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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
Alice in Wonderland
Apr 5 – Apr 28, 2019
Alice plunges down the rabbit hole and becomes involved in that madcap and deliciously satiric series of adventures immortalized by Lewis Carroll, as dramatized by...
Rex's Exes
Sep 26 – Oct 18, 2014
"Rex’s Exes" by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten opens September 26th at Sam Bass Community Theatre. Directed by Lynn S. Beaver. This deliriously...
Bugsy Malone
Jul 26 – Aug 17, 2013
A slapstick musical comedy, BUGSY MALONE follows the rivalry between two half-witted street gangs and the washed up, well-intentioned, one-time boxer who steps in to...
The Secret Garden/Yellow Boat
May 10 – Jun 1, 2013
The Yellow Boat is a glorious affirmation of a child's life and the strength and courage of all children. David and Sonja Saar's son, Benjamin,...
Love Letters
Mar 22 – Apr 6, 2013
"Love Letters" by A.R. Gurney opens March 22nd at Sam Bass Community Theatre. Directed by Lynn S. Beaver. "Love Letters", the Pulitzer Prize nominated play...
Death and the Maiden
Mar 22 – Mar 30, 2013
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to...
It Could Be Any One of Us
Feb 8 – Mar 2, 2013
A thunderstorm… In a windswept country house a family of failures wrangles over a will: a detective who has never solved a case; a writer,...
A Christmas Carol
Nov 16 – Dec 15, 2012
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been adapted by Phil Grecian in this very theatrical stage play. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer...
The Hallelujah Girls
Sep 21 – Oct 13, 2012
The feisty females of Eden Falls, Georgia, decide to shake up their lives. The action in this rollicking Southern comedy takes place in SPA-DEE-DAH!, the...
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