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Just two weeks into what was to be his sixth season with the State Theater Company, Scott Kanoff was booted from his job as producing artistic director

It's a new year, and the State Theater has a new artistic director, who has announced some new additions to the theatre's season

These Central Texas theatre companies are offering free tickets as part of the national Free Night of Theater campaign

The TV show that spoofed cinema, then became a movie, comes home

Laura Powell has waited 20 years for Sondheim's landmark musical to return

Have a little faith for the new millennial music paradigm and trust in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards.

You heard right, hippie – a new Vulcan Gas Company

Art & Theatre to See Around Texas This Summer

Art:

In the backstage comedy Anton in Show Business, playwright Jane Martin wittily paints the contemporary stage as a madhouse overrun by loons and lunatics so preoccupied with money, image, and themselves that they can hardly be bothered to create art. And the State Theater Company's production takes us inside the insanity with an air of playfulness that keeps the audience primed for a good time.

The State Theater Company feels the time is right for magic, and so has a gift to offer this holiday season: the tale of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince told in story and song by John Scoullar and Rick Cummins.

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

Don Toner's 13 years as producing artistic director of the State Theater Company have been full of struggles, but in Toner's world, struggles are good. They bring understanding, richness, beauty, and in his case, a new theatre and a loyal company.

New Direction at the State

This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

Blood Wedding: Folk Tale Under a Glitter Moon

Venues

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.

Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill. But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard labor, they have created one of Austin's most user-friendly theatre spaces.

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

May

For the new year, resolve to support the new in the local arts scene. Here are several new projects that would welcome support.

An honor for Don Toner at the State Theater.

In 'American Fiesta,' Austin's favorite economist / playwright / actor has plenty to say about what makes us want

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

That special thing that happens between artists and boards of directors can be a lot like a love relationship: Intimate. Fulfilling. Long-term. Working as one body. However, it can be and often is complicated.

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards