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Jam-packed with princesses, dragons, pirates and more, Tooth & Tail is...

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company continues their 2022 season with the world premiere of THE MOTHER PROJECT: A Collaboration to Honor Black Mothers and their Children...

Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company started its 2022-2023 season with a show like no other, making its audience laugh and cry while educating about the struggles of infertility and motherhood for women...

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company launches their 2021-2022 LIVE season with the Houston premier of EL HURACÁN, by Cuban-American playwright, Charise Castro Smith...

Mildred's 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 plays by women. This round will be VIRUS EDITION...

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“In a barrio kitchen in North Philly, a professor moonlights as the local soup kitchen queen, offering rice and beans to any hungry neighbor. Halfway around the world, her cousin relives his military trauma...

OH MY GOD is a dark comedy that explores what could happen if God walked into a therapist's office...

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company and Asia Society Texas Center present a celebration of women's voices...

Mildred's 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 plays by women of various demographics...

Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company is continuing their digital 2020-2021 season with FINE WINE, a series of classic monologues written for ingenue actresses, but instead performed by ...

Curated by Co-Literary Manager Bree Bridger, this event will feature a series of three play readings all addressing the question ‘What is consent?” Bridger noted, “We’ve noticed something becoming very clear in the wake of the #MeToo and #NotInOurHouse conversation: what consent is – and what is not – doesn’t seem very clear to a lot of people...

Set at the turn of the century, after Christopher Columbus’s return from the New World, HUNCHBACK is a madcap re-telling of Spanish history and the evils of colonialism...

In honor of Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company (MU) is presenting the U.S. premiere reading of Sam Hall’s My Mind is Free, a play created out of the testimonies of traffickers and the trafficked...

This year we’re sifting through the files to bring you the best of the best of our dysfunctional shorts...

Presented with the support of the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest, Voices of Israel features three Houston premiere staged readings by Israeli women playwrights...

MILDRED’S UMBRELLA PRESENTS A READING OF TERRANCE MCNALLY’S HIT PLAY, Mothers and Sons, IN HONOR OF WORLD AIDS DAY...

MILDRED’S UMBRELLA THEATER COMPANY REVIVES ITS GOTHIC ROOTS WITH Dark Matter, A Collection of Shorts FROM THE PROLIFICALLY WEIRD DON NIGRO...

MILDRED’S UMBRELLA JOINS FORCES WITH CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY TO REVIVE CICELY HAMILTON’S 110-YEAR OLD PLAY, Diana of Dobson's...

Once again, we had to postpone this family-friendly production by Elizabeth Keel. Meanwhile...

Well is a funny and touching comedy about mothers and daughters, mind over body, social activism and theatre itself. Lisa, the onstage playwright, attempts a memory play about her force-of-nature mother, Ann, who though constantly ill manages to heal a community...

Set on the bleak Yorkshire Moors of northern England, The Moors centers on two spinster sisters living alone in a manor house with their maid and mastiff...

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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 divided – the result of two teenage sons confessing to drug use...

Today is the two-year anniversary of Fiona’s son’s disappearance, and still, nothing makes sense to her. Not her blasé husband, the incompetent detective, or the neighborhood kidnapper who keeps introducing himself in the checkout line...

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MILDRED’S UMBRELLA THEATER COMPANY GETS SPOOKY WITH THE HORROR COMEDY Feathers and Teeth...

Sex trafficking seems like someone else’s problem, until an upper middle-class family in a prominent Houston area suburb finds itself ensnared...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company continued its 2015-2016 season with Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Ca...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company concludes its successful 2015-2016 season with the world premiere of Dollface by Katharine Sherman...

Amy and Ester are an unlikely pair – Amy is brash and blunt while Ester is the more unassuming of the two – who are forced together in trying to solve the problem of Amy’s unplanned pregnancy...

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Loosely based on the infamous Papín sisters who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933, THE MAIDS tells the story of two servants who act out elaborate role-plays while their mistress is away, all centered around killing her...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company continued its 2015-2016 season with a return engagement of Mac Wellman’s Dracula, a bizarre and offbeat version of the Bram Stoker classic...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company proudly presented the Texas premiere reading of Hotel Volkswagen by Icelandic writer, comedian, actor, and former Mayor of Reykjavik Jón Gnarr...

In November 2015, Mildred’s Umbrella joined theaters, libraries, and colleges nationwide in the simultaneous staged reading of The Other Woman, a full-length, one-act play adapted from five essays...

On a dark and rainy night in L.A., “average joe” Anibal de la Luna picks up a very pregnant hitchhiker named Celestina del Sol and offers her refuge...

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“Over and done with before you’ve had a chance to catch your breath” Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company was proud to present the regional premiere of The Drowning Girls, a modern interpretation and poetic retelling of the “Brides in the Bath” slayings in 20th century England...

“Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy outside the city limits of Pittsburgh who teaches her how to ride a horse. Mary’s husband, Crick, buys a painting with the last of their savings...

At sunrise, Polly wades alone into the spring waters of the Atlantic to begin her first ocean swim. In a small container secured to her body are her mother Jule’s ashes...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company proudly presented Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball...

