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The magic in this new fairy-tale opera lies in its look more than its story

The flashy modern setting takes priority over Shakespeare's text in this update

The Vortex's latest theatrical immersion in myth sinks you down 20,000 leagues

Beat the heat with a cool dip in the new Vortex show, and swim with mermaids and selkies

The Vortex's 2007 Summer Youth Theatre showcases more talented youth with Terry Pratchett's lighthearted, adventurous Wyrd Sisters

Kill Schill?

What might be considered the theatrical fringe in other cities is more and more the theatrical mainstream in Austin, an idea that was reinforced with the announcement of the nominations for the 2001-02 B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards.

The Vortex Summer Youth Theatre production of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac plays up the comic elements of the story, mostly to good effect, without ever losing touch with its romantic theatricality and verve.

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

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

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

Austin thespians played for keeps, with boundless commitment and imagination, in the year's most memorable theatre

Physical Plant Theater's first Garden Party raised more than $8,000, Ann Hume Wilson has been appointed associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art, Blue Lapis Light is exhibiting – and auctioning off – bras and breastplates for angels, and the city unveils a new mural at the Pan Am / A.B. Cantu Recreation Center

More Austin theatre turning up in New York: Despair’s Book of Dreams and Lipstick Traces set for spring 2001 runs.

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

This new adaptation of The Trojan Women is fueled by an earnestness that is the show's blessing and its curse

Vortex Repertory Company's latest production, about those weaselly mythological misfits who pull pranks and break rules, Trickster, is an extravaganza

October is a fitting time for the Vortex to premiere Chad Salvata's opera 'Vampyress,' about a ghoulish countess who killed 600 women so she could bathe in their blood

Director Bonnie Cullum makes a point of pulling you out of the modern world for Dark Goddess 2004 so you might be more receptive to its mythic message of the power of transformation

The Vortex Repertory Company's retelling of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter feels like it's coming from a fitful, troubled sleep, a hazy dreamscape in which director Michelle Fowler and her cast create a society of suffocating morality and the cruel reprisals that await any who violate its rigid rules of conduct.

With Elytra, the artists of the Vortex Repertory Company and Ethos achieve a new level in integrating cyber-opera style and story.

Skipper Chong Warson reviews the VORTEX Repertory Company's ritual theatre piece Dark Goddess.

Staging of Fo's farce never quite musters the urgent lunacy of its Looney Tunes inspiration

Ring Rip Rent, a new play by Martha Lynn Coon, shows us a future where women who have violated society's sexual mores are confined, classified, and treated

The soon-to-be-built play! Theatre adds a seventh performing arts venue east of the interstate

With the Naughty Austin theatre company, there's more than meets the eye.

Lorella Loftus' staging of Coriolanus at the Vortex doesn't succeed in making Shakespeare's hero truly tragic or noble, but its fierceness of imagination and commitment would do the Roman general proud.

Playwright Liz Lochhead brings Euripides' tale of Medea and her hideous yet compelling vengeance into the present day, but delivers a surprisingly staid and familiar rendition of the tragedy, and while the this Vortex Repertory Company production offers some striking dramatic tableaux, it suffers from pacing problems, a lack of dramatic tension, and little effective storytelling.

A Partial Who's Who at MoMFest 2000

Dickens' a Tale of Two Cities: Immediate, Raw Storytelling