Season 47 (2007/2008) @ Theatre Suburbia | Northwest Houston's Longest Running All Volunteer Playhouse

Season 47 (2007/2008)

Martie�s idyllic memories of a poet from her college years rise again when he reappears, willing and able to continue the romance. Is her regular-guy husband any match against the dashing, artistic poet? Martie�s best friend is drawn to the poet as well. They discover that their poet uses the same old poem to romance all his lady friends and students. Will they have him arrested for the reckless use of a concealed poem?

Poetic License
by Carl Williams
Sep 14 - Oct 13, 2007

They are looked after by a cook-housekeeper (and local character) named Wimpi, and are soon joined by Dennis Mordaunt, Stellas producer and would-be suitor, and her fellow actress and arch rival, Flavia Dartega.

Add in the surprise appearance of Oliver Keane (Stellas former leading man) and his dashing young nephew Peter (who is immediately captivated by Mary), and both the plot and the romantic possibilities quicken.

The arrival of the bustling Nurse Pepper rounds out the cast and begins the progressi...

The Gift of Murder
by George Batson
Jan 4 - Feb 2, 2008

Impoverished and pregnant Wanda lives in a trailer with her four children and her unemployed husband Al. When Wanda spots the classified ad of a couple who want to adopt a newborn baby, she is introduced to a wealthy Los Angeles Jewish couple -- Rachel and Richard. Rachel and Richard arrive in Louisiana to meet the donors, and both couples deal with the legalistics, while also overcoming their fears and transcending the inevitable cultural and class barriers.

The Baby Dance
by Jane Anderson
Apr 11 - May 10, 2008

This modern treatment of an old melodrama will have folks hissing, booing and applauding. The sweet heroine is Melody Lane, a self educated and lovely orphan who falls into the hands of scoundrel Windermere Hightower.
After Melody and the villain are married, he tells her that he expects her to carry out his criminal schemes. Revolted, she flees a wife in name only.

Several months later she is at the None Such ranch where she falls in love with stalwart Lucius Goodenough. When Windermere appears at the ...

Curse Of An Aching Heart
by Herbert E Swayne
Jul 18 - Aug 23, 2008

Christmas Eve is tough for private investigator Cactus ORiley, a white hot redhead with the holiday blues.

She is trying to lure her secretary Fred away from his protective mother, dodging the affections of Deputy D.A. Windsor, and considering closing her business. She doesnt need the added aggravation of two fugitives who burst into her office looking for justice and a dead detective named Jake Marley.

Cactus also doesnt need Freds mother, who arrives to take Fred home but decides to stay because she ...

A Christmas Cactus
by Eliot Byerrum
Nov 2 - Dec 1, 2007

Hoping for a quiet spring break at her aunt�s bed and breakfast, Maggie is surprised to find that a man claiming to be a tax collector has been poisoned. Unfortunately there is no shortage of suspects. Maggie and her best friend realize that they�d better figure out who wanted the tax collector dead�before someone else has a cup of <i>Tea and Arsenic</i>.

Tea and Arsenic
by Craig Sodaro
Feb 22 - Mar 22, 2008

In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood�Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband and Faye by hopping on the spaceship when the <i>space people</i> return for another visit.

We meet Faye and Willie Mae as they return home to their ramshackle swamp dwelling in Sugar Bean, Florida, after a disastrous daytrip to Disney World, where Willie lost her prized Eva Gabor wig on Space Mounta...

The Sugar Bean Sisters
by Nathan Sanders
May 30 - Jun 28, 2008

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