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With The Medea Stories, the St. Edward's University Theatre Department with guest artists from the SITI Company reinvents Euripides' tragedy as a modern courtroom drama and connects us to Medea's tale with immediacy and a great urgency.

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of The Laramie Project retells the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in a compelling, heartfelt way, but it also tells a town's story and gives us the opportunity to see our town in its reflection.

For vulnerable performer Neal Medlyn, Dork = Cool.

With Lipstick Traces, the Rude Mechanicals have adeptly created a theatrical adaptation of Greil Marcus' legendary book that is loud, defiant, intelligent, funny, absurd, literate, physical, and fun, a rock concert for your head.

With The Music Man, Austin Musical Theatre creates a River City that's bigger than some by-god real Texas towns. But it's a show whose heart may be the biggest thing of all.

They're horrible! They're evil, mean, and terrible! They're New Yorkers! They're the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre, and they're giving laid-back Austin a shot of scrappy, sophisticated, lowbrow, smart-ass theatre.

A new generation of Austin choreographers is expanding our concept of dance through the combination of movement styles and traditions from across the globe, and Barbejoy Ponzio talks to them about the part fusion plays in their work.

Candidates in the running for artistic director of Ballet Austin.

Treasure Buried Again

Payne Pleasures 1998

The Actor Behind the Antics of Michael Stuart

On Finishing a Dance

Theatre En Bloc experiments with telling the story of our city's growth but fails to be specific about it

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

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

The House, director J. Ed Araiza's third collaboration with the student artists at St. Edward's University, is unapologetically about them, which makes for the show's strengths and its weaknesses

Writer and performer Zell Miller III is an incendiary device waiting for a match, and once he flicks an ember into the hidden dry undergrowth of text, there is nowhere to hide. And the good news is that he has only begun to explode.

A Report on Heather Woodbury on the Verge of Fame

Actually, they walk into Austin's Lucky Chaos Theatre this Friday

Rhoda Winter Russell reflects on a historic life in dance and the Mary Wigman connection

There's no stopping the indefatigable Ms. Stritch, and why would you want to?

With I Stuck My Head in the Garden, Johnson / Long Dance Company moved into new territory in its exploration of things sexual and sensual, and the result was good-natured fun, a romp in the garden, with nothing remotely threatening or dangerous.

In the midst of economic hard times and a wave of terrorist attacks, the comedy business wonders what's funny.

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement