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Actor Lee Eddy is back onstage in Austin after five years away, and boy, is she happy

Plus major tech names, Westworld panel, and more added

The annual juggernaut of performative hijinks returns to the ATX

An infusion of Lee Eddy into 'The Santaland Diaries' makes Zach's holiday classic even more delightful

A deft millennial comedy of manners

An unusual convergence of dramas dealing with women and disabilities prompts a conversation among four actors about what playwrights are trying to say through characters who are disabled, and how actors approach playing a disability.

You and I may not share those things we keep deep inside, but Ladee Leroy will make you awfully glad that Lee Eddy does

In The Ladee Leroy Show, Lee Eddy's mostly one-woman show, the tall, lanky, slightly androgynous writer-actress can be a bit manic, a bit abrasive, and a bit loud, but she also can be quiet, innocent, dramatic, sincere, silly, and often just plain uncontrollably funny.

'The Man From Orlando' team recalls the high stakes of making their lo-fi first feature

Three Austin theatre artists – actress Lee Eddy, choreographer Robin Lewis, and Adam Sultan – dish about their visions of the year to come

In Nassim Soleimanpour’s play, what happens is as much a surprise for the actor as for the audience

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

Melba Martinez's legacy at Mary Moody Northen Theatre

A charismatic David Krumholtz plays the titular lit professor

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

Craig Elrod and Nathan Smith screen their latest starring Macon Blair

Physical Plant's new work is a fast, funny, disturbing example of great Austin playmaking

St. Idiot Collective's 'Vaudeville Vanya' ambitiously seeks to explode a great old play with a great old medium, but it ends up a sheen of vaudeville brushed over a hellbent staging of Uncle Vanya

Heather Barfield lists her favorite stage performances of 2004

JournalCon comes to Austin.

In the dirigo group production Hedda, director Laura Somers reimagines Henrik Ibsen's classic as a perverse and sometimes brilliant Doris Day / Rock Hudson flick, coupling late 1950s zip -- party dresses and sweater vests, manhattans and vodka martinis, breezy entrances and exits -- with a forbidden sexuality that ratchets the tensions of Ibsen's play to a whole new level.

Like so many characters in American drama, the folks in Ann Marie Healey's Something Someone Someplace Else are trying to measure the distance between the life they have and the life they want, and Hyde Park Theatre's world premiere production is so rich in humor and warmth that we feel no distance between them and us.

Today's Austin food news

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

When it has three popular shows and only two theatres to run them in, what does Zach do? Turn the old bicycle shop next door into Santaland.

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

The best animation, podcasts, games, and cosplay at Rooster Teeth's annual gathering

Director Micah Barber finds inspiration in the questions kids ask for his magical fantasy