When our distinguished panel met to finalize our winners and nominees for the 2018-19 Houston Theater Awards, the meeting was surprisingly amicable. Many of our choices were unanimous, or close to it, which I think speaks highly of the quality of this year’s winners. It was, by all accounts, a hugely successful season, filled with intriguing productions, superb performances, and crafty theatricality. We seemed to go everywhere within imagination last season. It was quite a trip. Thank you all, winners and nominees alike, who led us on these fantastic voyages. You’ve given us memories for a lifetime. — D.L. GrooverSerial killer Lucius, in a bravura performance by Joseph “Joe P” Palmore, admits he’s killed people and expresses no remorse about doing so, but says he has found God and been forgiven. Angel, played by Mateo Mpinduzi-Mott, is a lost soul. Trying to get a friend away from a religious sect, he shoots the cult leader in the butt. Unfortunately, while being operated upon to remove the bullet, the cult leader dies on the table and the charges against Angel are upgraded to murder. Left dazed by events, Angel becomes easy prey for the other inmates, and struggles to find a way…