B. Iden Payne News

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has announced the complete principal casts, creative teams, and events planned for the previously announced summer season.

Mystery, murder, and mayhem is the entertainment choice of the spring theatre season! And this time it's complete with Nazi saboteurs, secret passageways, flickering lights, and well, the blizzard of the century.

The Back Pack presents: NOTED, A fast-paced movement-based comedy extravaganza creatively combining non-spoken performance, music, dance, and media.

Luchadora!, the award-winning play by Alvaro Saar Rios that celebrates female empowerment, lucha libre wrestling and honors the rich Mexican culture comes to the arena stage at the St. Edward's University Mary Moody Northen Theatre April 13 – 23, 2023.  

Following its critically acclaimed and B. Iden Payne-nominated 2022 season, The Alchemy Theatre once again brings its transformative and authentic storytelling to the musical THE BAKER'S WIFE.

Austin-based independent theatre company, The Filigree Theatre, have announced the dates for their upcoming production, the World Premiere of “Tide.” The 'site-specific' show will open Thursday, April 20, starting at 8 p.m. at the Moontower Cider Company.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announced the cast and creative team of its upcoming production of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, which will run March 24 – April 23, 2023, in the iconic in-the-round Fichandler Stage.

Fall in love with the ladies of Truvy’s Beauty Salon all over again! City Theatre Austin will open the 2023 season with Robert Harling’s comedic gem, Steel Magnolias. Under the direction of Artistic Director Andy Berkovsky, performances run March 10 – 26 at Genesis Fellowship Hall.

Austin-based independent theatre company, The Filigree Theatre, announces the dates for the next production in their “By The Sea” season titled “Fire in Dreamland.” Opening weekend will run from Thursday, Feb. 2 to Sunday, Feb. 5, starting at 8 p.m. each night at the Factory on 5th (3409 E 5th St., Austin, TX 78702). The show will then run the following Thursday - Sunday evenings at 8 p.m., closing on Sunday, Feb. 12.

Street Corner Arts will present the Austin Premiere of THE GULF by Audrey Cefaly, opening at Hyde Park Theatre on December 2nd, 2022!

The National Theatre Conference is honoring new and long-time organizations and individuals who affect and inspire the field, and has named the recipients of its 2022 awards.

Hell in a Handbag Productions will ring in the holiday season with the return of its favorite seniors in The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, The Obligatory Holiday Special, playing November 26 – December 30, 2022 at The Hoover-Leppen Theatre at The Center on Halsted.

Acclaimed Irish playwright Brian Friel takes us across the sea to a mystical and haunting land as City Theatre Austin begins its 17th season with the celebrated play Faith Healer.

Latino Theater Company will present the West Coast premiere of (Un)Documents written and performed by queer actor, theatermaker & poet Jesús I. Valles and directed by Rudy Ramirez. Performances take place October 14 through November 20 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown L.A, with two low-priced previews set for October 12 and October 13.

To end the summer “Back in Show Business” season, City Theatre Austin is honored to present the musical classic, The Fantasticks. It is a show years in the making and the company's first full-length musical production since their 2018 mega-hit sensation Tommy. The curtains rises September 2 – 18 at Trinity Street Playhouse located at the First Baptist Church of Austin.

Why are first dates universally so hard and what if the universe actually intervened to make it less so? ENTANGLEMENT looks at the relationship Venn diagram of all things romantic and quantum in a way that is hopefully relatable without (overly) stirring up flashbacks of your own.

If comedies are your favorite choice of theatre entertainment, then look no further! City Theatre Austin will kick-off the 2022 summer season with Steve Martin's madcap stage show Picasso at the Lapin Agile, winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. Directed by Artistic Director Andy Berkovsky, the production runs June 24 – July 17 at Trinity Street Playhouse.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is thrilled to present two performances as part of its upcoming Family Series. Every year, the Center brings the best of professional youth performances to Orange County through the Family Series.

Continuing the 2022 season, City Theatre Austin has announced the full-production stage presentation of Edward Albee's award-winning play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Described as “an extraordinarily brilliant play,” this riveting, revealing, biting, and almost shattering examination of marriage and family is one of the most successful plays in modern American theatre and all too rarely produced in Austin.  

Austin-based, women-led independent theatre company The Filigree Theatre has announced the third and final show of their third season (extended due to COVID hiatus), the World Premiere of 'LIFTED,' a modern meditation on the tale of Icarus, by playwright Charlie Thurston.