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Austin theatre actor Robert Fisher has the heart of a rock & roller, the work ethic of a medieval craftsman, and the style of a Bob Fosse. Either he's in the wrong business or he is, as playwright Kirk Lynn calls him, "a wonder."

Film festival director Janet Pierson gives us the 2014 rundown

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

Wild theatrical energy and masterful performances were the hallmarks of outstanding theatre in 2015

Salvage Vanguard Theater's staging of Maria Irene Fornes' Mud has plenty to compel our attention, most of it coming from the three gifted actors in the cast

Remembering Doug Rauss, a dedicated arts patron and volunteer for several Austin theatre companies, who died Wednesday, Aug. 31

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

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

Bush 43 ponders murder and existentialism while debating Kerry in this ambitious comedy from Capital T

A haunted house that deals in the ghosts of regret, lost love, and dream

It might be hard to imagine that a story about a man who breaks wind for fame and fortune could be called "sweet," but Tongue and Groove Theatre's original musical Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste, about the extraordinary French vaudevillian Joseph Pujol, combines good humor, fun song, bawdy dance, and just enough ribaldry to make for an engaging theatrical show.

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.

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

Leading off the new year with good news: an arts success story from the Paradox Players and grants for Austin artists from the NEA.

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

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

Discovering why a rockabilly singer is in the middle of a play about mass-murdering brothers in the American Revolution is one of many delights in Dan Dietz's genius play 'Americamisfit'

'Provocative' aptly describes the Rude Mechanicals' 'Cherrywood,' which thrusts you into a strange, relentlessly intense party that's never boring but never really engaging either

You're not likely to enter a world as uniquely weird and vibrant as that of Physical Plant Theater's 'Not Clown' any time soon

Epic is not something often attempted in the theatre, much less by small arts groups, but with Orange, Refraction Arts Project is telling the epic history of a fictitious city across three time periods in four overlapping storylines, with the participation of 15 playwrights and 25 actors.

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

For a getaway steeped in Chekhovian longing and ennui, The Hotel Vanya is the only place to stay

In Kirk Lynn's playful and wistful 'The Jinn,' three couples with magic lamps find out if what they wish for is really what they want

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive

This year, FronteraFest is takin' it to the streets – and a chapel, a bookstore, a home ...

The Rude Mechs' re-creation of the Mabou Mines work is necessary but strange

You can feel Elizabeth Doss' new play rising from deep in her past and this land

Two productions take a new look at Ibsen's troubled and troubling heroine