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A contemporary script, powerful acting, and fantastic swordplay combine to create a heroic journey that's fun and easy to get lost in

At St. Edward's, this reworking of Homer's Odyssey gives names to the nameless in today's immigrant crisis

City group gets moving on policy plan for Austin creatives

With Gibberish Mostly, Lisa Scheps' company makes its long-awaited return to the stage scene

St. Ed's stages a chilling version of Arthur Miller's indictment of McCarthyism

The St. Edward's University Theatre Department delivers Gogol's Russian satire with gigagags at top speed

Theatre Baby In, Theatre Out

Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001

Is That Another Raindrop?

Personnel changes at local arts organizations continue, with the arrivals of a new executive director at Conspirare and a new business manager at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre

Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

Critix Pix

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

The State Theater Company feels the time is right for magic, and so has a gift to offer this holiday season: the tale of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince told in story and song by John Scoullar and Rick Cummins.

Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects

The State Theater Company brings its artistry to bear on that most conventional show of the season, 'A Christmas Carol,' and delivers a perfectly packaged production

Like the artist it salutes, this theatre piece is a wild mash-up of iconic Americana

Two rather different versions of 'A Christmas Carol' illustrate the power still to be tapped from Charles Dickens' ghostly little book

Adios to longtime arts service organization Artists' Legal and Accounting Assistance of Austin, and real-life election shenanigans give Zach's Evita a boost.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

If any 20th-century American play deserves to be called "classic," it is Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie but the State Theater Company's puzzling production seems to ignore what is most obvious in the play, only rarely connecting with the story.

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.

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

This worthy production of Rostand's play reveals the rock star in its romantic hero

In addition to ruining the State Theatre stage, basement, and much valuable equipment, the June flood of the arts venue has washed away most of the State's 2006-2007 season