Queensbury Theatre is a truly unique asset within the west Houston community. Not only does it offer world-class performances and enjoyable entertainment, its additional features make it a wonderful benefit to the Memorial District.
The Tribble School
Do you have a budding actor/actress in the family? The Tribble School for the Performing Arts provides stage training for children of all ages. Whether or not a child wants to be a theatre professional, the experience of appearing on stage has a lifetime of value. The school is led by a staff that includes a two-time Emmy nominee and others who are full-time professional artists residing in Houston. The Tribble School places an emphasis on core values, self-awareness and confidence, creativity, collaboration, communication and listening skills and dedication.
Event Space
How about having your next corporate event, meeting or party at the Theatre? There are venues available for rental use.
All of the spaces enjoy the availability of full production capabilities including sound, lighting, audio/video, and set design and construction. The Theatre is surrounded by a wide variety of fine restaurants which can cater events in the venue.
Join the Queensbury Theatre for the 2018 Gala benefiting the theatre and the Tribble School for the Performing Arts on April 22, 2018 from 6-9pm at the Queensbury Theatre in CityCentre. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.queensburytheatre.org/beourguest.
The evening includes a performance by The Music Box Theater; drinks created by James Beard Award-Winning Sommelier Sean Beck; and a live and silent auction including a pair of tickets to Hamilton!
VIP Reception and early bidding start at 5pm and the performance and live action commence at 7pm. Regular tickets are $125 and VIP are $250. VIP tickets include: a cocktail reception before the event with a demonstration and tasting hosted by sommelier Sean Beck, access to early bidding, priority seating and their name on printed materials as an underwriter (If donation is made by April 10, 2018).
Don't miss the opening of the Queensbury Theatre's last dynamic production, Unlock'd.
A whimsical coming-of-age story set “back then-ish,” UNLOCK’D fuses baroque and classical with contemporary pop musical theatre in a story about the roles we are born into and people we secretly wish to become. The musical tells the story of Clarissa, a smart, passionate, young woman in eighteenth century England who has reached the limit of her frustration living in the shadow of her gorgeous step-sister Belinda. Belinda complacently commands the attention of every gentleman of court, so, as the last party of the season approaches, Clarissa decides this is the day she’ll get Belinda married off and finally win a suitor for herself. But in a world rife with vanity, vacuous courtiers, mischievous gnomes, prudish fairies, and plenty of sibling rivalry to go around, it may not be as easy as Clarissa imagines. Based on Alexander Pope's satirical poem "The Rape of the Lock".
Tickets now on sale at queensburytheatre.org.
For a great dinner date, check out the set meal at Radio Milano before the meal: Pre-Show Dinner at Radio Milano with Complimentary Valet Parking and an Orchestra level ticket for UNLOCK'D - $65 Please book the "Dinner & a Show" package on the website, and the Queensbury Theatre will handle the reservation!
And remember to enter the code citycentre20 for 20% your tickets!
Queensbury Theatre (CityCentre) is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for UNLOCK’D, A Moderish Musical Romance by Sam Carner (Lyricist and Librettist) and Derek Gregor (Composer) playing at Queensbury Theatre Feb. 7-25, 2018.
A whimsical coming-of-age story set “back then-ish,” UNLOCK’D fuses baroque and classical with contemporary pop musical theatre in a story about the roles we are born into and people we secretly wish to become. The musical tells the story of Clarissa, a smart, passionate, young woman in eighteenth century England who has reached the limit of her frustration living in the shadow of her gorgeous step-sister Belinda. Belinda complacently commands the attention of every gentleman of court, so, as the last party of the season approaches, Clarissa decides this is the day she’ll get Belinda married off and finally win a suitor for herself. But in a world rife with vanity, vacuous courtiers, mischievous gnomes, prudish fairies, and plenty of sibling rivalry to go around, it may not be as easy as Clarissa imagines. Based on Alexander Pope's satirical poem "The Rape of the Lock".
Tickets now on sale at queensburytheatre.org.
Thomas Griffin Williams as Roderick Shearing (The Baron)
Patrick Massey as Edwin Shearing
Shanae’a Moore as Belinda Fermor
Kathryn Porterfield as Clarissa Evers
Holland Vavra as Avia/Gertrude/Ringlet
McKenna Marmolejo as Ariella/Madeline/Ringlet
Adrienne Shearer as Esther/Katherine/Ringlet
Dylan Godwin as Umbriel/Sir Flittybud/Ringlet
Mark Ivy as Barney/Beatrice/Inconstatine
Rodrick Randall as Caleb/Lord Littlewit/Ringlet
Phillip Brown as Zeus
The creative team is made up of Marley Singletary (Director), Dana Lewis (Choreographer) and Jonathan Craft(Musical Director). Sam Carner and Derek Gregor have joined the cast and creative team in Houston. Queensbury Theatre is located at CityCentre Houston (12777 Queensbury Ln., Houston, TX 77024).
The fantastic 6th-8th grade students at the Trebble School are putting on a production of Urinetown, Jr. this week at the Queensbury Theatre. For tickets visit here.
Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America's greatest art forms. In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he's had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!
The Queensbury Theatre is excited to welcome new producing executive director Marley Singletary. Singletary helped start TUTS Underground and comes to the Queensbury Theatre poised to take it to the next level as a hub for theatre and the arts in West Houston.
Formerly the Country Playhouse, the theatre came into its new incarnation as the Queensbury Theatre with the opening of its stunning 21,000 square foot space in 2015. With a main stage and a black box, the intimate spaces and innovative design of the new Queensbury Theatre lend themselves to smaller, newer productions and musicals.
