Ancient versus modern. Peace versus war. Reptile versus mammal. A tale of the ultimate culture clash between two tribes and a fantastical race to decide …

The Overtime Theater and TacoTown Theatre Company proudly present the world-premiere production of A Sign from the Taco Gods, an autobiographical, solo play written and …

Post-apocalyptic future. After a nuclear event destroyed much of the country, militias who had lost faith in the government took control of their respective areas. …

Coming off of a sold out 14-week run in Los Angeles, Paradise, a sinfully divine bluegrass comedy, brings its irreverent, heart-warming, toe-tapping show to Austin …

  The title "The Magic Fire" refers to the circle of fire that the Norse god Wotan erects to shield and entrap Brunnhilde, in Wagner's …

The VORTEX presents the  National New Play Network  Rolling World Premiere of Heartland A new play by Gabriel Jason Dean Directed by Rudy Ramirez  Dr. …

Filled with humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who spend their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while …

Simon Mostyn has recently married Kay Ridgeway, a rich woman, having thrown over his former lover Jacqueline. The couple are on their honeymoon and are …

A devised pieced inspired by Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.

Lone Star takes place in the cluttered backyard of a small-town Texas bar. Roy, a brawny, macho type who had once been a local high-school hero, …

Lift up your hands for the most groundbreaking, heart-stomping, gut-busting character ever to grace the stage! Created by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Hedwig and …

Come see this innovative production in which one actor is handed the script for the first time when they step on the stage! We will …

Set in the East Village of New York City, this is an inspiring musical about friends and artists struggling with addiction, poverty, and most of …

Silent Night, with music by Kevin Puts and a libretto by Mark Campbell (The Manchurian Candidate, 2016), is based on the 2005 film Joyeux Noël, which …

Jim Loucks’ new show Booger Red was created as part of an Artist Residency in Madisonville, KY, and premiered at their first-ever Bacon Blues and Big Stories …

As a Zionist leader, Theodor Herzl's a natural. As a playwright, he's a putz. As a husband? Oy. In this hilarious black comedy, Speed Levitch's The …

Outrageous. Funny. Unapologetic! This one-woman show takes you to 10th century Sweden for a Norse RED Talk. Think TED Talks with a Viking twist.  Ingrid …

"DOG PLAY, PUG TO WOLFHOUND: Patty to Beatrice, Bitch to Bitch" by Michael Michaelian, is a tribute celebrating the human-canine relationship.Starring JUDE HICKEY and JUSTIN …

 The ultimate show-biz musical.

  In the 1950’s, in a plantation house in the Mississippi Delta, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of the patriarch Big Daddy but despite …

Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together. They’ve just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country, to …

Set in the desert of Barstow, California, where Gabriela, the wife of career soldier Benito, dives into a surreal fantasy world during her husband’s prolonged …

              You are invited to roll on over to the Palace Theatre in Georgetown for a night of high-octane Western entertainment: “Pump boys” L.M., …

Charlotte Brontë's great love story comes to life with music to lift your heart and set your spirit soaring. This beloved tale of secrets and …

Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner …

Based on the classic 80s movie, this toe-tapping musical is the story of three unlikely friends who take control of their office and their lives. …

A one-act play by Susan Gaspel, directed by Dr. James Ayers Featured at the 2019 Winter Community Showcase

The National Theatre’s adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat returns to the Magik stage. Not a word has been touched or added …

An original devised dramedy about a community of queer & transgender friends coming together to overcome personal grief & loss against the backdrop of insidious …

Urine Trouble, by James E. Burnside. A late middle-aged man discusses his prostate.Still Me, by Pelita Dasalla. Donna is a fifty year-old woman who recently lost her …

Video Promo, published January 25, 2019    

BEST OF WEEK. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance will be selected by our panel from the previous week's …

  Not All Men, by Joy Cunningham. While having drinks with the gals, listening to their stories of sexual molestation, raper, or near-rape, writer/performer Joy Cunningham …

  Medea, by Euripides, translation by Ian Johnston. In this performance, the Sacred Clowns Theatre Project presents their interpretation of Euripides' two-thousand-year-old play about a woman …

  Did You Find What You Were Looking For?, by Tom Booker. Tom Booker has been working in theater for over thirty years; he has the …

  WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID takes place in the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, and the Violence Against Women Act. Agnes has turned …

"You think you're safe on solid ground, and all the sudden the earth cracks open." Directed by Heath Lagrone

By America's great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home …

Ken Ludwig’s screwball comedy Moon Over Buffalo opens on the Wimberley Players stage February 8 and runs through March 3. It’s 1953 and Charlotte and George Hay …

  Diana has it all. She's beautiful, intelligent, and sweet-natured. The sort of rare girl that all men swoon over. The three men in her …

  Ride is the story of a taxi driver named Stockton who's underwater on his taxi medallion due to competition from ride share companies. He and …

As Tolkien famously wrote, "Not all those who wander are lost." TILT takes these words to heart in our upcoming original production I Wander! Join us to …

A filmic portrait about two people, living in a ghost town.  A story about solitude and survival, the results of a failed atomic experiment. BERLIN's Zvizdal is a cinematic …

In this moving drama of escape from slavery and flight to freedom, two young slave boys escape from a South Carolina plantation. With the help …

Cap Stargazer and the Amazon Women of Mars, by Stephen Bittrich. A parody of old time radio theatre—in this case, the genre is the space adventure …

Rap Unzel: an original musical adaption of the classic tale of Rapunzel, collaboratively written by Jeremy Rashad Brown and Deanna Belardinelli with music by SaulPaul. …

