Originally premiering on Broadway in September 2001, Urinetown remains as politically pointed today as it was at the dawn of the 21st century. Urinetown: The Musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis, is a razor-sharp satire disguised as outrageous comedy. The story follows the Read more
The The Filigree Theatre opens its seventh season with The Last Match by Anna Ziegler, a spare, psychologically astute two-hander set during the U.S. Open, pitting American champion Tim Porter against Russian challenger Sergei Sergeyev. The play uses the world of professional tennis not as spectacle, but as a tightly controlled arena Read more
The Penfold Theatre of Round Rock started a new cabaret series of live music events, and boy was it a blast. The show With Love, featuring Yesenia McNett, a New Braunfels resident and Texas-born singer and performer, belted out the numbers that had the audience snapping their fingers and tapping their Read more
Austin Classical Guitar (ACG), outdid themselves yet again with a little help from private sponsors at Austin’s favorite black box sound stage for classical guitar performances, The Rosette. Forget Super Bowl Sunday – the audience did indeed drop the ball on that as they sat in stunned silence listening to Read more
A sumptuous, intelligent production at ZACH Theatre proves the classic endures I’ve seen a lot of theatre in Austin over the years—both as a longtime audience member and as part of the Austin Theatre Critics Circle—and I don’t say this lightly: Murder on the Orient Express at ZACH Theatre is one of Read more
Texas doesn’t always let its artists leave cleanly. Even when they go, the imprint stays. That imprint—equal parts ambition, polish, competition, and tradition—travels with Emma Wallace, an actress from Austin, and Sara Wojta, a producer from Houston, both now living and working in the UK. Their friendship, formed not at Read more
The Quiet Resurrection of Austin’s First True Chinese Banquet House When the old New Fortune banquet hall in Chinatown on North Lamar shuttered during the uneasy stillness of the COVID years, a kind of cultural oxygen drained from North Austin. The once-bustling room, a sprawling cathedral of red carpets and […]
Entering the Soane’s, you’re immediately engulfed by a visual tempest — a staggering accumulation of art, artifacts, and plaster casts squeezed into three adjoining London townhouses. There’s not a patch of bare wall or a breath of empty space. From floor to ceiling, every crevice groans under the weight of […]
Once a Eurovision cynic, I walked out of ABBA Voyage stunned, converted, and grateful for the wake-up call. About 49 years ago, in Tokyo, I first heard ABBA. I wasn’t impressed. Eurovision pop felt too sugary for my taste — bubble‑gum melodies piped into elevators or blasted in arenas where […]
Continuing its 20th Anniversary Season, City Theatre Austin proudly presents Other Desert Cities, a searing family saga by Pulitzer Prize finalist, playwright, and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz. Family pride proves thicker than blood in this award-winning play that lays bare the secrets, loyalties, and lies within a privileged American family. “Honey, news flash. […]
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