Joseph Garlock News

The 2025–2026 Austin theatre season was bold, adventurous, thought-provoking, and funny as heck. I haven’t cried in public as much as I did this past season!

The Hidden Room’s Fire Raisers is chilling and razor-sharp, where politeness becomes peril in a world where truth is seen and still ignored. Under Beth Burns, it mirrors a culture where power bends consequence, and complicity hides in plain sight.

Austin Playhouse has announced the lineup for its annual Festival of New Texas Plays, returning June 21–22, 2025. The festival showcases new works-in-progress by Texas-based playwrights and continues the company’s commitment to nurturing original voices through readings, commissions, and world premieres.

Penfold Theatre will present two seasonal adaptations for December: A CHRISTMAS CAROL CLASSIC RADIO CAST and THE GIFT OF THE MAGI. Learn more about the productions and see how to purchase tickets.

Join the B. Iden Payne Awards Council at the Austin Scottish Rite Theatre to honor excellence in Austin theatre, recognizing achievements across various genres. Learn how to attend.

Austin Playhouse's production of Arcadia is a stunning and well-executed piece of theatre. It challenges audiences to reflect on life's complexities while providing an engaging and often humorous narrative. With a talented cast and skilled direction, it is a must-see this season! #ATXTheatre

Austin Playhouse has announced the cast and creatives for Arcadia written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Lara Toner Haddock playing September 13 – October 6, 2024.

Austin Playhouse has revealed the cast and creatives for the poignant and touching one-person show Every Brilliant Thing. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Penfold Theatre Company (Penfold) announces the return of Your Old Fashioned Die Hard Radiocast for the 2023 holiday season. Based on the screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, Your Old Fashioned Die Hard Radiocast is written by Associate Artistic Director Nathan Jerkins and will play two performances – one night – on December 22 at the historic Driskill Hotel, 604 Brazos St in Austin.

Austin Playhouse announces the full cast of the World Premiere of Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles adapted by Producing Artistic Director Lara Toner Haddock as part of the 2020-2021 Ghostlight Season. This hybrid virtual production will run May 21 – June 5, 2021. Tickets are on sale now.

Steven Dietz's Dracula stars Keith Contreras-McDonald (Dracula) and Sarah Kimberley Becker (Mina). Commissioned for A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), Steven Dietz's Dracula makes its regional premiere at ZACH this October before it premieres at ACT this fall. In Dracula, Dietz gives us a new look at this love story through Mina's perspective, looking at Bram Stoker's work with a female-focused 21st Century lens. Dracula plays The Topfer at ZACH, September 25–November 3, 2019, under the direction of playwright Steven Dietz.

Archive Theatre's CYRANO DE BERGERAC Delivers Epic Experience

ZACH Theatre announces the cast for Steven Dietz's new work Dracula, the 2019a?"20 season opener for ZACH's Mainstage Series.

Director Don Toner first directed Mark Harelik's THE IMMIGRANT 28 years ago. Happily for Austin, he and Austin Playhouse have decided to restage this charming, inspiring and touching tale for a new generation. THE IMMIGRANT is based on the true story of Harelik's grandfather, a young Russian-Jewish man who entered America through the port of Galveston. Set in Hamilton, Texas (a tiny town with a population of 1,203, no Jews) Haskell Harelik (Joseph Garlock) begins life in America with only a hand pushed fruit cart and a mere smattering of English words at his disposal. It is his gentle spirit and hard work that touches the heart of the local banker and his wife to win him a helping hand. Milton (Huck Huckaby) and Ima Perry (Cyndi Williams) offer him a place to live and eventually, financial help from Milton. With their help, Haskell finally saves up enough money to open a store and send for his wife, Leah (Estrella Saldana). Since the original World Premiere production, directed here in Austin by Toner, Harelik has also adapted the show into a chamber musical.

Present Company's current production of Shakespeare at the Market, TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare is beautiful, hilarious ode to the Bard.

Shit-faced Shakespeare, presented by UK-based Magnificent Bastard Productions, will be keeping the party going through the end of June at Spider House Ballroom. The extension features the Austin-based cast that has been performing the adaptation since its arrival to the Lone Star State at the end of January.

BroadwayWorld-Austin is pleased to share these production photos from the World Premiere production of Still Now, a new play by Katie Bender. Still Now is produced by Shrewd Productions.

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To all at The Hidden Room, I hope you know that you've accomplished the impossible. You've made me like Hamlet. I know there are millions out there who consider Hamlet to be the greatest tragedy of all time, but I on the other hand consider the act of viewing Hamlet to be the real tragedy. Honestly, if I wanted to watch three hours of an unsympathetic, indecisive whiner hem and haw over decisions that will affect their entire country, I'd turn on C-SPAN and watch an entire Congress do their best imitation of Shakespeare's infamous Prince of Denmark.