LANDING LOCAL: New Works Initiative was created to address the needs of the local writing community in Houston. The overall goal of Landing Local is to expand the artistic opportunities for local playwrights, while building meaningful new work experiences for Houston audiences and artists.
MICRO THEATRE
The Micro Theatre Program was created to help Houston playwrights develop new work. Since this format is accessible, it is the perfect platform for us to engage local writers in playwriting. Most of these projects will be commissions. However, there are various formats and objectives for these projects, the latest being site-specific original plays for our home tours. But each micro theatre event may have its own parameters.
Micro Theatre Home Tours are plays written using specific Houston residences as the location of the story. The plays are commissions, and are specific to the home they are conceived for. The goal of this program is to give Houston playwrights the opportunity to develop their craft as writers, with an assignment that has our own long-form perameters and that will be produced. After the initial run of these new plays in the home they were conceived in, the shows will sometimes tour to other homes throughout the city, in order to bring the works directly into neighborhoods, and giving the play more reach.
DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES
The Developmental Reading Series was created specifically to explore the works inspired by Houston playwrights. We plan to offer 2-4 readings a year by local playwrights of original works that they have in development. Each year there will be a submission window open during the entire month of October, and plays for the Developmental Readings will be selected from those submissions.
HOUSTON AREA THEATRES
4th Wall Theatre Company
A.D. Players
Alley Theatre
Banks Brothers Productions
Bayou City Theatrics
Bayou City Musicals
The Bayou Theatre Company
Baytown Little Theater, Baytown
Black Lab Theatre Company
Black Lion Theatre Company
Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre
Boiling Point Players
Boo Town
The Caduceus Theater Arts Company
The Catastrophic Theatre
Classical Theatre Company
Clear Creek Community Theatre,
Nassau Bay
College of the Mainland (COM)
Community Theatre, Texas City
Company Onstage
Cone Man Running
The Device
dos Chicas Productions
Dirt Dogs Theatre Company
Driven Theater Company
Ensemble Theatre Company
Encore Theatre
Et Voilà Théâtre
Exalted Arts Theatre Company
Firecraker Productions
Houston Playback Theatre
Houston Shakespeare Festival
Island ETC (East End Theatre
Company), Galveston
The Landing Theatre Company
Lanfour Productions
Leighzaland Productions
Luciole International Theatre Company
Main Street Theater Company
Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company
MJR Theatricals/Music Box Musicals
Moody Gardens
Moonlight Theatricals
Morningstar Media Group
The Music Box Theatre
Next Iteration Theater Company
Noir Dame Productions
Obsidian Art Space
Pasadena Little Theatre, Pasadena
Pearl Theatre, Pearland
Playhouse 1960
Queensbury Theatre
The Red Door Theatre Company,
Pasadena
The Rec Room
Rogue Productions
Shakespeare in the Shade, Tomball
Shunya Theatre
Stage Door, Inc., Pasadena
Stages Repertory Theatre
Stageworks Theatre
Standing Room Only Productions
(SRO)
Strange Bird Immersive
Talented Tenth Theatre
Theatre Lab Houston
Theatre Southwest
Theatre Suburbia
Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS)
Third Coast Creative
Thunderclap Productions
Trebuchet Players
Unity Theatre, Brenham
UpStage Theatre
Wordsmyth Theater Company
VARIETY AND IMPROV COMPANIES
Actor's Gem Productions, LLC
(Celebrity Mystery Theater)
Beta Theatre (Improv)
Station Theater (Improv)
CHILDREN’S/YOUTH COMPANIES & PROGRAMS
Applause Theatre
Christian Youth Theatre Houston
The Ensemble Children’s Theatre
Express Children’s Theatre
Fort Bend Theatre
HITS
Inspiration Stage
Interactive Theater Company
Island ETC, Students on Stage
Main Street Theater’s
Theatre for Youth
Stage Door Youth Theatre
Unicorn Theatre
Wildfish Theatre
CHRISTIAN THEATRE COMPANIES
A.D. Players
Applause Theatre, a Christian
Youth Theater
Christian Youth Theatre Houston
UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
University of Houston
School of Theatre and Dance
University of Houston–Downtown
University of Houston
Clear Lake - Bayou Theatre
Rice University - Department of
Visual and Dramatic Art (VADA)
St. Thomas University
Texas Southern University
Houston Community College
San Jacinto College
San Jacinto College – South
Lone Star College
Sam Houston State University,
Huntsville
Texas A&M University,
College Station
Texas A&M University,
Prairie View
Blinn College, Brenham
Blinn College, Bryan
Lee College Performing Arts
Center, Baytown
Clear Lake Community College,
Clear Lake
LOCAL VENUES
14 Pews
Alley Kat Bar and Lounge
Arena Theatre
Asia Society Texas Center
Deluxe Theater
Ensemble Theatre
Frenetic Theatre
Heinen Theatre
Hobby Center - Sarofim Hall
Hobby Center - Zilkha Hall
Jewish Community Center of
Houston (JCC)
Jung Center of Houston
Katy Visual and Performing Arts
Center (KVPAC)
MATCH
MECA
Midtown Arts Center
Miller Outdoor Theatre
Montrose Center
Moores Opera House (UH)
Ovations
Queensbury Theatre
The Rec Room
Rudyard’s Pub
Russian Cultural Center
“Our Texas” (“RCC”)
Stude Hall (Rice University)
Studio 101
Theatro Bilinque de Houston
(TBH)
Wildfish Theatre
GREATER HOUSTON VENUES
Berry Center, Cypress
Crighton Theatre, Conroe
Island ETC, Galveston
The Grand 1894 Opera House,
Galveston
Smart Financial Centre, Sugar Land
Sugar Land Auditorium,
Sugar Land
Stafford Centre, Stafford