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Horton Foote's moving drama is staged with the simple modesty of an old hymn

Wonderful musical numbers, strong voices highlight Austin Playhouse's A Little Night Music

Austin Playhouse's revival takes this female comedy beyond Thelma-and-Louise territory

Exuberant musical about stripping steelworkers gets a less-than-cocksure production

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

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

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

Austin Playhouse's Enchanted April' taps the story's timeless charms and envelops you in a captivating glow, as warming as spring sunshine

As produced by Austin Playhouse, Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' leaps and lands on its feet with aplomb

Epic is not something often attempted in the theatre, much less by small arts groups, but with Orange, Refraction Arts Project is telling the epic history of a fictitious city across three time periods in four overlapping storylines, with the participation of 15 playwrights and 25 actors.

Stuffed to bursting with outrageous characters, broad reactions, and slapstick, The Merry Wives of Windsor as mounted by the Austin Shakespeare Festival and Austin Playhouse is big on big comedy, and the crisp comic work of the cast makes it a sizable pleasure.

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.

Local Arts Reviews

In The Dinosaur Within, playwright John Walch links people of vastly different worlds, each of whom has suffered some traumatic loss, to show us the necessity of letting go, and the State Theater Company production communicates that message with compassion, humor, and grace.

For the debut of his new Austin Playhouse company, Don Toner provides a time-travel trip back to 1948 with old Moss Hart and his play about putting on a play, Light Up the Sky. And the trip is one sure to leave a smile.

For the new year, resolve to support the new in the local arts scene. Here are several new projects that would welcome support.

Local Arts Reviews

Sandbox: Young at Heart

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 nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

Austin Playhouse's production provides a pleasurable escape from our world of straight talk and minimal etiquette

Thanks to an ensemble of fine actresses, Austin Playhouse's new production of Steel Magnolias is a breath of fresh Louisiana air

A complete list of all Payne Award nominees.

In Austin Playhouse's production of Private Lives, an excellent ensemble mines Noël Coward's witty wordplay and his characters' spectacular self-absorption with comedic aplomb