Get theatre news and discounts for Austin

Austin Theatre Newsroom Page 110

Back to Main...
Photo Flash: First Look at THE GLASS MENAGERIE at The City Theatre
by BWW News Desk - July 28, 2016
The City Theatre is thrilled to continue its 2016 summer season with the Tennessee Williams American classic THE GLASS MENAGERIE. The show runs three more weeks at The City Theatre, July 28 - August 14. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Photo Flash: First Look at THE GLASS MENAGERIE at The City Theatre
by BWW News Desk - July 26, 2016
The City Theatre is thrilled to continue its 2016 summer season with the Tennessee Williams American classic THE GLASS MENAGERIE. The show runs three more weeks at The City Theatre, July 28 - August 14. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
DOCTOR WHO's Matt Smith & Karen Gillan Join Wizard World Comic Con Austin Lineup
by Caryn Robbins - July 26, 2016
Wizard World, Inc., (WIZD) the preeminent producer of Wizard World Comic Cons across North America, is excited to announce the addition of Doctor Who's Matt Smith and Karen Gillan to the Wizard World Austin lineup, September 23-25.
The Exchange Artists Present Again- Family, Friends, and Lovers
by BWW News Desk - July 25, 2016
The Exchange Artists announce their upcoming production Again- Family, Friends, and Lovers, a multi-media, partially improvised new show created from real moments of regret. Three completely unique performances will take place Friday, August 19, Saturday, August 20, and Sunday, August 21st at 8pm at the Santa Cruz Theatre Center, 1805 East Seventh Street, Austin, TX 78702. The performances will last about an hour. Tickets are $20 for one night, or $30 for all three nights, and can be purchased online at brownpapertickets.com, or reserved by emailing exchangeartists@gmail.com.
BWW Review: Lovely Dreamlike Production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at City Theatre
by Frank Benge - July 25, 2016
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 his work it features characters based on his overbearing mother and his fragile sister Rose. Before the play Williams had covered the material in both a short story called 'Portrait of a Girl in Glass' and a screenplay written earlier called The Gentleman Caller. The play is the most lyrically beautiful of all of Williams work, due mostly to the poetry of Tom's soliloquies to the audience. It examines the isolation of people who can't connect to each other or the world at large.
Tickets on Sale for Hill Country Community Theatre's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
by BWW News Desk - July 21, 2016
Tickets are now on sale for the musical 'Annie Get Your Gun', presented by the Hill Country Community Theatre.
BWW Review: Great Acting Fails to Elevate HOLD ME WELL
by Frank Benge - July 18, 2016
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 women after a catastrophic war has eradicated the male population and the Y chromosome. The threat of another war with an unseen and vaguely described outside force looms in the future as these five women struggle to save 'the stock' which is the future of humanity.
BWW Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Gets Stirring Production in Wimberley
by Frank Benge - July 18, 2016
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 on the Gospels' accounts of the final week of Jesus life, the story begins with the preparation for the arrival of Jesus and his disciples in Jerusalem and ends with the crucifixion. Unlike the narratives in the Bible, the show focuses on the interpersonal and political struggles between Judas Iscariot and Jesus. A large portion of the plot centers on Judas, depicting him as a tragic figure who is unhappy with the direction in which Jesus is steering his disciples. The show contains many intentional anachronisms, including slang and ironic allusions to modern life and attitudes.
Photo Flash: First Look at TexARTS' MY WAY, A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO FRANK SINATRA
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2016
TexARTS opens its 2016-17 Professional Series with a tribute to Frank Sinatra. Starring Leslie Hollingsworth (TexARTS' I'll Be Seeing You), Matt Harris Andersen, Michael Marchese (TexARTS' A Cool Yule) and Megan Richards Wright (Zach Theatre A Christmas Carol), My Way runs tonight, July 15, through July 24 at the Kam and James Morris Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with TexARTS' MY WAY, A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO FRANK SINATRA
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2016
TexARTS opens its 2016-17 Professional Series with a tribute to Frank Sinatra. Starring Leslie Hollingsworth (TexARTS' I'll Be Seeing You), Matt Harris Andersen, Michael Marchese (TexARTS' A Cool Yule) and Megan Richards Wright (Zach Theatre A Christmas Carol), My Way runs July 15 - 24 at the Kam and James Morris Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!
