AUSTIN THEATER REVIEWS

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER unjustly substitutes overacting for laughs, and to poor effect. While there are some strong performances that are worth seeing, this production will probably not be remembered as one of The City Theatre's strongest....

Hyde Park Theatre's current offering, Tigers Be Still, features themes of love, loss, pain, doubt, grief, and fear but uses them to create an intriguing dramatic comedy. The piece certainly strikes a balance between touching, poignant moments and gut-busting guffaws....

The Sound of Music, the final collaboration of Musical Theater Gods Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, is quite possibly their most popular and most famous; judging by the current production by Zilker Theatre Productions it's easy to see why. The Sound of Music is a classic crowd-pleaser tha...

Xanadu presented by the Zach Theater in Austin is two hours brimming with joy, laughter, and sequins....

IDINA MENZEL recently performed at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, Texas and continues to perform throughout the United States....

It all started with a book written by a genius named Victor Hugo. Today, 150 years later, the story lives on in the musical, LES MISÉRABLES. Its recent run in Austin, Texas was a complete sell-out as it has been wherever it goes. Seeing it one time is fabulous, but seeing it multiple times from dif...

This week has a great show playing at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas. MARY POPPINS takes the stage and it is non-stop entertainment. ...

The latest Broadway show to hit the stage at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio Texas is BILLY ELLIOT, which ended its run yesterday, April 1. From the moment the lights dimmed, you couldn't help but be drawn into the story of struggle and survival as young Billy and his family worked through many ...

Across the United States, many movie theaters showed the latest recorded production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's LOVE NEVER DIES. Set up as a sequel to Webber's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, this show picks up ten years later in Coney Island, New York and features the Phantom and Christine, as well as her now h...

SHREK THE MUSICAL, based on the Oscar®-winning DreamWorks film that started it all, brings the hilarious story of everyone's favorite ogre to life the Bass Concert Hall stage....

A staged production of L. Frank Baum classic The Wizard of Oz is playing Bass Concert Hall this weekend. A near exact recreation of the film we all know and love - laced with bits and pieces of the book with some modern aspects tossed in - the show is a fun time for children, and a nice way to intr...

Broadway classic A Chorus Line kicked off five-day stand at Austin's Bass Concert Hall this week. The Marvin Hamlisch musical tells the story of seventeen 'wannabe' Broadway dancers, auditioning for eight limited spots on a chorus line. The one-act production is stacked with stellar dance numbers,...

2008 Tony-winning best musical In The Heights has set up shop at University of Texas' Bass Concert Hall through April 25....

Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical, The Phantom of the Opera, has begun a three-week stand at UT's Bass Concert Hall. Holding the title of longest running show on Broadway (over 9,200 performances to-date) and the most successful entertainment event in history - surpassing Broadway's Wicked and ...

The first North American touring production of The Color Purple is currently underway at Austin's University of Texas Bass Concert Hall....

Tony Winning (x7!) musical Spring Awakening is currently playing at the University of Texas' Bass Concert Hall, and I was in attendance Wednesday night....