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BWW Review: IT'S ONLY A PLAY - Viciously Funny
Terrence McNally's take on the dog eat dog world of producing on Broadway, IT'S ONLY A PLAY, currently playing at Sam Bass Theatre, is a bitingly funny regional premiere....
BWW Review: Sky Candy's AGENT ANDROMEDA: THE ORION CRUSADE Dazzles at Daring Heights in East Austin
Sky Candy presents AGENT ANDROMEDA: THE ORION CRUSADE, this show is a fantastic out of this world experience currently blasting off at Sky Candy aerial and circus studio in East Austin. Written by Reina Hardy, this vaudevillian style show delights while adding cheeky commentary reminiscent of The Ro...
BWW Review: TWELFTH NIGHT - Hilarity at the Market
Present Company's current production of Shakespeare at the Market, TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare is beautiful, hilarious ode to the Bard....
BWW Review: THE TOTALITARIANS is Razor Sharp Side-Splittingly Funny Satire
THE TOTALITARIANS is a new play by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb that had its world premiere in 2014. It is a satirical comedy that takes a behind the scenes look at modern politics and how a speech writer can make or break someone running for public office. Although the play is about a woman running for Att...
BWW Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD Offers Look At Early Jason Robert Brown
SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD is a musical theatre piece by Jason Robert Brown. Originally produced Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in 1995, this was Jason Robert Brown's first produced show. It is neither a book musical or a revue and has been called a 'song cycle', which was put together out of songs he h...
BWW Review: William Shakespeare's THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Entertains at Austin's Historic Scottish Rite Theatre
Now playing in Austin's oldest playhouse, The Scottish Rite Theater, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR delights theatre goers with its gender-bending cast and lively performance. Austin's Scottish Rite Theater is a most appropriate venue for such a play to be presented, giving the audience a passage throug...
BWW Review: 42ND STREET - Tap-Tastic Fun
The Georgetown Palace Theatre's current production of 42ND STREET is a greatly entertaining extravaganza of old fashioned song and dance....
BWW Review: ORPHANS is Funny, Touching and Deeply Moving
ORPHANS is a play by Lyle Kessler that premiered in 1983 in Los Angeles, winning the Drama-Logue Award. It made its Broadway debut in 2013. Earlier this Spring, Street Corner Arts selected Aaron Johnson and native Austinite Sarah Kimberly Becker to helm this debut production of their new Sidewalk Se...
BWW Review: The City Theatre Closes Season By Opening a LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
'On the twenty-third day of the month of September in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places....
BWW Review: Joey Hood Delivers a Breathtaking Tour de Force Performance in W
W is a new play that is a translation of Woyzeck which was written by Georg Buchner. This new translation by John Hood has been adapted by Zachary Christman. Buchner's original work remained incomplete at the time of his death. It has been posthumously 'finished' by multiple authors, editors and tra...
BWW Review: HAND TO GOD is a Pitch Black Comedy Perfectly Executed
HAND TO GOD is a fiendishly funny black comedy about the divided human soul written by Robert Askins. It was originally produced Off-Broadway in 2011 and 2014 and made it's Broadway debut in 2015, receiving five Tony Award nominations, including for Best New Play. Described by Askins as an 'irrevere...
BWW Review: SILENCE! THE MUSICAL is an Outrageously Funny Musical Parody
SILENCE! THE MUSICAL is a 2005 musical created by Jon and Al Kaplan and Hunter Bell as a parody of the 1991 Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs. The project began in 2003 as an internet musical made up of nine songs that retold the entire story. The audio tracks became so popular tha...
BWW Review: ALL SHOOK UP Lightens Up A Rainy August
ALL SHOOK UP is just the right antidote for all the rain, politicking and back to school mayhem at the moment. Go see. It's fun....
BWW Review: CARNIVAL is a Dazzling Magical Delight
CARNIVAL is a musical that originally appeared on Broadway in 1961, with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill. You may better know Merrill as the writer of the lyrics for Funny Girl. It is based on the 1953 MGM film Lili. The show is seldom produced; outside of the original ...