BWW Review: COMEDY OF ERRORS - Delightful Summer Shakespeare
by Lynn Beaver - July 13, 2016
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 boundless talent. The ensemble cast of only five actors play all of the more than twenty roles in a whirlwind of character switching.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE Opens 7/22 at ?The City Theatre
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2016
The City Theatre continues its summer season with the Tennessee Williams American classic, The Glass Menagerie, which revolutionized modern drama and is still an undisputed masterpiece from one of the great voices of the American theatre.  Directed by Jeff Hinkle and starring Ben McLemore, Sarah Zeringue, Terri Bennett, and Donato De Luca. The production runs July 22 - August 14, 2016.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with TexARTS' MY WAY, A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO FRANK SINATRA
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2016
TexARTS opens its 2016-17 Professional Series with a tribute to Frank Sinatra. Starring Leslie Hollingsworth (TexARTS' I'll Be Seeing You), Matt Harris Andersen, Michael Marchese (TexARTS' A Cool Yule) and Megan Richards Wright (Zach Theatre A Christmas Carol), My Way runs July 15 - 24 at the Kam and James Morris Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!
BWW Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner THE FLICK Gets First Rate Hyde Park Production
by Frank Benge - July 11, 2016
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 projectionist Rose, (Katie Kohler), who are responsible for the tedious labor that keeps the place running, from cleaning up spilled drinks from the floors to taking tickets. The show is a comedy of the mundane - the everyday annoyances and frustrations of the workplace.
Tickets on Sale for Hill Country Community Theatre's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
by BWW News Desk - July 08, 2016
Tickets are now on sale for the musical 'Annie Get Your Gun', presented by the Hill Country Community Theatre.
Austin Shakespeare & Austin Chamber Music Center Team for One Night HENRY VIII
by Frank Benge - July 07, 2016
Austin Shakespeare, central Texas' classical theater company, will collaborate with ACMC for the first time to create a music-filled production of Shakespeare's Henry VIII at 7:30 pm on Saturday, July 16th at the University of Texas' beautiful Bates Recital Hall. Part of the 20th Anniversary Austin Chamber Music Festival, this one night only event will feature professional actors in Tudor period costume performing alongside a piano quintet.
ORPHANS Opens at The Back Pack Performance Venue, 8/19
by Frank Benge - July 07, 2016
Street Corner Arts has announced Michael Stuart, Aaron Johnson and Christopher Alvarenga will star in their upcoming production of ORPHANS by Lyle Kessler.  The production is directed by native Austinite Sarah Kimberly Becker. Earlier this Spring, Street Corner selected Johnson and Becker to helm their pioneer production of the Company's Sidewalk Series. The program, in its inaugural year, mentors promising Austin theatre-makers in producing and fully realizing a production. 
Doctuh Mistuh Productions Brings Back SILENCE THE MUSICAL
by Frank Benge - July 07, 2016
After its successful run in 2014, Doctuh Mistuh Productions will be bringing SILENCE! THE MUSICAL back to Austin, Texas for a three week run, August 18 through September 4. DMP will be remounting the revival at Austin Playhouse in Highland Mall. Amy Downing will be reprising her award-winning performance as Clarice Starling. She will be joined by original cast members Huck Huckaby (Hannibal), David Ponton (Buffalo Bill), Libby Dees Detling (Catherine & Senator Martin), and Matt Connely (Papa Schtarling). New cast members include Andrew Cannata (Dr. Chilton), Scott Shipman (Jack Crawford), Jessica O'Brien (Ardelia Mapp), Kathryn Lane (Dream Clarice) and Brian DeFilippo (Dream Hannibal). The production will be stage and music directed by DMP Artistic Director Michael McKelvey.
BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - A Sideshow Take On The Bard
by Lynn Beaver - July 05, 2016
Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, currently playing at City Theatre takes the Bard to a 1920's circus sideshow.
