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Broken Lizard (the comedy group that gave us Super Troopers) spoofs summer-camp slasher flicks and lowbrow beach farces.

In the world of Charlie Chaplin chaos reigns … and is celebrated: The Little Tramp turns 90

The Vortex, Saturday, November 1, 2003

Life story of Brazilian drag diva from the last half-century.

Pennebaker's documentary captures the final concert of the Ziggy Stardust tour at the Hammersmith Odeon outside London on July 3, 1973.

Oh! It's such a chore to pull one's self together for a night out on the town … but some nights are really worth it. Plus, we are hosting another Drag Ball. Details inside.

Our Style Avatar charts a plethora of moving and shaking in the local scene.

In Hyperzoo, an installation featuring historical and mythological figures in cages, director Chad Salvata and his artistic team juxtapose ghastly horror with great beauty in a series of dreamy, stunning images.

Another failed effort to capture Marvel magic.

After rumbling greatness in the first act, the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine ends thin and foggy.

Ace reporter Jordan Smith is hot on the trail of Austin's own Santa.

With Quills, Philip Kaufman (Henry & June, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) has made another film about the startling fusion between literature and sex.

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

The romance field, Margraet Moser writes, is unique in its symbiosis: Most writers come from the ranks of readers and therefore understand the marriage of reader and book. The sisterhood and moral support in this almost exclusively female dominion is palpable. It is also gratifying and empowering and, in a few cases, exceedingly lucrative.

Director Dave Steakley, in daring to formulate an answer to the question "What if Fellini had directed Evita?" has pulled off a brazen, vast-scaled circus of a production, a completely over-the-(big)-top sensation of a theatre experience.

A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.

They're horrible! They're evil, mean, and terrible! They're New Yorkers! They're the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre, and they're giving laid-back Austin a shot of scrappy, sophisticated, lowbrow, smart-ass theatre.

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.