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Tutto Theatre Company and MACtheatre announce their first co-production, the U.

Checkmate.

Omigod, you guys! Legally Blonde is a gigantic crowd-pleasing Sorority Party! Directed by Michael McKelvey, Blonde is a laugh riot with an enormously talented cast.

While A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD is not a wildly well-known or popular show, it still is a fantastic piece.

Today's topic of conversation is a political bloodbath with lots of swordplay and Elizabethan costumes.

C3 Presents and Texas Performing Arts present Regina Spektor, Monday, November 5 at Bass Concert Hall.

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER unjustly substitutes overacting for laughs, and to poor effect.

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 Hidden Room has been granted the rights to Edward Hall and Roger Warren's Rose Rage - an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy, cut down into an epic two-part event.

Last Act Theatre Company will host Party Under the Stars, a fundraiser celebrating one year of stellar theatre in Austin on August 3, 2012 from 7 to 11 p.

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.

Last Act Theatre Company will host Party Under the Stars, a fundraiser celebrating one year of stellar theatre in Austin on August 3, 2012 from 7 to 11 p.

C3 Presents and Texas Performing Arts present Primus in 3D, Wednesday, November 7 at Bass Concert Hall.

The Topfer Theatre and entire ZACH campus will be party central for the Deep in the Heart of ZACH opening gala event on Saturday, Sept.

Jill Blackwood gives us the scoop on the ZACH's vivacious new production of XANADU plus some great information about future projects at the ZACH, including next season's production of RAGTIME and the opening of the new Topfer Theater.

Bernadette Peters, one of the greatest living Broadway superstars, will headline the first opening gala, Once Upon a Dream, at ZACH's new Topfer Theatre Sept.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher.

The City Theater presents SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, tonight, July 26 - August 12.

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

This summer, City Theatre will make Austin audiences an offer they just can't refuse - an invitation to Berlin's Kit Kat Klub, on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.

Austin Theatre Project Announces its 2013 Season As they are preparing and auditioning for their final production of their inaugural season, Austin's newest professional theatre company, Austin Theatre Project, is proud to announce its 2013 season.

Shakespeare at Winedale's 2012 Summer Class takes the stage this summer with performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, and, for the first time at Winedale, Coriolanus.

Hyde Park Theatre presents the Austin Premiere of Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock, directed by Ken Webster, with Jon Cook, Jay Fraley, Jessica Hughes, Molly Karrasch, and Kelsey Kling, July 12 - August 11, 2012, Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00 PM at Hyde Park Theatre 511 W.

Austin's Theatre and Texas' longest running theatre, in its last season before the new Topfer Theatre opens, presents the Austin premiere of XANADU, the over-the-top, roller-skating musical that spoofs the outrageously campy 1980s film starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.

Ringling Bros.