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Following restaurateur Michael Vilim's time and money

In The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Edward Albee has created an intellectual car wreck, and Different Stages has executed it so skillfully, you can't tear your eyes away

The origins of the iconic Amazon princess

Ah, to live the life of the Chronicle Food editor; plus, Gingerbread pancakes, Girl Scouts, and the Gilstraps of Wimberley

In the Different Stages revival of Summer and Smoke, the way that actors Rebecca Robinson and Joel Citty embody the conflicted and conflicting natures of their characters, two people whose differences keep them apart even when they are drawn to each other, provides the tension that gives this production its life.

In the Subterranean Theatre Company production of Raised by Lesbians, writer Leah Ryan and director Ken Webster transport the audience to the heart of The Who's "Teenage Wasteland," dealing with adolescence, lesbians, and men and women's notions of each other without laughing at teens or distorting them with nostalgia.

Capital T's Detroit is a destination worth a visit, but you wouldn't want to live there

Lisa D'Amour's acclaimed play finally lands in Austin, courtesy of Capital T

Director Ken Webster has made a career out of discovering quirky, funny scripts by young playwrights that entertain as they offer insight into our culture, and that describes Rebecca Gilman's Blue Surge perfectly

An understated, intriguing page-turner

This production of Edward Albee's play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece

Running down the winners at this year's awards from the Austin Circle of Theaters

Onstage Theatre Company's production of Crimes of the Heart focuses on the relationships among Beth Henley's small-town Southerners and describes them simply, truly, and beautifully

In Marion Bridge, playwright Daniel MacIvor reveals how the death of a parent causes a major shift in the lives of three sisters, and the actresses who play them in Hyde Park Theatre's production fit so naturally in these characters' skins that they project a sense of belonging together and to the lives they describe.

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

This captivating staging of Mickle Maher's comedy debates theatre's enchantments where Macbeth meets "The Three Little Pigs"

This hilarious and moving production reveals near deafening truths with barely a sound

This fun, honest, real production of Sarah DeLappe’s play zeroes in on the best part of playing a sport: being on a team

Capital T Theatre delivers a fast-paced, funny take on this tale of a demonic hand puppet in a church basement

An aging chimp in show business provides the focus for this engrossing vehicle for Capital T Theatre

With Will Eno's comic drama, HPT brings a funny kind of fear to the 'burbs

Hyde Park Theatre's latest takes a compelling look at religious extremism through a glass, darkly

Top-notch acting powers this claustrophobic confrontation between a dead boy's grieving mother and his teacher

This family drama could be truly powerful, but it's too long and weighed down by too many ideas

A rare play that manages to offer both comfort and truth

A long yet insightful look into families where love and kindness are rare

Modern couples revert to savagery in a savagely funny diorama come to life

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

The humor in Psycho Beach Party might seem as mindless as the targets, but with Naughty Austin's production the fun of guys in wigs, dancing hunks, and screaming chicks yanks you in

Stephen remembers when his life was simply an orgy of sex and drugs and rock & roll... No, silly, not last week...