Wordsmyth’s October reading — Hoplites by Mark Costello
After all of humanity has abandoned earth, three robots remain to make sure the last person on the planet accomplishes humanity’s final task.
Then there is a knock on the door…
Wordsmyth’s September Reading
Four messed up kids. Meeting in the middle of a snowstorm. Youth group: where shit gets real.
Wordsmyth’s 10th Anniversary Celebration
Wordsmyth turned 10 years old this summer! So we are celebrating. We are producing readings of sections of works in progress or short works by the Houston playwrights we have featured including Warren Holleman, Patricia Barry Rumble, William Duell, Arthur Jolly, Abby Koenig, James Joseph Barnes, Eric James, Elizabeth Earle, Asher Wyndham and Ted Swindley.
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May reading — Fat Muslim Girls by Ken Kaissar
College is a complex system, a microcosm of society as a whole and at this college. A single email invites challenging and unpredictable discussions of gender, xenophobia, free speech and identity.
April reading — Hitler’s Tasters by Michelle Kholos Brooks!
Four teenage girls are tasked with the duty to taste Hitler’s every meal for poison.It is supposed to be the highest honor, or so they are told. How can these young women handle such an honor?
Four teenage girls are tasked with the duty to taste Hitler’s every meal for poison.It is supposed to be the highest honor, or so they are told. How can these young women handle such an honor?
A Queensbury reading — we are a cooperating theater in this reading
Sometimes family becomes a dogfight. In their ancestral house in rural California, surrounded by a dead walnut orchard, brothers Boomer and Dirt struggle with each other, with themselves, and with their dog-breeding business. As their pregnant pooch swells, they seem on the way to strike it rich. Their dreams are disrupted when Boomer brings home Marisol, who should be a one-night stand, and Dirt finds a boy who will never grow up.
Our first reading of Spring, 2017 — The Believers, by UH grad Troy Loftin!
There has already been one raid by the FBI resulting in some deaths.
Now, the leader of the Branch of Zion has ordered the members of his flock to wait in their rooms.
But some of his followers are not the kind to just sit and wait.
Monday, Feb 27, 2017, 7:00 pm.
Main Street Theater, 2540 Times Blvd.
FREE
Reading for November — Cabaret Kalisz by Christie Winn on Monday Nov 21!
If you have a skill, you are preserved. The tale of women in a concentration camp — their loss, survival and music.
Monday, November 21, 7 Pm
Main Street Theater
2540 Times Blvd
FREE!
ENGAGE Houston is generously supported by Houston Endowment and implemented by Mid-America Arts Alliance with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and foundations, corporations and individuals throughout Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
