Search

A decade after The Kentucky Cycle's premiere, the hometown of playwright Robert Schenkkan has the opportunity to experience the work's power in with a homegrown production at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre.

If director Don Toner's staging of Copenhagen, a drama about 20th-century physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, is good but unexceptional, the trouble may lie in Michael Frayn's script, which is full of intriguing ideas but less than satisfying as a story.

Three artists from Austin Musical Theatre's production of The Sound of Music share some of their personal observations about Richard Rodgers and his musical legacy.

The smallish stage of the Mary Moody Northern Theatre is effectively transformed into the downright bloody, intense and exciting emergency room at a Chicago hospital when the Organic Theatre Company's E / R Emergency Room is brought to life at St. Edward's University under the tourniquet-tight direction of Ev Lunning.

Telling the story of unlikely roommates – a staunch middle-aged couple and two young stowaway servants – trapped in a house in 1665 London at the height of the plague, One Flea Spare is an altogether decent sex-and-death psychodrama, and the high caliber of this production an altogether auspicious beginning for School of Night Productions.

A vague performance at the center of the Public Domain Theatre Company's production of Edward Bond's Bingo diminishes the impact of Bond's play, but does not eclipse it. It feels relevant right here, right now.

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.

Don Toner's 13 years as producing artistic director of the State Theater Company have been full of struggles, but in Toner's world, struggles are good. They bring understanding, richness, beauty, and in his case, a new theatre and a loyal company.

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

With The Music Man, Austin Musical Theatre creates a River City that's bigger than some by-god real Texas towns. But it's a show whose heart may be the biggest thing of all.

The "soup chef" co-composed with her husband Bill Carter

It may be paint-by-number, but this production captures the core of an old-fashioned musical

Production captures the core of an old-fashioned musical

The laid-back ringleader reinvents Wild Child and forges a new path with Sir Woman

Not to be melodramatic but, damn, Different Stage's revival is a satire worth sitting through

Time for Tesla to lead the green charge in Austin

New production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic tries to forget the Julie Andrews film, and finds new political relevance

Texas primary first out the starting gate

The Bard's classic comedy was just itching for a Mumbai makeover

Nearly a dozen of those most seriously injured last summer are suing the city

Negative COVID tests, other measures now required for city-permitted events

“I’m an A&R guy for Lucky Hound Music [and] a staff producer”

Texas heads into early voting

“Only time we leave is to visit the store and we wear a mask and gloves”