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This revival proves Albee's 1962 drama to be as brutal and unsettling as ever

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

The Mary Moody Northen Theatre revival of Barefoot in the Park, Neil Simon's early comedy about newlyweds in a nosebleed-high love nest, can't disguise the shortcomings of Simon's script, but with the vitality that Director Melba Martinez and an expressive, animated cast bring to the production it's always pleasant just being in the characters' company.

Local thespians reveal how they tackle the challenge of playing drunk onstage

This production of Kenneth Lonergan's drama presents the human weight of disease and makes its pain tangible

The hero of this Theatre en Bloc premiere wrestles with ethical issues while working for FDR

The air of rural Spain pours forth from the entire ensemble in this riveting production of Lorca's drama

A husband and wife play out their decades-long marriage in this intriguing farewell from Palindrome Theatre

Breakin' String Theatre's take on Chekhov goes down like a shot of fine vodka

A great way to brush up your Shakespeare, the epidemic of extended runs continues, and the Fall Soiree falls through

Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals

In Austin Playhouse's production of Private Lives, an excellent ensemble mines Noël Coward's witty wordplay and his characters' spectacular self-absorption with comedic aplomb

The Austin Shakespeare Festival's timely production of Julius Caesar, deftly directed by Paul Norton, features an effective, almost all-female ensemble whose depiction of the play's bold, rule-breaking politicians and opportunity-grabbing power brokers who send their enemies into disarray summons up parallels to the state of American politics.

In the State Theater Company's new staging of The Tempest, director Scott Kanoff offers a carefully considered, vividly imagined, and vividly theatrical exploration of Shakespeare's text, sounding its themes of family, aging, freedom, justice, and mercy.

In the State Theater Company production A Macbeth, director Guy Chandler Roberts strips the Scottish Play of its dramatic spectacle and boils it down into a compelling ritual of human evil, a Black Mass.

Hay Fever: Child's Play

The year celebrated through moments when performers stunned their audiences into silence

This luminous staging of Lauren Gunderson's play brings wonder to the universe and makes it at once vast and intimate

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

A talented, fiercely committed cast makes this drama of a family homecoming arresting

Even fading lights couldn't dim the glow of Austin Playhouse's lovely staging

TexARTS succeeds in telling the story of Williams' sadly sweet play clearly

Austin Shakespeare's free production in Zilker Park provides affordable, above-average dinnertime amusement

Austin Playhouse's revival takes this female comedy beyond Thelma-and-Louise territory

As written by Brian Friel and performed by Babs George and Don Toner, Afterplay is a waltz of the walking wounded danced with stately grace to a beautifully elegiac tune

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

Carter W. Lewis' play Women Who Steal is a hilarious, tightly constructed joy ride, complete with squealing tires, tequila-chugging, and Meat Loaf : yes: Meat Loaf! : blaring from the car radio, and the State Theater Company production is what good theatre is all about.

Beauty Vultures and the Plague of Sleep: Heartwarming Chill

In the conversations of this Michael Frayn drama, we learn that history is broken, just like us

Kyle John Schmidt's new comedy takes dead aim at our national gun obsession and hits it with laughs