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by Sabrina Wallace - June 09, 2026
Jesus Christ Superstar at Georgetown Palace Theatre may be my favorite Palace production since I started reviewing in 2018. Jamie Rogers delivers a modern, energetic rock opera filled with standout performances, inventive staging, hip-hop-infused choreography, and a live band that absolutely rocks. ...
by Sabrina Wallace - June 07, 2026
Most people know Vincent van Gogh through his paintings. Leonard Nimoy's Vincent introduces us to the man behind them through the eyes of his devoted brother Theo. Penfold Theatre delivers a beautifully told, emotionally resonant production led by a captivating performance from Nathan Jerkins....
by Sabrina Wallace - June 07, 2026
What happens when fandom becomes an obsession? Dirty Gold Theatre's Insomnia Cafe takes a ridiculous premise and turns it into something surprisingly unsettling. Equal parts dark comedy and psychological thriller, the play left me laughing one moment and questioning why the next....
by Sabrina Wallace - June 01, 2026
The Robber Bridegroom is a wildly entertaining evening of bluegrass, folklore, romance, and comedy. The Alchemy Theatre transforms the Whisenhunt Stage into a constantly evolving Southern tall tale with inventive staging, excellent performances, and choreography that never stops moving—a joy from ...
by Sabrina Wallace - May 26, 2026
Funny, warm, and painfully relatable, Austin Playhouse’s Erma Bombeck: at wit's end transforms domestic chaos into razor-sharp comedy. Sarah Fleming Walker commands the stage in a captivating solo performance that captures the exhaustion, wit, ambition, and quiet resilience behind Bombeck’s icon...
by Sabrina Wallace - May 26, 2026
At first, Wakey, Wakey feels like an eccentric conversation filled with dry humor and scattered thoughts. Then the truth lands. Hyde Park Theatre’s production of Will Eno’s play is intimate and funny, and Ken Webster delivers a deeply human performance....
by Joni Lorraine - May 21, 2026
In Dillon Christopher Chitto’s PUEBLO REVOLT, now playing at Ground Floor Theatre, history breathes through two brothers standing at the edge of revolution. Funny, tender, deeply human, and quietly devastating, PUEBLO REVOLT transforms the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 from a distant historical event into...
by Sabrina Wallace - May 14, 2026
The Wiz at Bass Concert Hall delivers dazzling visuals, standout performances, and plenty of personality. Hannah Beachler’s scenic design and Sharen Davis’ costumes are unforgettable, while Phoenix Assata La Freniere, Kyla Jade, and the charming trio of Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion keep the jour...
by Sabrina Wallace - May 10, 2026
City Theatre Austin revisits Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple with nostalgic charm, a detailed lived-in set, and an entertaining ensemble led by Darwin Ragsdale and Zachary Gamble. While the pacing occasionally softens the comedy’s sharp edge, the production still delivers a fun night of classic laug...
by Sabrina Wallace - April 21, 2026
Austin Playhouse’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, directed by Lara Toner Haddock, is a fast, witty farce about Monty Navarro and his murderous path to inheritance. The humor lands through timing and structure rather than weight or message. I’d almost forgotten how funny it is, and it�...
Past Shows
John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama brings a gripping storm of suspicion and scandal where no simple truths or answers exist. Set...
A boy's journey from pain to triumph is a sensory-defying rock and roll experience. Based on the iconic 1969 rock concept album, The Who's Tommy...
Frank Galati’s groundbreaking stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece of American literature. The powerful story of the Joad family and their flight from the dust...
An Austin premiere production. In 1663, Charles II reopens the England theatre playhouses and, for the first time, women are able to take the stage....
Some people will do anything to become a star…ANYTHING! Joan Crawford meets Auntie Mame in this award-winning, stage mother of all musicals, off-Broadway triumph, written...
How far would a man go to protect his family from the past? Arthur Miller’s award-winning stage classic tells the story of patriarch Joe Keller,...
“All the world’s a stage!” proclaims William Shakespeare in his most famous romantic comedy. Exiled under threat of death, the irresistible heroine Rosalind, escapes into...
BAD JEWS. Family and faith are not always kosher. Joshua Harmon’s acclaimed comedy asks questions about what you really choose to believe…when you’re chosen. The...
Called the funniest farce ever written, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off is the most outrageous comedy about putting on a comedy. With rollicking wildness centering on...
Anton Chekhov’s most revered work of hope, love, and loss in an exhilarating Austin premiere. When a retired professor and his beautiful young wife are...
Christmas-time in the Lone Star State - but the Futrelle sisters of Fayro, Texas, are not exactly in a festive mood. Frankie is overdue with...
The Austin premiere play about luck, the past, and the power of friendship. It’s Christmas Eve, Dublin, and in their rundown childhood home, where Sharky...
City Theatre opens its 12th season with Agatha Christie’s true classic of all whodunit mysteries. The scene is set when a group of unsuspecting guests...
After a sold-out weekend of explosive performances in January 2017, renowned violinist, singer, and showstopping performer Omar Phoenix returns with an exhilarating experience in sound,...
Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle in the smash hit musical which is sure to deliver! Chicago has everything that makes Broadway great: a universal...
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play, Tracy Lett’s dark comedy centers around the Weston family, who all come...
Larry Kramer’s searing drama about the public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's fight to awaken the world to the crisis....
Shakespeare's most famous comedy battle of the sexes! City Theatre heats up the summer with the popular Shakespearean comedy that pits the strong-willed Kate against...
Get thee to a nunnery with the hit musical comedy filled with so much sisterly love and good cheer that it has audiences for over...
