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Melissa Vogt and Chad Salvata's musical takes the childhood rhyme into adult territory, balancing lighthearted elements with macabre darkness

The Vortex keeps things safe, sacred, and mythically provocative in their newest stage spectacle

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

Melissa Vogt explains the how and the why

The Vortex's star-spanning musical is out of this world, but it doesn't really go anywhere

Rita Anderson's domestic drama sets one family's frictions against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 mission

Despite atmospheric design work and some strong acting, the production never quite realizes the sensuality and lyrical ferocity in Steven Dietz's script

All week, Austin's masters of theatrical fantasy show you how to make an out-of-this-world look

More Austin performers take their acts to the internets for streaming

Whatever you want to call this play/scavenger hunt/immersive live roleplay, it’s a one-of-a-kind, wonderful theatrical experience

The year was well-served by actors who could channel spookiness, rebellion, despair, and dance fever

This new musical take on the fall of Atlantis pulls us into an ancient place, powered by myth and ritual

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

October is a fitting time for the Vortex to premiere Chad Salvata's opera 'Vampyress,' about a ghoulish countess who killed 600 women so she could bathe in their blood

If Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan drags some, the actors in the Vortex Summer Youth Theatre production don't, and that keeps the evening engaging

Bonnie Cullum’s dream wakes the Tarot into life in her company’s immersive theatrical experience

Chad Salvata’s gothic opera is the perfect treat for the season of ghouls, sensual and spooky

Lorella Loftus’ really funny new play preaches that everybody’s got back, and that’s just great

Theresa Rebeck's play about stamps has surprsingly high stakes, but they aren't always realized in Different Stages' production

Vortex Repertory Company's ritualistic celebration of earth may make you want to dig your toes into the dirt

Different Stages doesn't light up the dark corners of this gothic comedy about the Marquis de Sade

The magic in this new fairy-tale opera lies in its look more than its story

Despite its fairy-tale trappings, ethos' opera The Dragonfly Princess takes us down a dark path of intrigues, heresy, power struggles, and death

Actors' Equity honors Dirk van Allen, and the 2005 B. Iden Payne Awards go to ...

Something about 'hOle,' a new live theatrical serial in nine episodes, is bringing folks back to the Vortex every Tuesday night of this long, hot summer

The Vortex Repertory Company's 'Sleeping Beauty' shows the company in a playful mood, delivering a musical adaptation that is fanciful, lighthearted, and disarmingly sweet

Blending eerie reminiscence and the trappings of outright hostility, Vortex Repertory Company production of Ghost From a Perfect Place feels as if it ought to be more provocative than it is

The folks at ethos boldly go where no one has gone before with Pythia Dust, an outer space musical revue that feels at once brand new and yet curiously familiar

Henson-backed world premiere recounts a workers' rights fight