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This melding of sci-fi and ancient myth found a powerful beat that made it hard not to move

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

Real drama bled into the staged kind when actress Latifah Taormina cut herself during a performance of Adam Sobsey's Hang Town Fry, and Salvage Vanguard releases The Cry Pitch Carrolls on CD.

One man’s relentlessly fucked-up existence debuts on YouTube

How can you lose with a sweet list to use before it's time to choose?

Because you can't just get baked & eat breakfast tacos 24/7, right?

In The Great Society, playwright Robert Schenkkan and his subject, LBJ, both gamble big

The craft behind A Chick & a Dude's tightly realized production is what makes it so impressive

Neil LaBute's play about body-size and social douchebaggery gets a sharp production from Theatre en Bloc

Not much happens in Terrence McNally's play, but in staging it, FrogDog Productions makes a very fine debut

Monologist Mike Daisey takes a slightly different bite of the Apple

One lifetime and 34 seconds is all it took for Nakia to find his Voice

The women in City Theatre's staging carry one another as their characters do

The Austin Chamber Music Festival gets you as close to opera as can be

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

Ad Creep Advances; and Congress Does It Again

October is Art in Public Places Month, and the Austin Shakespeare Festival invites you onstage

The characters in Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth are coping with the fallout from having grown up in dysfunctional families and tangled in friendships that were often abusive reiterations of those families, and Saints and Poets Theatre bring them to pure, unfiltered life, every twitch and slouch, every blame and whine and burst of cheap violence.

Director Marshall Ryan Maresca may lose the audience at times in the female-dominated world of his Macbeth, but he keeps hearts pounding on a trip through the supernatural world of Dunsinane and the many worlds of human psychosis.

The performers in Austin Musical Theatre’s revival of A Chorus Line dance and sing and act, well, like they have been doing this on Broadway stages all their careers. But poor tech and dated writing make this once-groundbreaking musical appear to be languishing in its former glory.

Post-pandemic, Stephen Mills brings his career-defining Hamlet back to Ballet Austin

Hello, suckers!

Three new releases from those geeky savants at Fantagraphics

#PointsMe champion returns to take on the Moontower crowds

Lorella Loftus' ambitious new bio-play boasts strong performances by the three women portraying the Virgin Queen

Tyler Bryce wrangles up an improv-spiked weight-loss competition

The Brooklyn troupe's dance was often visually arresting but at times bland