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Vortex's revival confronts issues of the body – as object, as weapon, and as prison – head on

Lorella Loftus' staging of Coriolanus at the Vortex doesn't succeed in making Shakespeare's hero truly tragic or noble, but its fierceness of imagination and commitment would do the Roman general proud.

From the first stomach-turning minute, audiences for the Vortex Repertory Company production of Shopping and Fucking are in for a rough ride; they're witness to the horrible depths to which its characters have sunk and the desperation with which they try to claw their way out.

In his new musical, playwright-composer Kirk Smith uses the story of Noah and his wife to look at the seeping, leaking, dripping, pouring inevitability of loss and renewed hope, and the Vortex Repertory Company production makes for a dreamy and wet world, sometimes punctuated with lightning and thunder, but mostly pleasantly adrift in an ocean of sweet, melancholic rain.

Norm L.:zero Tolerance

Stretching out of his Madea comfort zone to play James Patterson's FBI profiler is a courageous but misguided move on Tyler Perry’s part.

Dickens' a Tale of Two Cities: Immediate, Raw Storytelling

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

In The Black Tower, the experimental performance company ethos creates another theatrical museum through which audiences may examine living dioramas populated by Greek gods engaged in struggles with each other as old as the human race.

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 Year in Austin Culture

Big River: Pleasantly Adrift

Venues

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.

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

Clay Angels: The Mystery of Brotherly Love

And that irrepressible powerhouse of theatre is about to turn 25

Brief profiles of 40 Austin actors who have distinguished themselves through the quality of that acting, the recognition they've garnered for it, and the singular qualities they brings to Austin's theatre community.

Tracing generations' worth of jazz and R&B history through the Texas Trumpets

A snapshot of one primary day's political doings

As the Bush presidential campaign unravels after Labor Day, a press offices tries to keep the candidate on message and out of trouble.

Primary filings reveal a who's who of contenders

Eddie Stout's Shoestring Label Sticks Close to Its R&B Roots