BWW Review: Salomé Gets A Reprieve in Gale Theatre Company Production
Taking on a story of such biblical proportions (pun intended) as SALOME is a courageous act and The Gale Theatre Company, is a courageous ensemble. 'Everyone is safe but no one is comfortable,' is a commitment the company shares in the program for their interpretation of SALOME. Salome, the 'dancing...
BWW Review: POSTVILLE Exposes Cultural Clash in Small Town America
Currently running at the Trinity Street Baptist Church, Last Act Theatre Company, in partnership with Austin Jewish Repertory Theatre, present POSTVILLE, a project sponsored by Austin Creative Alliance. POSTVILLE is a fictional work, based on actual events in the town of Postville, IA written by pla...
BWW Review: ZACH Theatre's MARY POPPINS is 'Practically Perfect in Every Way'
In ZACH's production of MARY POPPINS, director Dave Steakley has assembled one of the strongest casts in Austin this year. Chock-full of perfectly-timed comedy, incredible voices, and mind-blowing choreography, POPPINS is a production the entire family will adore....
BWW Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY is a Witty, Tuneful Boy Meets Ghoul Story
Few creations have enjoyed the cultural longevity of Charles Addams characters The Addams Family. This satirical inversion of the typical American family was first introduced back in 1938 as a series of 150 single panel cartoons in the pages of The New Yorker that continued until Addams' death in 19...
BWW Review: SPUNK - A Wonderful Celebration In The Key of the Blues
SPUNK, three tales by Zora Neale Hurston, adapted for the stage by George C. Wolfe, produced by Spectrum Theatre Company and currently playing at Austin Playhouse, is an evening filled with laughter, love and the blues....
BWW Review: SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE A Pleasant Diversion
SMOKY JOE'S CAFE is a light and fluffy diversion. It may be just what is needed in July of an election year....
BWW Review: Vive Les Arts Theatre Pursues the Magic of MARY POPPINS in Killeen, TX
The community driven, Vive Les Arts Theatre located in Killeen Texas, brings to life MARY POPPINS, in Vive Les Arts self-proclaimed "huge summer musical". We all know the traditional Mary Poppins story of family, discipline, and chimney sweeps, yet, however familiar this tale is, it's always refresh...
BWW Review: Lovely Dreamlike Production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at City Theatre
THE GLASS MENAGERIE was Tennessee Williams first successful play. It premiered in Chicago in 1944 and later transferred to Broadway. This four character memory play took Williams from obscurity to fame, winning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945. The most strongly autobiographical of hi...
BWW Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Gets Stirring Production in Wimberley
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR started out in 1970 as a rock opera concept album with music by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. The response to the album was so great that a stage version debuted on Broadway in 1971. Like opera, the musical is sung-through, with no spoken dialogue. Loosely based ...
BWW Review: Great Acting Fails to Elevate HOLD ME WELL
Playwright Eva Suter has taken tropes from 70's sci-fi and plot elements from Shakespeare's Othello to create HOLD ME WELL. In her play, making it's World Premiere (outside of the UT production a few years back), Suter has crafted a dystopian tale of a desolate Central Texas inhabited solely by wom...
BWW Review: COMEDY OF ERRORS - Delightful Summer Shakespeare
Penfold Theatre Company's annual 'Shakespeare in the Park' at Round Rock's Amphitheatre adjacent to the Baca Senior Center, is a lovely setting for an utterly delightful show. This year's production of COMEDY OF ERRORS showcases their expertise with the Bard as well as the company's seemingly boundl...
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Destination by George Ayres Trinity Street Playhouse (5/14-5/31) |
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Anything Goes Bastrop Opera House (7/17-8/02) |
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Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End Austin Playhouse (5/22-6/07) |
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Jesus Christ Superstar Georgetown Palace Theatre (5/29-7/05) |
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42nd Street Georgetown Palace Theatre (7/24-8/30) |
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'Light': A Solo Chinese Play of Family and Hope(5/28-6/6) Dougherty Arts Center (5/28-5/28) |
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And Then There Were None Georgetown Palace Theatre (8/21-9/20) |
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& Juliet Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas in Austin (7/14-7/19) |
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Jack Johnson at Germania Insurance Amphitheater Germania Insurance Amphitheater (8/29-8/29) |
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The Robber Bridegroom The Alchemy Theatre (5/29-6/14) |
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