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Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Bandwagon Arts


by Sabrina Wallace - March 07, 2026

Bandwagon Arts gives Noël Coward’s Private Lives a modern twist at Ground Floor Theatre. Ex-spouses Elyot and Amanda collide on neighboring honeymoon balconies, and chaos follows. Quick wit, messy romance, and socialites behaving badly keep this classic comedy humming....

Review: DEATHTRAP at The Wimberley Players


by Sabrina Wallace - March 03, 2026

The Wimberley Players production of Deathtrap is a smart psychological thriller about ambition, legacy, and deception. The beautiful, restrained set supports suspense, and the strong cast shines all the way through....

Review: REEFER MADNESS, THE MUSICAL at Austin Community College


by Sabrina Wallace - March 03, 2026

Reefer Madness at ACC is a ferocious, laugh-out-loud takedown of moral panic, powered by fearless performances and razor-sharp satire. Campy, chaotic, and uncomfortably timely. Playing thru March 14th, 2026...

Review: WITCH at HYDE PARK THEATRE


by Sabrina Wallace - February 24, 2026

Hyde Park’s production of WITCH is sharp, funny, and quietly ferocious. A Devil with a grin, a witch that questions the status quo, a town built on bargains, and ambition that bites back. You’ll leave checking your own contracts. Through March 21st. ...

Review: THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL at City Theatre Austin


by Sabrina Wallace - February 24, 2026

Some plays rush. In Horton Foote’s award-winning play, The Trip to Bountiful, longing feels biblical, and patience gets tested, and City Theatre’s production reminds you how to sit still. Judith Laird is all steel beneath fragility, as an aging mother chasing the ghost of her childhood home. But...

Review: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at ZACH


by Joni Lorraine - February 19, 2026

What did our critic think of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at ZACH?...

Review: BEEHIVE: THE 60S MUSICAL at TexArts


by Sabrina Wallace - February 17, 2026

Big hair, bigger voices, and zero apologies. Beehive: The 60s Musical at TexARTS is pure jukebox joy: love songs turn into liberation anthems, wigs rise as the decade unfolds, and seven powerhouse women keep the audience laughing and singing along. Profound? No. A ridiculously good time? Abso-freaki...

Review: URINETOWN at Mary Moody Northen Theatre


by Sabrina Wallace - February 14, 2026

Urinetown now playing at MMNT - A musical so funny it hits like a warning. Corporate greed, drought, revolt—and the water still runs out. Laugh. Think. Repeat....

Review: SWING! at Georgetown Palace Theatre


by Sabrina Wallace - February 14, 2026

Swing! at Georgetown Palace Theatre proves that when the set disappears, the rhythm takes over. A bare stage, a blazing live band, powerhouse vocals, and choreography that fills every inch of space. The audience was tapping along all night, me included. Theatre adapts, communities rally, and the sho...

Review: THE LAST MATCH at FILIGREE THEATRE


by Sabrina Wallace - February 10, 2026

'The Last Match' by Anna Ziegler centers on U.S. Open semifinalists Tim Porter and Sergei Sergeyev, and their partners, blending onstage action with flashbacks and fourth-wall narration. The play explores ambition, love, and the personal cost of success....

Past Shows

The Trip to Bountiful
The Trip to Bountiful
Feb 20 – Mar 8, 2026

The acclaimed play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote. Bountiful is an American masterpiece about the universal pull that we all feel for home. Carrie Watts...

A Tuna Christmas
A Tuna Christmas
Dec 5 – Dec 21, 2025

A TUNA CHRISTMAS. Everything's bigger in Texas, including the folks and family we all know and love! It’s Christmas Eve in the Lone Star state...

Other Desert Cities
Other Desert Cities
Nov 7 – Nov 23, 2025

Jon Robin Baitz’s award-winning, explosive, and bitingly funny drama that tests the boundaries of family loyalty and love. November 7 - 23. Thursday – Saturday 8:00...

To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Oct 3 – Oct 19, 2025

Adapted from Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is the riveting stage production of the seminal American classic about childhood innocence, social inequality, and...

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Aug 29 – Sep 14, 2025

Feed the need for musical hilarity with this screamingly funny, gleefully twisted, out-of-this-world hit musical. Little Shop has devoured the hearts of theatregoers for over...

WIT
WIT
Jul 25 – Aug 10, 2025

Margaret Edson’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After spending years studying and teaching the metaphysical poetry of John Donne, a renowned but uncompromising...

TARTUFFE
TARTUFFE
Jun 13 – Jun 29, 2025

Under the religious cloak of piety, the lecherous and menacing title character schemes to marry his benefactor’s daughter, seduce his wife, then defraud him of...

RUMORS
RUMORS
May 2 – May 18, 2025

Can you keep a secret? Come join Neil Simon’s crazy cast of characters at the townhouse of the New York City deputy mayor and his...

THE COVER OF LIFE
THE COVER OF LIFE
Mar 21 – Apr 6, 2025

World War II has erupted, and conflicts have begun overseas and at home. Three newly married brides in rural Louisiana have each married a Cliffert...

SEXTET
SEXTET
Feb 7 – Feb 23, 2025

The three-time B. Iden Payne award winning production is excited to return to the stage this February for a run of shows at City Theatre. SEXTET is...

RECKLESS
RECKLESS
Dec 6 – Dec 22, 2024

The Craig Lucas holiday comedy has been called the modern Christmas fable of our time. It's Christmas Eve, and Rachel Fitzsimmons' euphoric existence is shattered...

The Last Night of Ballyhoo
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Nov 8 – Nov 24, 2024

Alred Uhry’s Tony Award winning play centers on anti-semitism in the South. December 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler...

Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls
Aug 16 – Sep 1, 2024

Written by Tim Firth and based on a true story, eleven Women's Institute members find themselves exposed in ways they’d never expected, revealing more than...

How the Other Half Loves
How the Other Half Loves
Jun 7 – Jun 23, 2024

Nobody writes contemporary farces better than the British and no British comic playwright concocts livelier free-for-alls than Sir Alan Ayckbourn. How the Other Half Loves is...

The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors
May 3 – May 19, 2024

One of William Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. The farcical misadventures of two sets of identical twins and a hilarious romp with a family fractured and...

Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa
Mar 15 – Mar 31, 2024

This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. Their spare existence...

The Twilight of the Golds
The Twilight of the Golds
Feb 9 – Feb 25, 2024

If your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? That is the question posed in Jonathan Tolins’ critically acclaimed...

Christmas Belles
Christmas Belles
Dec 1 – Dec 17, 2023

CHRISTMAS BELLES. Christmastime in the Lone Star State - but the Futrelle sisters of Fayro, Texas, are not exactly in a festive mood. Frankie is...

MOMENTS: Songs of Giving Thanks...and All That Jazz
MOMENTS: Songs of Giving Thanks...and All That Jazz
Nov 16 – Nov 19, 2023

A special one-weekend musical performance celebrating legendary singers and songwriters whose shows, songs, and lyrics will live forever....

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