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What is the state of the arts in America and where does Austin fit in the mix?

Pay your respects to the late Boyd Vance, June means green for the Paramount and State, and six Austinites are officially 'New American Talent'

Hits like 'The Producers' and 'Bat Boy' have their singing, dancing cake and spoof it, too

More remembrances of Boyd Vance

Zach makes a big splash on the national theatre scene as the first resident theatre to get to produce Tony winner 'Urinetown'

Boyd Vance, founder and director of Pro Arts Collective, acclaimed musical theatre performer, and leader in nurturing and promoting African-American arts for a quarter of a century, has died

The packed house at Zach on Feb. 12 showed that Austin was ready for Anna Deveare Smith, and Smith proved herself more than ready for Austin

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center is hosting a special performance by Anna Deveare Smith in which she'll present theatrical portraits of select Austinites

Austin theatre's barnyard brothers are ready to take over TV – and the world

Five of Austin's Latino theatre companies joining forces to revive one of the community's yuletide traditions: 'La Pastorela'

A great way to brush up your Shakespeare, the epidemic of extended runs continues, and the Fall Soiree falls through

The UT Performing Arts Center is luring students into the voting booth with free tickets, and three local stage hits add extra performances

Sam Bass Theatre's Forever Plaid took top honors at the 30th anniversary B. Iden Payne Awards

New gifts to the Long Center, a new Little Elf for 'Santaland,' a new name for the AMOA Guild, a retirement at the symphony, and a return to Venice for Allison Orr

Theatre is helping to heal the community of Rockdale, and theatre artists with Austin ties are playing a part

Clowns picket Physical Plant, Mills takes the prize in Montreal, Steakley mixes up some 'Tuna' in Louisville, and Salvage Vanguard wants you to join their party

A Flaming Idiot gets legit, the Cultural Arts Division gets kicked upstairs, Zilker Theater productions goes west, young actor, and Hyde Park Theatre turns Italian

Payne Award nominations on the horizon, a big banner dresses up the Long Center, a record haul at the Pink Eye Ball, Patsy Cline aids AIDS Services, and Hyde Park Theatre's garage bonanza

New plans for the Long Center are unveiled, and a big push is made to get it built, plus Al Hirschfeld's widow and daughter speak about The Line King

Choreographer Deborah Hay is welcomed home from New York, Doyle Bramhall rocks the house at Zach, and new plans for the Long Center are being unveiled

The LBJ Library swaps paintings with the National Gallery of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art gets $1 million for a new gallery, and Patsy Cline teaches you how to apply make-up

Choreographer Allison Orr pops up on the National Geographic Channel, and Ballet East and UT professor Bion Tsang are honored

Playwright Dan Dietz gets his second play staged at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Johnson / Long Dance Company heads to Hamburg, and Zach shuffles its season

Austin won't be a capital of culture in 2004, Martha Norkunas won't be the director of Texas Folklife Resources, and Lana Dieterich won't be opening 'Always … Patsy Cline' this week

Austin playwright John Walch goes to Louisville for its festival of new plays; Vincent Kitch goes to Washington for Americans for the Arts; and Everett Quinton goes to Seattle for a new production of Twisted Olivia.

The cast of Zachary Scott Theatre Center's annual Rockin' Christmas Party delivers like crazy for over two hours, but this year's edition feels under-rehearsed and is uncomfortably loud.

As long as the Flaming Idiots are juggling and making fun onstage at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center, you won't care about anything but the pure pleasure they let you experience.

A Chuck Mee play is a veritable playground for young artists, but while they put a lot of thought and effort into the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of The Trojan Women: A Love Story, the students behind it only scratched the surface of his work.

Owing to budget woes in the College of Fine Arts, the UT PAC Prop Shop is closed for business, and local choreographers and dance companies earn national awards and international gigs.