BWW Review: Mercurial Theatre Makes Impressive Debut with THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE
by Frank Benge - July 05, 2016
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 his genre. THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE is a short story written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the 'blasted heath' in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby. The vegetation grows large, but is inedible due to a metallic taste, animals go mad and are grotesquely deformed, and the people go insane and die one by one. Seeking to create a truly alien life form, he drew inspiration from numerous fiction and nonfiction sources. First appearing in the September 1927 edition of Amazing Stories, THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE became one of Lovecraft's most popular works, and remained his personal favorite short story. It was adapted into feature film versions in 1965, 1987, and 2010. Forbidden knowledge is a central theme in many of Lovecraft's works. His characters are often driven by curiosity or scientific endeavor, and in many of his stories the knowledge they uncover proves so Promethean in nature that it leaves the character regretting or destroyed from what they have learned or being destroyed psychically. In the case of THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE, all of these are true.
Hill Country Community Theatre to Present ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
by BWW News Desk - July 01, 2016
 A 30-member cast will appear in the Hill Country Community Theatre's summer musical Annie Get Your Gun.
A FABULOUS DECADE - THE FIFTIES Gets Encore at Hill Country Community Theatre
by BWW News Desk - June 27, 2016
Back by popular demand! The Hill Country Community Theatre presents, for your pleasure, an encore performance of 'A Fabulous Decade - the Fifties.'
Michael Carrasco, Rachel Pallante & More to Star in TexARTS' ALL SHOOK UP
by BWW News Desk - June 27, 2016
?TexARTS' next production in its 2016-17 Professional Series will be a musical inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. Starring Michael Carrasco (North American Tour, Grease!), Rachel Pallante (The Vortex, The Tempest), Polly Seale (Radio City Music National Tour, The Wizard of Oz), Michael Marchese (TexARTS' My Way A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra), Kami Smith (Austin Shakespeare, As You Like It), Kristi King (Doctuh Mistuh Productions, Reefer Madness), Curt Olson (TexARTS, Guys and Dolls), and Toni Baker. All Shook Up runs August 12 - 21 at the Kam and James Morris Theatre.
BWW Review: JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN is a Study in the Pain of Leaving Things Unresolved
by Frank Benge - June 27, 2016
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 side of the naturalism and social commentary of the works of Ibsen's middle period, the ending also clearly hints at Ibsen's final phase of more symbolic work, which can clearly be seen in his final play, When We Dead Awaken.
Photo Flash: Inside Look at A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at The City Theatre
by BWW News Desk - June 26, 2016
Let the mischief and merriment begin in this sizzling summer reimagining of Shakespeare's most popular romantic comedy. In just one fantastic enchanted forest night, four magical stories are cleverly woven together: the marriage of the Athenian duke to the Amazon queen; the battle of the king and queen of the fairies; the lust and lunacy of four young lovers; and the hilarious antics of side-show actors who must stage a most important play. Enter a vibrant and bawdy world where fairies fly, a donkey bursts into song, and irresistible spells make your perspective on love turn on a dime. City Theatre's summer production of A Midsummer Night's Dream will be an original and way-out theatrical experience you don't want to miss.

Videos


Man of the People by Dolores Diaz in Austin Man of the People by Dolores Diaz
Trinity Street Playhouse (1/9 - 1/24)
The Sleeping Beauty: International Ballet Stars in Austin, TX! On April 03, 2026 in Austin The Sleeping Beauty: International Ballet Stars in Austin, TX! On April 03, 2026
Bass Concert Hall (4/3 - 4/3)
C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters in Austin C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters
Bass Concert Hall (4/12 - 4/12)
RTP – The Rush Tribute Project at Abraham Chavez Theatre in Austin RTP – The Rush Tribute Project at Abraham Chavez Theatre
Abraham Chavez Theatre (6/10 - 6/10)
Clay Walker: New Year's Eve in Austin Clay Walker: New Year's Eve
Austin City Limits Live (ACL Live and 3TEN ACL Live) (12/31 - 1/1)
A Charlie Brown Christmas in Austin A Charlie Brown Christmas
Zach Theater (11/7 - 12/28)
Peril in the Alps in Austin Peril in the Alps
Austin Playhouse (11/21 - 12/28)
VIEW SHOWS  ADD A SHOW