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BWW Review: Tex-ARTS Presents Entertaining Version of STEEL MAGNOLIAS
STEEL MAGNOLIAS is a comedic drama written by Robert Harling, based on his experience with his sister's death. It is about the friendships and families of a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The title references how these women are both delicate and strong. One of the most produced pla...
BWW Review: Impressive Young Talent on Display in SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM
SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM is a multi-media musical revue consisting entirely of the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. It was conceived by James Lapine and had a limited run on Broadway in 2010. It is based on a show produced in 2000 called Moving On that was created by David Kernan. Kernan also creat...
BWW Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - An Enchanted Evening Under the Stars
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare, produced by The Baron's Men and currently playing at The Curtain Theatre is a stellar achievement for the veteran company....
BWW Review: PONTIAC FIREBIRD VARIATIONS is a Brilliant Deconstruction of Shakespeare
PONTIAC FIREBIRD VARIATIONS takes a scene from William Shakespeare's RICHARD III (Act I, Scene IV to be precise) and proceeds to give you twenty variations on that scene. The result, ranging from funny to striking, is perhaps one of the most brilliant deconstructions of the Bard of Avon I have ever ...
BWW Review: LOVE ALONE is a Beautiful Story Masterfully Presented
LOVE ALONE, a new play by Deborah Salem Smith opens City Theatre's 10th season. In 2014, she was awarded a New Play Commission by Trinity Repertory. LOVE ALONE received the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and an Honorable Mention for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. It was also a fin...
BWW Review: UT Theatre and Dance Brings THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK'S Pages to Life
The famous diary of Anne Frank has been recreated, republished, and reproduced in perhaps every form imaginable. Since its original publication in Amsterdam in 1947, The Diary of a Young Girl has been translated into over 67 languages, with over 30 million copies sold to this day. It has inspired th...
BWW Review: THE QUARRY is Surreal, Charming and Deeply Touching
THE QUARRY, a new play by Greg Pierce, now in the work's second staging at Hyde Park Theatre, uses an unusual and surrealistic narrative style for what is basically a detective story to an effectively provocative effect. A series of puzzling events in the marble quarry in an unnamed town in Vermont ...
BWW Review: FREUD'S LAST SESSION - A Brilliant Duet
Jarrott Production's FREUD'S LAST SESSION by Mark St.Germain, features two veteran actors at the top of their game....
BWW Review: Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID Visually Stunning Family Fun
Ever since the success of Disney's The Lion King, Disney Theatricals have been trying to catch lightning in a bottle a second time. After the original production of Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID closed on Broadway in 2009 (after a run of 685 performances), it underwent two years of intensive work to f...
BWW Review: MURDER BALLAD MURDER MYSTERY is Pure Theatrical Magic
MURDER BALLAD MURDER MYSTERY was originally produced as a full-length, site-specific show at the VORTEX Theatre in 2009; and since then, paper chairs has been condensing the piece into the current gem now on display for three nights only in East Austin....
BWW Review: STALKING JOHN BARROWMAN Plagued By Technical Problems
John Barrowman is a Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, host and writer who has both British and American citizenship. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he immigrated to the United States with his family in 1975. His first big break was as Billy Crocker in Cole Porter's Anything Goes on London's West ...
BWW Review: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN - Awakens the Wilde Spirit
Sirius Theater's production of LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN by Oscar Wilde, playing a short four show run at City Theatre, is an admirable company premiere....
BWW Review: HANDS UP HOODIES DOWN - A Show That Matters
'These lives matter and these stories need to be told' - Chelsea Manasseri...
BWW Review: THE REAL THING is Not Real Entertaining
Tom Stoppard's THE REAL THING is a structurally complex play that uses the gimmick of the play-within-a-play to examine the concepts of marriage and infidelity. It debuted in London in 1982 and two years later was on Broadway....
BWW Review: MISSIONARY POSITION - A Delightful Period Romp
Glass Half Full Theatre's original production of MISSIONARY POSITION: PLEASURE JOURNEYS FOR THE INTREPID LADY EXPLORER playing at Salvage Vanguard Theatre is a pure pleasure to experience on many levels.With an ensemble cast of three, and running at 40 minutes, not a moment is wasted in keeping the ...
BWW Review: THE 39 STEPS is a Zany Parody of Hitchcock
THE 39 STEPS is a parody of the works of Alfred Hitchcock. It is adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. The original concept of a four actor version was by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon. Patrick Barlow rewrote their adaptation in 2005. The play's concept cal...
BWW Review: City Theatre Presents Furiously Funny FORUM
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
BWW Review: YEAR OF THE ROOSTER is a Riotous Funny Black Comedy
'One day I will destroy the sun' says the angry 8-month-old gamecock of the title in Capital T Theatre's current production of Eric Dufault's riotously funny black comedy, YEAR OF THE ROOSTER, now playing at the Hyde Park Theatre. 'I think I could kill a cow if I put my mind to it,' Odysseus Rex rag...
BWW Review: TexARTS Brings GUYS AND DOLLS to Life in Lakeway
Playing at the Kam and James Morris Theatre in Lakeway, TexARTS presents the all-time audience favorite, GUYS AND DOLLS from August 14-23. Based on The Idylls of Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon, Frank Loesser's GUYS AND DOLLS takes us on a journey back in time to Broadway's Golden Era, and renowned dir...
BWW Review: FOREVER PLAID is a Joyous Blast From the Past
FOREVER PLAID, a musical revue written by Stuart Ross in 1990 has been performed internationally. The show is about those close-harmony groups like The Four Aces and The Four Freshmen that were popular during the 50s. These groups personified the clean-cut genre. The Plaids are a quartet of high-sch...
BWW Reviews: PICNIC Intriguing Look at the Power of Social Expectations
PICNIC by William Inge is a 1963 play that explores the themes of loneliness, desperation, beauty and youth. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Play. In this play, Inge focuses on what happens when characters are pitted against cultural and soci...
BWW Reviews: The City Theatre Presents Moving and Memorable LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!
LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! is a play by Terrence McNally. Opening Off-Broadway in 1994 and transferring to Broadway in 1995, it won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play....
BWW Reviews: Summer Stock Austin Presents Charming INTO THE WOODS
Summer Stock Austin has been a part of the Austin theatre scene since 2005. Annually, college and high school students from across Texas meet to mount several productions with professionals from Austin and around the country in a one-of-a-kind experience. They work as a traditional 'stock' company; ...
BWW Reviews: MAST is a Nightmarish Memory Play You Will Long Be Discussing
MAST, now playing at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, is a new play by paper chairs co-founder and local playwright Elizabeth Doss. In its World Premiere staging, MAST tells the story of Ann (Katie Bender), a rancher's daughter working on an Air Force base outside Abilene, TX, where she meets Walter (Jesse...
BWW Reviews: The Only Thing Better Than HAIRSPRAY... That's Free!
If you're looking for theatre during the summer, you aren't exactly short of options in Austin, Texas. You may be, however, a bit short on cash. Enter the annual Zilker Summer Musical: a professionally produced, family friendly, fun filled musical, put on in the heart of Austin for free. Yes, you re...
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Austin City Limits Music Festival: Weekend One – 3 Day Pass Zilker Park (10/02-10/11) |
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Annie Zach Theater (6/24-8/02) |
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Seared Austin Playhouse (6/05-6/28) |
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Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic Bastrop Opera House (5/22-5/31) |
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42nd Street Georgetown Palace Theatre (7/24-8/30) |
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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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Jack Johnson at Germania Insurance Amphitheater Germania Insurance Amphitheater (8/29-8/29) |
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& Juliet Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas in Austin (7/14-7/19) |
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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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