Nov 17, 2021 | ktru, Showstoppers
The cast of the National Tour of TOOTSIE. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade.
Tootsie strutted into Houston Tuesday night as the second show in the Broadway at the Hobby Center 2021-2022 season. Tootsie, based on the 1982 movie of the same title starring Dustin Hoffman, presents the struggle of Michael Dorsey, an out-of-work actor recently fired and unable to land any roles due to his narcissistic and intolerable nature in rehearsals. In a desperate attempt to save his career, Michael attends an audition for "Juliet's Curse", a role he was helping his ex-girlfriend rehearse for, disguised as Dorothy Michaels, his newly-formed female alter ego. Chaos ensues as he falls in love with both his popular new persona and with one of his co-stars, who does not know his true identity.
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Nov 8, 2021 | ktru, Showstoppers
Theater Under the Stars is on a roll with back-to-back, rocking shows at the Hobby Center. Sister Act opened this week in front of a full house of masked theatergoers. The story follows a vivacious Philadelphia club singer Deloris entering witness protection in a convent after witnessing a murder committed by her gangster boyfriend, where she brings her soul background to the dreary church hymns and creates a gospel choir out of the nuns. The Tony Award nominated musical, based off of the 1992 Film starring Whoopi Goldberg, features a lively, soulful score by Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Hercules) that combines 70s funk songs with Latin hymns to create joyous gospel music that gets even the most straight-laced nuns singing along.
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Oct 14, 2021 | ktru
By Jacob Pellegrino
Payday is a unique artist whose music is influenced by an incredibly wide range of genres and styles: she writes her own songs, raps, and sings. Payday’s most recent album RAP IN A CAN exemplifies this diversity, also seen in her live set at ACL and contains the single “Vampire,” which features Danny Brown. At ACL, Payday’s performance contained a mix of slower songs based on singing along with harder raps that created a really nice balance for the crowd.
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Oct 14, 2021 | ktru
By Jacob Pellegrino
The first weekend of 2021’s iteration of Austin City Limits was something to be remembered. From a diverse and busy lineup to the sunny weather in spite of forecasted rain, the festival was engaging and left me feeling uplifted throughout.
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Oct 9, 2021 | ktru, Showstoppers
Here is an updated list of a few local theaters' season schedules, including both musicals and plays.
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Oct 9, 2021 | ktru, Showstoppers
The cast of the new TUTS production of Rock of Ages. Photo by Melissa Taylor.
Theater is back in Houston after 19 months and TUTS started their return-to-the-stage with a bang! After 582 days without an audience in the Hobby Center, Theatre Under The Stars opened their 2021-2022 season this past Tuesday with a rocking performance of the Tony nominated musical Rock of Ages.
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Jun 2, 2021 | ktru
By Harrison Lorenzen
Following a hiatus in 2020, the South by Southwest festival returned in March 2021 with its same international renown as ever before. SXSW 2021 was presented in a fully virtual format, which had its pros and cons, but was able to provide much of the content that festival-goers have come to expect from the event.
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May 31, 2021 | ktru
By Rachel Bui
SXSW 2020’s cancellation due to the coronavirus had many of us wondering how SXSW 2021 would look like for almost a year. Their response: host SXSW virtually.
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May 31, 2021 | ktru
By Jacob Pellegrino
2021 was an immensely unconventional year for entertainment: from concerts and cinema to large festival events. SXSW 2021 was no exception to the necessity to improvise around an established in a new, remote format. Although nothing can fully match the experience of large crowds and the movement of a festival atmosphere, SXSW created a simple app and website driven experience that allowed for compartmentalized viewing of the festival’s events. This interface removed a lot of the chance occurrences that would happen at the physical festival but also allowed for convenient viewing and an easier ability to see everything one might want to.
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Apr 8, 2021 | events, ktru, ODS
GET HYPE FOR KTRU’s 29th ANNUAL OUTDOOR SHOW! Join us in celebrating all the incredible acts on our longest lineup EVER.
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Tootsie strutted into Houston Tuesday night as the second show in the Broadway at the Hobby Center 2021-2022 season. Tootsie, based on the 1982 movie of the same title starring Dustin Hoffman, presents the struggle of Michael Dorsey, an out-of-work actor recently fired and unable to land any roles due to his narcissistic and intolerable nature in rehearsals. In a desperate attempt to save his career, Michael attends an audition for "Juliet's Curse", a role he was helping his ex-girlfriend rehearse for, disguised as Dorothy Michaels, his newly-formed female alter ego. Chaos ensues as he falls in love with both his popular new persona and with one of his co-stars, who does not know his true identity.
Theater Under the Stars is on a roll with back-to-back, rocking shows at the Hobby Center. 