Hypocrisy, greed, seduction, betrayal in the best of Moliere’s most famous farce. Under the religious cloak of piety, the lecherous, menacing, arch-hypocrite title character schemes...
Both famous in classic tragedy and modern comedy, two classics of the theatre performed in a full repertory production, and rotating each night with the...
Earning a Pulitzer Prize and three Best Play awards, Edward Albee has created a masterwork of modern theater. Three Tall Women is a beautiful and...
Even an imperfect family is family enough. This rings true in Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, spinning the zany story of a dysfunctional southern family,...
Perfect for the holidays, this Neil Simon fast and furious comedy hit will keep you in stitches all night. Inspired by Simon’s own early days...
Lie. Cheat. Steal…all in a day’s work. Everyone plays the angle in David Mamet’s brilliantly written examination of the competitive and cut-throat world of sales....
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 theatre goers for...
Written by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Tennessee Williams, it is one of the greatest plays of the 20th century and a classic of the American...
Let the mischief and merriment begin in this sizzling summer reimagining of Shakespeare’s most popular romantic comedy. In just one fantastic enchanted forest night, four...
William Inge’s American classic where eight snowbound strangers stranded at a Midwest diner get a full serving of love, longing and loneliness. Cherie’s a hard-up...
Politics is a dangerous place for a good man. That warning looms in the shadows of Robert Bolt’s legendary award-winning drama. Based on the fascinating,...
The hilarious and heartwarming play focuses on the lives of four mentally handicapped men who live together under the watchful eye of their sincere, yet...
The lovely ladies of Truvy’s Beauty Salon are back this holiday season! Robert Harling’s wisecracking and wise southern hit comedy serving up life, love, and...
Hailed by critics and audiences, an ingenious and wildly comic romp poking antic fun at the more ridiculous aspects of show biz and the corny...
Opening City Theatre’s 10th anniversary season, the Austin premiere play by Deborah Salem Smith pulls no punches as it lays bare the emotions of two...
Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight! This joyous, musical romp through Rome has desperate lovers, scheming neighbors, and secrets behind every toga. A Funny Thing is considered...
Oscar Wilde’s delicious comedy confection follows the romantic misadventures of two English cads who devise a double life in order to impress the strong-willed women...
Named by The New York Times as “the most important play of the 20th Century,” Samuel Beckett’s timeless masterpiece is a noble and moving work...
Benjamin's got excellent grades, very proud parents and, since he helped Mrs. Robinson with her zipper, a fine future behind him....A cult novel, a classic...
William Shakespeare’s timeless political thriller portrays the life and death struggle for power as honor, envy and patriotism collide. Caesar's political genius, military prowess and...
Bonnie and Clyde are Texas legends–but what do we really know about the dubious duo? The latest installment in Crank Collective’s Texas History Musicals, The...
From the successful writing team that brought you Dearly Beloved, Christmas Belles, and The Dixie Swim Club, comes the Texas premiere of the newest, Jones...
Edmund Rostand’s enduring masterwork about the power of love, the art of wordplay and the joy of finding what you've always wanted right under your...
Surf’s up as Psycho Beach Party hangs ten this summer! Playwright, actor, director, drag queen legend, Charles Busch mashes up Gidget beach party surfer films,...
Worlds collide in William Shakespeare's enchanting and much-loved comedy. In the household of Olivia, two campaigns are being quietly waged - one by the lovesick...
Written by American playwright Edward Albee and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The New York Times says “Edward Albee, the leading playwright of...
The Tony Award-winning comedy classic of famously mismatched roommates Oscar and Felix! When recently failed marriages force slovenly Oscar to share an apartment with fastidious...
TIED BY FAITH. BOUND BY FREEDOM. The Civil War has ended. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond, comes a wounded Jewish Confederate officer who finds...
GREASE. The one that you want is back! The No. 1 electrifyin’ musical GREASE will rock 'n roll its way into Austin this summer! So,...
One man will make a difference in Reginald Rose’s classic courtroom drama TWELVE ANGRY MEN Coming to Austin’s City Theatre May 16 – June 9...
Ken Ludwig’s madcap comedy MOON OVER BUFFALO comes to Austin March 21 – April 14 If comedies are your favorite choice of theatre, then Moon...
OTHELLO. William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of love, deceit, jealousy and murder. One of literature’s most tragic heroes squares off against his greatest villain in a...
The City Theatre Company Proudly presents Over the River and Through the Woods Opening November 29 – December 23, 2012 Come home for the holidays...
The City Theatre Company presents Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean written by Ed Graczyk October 25 – November 18....
Written by the playwright of Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die and The Tale of the Allergists Wife, the satirical farce Vampire Lesbians of Sodom...
Having already started filming a movie adaptation of Gone with the Wind, legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick comes to the conclusion that the screenplay...
Videos
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Boogie Down Broadway Empire Garage (6/27-6/27) |
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Disney’s Newsies Bastrop Opera House (9/04-9/27) |
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Much Ado About Murder: A Fully Staged Reading The Rosette (6/26-6/27) |
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Memorias Project 2026 dadaLab (6/20-6/21) |
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& Juliet Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas in Austin (7/14-7/19) |
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Averly Morillo McAllen Performing Arts Center (10/10-10/10) |
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Every Brilliant Thing Georgetown Palace Theatre (6/19-7/19) |
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Jonathan Williams Center Of Performing Arts Presents The Wiz Tya Julie Rogers Theatre (6/27-6/27) |
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Disney's Newsies McCullough Theatre (7/31-8/09) |
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Cristian Castro El Paso County Coliseum (11/07-11/07) |
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