Two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge …

SPECTRUM THEATRE COMPANY, Austin’s only African-American theatre company, will present a special Black History Month program, “Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of African-American Literature.” This …

BEST OF WEEK. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance will be selected by our panel from the previous week's …

BEST OF FEST Bill A. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2019 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and …

Cast away on a magical island, an exiled duke struggles to subdue his enemies and reunite his daughter with society. In this fresh look at …

From the Tony Award®-winning creators of the Broadway classic Ragtime, this dazzling show transports us from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria …

Mrs. Karalot’s class of 5th grade students are not excited about spending the day at the history museum. But when they refuse to cooperate, they are …

BEST OF FEST Bill B. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2019 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and …

Inspired by Euripides' The Women of Troy, The Women of _______ (a song not song) invites the audience to join nameless ghosts on a multilingual journey through poems …

BEST OF FEST WILD CARD PERFORMANCE. Tonight we present staff picks from among the 2018 Short Fringe performances that were overlooked by the Best of …

    When Ann thinks of her father, she immediately remembers playing Peter Pan in her hometown theater in Iowa, particularly when he used to …

This deliriously funny comedy is all about L-O-V-E.  Under a full moon on this unpredictable night of romance four rollicking tales take you on an …

  “You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life.” The iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning classic presents life, …

  The legendary Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson will grace the stage at the Hill Country Community Theatre in the third show of its 2018-19 …

The Civil War is over, but the fighting rages on in 1870s Texas. In this one-hour musical comedy, a beleaguered army officer stands between an …

All for one, and one for all! Join d’Artagnan in his quest to join the King’s Royal Musketeers in this new adaptation of the classic …

When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face …

  The Trip to Bountiful by Texas playwright Horton Foote “Horton Foote's wistful, beautifully wrought drama The Trip to Bountiful... seems as fresh and vibrant as …

In 1930, British poet Flora Crewe travels to India. Flora is a thoroughly modern girl who has modeled for Modigliani, hobnobbed with communists, and been accused of obscenity …

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, a fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s. Saratoga-McDaniels’ …

            As gleefully silly, yet wickedly smart as the beloved British comedy troupe that inspired it, Spamalot parodies the legend of King …

In 1677, poet, translator, libertine, and sometime spy for Charles II, Aphra Behn was the first published professional female playwright in the English language. Her …

Join us for the Broadway hit musical Xanadu, based on the 1980 Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly cult classic film. This hilarious story is very simple, a …

  The dance-poetry of two black, out-lesbian women in a committed relationship.  Brooklyn-based artists return to The VORTEX after their stand-out performance at last year’s …

Edward Baxter was a successful psy- chiatrist, beloved by his many patients—until he was framed for murder. Now on the run with an assumed identity …

Texas Concert Opera Collective presents "Werther," by Jules Massenet, sung in French with English supertitles on Saturday, February 16 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, February …

Eight-year-old Carmencita dreams of being in her father’s Mariachi band, but her father insists that mariachi groups can only include men.  When Carmencita reads a …

The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler.    The Vagina Monologues is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying …

When 17-year-old Alma Jean finds her mother dead, she must pack up her life and move in with her mother’s ex-lover, a woman she doesn’t …

black do crack is an invitation to transform. It is an exploration of the mythology of the strong black woman. The mother who is not …

Murder By Natural Causes, a stylish and witty suspense-thriller by playwright Tim Kelly, centers around Arthur Sinclair, a world-famous mentalist, and his greedy and cunning wife, …

Georgia is pudgy, awkward and desperately trying to fit in at her high school. Then she joins the swim team, falling for Savannah. Long after …

  The Face Of Emmett TillWritten By: Mamie Till - Mobley & David Barr IIIAn Austin, Texas Premier!August 28, 1955 -- 50 years ago Emmett …

  A heartwarming Cinderella story about a witty and winsome young woman and her mysterious benefactor, based on the treasured novel that inspired the classic …

Bridget and her grandmother are about to become roommates. However, what Bridget saw as a unique opportunity to stay with her favorite Nana in New …

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic 1943 musical is about life in life in the Oklahoma territory shortly after the turn of the 20th century. The glorious …

This spring, we’re excited to bring back the charming story of Eliza Doolittle, a poor cockney flower girl. Watch as she struggles under the lessons …

When boy meets girl, almost any future is possible. But what if we applied theoretical physics to explore them? A love story for the nerd …

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions …

When lovely Gideon Hollis a.k.a. Giddy spots an unconscious man in a tank top and shorts lying in Copley Square just after all other Boston …

Salvage Vanguard Theater introduces you to Sera in Eva Suter’s work in progress Birdskin, Or What Do You Do For Money, Honey. Sera’s debt has …

Click to view feature by Beth Sullivan in the Austin Chronicle, February 14, 2019

  while our blood’s still young​ is collaboratively conceived and performed by Amanda Dunne Acevedo and Lindsey Barlag Thornton, who create work together as Genesis. The …

 ZACH Theatre is proud to announce the cast for the regional premiere of Anna Deavere Smith’s critically acclaimed play Notes From the Field, running February 27 – March 31, 2019 in The Kleberg. …

Directed by Kirstin Rogers.

In 1879, Henrik Ibsen wrote one of the most controversial plays of all time: A Doll's House, in which Nora walks out on her husband …

  The VORTEX is proud to present the Austin debut of international touring poet and published author, Jason Bayani with his critically-acclaimed Locus of Control, a compelling mix of …

    For a two-week special event, The City Theatre Company presents the comedic satire Lysistrata. With wars raging, the distressed women of Athens take matters into …