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With Summerstock Austin, a gang of young performers serious about theatre get a chance to develop their craft in the old-school environment of a stock company

Joe Dallesandro on 'Je T'aime Moi non Plus'

Curtain up on GRRL Action and Vortex Summer Youth Theatre

Napoleon Beazley was executed by the state of Texas, but he lives again in a new play

Murder in San Antonio, an old Austin scenester passes by the Bay, and the sorry state of U.S. pop. Happy Fourth of July!

Juneteenth Battle of the Bands competition harkens back to days when marching bands enjoyed a celebrated place in Austin's black community, and creates opportunity for greater future African-American involvement in school bands.

Remembering Boyd Vance, his life and legacy

For its staging of Sandy Asher's ironically titled children's comedy 'The Wise Men of Chelm,' Second Youth Family Theatre gets to bring the playwright to town

An off-the-grid family copes with depression and a tax audit outside Taos, N.M., in this warm and unusual drama directed by Campbell Scott.

Back home in Texas, Lisa Scheps finally gets her place to play!

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

The funds in the latest public ed bill appear much less than meets the eye

Austin's dirigo group prepare to premiere the best new play one could wish for

Scorsese's best film in years is a work of bravura, classic Hollywood filmmaking.

A day in the life of 'Austin City Limits' at 30

Michael Almereyda on 'This So-Called Disaster'

Solid but uninventive American remake of a sly Argentinean movie about a couple of con men who should have left well enough alone.

Heart's Nancy Wilson, younger, wiser

Catherine Berry explains how to reverse engineer your very own musical

A case study of one post-Winedale company, the Weetzah Players

Two theatre professionals explain how Shakespeare at Winedale changed their lives, even though they were never part of the program

Michael Bloom plucked to head the country's oldest regional theatre

In Second Youth Family Theatre's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, two energetic actors perform a brisk version of the book with ingenuity and unexpected flair

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

A guided tour of 'Greendale'

Pro Arts Collective premieres Suzan-Lori Parks' breakthrough drama Topdog / Underdog.

Tim Burton is all grown up and getting serious.

Pro Arts Collective's Black Nativity isn't quite theatre and isn't quite church, but a celebratory presentation of both that includes glorious gospel music and the eloquence of Langston Hughes.