AUSTIN THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 176

You may already be familiar with A CHRISTMAS STORY, the neo-classic film based on the books and essays of Jean Shepherd, which follows young Ralphie Parker in his quest to receive a Red Ryder B.

ZACH Theatre - Austin's Theatre and Texas' longest running theatre, presents THE SANTALAND DIARIES, written by David Sedaris and adapted for stage by Joe Mantello.

San Diego-based Animal Cracker Conspiracy Puppet Company, special guests of Trouble Puppet Theater Co.

It may be Thanksgiving week, but Christmas is already in full swing at the Long Center.

With Hester Prynne, the heroine of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne created one of American literature's most wonderfully flawed characters.

I know I read You Can't Take it With You back in college, and I must offer my apologies to my fantastic professor, Gary Gardner, because I did not remember anything about this play until seeing the current production by Different Stages.

The Austin Symphony, with the help of the Austin Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, invites the LGBT community to a first-of-its-kind series, "Symphony in G".

It may not even be Thanksgiving yet, but at Sam Bass Theatre, the halls are decked and the mistletoe is hung.

ZACH Theatre - Austin's Theatre and Texas' longest running theatre, presents THE SANTALAND DIARIES, written by David Sedaris and adapted for stage by Joe Mantello.

ZACH - Austin's Theatre and Texas' longest running theatre, in the first-ever season in its new Topfer Theatre, presents the Austin premiere of WHITE CHRISTMAS, based on the Paramount Pictures film written for the screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank.

Different Stages continues its 2011-2012 season with Kaufman and Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, directed by Mick D'Arcy.

I am very pleased to say that Texas State University - San Marcos's current production of Into the Woods is easily the best live production of the show that I have yet to see.

The 1950s is considered by many to be the pinnacle of American Theater.

BroadwayWorld offers you a glimpse at The Collector, a multidimensional mixed-media performance viewed through Orwellian, neo-Victorian lenses, is a contemporary puppet theater work that engages the audience in a projected reality, a detailed and gritty environment of toy theater, animated objects,

To celebrate 100 episodes of their popular radio show Air Up There, Austin-based DJ and production duo Tritonal will mark the occasion with a homecoming show at Emo's East on Saturday, December 8.

I must confess that I came to Austin Shakespeare's current production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE with no prejudices of my own.

San Diego-based Animal Cracker Conspiracy Puppet Company, special guests of Trouble Puppet Theater Co.

TexARTS will welcome Broadway performer and choreographer Greg Graham and his "BILLY ELLIOT" masterclass, today, Nov.

The City Theatre Company has announced a special holiday theatre celebration with Joe DiPietro's hilarious family comedy Over the River and Through the Woods at the City Theatre on November 29 - December 23.

Trouble Puppet Theater Company presents Toil and Trouble, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for puppet theater-an elegantly brutal play brought to life (and death) through puppetry, complete with witches, ghosts, and bloody skullduggery.

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St.

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin announced today the cast for Putting It Together, running January 11 - February 3, 2013 at the Addison Theatre Centre.

Kicking off subscriptions for its 29th Season, Austin Shakespeare announces Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at the Long Center's intimate Rollins Theater tonight, Nov.

The now iconic James Dean once said that "The only greatness for man is immortality.

As I am writing this review, I am still laughing my butt off.