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You just know Zach Theatre's gonna do this fabulous sockdollager of a crowd-pleasing Broadway show up right, with Abe Reybold at the helm and Allen Robertson handling music direction. Hell, you could attend just to hear that hilarious "Gaston" song performed live, couldn't you?

City Theatre is trampling out the vintage with Frank Galati’s stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s literary masterpiece, following the Joad family's troubled 1930s journey from the Oklahoma dust bowl to that promised land of Califor-nigh-ay. Directed by Andy Berkovsky.

The new Austin Actors' Studio presents this classic Tony-winning play by Texas native Jay Presson Allen, here directed by Milton R. Zoth. Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1930s, it's a cautionary tale about a passionate, charismatic teacher and her students.

Ethos and the Vortex present this revival of their theatrical spectacle that reveals a mythic world of warring religious zealots obsessed with world domination and nonrenewable energy. With an original score by Chad Salvata, puppets designed by Ann Marie Gordon and Melissa Vogt, a talented cast working the puppets and giving full voice to Anderson Dear's vocal arrangments, and the whole thing is directed by that unstoppable Bonnie Cullum. Note: Puppets, yes, but this ain't a kiddie show. Bonus: ASL-interpreted performance on Sept. 8.

This is a site-specific theatre piece/alternate reality game, inspired by classic adventure video games, wherein you travel to mystery locations in Austin to find objects – letters, photographs, and home movies – as you search for a missing friend. Intrigued? Looking for a creative diversion? See website for details about this adventure created by Katie Green and Shawn Jones for Twin Alchemy.

In 1978 Buenos Aires, with so many people being abducted right off the street, Carolina risks everything to search for her pregnant daughter. While Carolina marches, her mother receives a visit from someone who may hold the key to finding her missing daughter … This National New Play Network world premiere by Stephanie Alison Walker is directed by Lily Wolff and Clarissa Smith-Hernandez for Shrewd Productions. And here's what the Chronicle's Elizabeth Cobbe thought of the play.