Who knew the back half of the 2022/23 season would see such a plethora of puppets on Houston’s stages? So far there’s been a reincarnated holy lama puppet, a struggling adopted boy puppet and a ...

It's almost as if Rachel Hemphill Dickson and Eileen J. Morris, directors of the Ensemble Theatre's current production of Nathan Louis Jackson's "Brother Toad," could peer into the future. That could ...

Sadly enough, the play Brother Toad that Ensemble Theatre is about to present is all too immediately relevant today. It concerns guns and violence and the choices people make to employ either.

Eighteen-year-old Black high school student Marques has narrowly survived being shot by a white man while sitting in a car with a friend, who was killed. As the play begins, Marques recuperates at ...

“Plays come to us when it's time, even if you don't understand why,” said Dickson, who is directing the play with Eileen J. Morris. “We believe that it's right now because it needs to be right now.” ...