The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Austin.
Tom Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD opened last week at City Theatre alongside Shakespeare's HAMLET in REDUX IN REP, both shows with the same cast on alternate nights.
Cirque du Soleil's OVO, currently playing at the HEB Center in Cedar Park is an immersive family friendly evening of acrobatic thrills wrapped up is a sweet and funny clown bug love story.
JOHN, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Annie Baker, is now receiving a Southwest Premiere production at Hyde Park Theatre, under the direction of Ken Webster.
BEHIND THE CURTAIN: TODRICK HALL takes a look at making of a musical starring Todrick Hall and a host of characters.
GONDAL is presented by the University of Texas at Austin's Theatre and Dance department, as part of UT New Theatre showcase.
Celebrating their 20th anniversary production with ROBOT DADDY, Electronic Planet Ensemble (ELP) gives an exciting performance at The Vortex theatre.
With the current production of this show at Austin Playhouse the company requires, or even demands, that the audience leave the theater with a multitude of thoughts whirling in their mind.
It is no wonder that director Joshua Denning enjoys the larger shows; he has the ability to do them well.
Crank Collective's PROHIBITION - A MUSICAL COMEDY ABOUT THE WAR ON BOOZEis promising entertainment.
OLD TIMES is an enigmatic play by Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter that centers on a trio of characters and produced flawlessly by Austin Shakespeare at Austin's Long Center.
Fledgling theatre company, RKJB Entertainment's production of an original work by Robert King, Jr, FOR THE LOVE OF MAHALIA, currently playing at the Boyd Vance Theatre, has problems, but ultimately its message is poignant and important.
ZACH Theatre's production of ELEPHANT AND PIGGIE'S, WE ARE IN A PLAY delightfully brings characters from the popular early reader's book series by Mo Willems to life.
It's a bold and courageous and even an educational thing to produce IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY.
NEVA is the latest offering from Austin's Theatre En Bloc.
WEST SIDE STORY is historically one of the most important of American musicals, with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Paradox Player's THE TAMING Soothes The Battered Political Soul
Texas State University Musical Theatre Department has long been an exemplary program, but with the debut of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SNOOPY, they move into the realm of the best professional companies around.
Austin Opera's second show this season, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT welcomes Marie (performed by Rachele Gilmore) and 1,500 adopted fathers known as the 21st Regiment.
Nestled away in the hills of Wimberely, the EmilyAnn Theatre is its own kind of secret garden.
Scottish Rite Theatre has long been one of Austin's premier children's theatres, PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON continues their rich tradition of excellence with an enchanting tale.
TITLE OF SHOW is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and a book by Hunter Bell.
HOT BELLY, a new play by Diana Lynn Small, is receiving a rolling world-premiere between paper chairs, happening first here in Austin, and then by the NYC/Chicago based company, The Syndicate.
THR3E ZISTERS by Baltimore-based playwright Lola Pierson was conceived and directed by Yury Urnov of D.
THE GREAT SOCIETY, Robert Schenkkan's conclusion to the epic tale he began with All The Way, examines the remainder of LBJ's term as president and the turbulent years of the Johnson White House.
Mamma Mia is not Les Miserables, but it's loads of fun, and who cares, because: Abba!
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Boeing Boeing TexARTS: Theatre & Academy (9/18-10/04) |
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Averly Morillo McAllen Performing Arts Center (10/10-10/10) |
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And Then There Were None Georgetown Palace Theatre (8/21-9/20) |
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Best Little house in Texas BASTROP OPERA HOUSE (5/28-6/13) |
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And She Was Loved - World Premiere Hyde Park Theatre (9/03-9/12) |
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown BASTROP OPERA HOUSE (3/05-3/21) |
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Chayanne Don Haskins Center (10/01-10/01) |
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Oklahoma! Georgetown Palace Theatre-Springer Stage (10/02-11/01) |
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Austin City Limits Music Festival: Weekend One – 3 Day Pass Zilker Park (10/02-10/11) |
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Cristian Castro El Paso County Coliseum (11/07-11/07) |
