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BWW Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner THE FLICK Gets First Rate Hyde Park Production
THE FLICK is the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Annie Baker that also won the 2013 Obie Award for Playwriting. Set in a run down old movie palace called The Flick, the action of the play concerns three low wage ushers: newbie Avery (Delante G. Keys), veteran Sam (Shanon Weaver) and film project...
BWW Review: Mercurial Theatre Makes Impressive Debut with THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines, he died in poverty at the age of 46, and is only now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in ...
BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - A Sideshow Take On The Bard
Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, currently playing at City Theatre takes the Bard to a 1920's circus sideshow....
BWW Review: THE GONDOLIERS - Comic Opera At Its Finest
BWW Review: THE GONDOLIERS - Comic Opera At Its Finest
Celebrating its 40th year, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin brings us a world class production of THE GONDOLIERS. A sumptuous feast for the senses, the entire show is on point perfection....
BWW Review: JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN is a Study in the Pain of Leaving Things Unresolved
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN is Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's second-to-last play written in 1896. The source material for the play comes from an incident from an earlier period in his life, revolving around the suicide attempt of an army officer accused of embezzlement. While the play falls along sid...
BWW Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is Superb, Sublime Sondheim
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples.
Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has been produced in the W...
BWW Review: DOGFIGHT is a Critique of Machismo Disguised as a Celebration
DOGFIGHT is a musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duchan. It is adapted from Nancy Savoca's 1991 film and premiered Off-Broadway in 2012. The current production by Austin Theatre Project is the Central Texas premiere.
An intimate new musical with a small...
BWW Review: J. Robert Moore is Sheer Perfection in BUYER AND CELLAR
BUYER AND CELLAR, by Jonathan Tolins, is a deliciously dishy piece of theatre that came to life because of Barbra Streisand's book My Passion for Design. The play, a winner of the 2014-2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show, tells you right from the start that the only thing that is the...
BWW Review: THIS SIDE OF THE DIRT Treats Texans to a Taste of Themselves
Tito Beveridge treats Texans to a taste of themselves in This Side of the Dirt....
BWW Review: PAGEANT is Pink Cotton Candy Escapism
PAGEANT, when it originally opened in 1991, was almost ground breaking. The idea of doing a musical parody of a beauty pageant performed by men in drag was fresh… and a little bit crazy in all the good ways. However, twenty five years later, in 2016, the concept creaks in a world where we have Ru...
BWW Review: THE WINTER'S TALE - Sublime Shakespearean Beauty On A Summer's Evening
BWW Review: THE WINTER'S TALE - Sublime Shakespearean Beauty On A Summer's Evening...
BWW Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS is Sheer Entertaining Theatricality
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS by Richard Bean is an English adaptation of The Servant of Two Masters, the 1743 Commedia dell'arte play by Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni. Bean has replaced the original Italian setting with 1963 Brighton. It first opened at the National Theatre in 2011, toured the UK and the...
BWW Review: OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS a Sweet Look at the People You Can't Believe You're Related To
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS by Joe DiPietro, opened Off-Broadway in 1998 and ran for over 800 performances during the original two year run. Audiences may be more familiar with DiPietro as the author of the long-running musical revue I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. It is easy to see...
BWW Review: Consider DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
Consider any country in Latin America wherein a dictatorship has preceded a democracy. Consider a woman has been held captive as political prisoner and tortured and raped by her captors in this country. Consider then, the effect that such trauma can have at every level. Consider then, DEATH AND THE ...
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL - To Miss This Would Be Criminal
BWW Review: LEGALLY BLONDE, THE MUSICAL - Missing The Fun Would Be Criminal...
BWW Review: PRIVACY SETTINGS: A PROMETHEAN TALE Dares Audiences to Question What is Happening Behind The Screen
Standing in line at The Vortex to see PRIVACY SETTINGS: A PROMETHEAN TALE was like watching a one-act play in and of itself. Each patron crammed into the hot box office to retrieve tickets, hand over their phone number, and sign an agreement before viewing Heather Garfield's latest conceived work. I...
BWW Review: Pulitzer Winner CLYBOURNE PARK Takes on Gentrification
CLYBOURNE PARK is a play worthy of producing and seeing in any city that claims to be as progressive and liberal as Austin. It's a couple hours worth of good theatre by a theatre company that consistently produces excellent work. We can sit in the dark and laugh at ourselves and race relations and...
BWW Review: Fine Performances Make TREVOR Must See Theatre
Using true events as source material, TREVOR by Orange is the New Black writer Nick Jones, is at once witty, hilarious and gut-wrenching. The story is about former show biz chimp Trevor (Jason Newman), a 200-pound chimpanzee, and his owner Sandra (Rebecca Robinson), who has an almost maternal attach...
BWW Review: Shaking the Family Tree of POOR HERMAN Melville
In his lifetime, Herman Melville was considered a failure. Melville was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His work was almost forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Today, he is best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick. His first book, Type...
BWW Review: LONE RIDERS Explores the Wild West in Austin, TX
Trinity Street Players invites audiences to slow down and admire the old west in their latest production, LONE RIDERS, within the quaint blackbox at the First Austin Baptist Church. This original work, written by Carol Wright Krause and directed by Manuel Zarate, hopefully will survive its first wor...
BWW Review: Pollyanna's YOUNG BEAR Educates and Entertains Austin's Kids
Based on the life of a young girl who is taken in the early 1800's to live among Native Americans in the Mid-Western U.S, Lou Clark's YOUNG BEAR follows five year old Frances Slocum's personal journey through two different cultures and looks at each through the eyes of a young child....
BWW Review: ONE SLIGHT HITCH Courts The 80's in Austin Texas
Making it's regional debut in Austin TX, Paradox Players delights Austinites with ONE SLIGHT HITCH. Performed at the quaint and appropriate location of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin at Howson Hall Theater, Bethke Stage, director Matthew Burnett executes this patronizing patriarch...
BWW Review: ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM - A Thrilling Mystery
ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM directed by Kevin Gates and currently playing City Theatre is a fascinating piece of historical drama....
BWW Review: Austin Opera Dazzles in THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE is a beautiful, spirited production, and director Alain Gauthier along with principal conductor Richard Buckley have created a beautiful piece for Austin audiences. With only one weekend remaining, be sure to catch Austin Opera's final performance of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE on Su...
BWW Review: MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL Is a Treat For The Eyes and Ears
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL is a jukebox musical that premiered on Broadway in April 2013, receiving four Tony Award nominations. Based on Berry Gordy's 1994 autobiography To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown, it tells the story of how he founded and ran the Motown record label. It also...
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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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