tracking pixel
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Victoria Schwarz

Vikki Schwarz (she/her) is an Austin-area composer and arranger working in church music, elementary music, and local theater. She is the Music Director and Lead Composer/Arranger for Archive Theatre (Cyrano, Macbeth [nominated for Broadway World and B. Iden Payne Awards], A Sherlock Holmes Christmas, Raven-Winged Hours). She also composes and directs music for Diverse Dance Space Theatre, Austin Children’s Theatre, and Interwoven Theatre. Other works include My Big Fat Bahookie, Far From Avalon, Not My Mother, and A Fat Search for Love. Upcoming projects include Roaring Three Musketeers for Archive Theatre, Lockdown (short form opera), and False Starts, Falls, Fouls or The Art of Making Mistakes (Diverse Dance Space Theatre). 






MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

Review: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER at Bastrop Opera House
Review: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER at Bastrop Opera House
May 2, 2025

From April 25 to May 11, the Bastrop Opera House presents Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak’s hilarious musical A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER as part of its 2025 season.

Review: LEND ME A SOPRANO at The Wimberley Playhouse
Review: LEND ME A SOPRANO at The Wimberley Playhouse
April 30, 2025

From April 25 to May 18, The Wimberley Playhouse proudly presents LEND ME A SOPRANO, Ken Ludwig’s side-splitting comedy adapted from his beloved hit Lend Me a Tenor. Set in 1934, the story is set in a hotel room while the Cleveland Grand Opera Company waits in anticipation of a one-night-only performance by world-famous soprano Elena Firenzi, starring as Carmen.

Review: LIPSTICK at Austin Rainbow Theatre
Review: LIPSTICK at Austin Rainbow Theatre
April 14, 2025

From April 11-26, Austin Rainbow Theatre presents Lane Michael Stanley’s LIPSTICK at the Ground Floor Theatre. LIPSTICK combines farcical humor with heartfelt emotion, serving as a love letter to the queer community with its sharp dialogue, vibrant characters, and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.

Review: HOOKMAN at Broke Thespians Theatre Company
Review: HOOKMAN at Broke Thespians Theatre Company
April 8, 2025

From March 28 to April 6, Broke Thespian’s Theatre Company presented Lauren Yee’s HOOKMAN at the VFW Post 3413 in San Marcos. HOOKMAN is a dark comedy thriller that follows Lexi, a new college student navigating the struggles of homesickness, a quirky roommate, and a campus under siege by a hook-handed serial killer targeting young women.

Review: MOTHERTREE at VORTEX Theatre
Review: MOTHERTREE at VORTEX Theatre
April 3, 2025

The VORTEX Theatre, supported in part by the Save Our Springs Alliance, the Texas Commission on the Arts, TreeFolks, the City of Austin Economic Development Department, ATX Theatre, and Six Square Austin’s Black Cultural District, presents the world premiere of MOTHERTREE by Bonnie Cullum and Sarah Saltwick on their Eloise Stage from March 27 to April 20.

Review: LEND ME A TENOR at Bastrop Opera House
Review: LEND ME A TENOR at Bastrop Opera House
March 31, 2025

From March 28 to April 6, Bastrop Opera House presents LEND ME A TENOR as part of their 2025 season. A farce written by Ken Ludwig, LEND ME A TENOR is set in 1930s Cleveland, revolving around a chaotic evening at the opera. The story begins when world-famous tenor Tito Merelli, set to perform the lead role in Otello, is mistakenly believed to have died after a night of excessive drinking. In a panic, the opera company’s manager, Henry Saunders, enlists his assistant, Max, to impersonate Merelli and take his place on stage.

Review: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE at Gaslight-Baker Theatre
Review: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE at Gaslight-Baker Theatre
March 31, 2025

From March 28 to April 13, Gaslight-Baker Theatre presents ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, sponsored by Doug and Shari Foster, as part of their 2025 season. Written by Joseph Ketterling, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is a dark comedy that centers on Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who discovers that his sweet elderly aunts, Abby and Martha, have been poisoning lonely, kinless men with arsenic-laced elderberry wine as part of their self-discerned and misguided “charity” work.

Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Georgetown Palace Theatre
Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Georgetown Palace Theatre
March 25, 2025

From March 28 to April 19, Georgetown Palace Theatre presents on their Springer Stage A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, sponsored by Joanne and Bill Harrah and the Assistance League, as part of their 2025 season.

Review: LOCKSLEY: A TALE OF ROBIN HOOD at The Chambers Theatre
Review: LOCKSLEY: A TALE OF ROBIN HOOD at The Chambers Theatre
March 6, 2025

What did our critic think of LOCKSLEY: A TALE OF ROBIN HOOD at The Chambers Theatre?

Review: NUNSENSE: THE MUSICAL at The Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center
Review: NUNSENSE: THE MUSICAL at The Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center
March 10, 2025

From February 21 to March 2, Southwestern University’ Sarofim School of Fine Arts theater program presented NUNSENSE: THE MUSICAL by Dan Goggin on their Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones stage. Modeled after a line of greeting cards featuring a nun offering tart quips with a clerical slant, NUNSENSE premiered in 1985 at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre and is a heartwarming and hilarious musical comedy set in a convent where a group of five nuns is determined to raise enough money to bury their fellow sisters who tragically died after a cooking accident.

Review: URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL at Bastrop Opera House
Review: URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL at Bastrop Opera House
February 28, 2025

From February 21 to March 9, Bastrop Opera House presents URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann as the 4th offering of their 2024-2025 season, an offbeat musical that blends dark humor with social commentary on corruption, class struggle, and the environment. Entertaining an excited, energetic audience, this production showcases moments of creativity and ambition that bring moments of genuine charm, and the clever, self-aware script holds the audience's attention despite some normal opening night mishaps. 

Review: CRIMES OF THE HEART at The Wimberley Playhouse
Review: CRIMES OF THE HEART at The Wimberley Playhouse
February 21, 2025

What did our critic think of CRIMES OF THE HEART at The Wimberley Playhouse?

Review: PRIDE & PREJUDICE at Gaslight-Baker Theatre
Review: PRIDE & PREJUDICE at Gaslight-Baker Theatre
February 21, 2025

What did our critic think of PRIDE & PREJUDICE at Gaslight-Baker Theatre?

Review: LES MISÉRABLES at Bass Concert Hall


 1       




Videos