Season 46 (2006/2007) @ Theatre Suburbia | Northwest Houston's Longest Running All Volunteer Playhouse

Season 46 (2006/2007)

Real estate broker Susan Strathcona wants to hold an open house, sell a condo and earn her commission. Frustrating her attempts are the owners fiance who is bursting to prove his masculinity; the little old sex-pot next door with her deadly herbs and a scorpion named "Shirley"; the international police on the trail of the mysterious "Phantom" and a rival real estate agent who will don any disguise in his attempts to steal the listing. Oh, yes. And the owner - who is dead and laid out ...

Anybody Home?
by Carl Ritchie
Sep 15 - Oct 14, 2006

Things arent as they appear. Follow the clues and see if you can guess who did it before Joe Friday does.

Based on the famous NBC Radio-Television series. This adaptation of one of the most famous radio and television programs reproduces the authenticity, the terseness, the real-life characters, and the gripping, suspenseful and highly topical incidents for which the original is noted.

Taken from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, the case treated in the play is that of a supposed suicide,...

Dragnet
by James Reach
Jan 5 - Feb 3, 2007

Intriguing glimpses into a cupboard full of family skeletons, together with some serious, and not so serious, detective work, combine in this unusual suspense play, to keep everyone guessing until the very last page!

Returning home from prison, after serving fifteen years on the charge of having murdered his mother, Matthew finds his three sisters, his wife and his father waiting for him.

Still protesting his innocence, Matthews arrival prompts the question of who did kill Mother - scornful Celia, dott...

Take Away the Lady
by Jimmie Chinn
Apr 13 - May 12, 2007

Filled with puns, punches, and munchable moose muffins, this classic melodrama set in the roomy (by that we mean almost always vacant) Dead Moose Lodge has a myriad of amusing characters (a must), plot twists (a necessity), and exaggerated scenes (defines melodrama) that the audience will adore.

From the harried heroine, Marginally Modest (its the "margin" that bothers us!) to the villainous Brad Apple (one "Brad Apple" spoiled the bunch) to our splendidly honest hero, Seymore Stoutf...

Marginally Modest
by Vern Harden
Jul 20 - Aug 25, 2007

Christmas in Her Heart
by Walt Vail
Nov 3 - Dec 2, 2006

When a houseful of sweet little old ladies discover that a handsome bachelor lives across the street, they are delighted. When they learn that he is none other than Detective Dennis OFinn, of Homicide, they are faced with the problem of how to attract his attention.

The answer is simplicity itself: a nice, genteel homicide with a cup of tea as the murder weapon.

Then a brash young woman reporter begins to suspect the truth, she becomes the next target. OFinn is terribly embarrassed when at last he disc...

Bull in a China Shop
by C B Gilford
Feb 23 - Mar 24, 2007

In this dark comedy, chaos flares up in an urban Texas household on a day when the old television stops working. Mom and Dad are too caught up in their own crises to deal with their "slow" son Tommys behavioral problems, and Grandma simply cannot cope with his racy behavior. Contains subject matter of a sensitive nature.

Parker Family Circus
by Jan Buttram
Jun 1 - 30, 2007

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