Singletary sees the Queensbury as a theatre for the community that supports local artists and actors and the community at large through efforts like its Harvey relief fundraiser that raised $18,000 for the Mayor’s Fund.
Singletary has always had a love for theatre. Growing up in rural Louisiana with lots of time and imagination, she used to write plays for her friends to put on. Those early beginnings led her to London and a masters in directing before coming to Houston to work with Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS).
As a director, Singletary loves crafting the overall vision of a story and delving into the people and places that help shape the visual and emotional experience for the audience.Like Striking 12 running through December 23. This one-act modern production inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Match Girl is full-on energy and vibrant music.
In February, catch the regional debut of Unlock’d. With an all-local cast, crew and designer, this musical -billed a “modern-ish fairytale”- “fuses baroque and classical with contemporary pop musical theatre in a story about the roles we are born into and people we secretly wish to become.”
Two more shows are planned for spring to finish out the full season.
For tickets or more information on the Queensbury Theatre, visit queensburytheatre.org.
The Queensbury Theatre is opening a new holiday musical, Striking 12, this Friday. The one-act preformance is a modern twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Match Girl". The musical features three actors playing the keyboard, drums and electric violin.
The story starts on New Year’s Eve, as an over-worked and under-inspired single guy who’s had enough of holiday cheer makes a resolution: to stay home and go to bed early. On another New Year’s Eve, a continent away – and more than a century earlier – Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Match Girl tries unsuccessfully to sell her matches in the snow.
The two stories are brought together when a young woman selling special “full-spectrum holiday light bulbs” to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder shows up at the grumpy man’s door. Though the man (who probably could use the bulbs) seems to enjoy the young woman’s company, he sends her away. It’s not until he reads “The Little Match Girl” that he is finally pulled out of his funk.
All of this unfolds through a tuneful pop/rock/jazz score that retains the vibrant style of its original performers: the celebrated band, GrooveLily. Through simple, unpretentious theater created through the voices and instruments of the performers, Striking 12 reminds us that “the world looks like new… on the first day of the year."
For tickets visit queensburytheatre.org. Check out our District Deal and code "CityCentre12" for 20% off!
Don't miss this performance by 4th and 5th grade students of the Tribble School of Seussical the Musical, Jr. this fall. Showing at the Queensbury Theatre November 16 through November 19. Get tickets for $20 online at queensburytheatre.org or through the box office at 713-467-4497.
Don't miss this fantastic romp down the rabbit hole as the Kindergarten through Third-grade students of the Tribble School put on a preformance of Alice in Wonderland, Jr. this fall. Showing at the Queensbury Theatre November 8 through November 12. Get tickets for $20 online at queensburytheatre.org or through the box office at 713-467-4497.
Dust off your dancing shoes and break out your best costume, the Queensbury Theatre Guild is throwing a Halloween Costume Ball and Dance on Saturday, October 28, from 6:30-11pm.
Hosted at Fratelli’s Ristorante at 1330 Wirt Road, guests can come for dinner, stay for the silent auction and door prizes then dance the night away. Make sure to dress up for the costume contest!
Every year the Guild hosts two fundraisers to support the Queensbury Theatre. Past years have seen a Kentucky Derby Run for the Roses and a murder mystery fashion show. This year’s Halloween Ball promises to be just as much fun!
Guild president Kathy Taylor fell in love with the theatre years ago when it was still the Country Playhouse. She established the Queensbury Theatre Guild in 2015 to fundraise and support the work of the theatre that has put on works like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Ain’t Nuthin’ But the Blues.
Tickets are $55. Please contact Kathy Taylor at kvt516@comcast.net or 713-827-8263 to purchase tickets or for additional information.
And if you haven’t been to a Queensbury Theatre production, make sure to check out their upcoming shows at www.queensburytheatre.org/!
Houston’s Queensbury Theatre and Kirkwood Music Services, along with a dedicated team of local theatre practitioners and artists, present “Houston Artists for Harvey Relief,” a benefit featuring presentations by local performance organizations and groups on September 21, 2017 at 7:30pm at Queensbury Theatre in CityCentre.
The event will directly raise money for Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. All proceeds and donations from the performance will go to the Fund.
On behalf of Houston Artists for Harvey Relief, Marley Singletary of Queensbury Theatre says, “The Houston community has been continuously supportive of the arts, and we feel passionately that it’s our turn as artists to give back to the people of our city following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey through donations and artistic inspiration. We feel honored to be collaborating as an artistic community to keep Houston Strong, and we hope that performance organizations and groups will join us in this effort to help our community in its time of need.”
Tickets range from $50-$100. We are also accepting further donations. All ticketing proceeds and donations will go to the Houston Harvey Relief Fund.
The Queensbury Theatre is finishing the summer with a bang! Offering two dynamic performances in the month of August, don't miss the opportunity to see what's hitting the stage in the Memorial District.
Running through August 27, Me & Jezebel, recounts the tale of May 28, 1985, when star-struck Elizabeth Fuller’s dream came true when the legendary Bette Davis came to dinner at her dilapidated New England cottage. Four weeks later, as the hotel strike in New York raged on, she was still there. In one short month, she conquered suburbia, took over the Fullers’ home and changed their life forever. Directed by Ron Jones This special event production is produced by Queensbury Theater. Tickets range from $20 to $25 and are availble at queensburytheatre.org.
Also, catch the high school musical adaptation of the movie, Heathers, opens this weekend and runs through August 19.With music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe & Kevin Murphey, Heathers The Musical: High School Edition (based on the Filmy written by Daniel Waters) is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously handsome new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized butt... but J.D. has another plan for that bullet.
Presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Rated PG-13. Tickets are $17 and available at queensburytheatre.org