The Hard Problem

By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Rebecca Greene Udden

If there is nothing but matter, then what is consciousness? This is what scientists have deemed “the hard problem.” In Tom Stoppard’s brilliant and most recent play, Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a prominent brainscience institute, is nursing a private sorrow while delving into examination of the hard problem at the think-tank. Is the day coming when the computer and the MRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Or is there more to being human… Hilary’s personal journey alongside her professional exploration takes the audience on a ride through the mind and heart like only Tom Stoppard can.

A Year with Frog and Toad

Book and Lyrics by Willie Reale
Music by Robert Reale
Based on the books by Arnold Lobel
Directed by Jimmy Phillips

This whimsical musical follows two best friends through four, fun-filled seasons.  They plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, go sledding, eat cookies and learn life lessons along the way.  A sweet tale of the power of friendship!

Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue

By Quiara Alegría Hudes

Directed by Rebecca Greene Udden

Elliot Ortiz is a young soldier, like his Pop was before him, like his Abuelo before that. But despite the things they share—their love of music, their love for each other, and their experiences of war—even when they desperately need to communicate, they just can’t seem to make it work.

This powerful portrait of a Puerto Rican military family by Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony Award® nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights, Water by the Spoonful) is a breathtaking symphony of music, memories, and the things that mark our bodies…and our souls.

Houston audiences will have the rare opportunity to follow Hudes’ Elliot Trilogy playing concurrently. Main Street’s production of Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Part I of the Trilogy, and Stages Houston’s production of Water by the Spoonful, Part II, which open 1 day apart in February. Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company will produce the final installment of the trilogy, The Happiest Song Plays Last, will have a staged reading at MST during the first week of March.

February 23: Join us for our Part of the Art Series post-show discussion with Sandylane Oquendo, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Retired, HUD Certified counselor and Home Ownership Promotion & Preservation Program Manager with the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation, and Osvaldo Gelpi, SSG Retired US Army, advocate for Puerto Rican Veteran benefits in the island.

The Diary of Anne Frank

A play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Based upon Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Directed by Vivienne M. St. John

The haunting, true story of two families forced to hide from the world in an attic with World War II raging around them — and the courageous people who risked their own lives to protect the very existence of those families.

Join us on January 26 after the 2:30pm performance for Past & Present Voices: Reflections and a Way Forward, a discussion with the Anti-Defamation League and Interfaith Ministries.

Join us on February 9 after the 2:30pm performance for a discussion with Holocaust survivor Chaja Verveer in partnership with Holocaust Museum Houston. SOLD OUT

Prague Shakespeare Company’s
Hamlet

SEASON EXTRA
By William Shakespeare

Adapted, Directed, and Performed by Guy Roberts

One man. Seventeen Characters. Ninety Minutes. In his tour-de-force one-man Hamlet, Guy Roberts presents unique insights into the mind of Shakespeare’s greatest and most famous creation. Using only Shakespeare’s words, the audience experiences the world of the play through Hamlet’s eyes – only seeing and hearing the scenes and moments that the character himself experiences in the play.