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Aptly timed return to the stage for a meditation on science and risk

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

Austin Playhouse's sublimely silly satire of Victorian pomposity ventures where other comedies fear to tread

Ayad Akhtar's drama delivers a raw, powerful conversation about race without the usual distractions

C. Denby Swanson's comedy with nice hit men is a blast of cool fun, with a hint of danger just below the ice

Playwright Lauren Gunderson shows how the Bard’s works came to be collected in a story of devotion and loss

Austin Playhouse's Sherlockian pastry may be light, but Jason Newman's Great Detective is seriously good

Agatha Christie’s 1923 mystery gets a surprising remake as a farce

Revised revisiting of this dark comedy remains a guilty pleasure

In this stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, a fascinating glimpse into the more twisted corners of the human mind

Two concurrent stage productions show what happens when we define ourselves too narrowly

One man's twisted sense of racial identity unravels in Adrienne Dawes' brisk and tense new drama

Austin Playhouse's colorful production gives heightened dimension to an already heightened farce

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

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

The trick in staging Romeo and Juliet has ever been keeping the suspense in the second half that the first half never really needs, and the Austin Shakespeare Festival almost manages it

The artists of Mainline Theater Project have given their all to the characters and story of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Jesus Hopped the "A" Train, but sadly, what they have given their all to is a long-winded, superficial, ultimately unenlightening story of ruined life in the New York City criminal justice system.

Though it shows evidence of higher aspirations, the Austin Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, directed by Ev Lunning Jr. is a one-dimensional melodrama, lacking the rhetorical firepower and guiding vision that gives this drama its political punch.

Marlowe’s mad and Shakespeare’s sad in Austin Playhouse production

It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive

This production tackles the huge challenge of exploring motherhood and class, and can't quite have it all

The Oscar-winning film makes a successful transition to the stage through Don Toner's marvelous production

Austin Playhouse's staging of the Sherlock Holmes farce generates enough laughter to fill an empty mall

Ben Wolfe on the risks of going native in The Explorers Club

Remembering a year in theatre in which performers distinguished themselves in twos and threes

Cyndi Williams' study of a subterranean retirement community during a catastrophe has promise but isn't always clear

Austin Playhouse's take on this Oscar Wilde treat is straightforward and buoyed by terrific performances

An unrelentingly fast tempo flattens out the St. Ed's staging of Ibsen's epic

This Feydeau farce is like an apple pie: familiar, and it tastes good going down

Six actors play everyone in the holiday favorite, and they become Bedford Falls