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Putting together all the pieces of queer history with Pride Month events

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

After months behind screens, the folks who run the city's theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside

Melissa Vogt explains the how and the why

The Vortex keeps things safe, sacred, and mythically provocative in their newest stage spectacle

Companies thinking outside the boxes bring theatre to your radio, your mailbox, and your neighbor's yard

KLRU's 'Arts in Context' mirrors the the collaboration and can-do of the artists it profiles

A theatre year of crazy families, love lost and found, and lots of dancing

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

A song cycle with its head in the stars and a sense of wonder makes space cool again

In Austin theatre, solo shows sometimes come in waves, as in the second half of August, which has four one-person theatrical vehicles opening the same weekend

The year 2001 saw a host of local cultural types taking journeys beyond their homes, traveling to other communities to share their art and finding new venues locally in which to produce their work and expand their creative sensibilities.

In ROYGBIV 2001: A Human Odyssey, ONE Theatre Company sets out to chronicle the universal passages of human existence through an Everyman figure that they follow from birth to death. But the show itself seems to be in the midst of adolescence: Full of big dreams, idealistic, and ready to take on the world, but still a little awkward in its own body.

After four centuries of being berated, belittled, betrayed, bullied, battered, and butchered by the men in Shakespeare's plays, the women have had enough. They're ready to speak out, to give Will a piece of their minds. And in playwright Susan Kelso's Roses and Thistles, they do just that.

Austin native Starla Benford brings The Vagina Monologues to town, Kerthy Fix takes Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show to Chicago, and where does rm 120 theatre go?

If any company in Austin is equipped to handle the mythological heft of the Greek tragedies, it's VORTEX Repertory Company, and under the direction of Bonnie Cullum, Fractured Greeks, a collection of scenes taken from and inspired by the Trojan War plays of Euripides and Sophocles, holds together pretty well.

East Sixth & Thereabouts

A Report on Heather Woodbury on the Verge of Fame

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996