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Corn, kindness, and the boy who never grew up come to the Bass

Epistrophy Arts leader talks past, present, and holy grail bookings

Pioneering press must move in 2019 and 12 tenants with it

Chez Zee maven looks forward to another 25 years

And what, if anything, do you intend to do about it?

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

The power of little things to make spirits real drives The Woman in Black, a terrifically old-fashioned ghost story in the English tradition, and the State Theater Company production employs simple sights and sounds in effective ways that make us believe and be terrified.

Local Arts Reviews

Local blues hero goes solo to cut costs, city polls on use of $12 million earmarked for the arts, and the U.S. State Dept. blocks Palestinian artist Dirar Kalash from the Fusebox Festival

The company’s take on Mozart’s last opera asks hard questions about forgiveness in a messy world

These are the people in our gayborhood: Drag hag

The history of Salvage Vanguard Theater's unlikely sci-fi success, The Intergalactic Nemesis

Portraying the kids from the Peanuts comic strips is trickier than you might think, but two of the performers in the Silver Star Theater Group production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown radiate the bold outline and broad humor -- the cartoon essence -- of the source material.

While its Sixties-era script gives Sam Shepard's early, kooky drama Back Bog Beast Bait a hallucinogenic clunkiness, the look and feel of the Tongue and Groove Theatre production is impressively atmospheric and its company of performers have a terrific time.

The murder in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1871 novel The Possessed and the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, though far apart in time and seemingly so in circumstance, become almost impossible to differentiate in The American Demons, a collaborative production of Salvage Vanguard Theater and Deborah Hay Dance Company.

Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell shoot to thrill in their opera based on Richard Condon's Cold War classic

In The Dinosaur Within, playwright John Walch links people of vastly different worlds, each of whom has suffered some traumatic loss, to show us the necessity of letting go, and the State Theater Company production communicates that message with compassion, humor, and grace.

It's not all lip-synch and laughter for inventive dragster Althea Trix

The Gaza film makers see their first film in the perfect cinema

Who gets the last laugh on an Austin summer?

For its debut show, the Silverstar Theater Group staged Rebecca Schwarz's The USO Christmas Show, a new musical set during a 1940s radio broadcast. But inconsistencies in style had the Forties ambience fading in and out like a distant radio signal.

Art Davis' new play The Moontower's Glow is a spiritual cousin to both The Rocky Horror Show and You Can't Take It With You, focusing on a houseful of eccentrics who have rejected the normalcy of society to live their dreams, no matter how ludicrous they may appear to the rest of the world.

Audacious retelling of an equally audacious life

Playwright Lisa D'Amour muses on the distance between Austin and 'Detroit'

The live action graphic novel debuts book two this week

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

Sleep and shop 19th-century style at the Comfort Common Bed and Breakfast in Comfort, TX.

Local filmmaker and activist showcases local food movement

In Hush: An Interview With America, the students of the UT Department of Theatre and Dance handle the complexities of James Still's play with steady hands, which may please viewers who enjoy supporting the development of young artists, but the play's inconsistencies may leave other visitors to this theatrical lab disappointed.

Part vaudeville comedy, part poem, part search for philosophical meaning, part fairy tale, Michael Arthur's The Star Play produced at MOMFest by the New York-based 2texans theatre company, makes a wish for love and finds it in the most unlikely places.