Ether Dome, a play about the discovery of anesthesia, premiered last Wednesday at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, according to a CultureMap Houston report. The play focuses on the relationship ...

Greg Balla, Lee Sellars (seated), Tom Patterson and Richmond Hoxie act in a scene from "Ether Dome." (Courtesy T. Charles Erickson/Huntington Theatre) On Oct. 16, 1846, a flustered young man named ...