Cassandra is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Cassandra, the beautiful girl who was given the gift of prophesy in exchange for the promise of sex with the god Apollo...

Jane Whithers, an erstwhile kindergarten teacher/lifeguard has been sent to find the “origin of evil, the root of denial and the basic human weakness that causes us to fear death” ...

As John Keats is dying in the next room, a group of people lament the absence of wine and servants, see dark shapes in the garden, endure a violent visit from soldiers and wait for Keats to die...

This psychological drama is a thinking person’s Gothic thriller, a dark comedy that is both funny and frightening...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company and Wordsmyth Theatre proudly presented Museum of Dysfunction VI: A SHOWCASE OF SHORTS. The sixth installment of our annual short play festival...

When Kate visits the death bed of a close friend, she is taken on a wild theatrical ride, as she is forced to acknowledge that no matter how much denial...

William Bloor, a ‘foxfinder’, arrives at Sam and Judith Covey’s farm to investigate a suspected contamination. He is driven by his education and beliefs to unearth and destroy an animal that threatens man’s civilization, and to remain free from its influence himself. As his investigations proceed, the events that follow change the course of all their lives – forever...

Jean becomes annoyed when the man sitting next to her won’t answer his ringing phone, until she finally answers it herself, and in doing so discovers that the man is dead...

As a playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire is best known for writing about real people unraveling in difficult situations. His 2000 Play KIMBERLY AKIMBO, being presented by Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company lives up to this reputation, ensuring the audience laughs as much as they are devastated...

This incisive, unexpected, and larger than life tale of sex, love, and self delusion tracks the overlapping escapades of a group of friends old enough to know better in love but still naive enough to mess things up anyway...

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company and Obsidian Art Space presents Museum of Dysfunction IV: A SHOWCASE OF SHORTS...

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In a small seaside town, a carnival arrives with a three-headed barking dog that predicts the future, a woman who flays herself alive and a bodiless boy who recites the poetry of John Keats. Meanwhile...

Notions of Right and Wrong is the story of a human outnumbered by ideas. Some, like Justice, try to lay claim to her, while others just want to help her slog through puberty...

The Marriage of Bette and Boo is considered by many to be Durang’s best play to date...

A skeleton in the cupboard, a doctor in the house, and coitus ad infinitum on the living room floor, Cuckoos is a tragi-comic retelling of the Oedipus myth...

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Margo Veil is a young actress whose strange adventures lead her into an ever-changing landscape of dream and reality.

Evening begins to fall. Lamps are lit, a child walks outside with a saw, and two sisters in a broken-down house make a ham sandwich for their father who sits on a couch–tied and bagged...

It is 1661, and the most famous portrayer of female roles on the London stage is Ned Kynaston...

Winner of the 2004 Oppenheimer Award for best New York debut by an American playwright, The Flu Season is a reluctant love story, in spite of itself...

After being pressed by a student, Biology Professor Henry Darden admits that he finds Darwin’s emphasis on natural selection as the means of evolution “unconvincing”...

June has a terrible secret. Gash has an outrageous plan. Leah is open to possibilities. And Joy is drinking to forget...

What is ROT? A collaboration between two of Houston’s premiere theater companies. What is ROT? A husband dying of the plague, a wife longing to move to Arizona. What is ROT? ...

Darkly comic and deeply moving by turns, One Flea Spare is set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have turned upside down...

A Murder of Crows satirizes a family struck down by the toxic winds of pollution. In a world where the air’s “mustardy”, and the ocean is so polluted it looks like a bowl of custard, young Susannah reels from the death of her father, killed under a pile of radioactive chicken droppings...

What is ROT? A collaboration between two of Houston’s premiere theater companies. What is ROT? A husband dying of the plague, a wife longing to move to Arizona. What is ROT?...

Five short plays of gothic horror by Don Nigro. The plays include...

Three young urban failures navigate the slippery allegiances of their triangular friendship...

Three women, full of life, lust and power, reveal their passion for the same man, and confront the ways that love can both liberate and entrap...

Andy is a young recluse who rarely leaves his closet and has a habit of soiling his pants when he’s nervous. He’s tortured by two neighborhood bullies, his mother works three jobs...

Needful creatures. Green fire. Night sweats. Melting Limbs. Must be love…

Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Marina Carr’s lyrical play tells the story of Hester Swane, a woman tormented by the memory of her mother...

A mother remembers her husband sitting in a dark cave, her affair with a bull, the children she abandons to horrible fates...

Bizarre and offbeat, Mac Wellman’s play Dracula completely re-vamps Bram Stoker’s classic novel..

In the Spring of 2004, Mildred’s Umbrella invited its growing audience to “board the train” on a strange, exploratory journey through the absurdity of human condition...

Murder plots, a secret wedding and a suicidal wedding planner... all before the curtain opens...

John Harvey’s surreal leap through love. A play within a play in which a Ringmaster, Acrobat, and Tumbler eat duck...

“Harvey’s dark script creates a whole new genre…a well-turned lesson on how not to fall in love” – Houston Press“...

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