage and London Tye in the tech booth.

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part. This play was directed by Suzanne King and featured Jen Norten, Brit Garcia, Lauren Lawson, Kennedy VanDeMore, Kristen Sheils, Brian Heaton, Maxwell Metyko & H Levi Smiley with Jen Rathbun backstage and Andrea de Oliveira in the tech booth.

A tense psychological study of guilt and obsession, Dead Guilty concerns an attractive young graphic artist whose leg is badly injured in a car crash that occurred when a business associate suffered a fatal heart attack at the wheel. Housebound and depressed, Julia is tormented when things disappear, a Mexican orange blossom materializes on her shambling Victorian terrace and someone prowls upstairs at night. While a kindly counselor contends with Julia's suicidal tendencies and a besotted handyman helps around the house, the excessively solicitous widow invades Julia's life. Suspense builds as the question becomes whether the affair Julia was enjoying with her now dead colleague will cost her her own life. This play was directed by Doris Merten and featured Suzanne King, Alex Vaughn, Chelsea Ashmore-Oldham & Rob Blue with Marylin Faulkner backstage and Alicia Ashmore-Oldham in the tech booth.

The sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy when a neighboring town threatens to turn them into a sewage treatment plant. Their only hope – open a theater! Two actors play over twenty roles in a world of farce, love, and desperation, proving once and for all that art can save the world. This play was directed by Elvin Moriarty & Kristen Sheils and featured Dean R Dicks & Sam Martinez with Soraya Ahmadi backstage and Ian Collinson in the tech booth.

This show is not to be missed, but don't just take our word for it...     Check out the review on Broadway World .

Andy has a sweet Catholic mother, a sour Catholic father and an intellectually disabled younger brother named Mickey. When he brings his Jewish atheist fiance to meet the folks on Christmas Eve, his worst fears about family blow-ups are realized. This play was directed by Suzanne King & Christopher Krause and featured Thomas Baird, Jennifer Prior, Maxwell Metyko, Rob Blue & Brit Garcia with Kathryn Collins & Julie Burks backstage and Yvette Buford in the tech booth.

This play is about the fun a man and his wife can have when they are good buddies, when they can pal around together outdoors, when she is the Huckleberry Finn to his Tom Sawyer. No - that statement needs re-phrasing: What fun the man can have when he and his wife are good buddies, etc, etc. This play was directed by Judy Reeves, Julie Burks & Sam Martinez and featured Tony D'Armata, Kristen Sheils, Soraya Ahmadi & Mark Maccato with Pamela Branstetter & Kathryn Collins backstage and Yvette Buford in the tech booth.

Arlene Marcus and her sister, Elzbeth, are known far and wide in South Texas as friendly, charitable and a little eccentric. This is understandable, because it is also known that they are witches. At least, that's the story, especially the one spread by their housekeeper, Opal Dunn, just before she vanished without a trace. This play was directed by Elvin Moriarty & Kristen Sheils and featured Alex Vaughn, Brit Garcia, Soraya Ahmadi, Ashton White, Linden Bridge, Keith Henson, London Tye & Jim Allman with Lenny Compton backstage and Jake Rocknic in the tech booth.

This 1960’s French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancees, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent layovers. He keeps one up, one down, and one pending until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard’s apartment, at the same time. This play was directed by Sam Martinez & Elizabeth Grant and featured Cole Pfaffenberger, Marvin Abrego, Julie Burks, Caitlyn Dethloff, Laura Schlecht & Chelsea Ashmore-Oldham with Maddie Koenig backstage and Alicia Ashmore-Oldham in the tech booth.

During our 15 month break from live shows we kept the creative juices flowing by partnering with Scriptwriters Houston to produce 10 short films. Each piece features the work of one of their playwrights.

What happens when two writers who have worked together for years start to hate each other? The team has won awards and made money. Harry wants to break the partnership that is Paul's lifeline, but Paul knows a sinister secret from Harry's past. They are therefore locked together in a dance from which murder seems the only escape. This play was directed by Vicky McCormick & Elvin Moriarty and featured Brit Garcia, Adam Perkins, Dean Dicks & Cooper Smith with Polona Pearson & Emma Pearson backstage and Monica Blue in the tech booth.

During our 15 month break from live shows we kept the creative juices flowing by partnering with Scriptwriters Houston to produce 10 short films. Each piece features the work of one of their playwrights.

Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn’t mean his family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job. The job he’s been waiting for — marketing executive — would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. He tells them. The news doesn’t sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray his family’s love to move to Seattle, for a job, wonder his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing to dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O’Hare as bait...we won’t give the ending away here. This play was directed by Doris Merten & Suzanne King and featured Cole Pfaffenberger, Adrian Collinson, Jeanette Sebesta, John Stevens, Anne Boyd & Ericka Conway with Marylin Faulkner & Terry Talley backstage and Kristen Sheils in the tech booth.

A stage thriller with a liberal dose of humor. Fans of old fashioned ghost stories will enjoy this creepy thriller. When two sisters relocate from Manhattan to an old farm house in upstate New York, they soon realize that they may not be alone in the house. An old boyfriend drops in to visit and when the strange occurrences continue he calls on the services of a psychic colleague to try to quell the restless spirits. Based on the legend of the blue boy. This play was directed by Michele Richey & Marjory Johnston and featured Jana Smith, Stephanie Coffey, Chip Davison, Danielle Blinka & Wendy Moses with Kiki Cummings backstage and Leia Spialter in the tech booth.

Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in this fun and flirtatious comedy. Divorcees Mary and Jo are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new dentist boyfriend. He’s not just a weirdo; he may be a serial killer! After all, his hygienist just disappeared. Trading their wine glasses for spy glasses, imaginations run wild as the ladies try to discover the truth and save their friend in a hilarious off-road adventure. This play was directed by Suzanne King and featured Shannon Matson, Brit Garcia, Ashley McQueen, Dean R Dicks, Vivi Le & Bob Beathard with backstageMonica Blue in the tech booth.

In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left to die because he was gay. Members of the Tectonic Theater Project conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town and have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. This play was directed by Judy Reeves, Michele Richey & Sam Martinez and featured Marjory Johnston, Caryn Fulda, Christopher Krause, Chip Davison, Megan Nix, Chris Cancila, Soren Bergegan, Reijon Liboon, Dixie Cooper & Mark Maccato with Marylin Faulkner, Terry Talley & Pamela Branstetter backstage and Kiki Cummings in the tech booth.