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O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE  Comes to Mildred's Umbrella This Week


by Stephi Wild - January 16, 2024

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company wraps up their season with the “rolling” world premiere of O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE by playwright Jami Brandli, winner of the 2023 Jane Chambers Award. ...

Mildred's Umbrella Participates In #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE (A National Reading) On November 6


by A.A. Cristi - October 27, 2023

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company is participating for the third time in the national reading of #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE, a project where theaters all over the country perform readings on the same evening of competitively selected plays about gun violence written by teenagers....

Mildred's Umbrella Participates In The National Project: #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE


by Stephi Wild - September 14, 2023

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company is participating for the third time in the national reading of #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE, a project where theaters all over the country perform readings on the same evening of competitively selected plays about gun violence written by teenagers. Learn more...

Mildred's Umbrella Announces 2023-2024 Season


by Blair Ingenthron - August 21, 2023

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company is back for its 22nd year with an abbreviated season for 2023-2024.  ...

Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company Presents TOOTH AND TAIL By Elizabeth A.M. Keel


by A.A. Cristi - February 20, 2023

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company wraps up their 2022-2023 season with the world premiere of our first “all-ages” show, TOOTH & TAIL, by Houston playwright, Elizabeth A.M. Keel. ...

SCRAMBLED Is Available On Streaming At Mildred's Umbrella Theater


by A.A. Cristi - September 27, 2022

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company  kicked off their 2022-2023 season with the limited production of SCRAMBLED, by Israeli actress/playwright Rotem Nachmany Directed by: Maya Bitan and Maayan Dubkovsky. ...

Mildred's Umbrella Presents SCRAMBLED By Rotem Nachmany


by A.A. Cristi - July 26, 2022

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company  kicks off their 2022-2023 season with the limited production of SCRAMBLED, by Israeli actress/playwright Rotem Nachmany Directed by: Maya Bitan and Maayan Dubkovsky....

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company Announces 2022-2023 Season, Empowering Women in Theater


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 27, 2022

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company will return to the stage in September 2022 with their 21st Season! Mildred’s Umbrella’s mission is to empower women in theater, and the company produces plays that are either written by women, or feature a mostly female cast. The season will include two productions...

WOMEN ROCK Fundraiser For Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company Announced At Rudyard's Pup, June 24


by A.A. Cristi - June 01, 2022

Returning for the fourth year (after a hiatus for Covid-19), Mildred's Umbrella (MU) is teaming up with Rudyard's British Pub  for 'Women Rock,' a fundraiser benefiting the theater company's 2022-2023 season. ...

#ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence Comes to Mildred's Umbrella Theater


by A.A. Cristi - April 06, 2022

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company has announced its participation in the Nationwide Reading of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence on April 20, 2022(all day). ...

Past Shows

#Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence


Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company is participating for the third time in the national reading of #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE, a project where theaters ...

THE MOTHER PROJECT: A Collaboration to Honor Black Mothers and their Children


In collaboration with Esurient Arts, and directed by Dabrina Sandifer, the production was created by a diverse group of six female artists in Mildreds Umbrella ...

EL HURACÁN
EL HURACÁN
11/11 - 11/21/2021


El Huracn honors four generations of Cuban-American women who navigate lifes tempests together. Valeria drifts as dementia floods her mind. Ximena sinks as unforgiveness surges ...

LADY GREY (in ever lower light)


Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their 2021-2022 season with the final digital project, LADY GREY (in ever lower light) by renowned playwright, Will Eno. Directed ...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Presents FEMFEST HOUSTON: VIRUS EDITION


Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2021-2022 season with the fourth installment of our reading series, FEMFEST HOUSTON, a series that focuses on new ...

EVERYBODY'S DEAD:A COMEDY
EVERYBODY'S DEAD:A COMEDY
5/24 - 6/3/2021


Annika is the multi-millionaire CEO of a doomsday prepper subscription box service. She is also trapped inside the massive custom bunker that she built to ...

Mildred's Umbrella Present THE DROWNING GIRLS Archival Video


Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2020-2021 season with the video release of THE DROWNING GIRLS by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic. ...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Presents FEMFEST HOUSTON: BLACK WOMEN’S VOICES


Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2020-2021 season with the third installment of our reading series, FEMFEST HOUSTON, a series that focuses on new ...

FINE WINE, a monologue series
FINE WINE, a monologue series
11/15 - 11/25/2020


Mildreds Umbrella Theater Company continues their digital 2020-2021 season with FINE WINE, a series of classic monologues written for ingenue actresses, but instead performed by ...

Oh My God
Oh My God
10/13 - 10/25/2020


OH MY GOD is a dark comedy that explores what could happen if God walked into a therapists office. Ella, a psychotherapist with problems of ...

Tooth & Tail- A Fun-Filled Digital Reading


TOOTH & TAIL is part fairy-tale, part rescue mission, part love story, and all adventure. Family friendly! TOOTH & TAIL has been developed and workshopped ...


Michal Aharoni, Anat Gov, Hana Vazana Grinwald; trans: Anthony Barris, Natalie Feinstein; dir: Jon Harvey, Elizabeth Keel, Leighza Walker....

Museum of Dysfunction XI: The Best of a Decade of Short Plays


For ten years we've been collecting new, weird short plays for Museum of Dysfunction. This year, we're going back into the files to bring you ...

The Hunchback of Seville
The Hunchback of Seville
3/28 - 4/6/2019


Travel back to 16th century Spain with this madcap re-telling of Spanish history and colonialism. Columbus has just returned from the New World, Queen Isabella ...

