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....
Review: THE MOUNTAINTOP at Georgetown Palace Theatre
by Sabrina Wallace - February 10, 2026
Georgetown Palace’s The Mountaintop skips the monument and gives us the man. A powerful reminder that history isn’t made by saints, but by people who keep walking anyway....
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Bass Concert Hall
by Joni Lorraine - February 04, 2026
Few titles in the musical theatre canon are as instantly recognizable—or as enduringly beloved—as the SOUND OF MUSIC. Featuring music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, the musical premiered on Broadway in 1959 and quickly beca...
Review: THE WOLF YOU FEED at The Vortex Theatre
by Lynn Beaver - January 22, 2026
Darcy Parker Bruce’s the wolf you feed (the playwright stylizes the title without capital letters) howls into The Vortex Theatre for its American debut and what a gift it is. In the hands of Bottle Alley founder Chris Fontanes and the Vortex team, this production becomes a singular theatrical expe...
Review: THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE at Different Stages
by Sabrina Wallace - January 11, 2026
Different Stages’ “The man of the people”reveals how easily authority can be built on confidence rather than evidence, and how hard it is to dismantle once the audience is convinced....
Review: PARADE at Ground Floor Theatre
by Joni Lorraine - December 10, 2025
While Austin stages overflow in December with CHRISTMAS CAROLS (three!), TUNA CHRISTMASES (two!), and all manner of holiday theatre cheer, a brilliant star shines at Ground Floor Theatre: Alfred Uhry’s PARADE. First produced in 2015 during GFT’s inaugural season, this remount stands as a strikin...
Past Shows
Urinetown The Musical
Feb 12 – Feb 22, 2026
In this side-splitting satire, the young hero Bobby Strong leads his community in a fight against oppression. Set in a dystopian world where water is...
Urinetown: The Musical
Feb 12
In this side-splitting satire, the young hero Bobby Strong leads his community in a fight against oppression. Set in a dystopian world where water is...
A Merry Mary (Moody) Christmas Cabaret
Dec 5
Back for its third year and quickly becoming a Hilltop holiday tradition, A Merry Mary Christmas Cabaret is a fun, festive cabaret filled with sparkle,...
Luchadora!
Apr 13 – Apr 23, 2023
Imagine the Chinese legend Hua Mulan set in the world of lucha libre—Mexican wrestling. The discovery of a worn pink wrestling mask prompts Nana Lupita,...
Godspell
Feb 16 – Feb 26, 2023
In this updated, jazzy version of the 1971 classic, a small group of people help Jesus Christ tell different parables by using a wide variety...
The Miser
Sep 22 – Oct 2, 2022
Catch this classic play by Molire adapted by a company of college students in the St. Edward's University theatre program. Directed by Robert Tolaro....
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Feb 24 – Mar 6, 2022
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling BeeMusic and lyrics by William FinnBook by Rachel SheinkinConceived by Rebecca FeldmanDirected by Rick RoemerMusical Director Susan FinniganFollow 6...
The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarías
Nov 14 – Nov 21, 2021
Spinal Tap meets Melville is this mockumentary style comedy with a giant heart. When the members of a devoted book club become the subjects of...
TWELFTH NIGHT
Apr 15 – Apr 25, 2021
Shakespeare’s delightful comedy brings just what the doctor ordered at the end of the spring semester – poetry, music, romance, sword fighting and mistaken identity...
Maypearl
Feb 26 – Feb 28, 2021
Join Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edwards University Department of Performing Arts, as we continue our 48th annual season...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Feb 13 – Feb 23, 2020
Join Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edwards University Department of Performing Arts, as we continue our 47th annual season...
MARISOL
Nov 14 – Nov 24, 2019
Marisol Perez commutes from her apartment in the Bronx to her successful copy editor job with a Manhattan publisher. But something is amiss: apples are...
A Flea In Her Ear
Sep 26 – Oct 6, 2019
Oh la la! When Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband is having an affair, she confides in her best friend, Lucienne, and Lucienne concocts a clever...
Spring Awakening
Apr 4 – Apr 14, 2019
Meet Wendla, a young girl yearning to understand what it means to be a woman; Mortiz, a troubled young boy struggling to come to terms...
The Three Musketeers
Feb 14 – Feb 24, 2019
All for one, and one for all! Join d'Artagnan in his quest to join the Kings Royal Musketeers in this new adaptation of the classic...
Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus
Nov 8 – Nov 18, 2018
Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. This is the true-ish story of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane...
Middletown, by WIll Eno
Sep 27 – Oct 7, 2018
Welcome to Middletown: population, stable. Mary Swanson has just arrived and is settling into her new community. Will Eno’s eloquent, funny, and moving play takes...
VIOLET, book and lyrics by Brian Crawley, music by Jeanine Tesori
Apr 12 – Apr 22, 2018
Twelve troubled years after a childhood accident left her severely scarred, Violet embarks on a pilgrimage to visit a televangelist she believes will heal her....
Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka
Nov 9 – Nov 19, 2017
Separated from his mother, refugee Anon searches for his place in his new home. His travels unfold across the American landscape, bringing him face-to-face with...
The Secret Garden
Jun 13 – Jun 30, 2013
This coming of age story based on the classic children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett is filled with suspense, magic and wonder. 11-year-old Mary, orphaned...
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Apr 11 – Apr 21, 2013
This glorious comedy of manners was the most popular play by the quintessential bad boy of his day. Join young suitors Algernon, Jack, Cecily and...
Measure for Measure
Feb 14 – Feb 24, 2013
What do you get when you combine an enigmatic and absentee ruler, a zealot surrogate, lustful youth, a pious nun, a dash of hypocrisy and...
The Spitfire Grill
Apr 19 – Apr 29, 2012
The Crucible
Feb 16 – Feb 26, 2012
A Lie of the Mind
Nov 10 – Nov 20, 2011
After a severe incident of spousal abuse tears Jake and Beth apart, their two families hole up to await the backlash. Set in rural California...
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