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A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts

Stephen is a supahstahhhhhhhh!

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

Buckminster Fuller believed pieces of things could be combined in new ways to create a powerful new dynamic. Now, playwright Alice Wilson is combining her words with Bucky's life for a dynamic new solo show. Wayne Alan Brenner gets the story.

Anna Deavere Smith returns to Austin to investigate the resilience of the human body

Are you languishing in one of 'The Stages of Self-Acceptance for Gay Men'? Let Uncle Stephen guide you through.

The city parking police catch up with the progressive hangout on Toomey Road.

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of Terrence McNally's Tony-award winning Love! Valour! Compassion! may last three hours, but it captured every second of my attention, weaving themes of family and forgiveness into a moving experience.

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.

Sometimes you have to go back to the very beginning to understand where you can begin again

Your Style Avatar keeps confusing the Volstead with the Mann Act

Stephen has bad dreams for good reason and is not fooling anyone with that yoga thing

Stephen trips down memory lane. Whoops!

Scrambling to take care of that Secret Santa on your list? Your Style Avatar has the perfect solution!

An annotated list of several places where kids could be going this summer to enjoy physically and mentally invigorating activities

After this week of making the scene, we're ready to change the name of this column to "Hob-nobbing the Fashion" or "After the Schmooze …"

Great Scott!

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

With 100 Austin stories, Zach builds a city on a stage

All in all, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of 'Lost Highway' is a good musical for fans of Hank Williams looking for a nostalgic interlude

Dramatizing the pull of music on a human life is no easy task, but Warren Leight's Side Man shows jazz players hanging on to their music to keep from giving in to despair, and its Austin premiere will benefit from the skill of Zachary Scott Theatre Center Artistic Director Dave Steakley, who has consistently demonstrated an uncanny knack for portraying the impact that music can have on a life and the place where drama is best expressed through music.

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's Little Shop of Horrors is a terrific staging of an endearingly weird musical.

Local Arts Reviews

Extolling an Exciting New Era of Austin Theatre

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

Stephen remembers husband-in-law Rollo

After SXSW, everything is an afterparty!

Stephen's date gets hit on, and, remarkably, there's no word of bloodshed. Read all about it.