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The manic comedian Steve Coogan plays a high school drama teacher who pens a scandalous remake of the Bard's classic in an attempt to save his Tucson class from budget cuts.

Company’s most successful production launches 2023-24 season

Slappy returns in this perfectly timed sequel

Second installment of this audacious opus is too much of a good thing

The intrepid women explorers of Glass Half Full Theatre make a welcome return, bringing bountiful laughs

Georgetown Village: Smart Growth Without Trying

Hamlet 2 didn't give us fresh legs

Back to Derry as the Losers Club takes on Pennywise again

Defending Ethan Hawke and the virtues of John Wayne in a wet shirt

Film Fight returns, dons ruff and British accent

The Disney theatrical adaptation is a Bass hit

Simon Pegg's star trajectory

It was a good year for women filmmakers at a recharged Sundance Film Festival

Todos Santos Music Festival, on the edge paradise & progress

Despite the presence of a talented ensemble, the Austin Shakespeare Festival production of what most of the English-speaking world considers the greatest play ever written is a thin Hamlet of watered-down performances and even more diluted directorial choices.

Two choreographers explain why it's tough to get old dances back on their feet

The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

Vortex Repertory Company's new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet has a strong contemporary feel, but ultimately it diminishes some of the power of the tragedy

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

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Throughout November, Austinites have the chance to see four plays that have stood the test of time: 'Hamlet,' 'Macbeth,' 'The Way of the World,' and 'The Playboy of the Western World'

In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., Austin theatre artists are doing their part to help out: raising funds for disaster relief from audiences attending their shows.

Before 'Tuna,' he rode with 'Maid Marian in a Stolen Car'

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

Michael Almereyda on 'This So-Called Disaster'

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

Why the first collection of the Bard's plays is such a big deal and cause to celebrate on his 400th death anniversary

Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills has a deft touch at getting the Bard to the barre.

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