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This eighth annual festival unites playwrights and audience members in conversation surrounding four new works of Latino theatre, with playwrights Augusto Amador, Victor Cazares, Ramon Esquivel, and Dania Ramos teaming up with local talent for staged readings.

Listen: When a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force gets unexpectedly pregnant, her superiors reassign her, post-maternity leave, from flying F-16s to the "chair force," as a reluctant drone pilot. Street Corner Arts presents George Brant's compelling drama, starring Sarah Danko, directed by Benjamin Summers. Our reviewer, a military brat himself, had this reaction to the show.

The UT New Theatre program presents this drama by Drew Paryzer, directed by Jess Shoemaker, in which the titular character finally returns home: to his childhood home and to his mother. "His youth is gone, but there are still many things to be raised within the walls of his strangely powerful bedroom."

The UT New Theatre program presents this modern fantasy by Travis Tate, directed by Alice Stanley, in which a young woman studying her induction into the family coven must negotiate her family's legacy, her uncanny power, and the love of her life … all before she's old enough to drink.

City Theatre presents their staging of Shakespeare's most famous romantic comedy, as directed by Levi Gore.

Here's the annual festival of live performance and music and film and all manner of vibrant presentation, from the popular to the arcane and many sizzling points between, as curated by a wide-ranging team of cultural instigators, and featuring artists local and national and from across the globe. Many of the gigs are already booked solid, mind, but there are still a few shows available for the art-hungry public.

Bonnie Cullum and her diverse army of creatives present this immersive theatrical scavenger hunt that encompasses the entire Vortex compound with thematic games, riddles, music, dance, and mystery, featuring Tarot Major Arcana characters among your guides and gurus and puckish performers. Read more about it in this preview.

This is a new adaptation of the beloved, Oscar-winning film – and it's one of Austin Playhouse's biggest productions to date, in which a fine cast is directed by Don Toner and Lara Toner Haddock. And – did our reviewer love this show?

This nine-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Note: Contains explicit language. Explicit … ? Oh, right, the whole hilarious thing was dreamed up by South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker with Robert Lopez.

"Twelve troubled years after a childhood accident left her severely scarred, Violet embarks on a pilgrimage to visit a televangelist she believes will heal her." This heartwarming musical, based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts, is directed by Nick Mayo and features a fine cast of St. Ed's students with guest actors David Long, Jarret Mallon, Christina Stroup, and Gregory Truvillion. Bonus: musical direction by Peter Stopschinski.