My Mind is Free
My Mind is Free
1/18 - 1/22/2019


MILDREDS UMBRELLA HIGHLIGHTS THE ISSUE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING WITH U.S. PREMIEREREADING OF MY MIND IS FREE BY UK PLAYWRIGHT SAM HALL In honor of Human ...

Consenting Bodies: A Reading Series


Responding to the events of the past few years, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) is proud to present CONSENTING BODIES, a series of play readings ...

Mothers and Sons


Kicking off a series of projects geared toward raising awareness for local service organizations, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) is bringing a reading of Terrance ...

Diana of Dobson's


DIANA follows a young working class English woman who unexpectedly comes into a large sum of money and decides to live a life of extreme ...

The Moors
The Moors
8/30 - 9/15/2018


Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) is kicking off the 2018-19 season with Jen Silverman’s critically acclaimed black comedy, THE MOORS, playing August 30-September 15 at ...

Museum of Dysfunction X
Museum of Dysfunction X
6/21 - 6/30/2018


Since 2008, Mildred’s Umbrella (MU) has celebrated the dark, quirky, and absurd with a collection of short pieces submitted by emerging and established playwrights. Now ...

Dark Matter: A Collection of Shorts by Don Nigro


Closing out a six-year tenure in Spring Street Studios, Mildred’s Umbrella (MU) is reviving a fan favorite from its days at Midtown Arts Center with ...

Well
Well
1/18 - 2/3/2018


Step into the mind of Tony-award-winning playwright Lisa Kron with this thoughtful and funny examination of how our relationships with our community, family, and friends ...

Jef Johnson in OPEN SPACE
Jef Johnson in OPEN SPACE
1/21 - 1/22/2018


Jef Johnson brings his spontaneous play, OPEN SPACE, back for two nights only! By invitation of Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company , Native Houstonian Jef Johnson ...

Tooth & Tail
Tooth & Tail
1/8 - 1/9/2018


Adding to an already exciting season, Mildred’s Umbrella (MU) is excited to share a new fantasy from local playwright and University of Houston student Elizabeth ...

Feathers and Teeth
Feathers and Teeth
10/19 - 11/4/2017


Set in a sleepy factory town at the end of the 1970’s, this horror comedy from Devious Maids writer Charise Castro Smith centers on teenaged ...

In A Word
In A Word
7/27 - 8/12/2017


Kicking off its 16th season, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) takes a trip through memory, perception, and grief with the Houston premiere of IN A ...

Museum of Dysfunction IX
Museum of Dysfunction IX
6/29 - 7/8/2017


For the ninth year running, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) will produce two weekends of new works at its annual Museum of Dysfunction short play ...

A Heroine Free Summer
A Heroine Free Summer
3/30 - 4/15/2017


Set amidst a family vacation at an idyllic lake house in upstate New York, A HEROINE FREE SUMMER examines what happens when a family becomes ...

The Johns
The Johns
1/19 - 2/4/2017


Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company continues its 2016-2017 season with the regional premiere of THE JOHNS by Mary Bonnett, producing artistic director for Chicago’s Her Story ...

Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel
Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel
10/20 - 11/5/2016


Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company continues its 2016-2017 season with the regional premiere of DRY LAND by recent Yale graduate and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist ...

The Maids by Jean Genet
The Maids by Jean Genet
7/28 - 8/13/2016


Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company opens its 2016-2017 season with THE MAIDS by Jean Genet. Loosely based on the infamous Papín sisters who brutally murdered their ...

Museum of Dysfunction VIII: A Showcase of New Short Plays


Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company and Wordsmyth Theatre proudly present Museum of Dysfunction VIII: A SHOWCASE OF SHORTS. Now in its eighth year, this annual short ...

The Drowning Girls
The Drowning Girls
7/9 - 8/1/2015


Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company (MU) is proud to present the regional premiere of The Drowning Girls, a modern interpretation and poetic retelling of the “Brides ...

Videos


Black Boys Cry in Houston Black Boys Cry
The Deluxe Theatre (4/26 - 4/28) Tracker
PHOTOS
Three short plays: Cuanto vale una heladera by Claudia Piñeiro, Mesa de saldos by Claudio Regis & Verona by Claudia Piñeiro in Houston Three short plays: Cuanto vale una heladera by Claudia Piñeiro, Mesa de saldos by Claudio Regis & Verona by Claudia Piñeiro
Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (5/2 - 5/5) Tracker
CLEANSED in Houston CLEANSED
The Catastrophic Theatre (4/5 - 4/27) Tracker
PHOTOS
Sophisticated Lady: The Songs of Natalie Cole starring Belinda Munro in Houston Sophisticated Lady: The Songs of Natalie Cole starring Belinda Munro
The Founders Club at the Hobby Center (5/17 - 5/18)
Rock/soul artist & Houston native Gotdamn Jack Jones announces invite-only music showcase for music media and influencers Thursday, April 25 in Houston Rock/soul artist & Houston native Gotdamn Jack Jones announces invite-only music showcase for music media and influencers Thursday, April 25
Brava (4/25 - 4/25)
Bloomsday in Houston Bloomsday
Theatre Southwest (4/12 - 4/27)
ACES! in Houston ACES!
MATCH (5/2 - 5/5)
The Bodyguard in Houston The Bodyguard
The Sankofa Collective (5/31 - 6/9)
Power Plays: A Saturday Night Sketch Comedy Showcase in Houston Power Plays: A Saturday Night Sketch Comedy Showcase
Station Theater (5/4 - 5/4)
Chicago (Non-Equity) in Houston Chicago (Non-Equity)
Lutcher Theater (5/9 - 5/9)
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