Houston's Weekend Planning Guide

     This weekend its the Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award---Crimes Of The Heart at the Alley Theatre on the Hubbard stage. It runs until May 5, 2019. 
     It's Beth Henley’s first play brings you to the Mississippi home of the Magrath sisters. Babe has just shot her husband because she didn't like his looks. This brings middle sister Meg back to town from Los Angeles, where she is unsuccessfully pursuing a music career. And poor Lenny, everyone has forgotten her birthday! Warm-hearted, irreverent, and imaginative, Crimes of the Heart teems with humanity as the sisters forgive the past, face the present, and embrace the future. Renowned Director Theresa Rebeck returns to the Alley to direct.

     The Washington Post.com several years ago said this about Beth Henlye's plays, "In her plays the characters at least have vitality, even if they are wanted for the murder of a boring husband, dying of three different diseases or fleeing a job scraping dead dogs off the road. Many of them tread a fine line between eccentricity and insanity, but never descend into the impenetrable despair of the sidewalk drummer.

And they love to talk. Henley tries to brighten, like the well-mannered southerner she is. Despite living for nearly a decade in Los Angeles, she retains her Mississippi accent and the cheerful, if slightly glacial, politeness so characteristic of a southern girl.