Zach Theatre has become one of Austin’s most significant stages for both crowd-pleasing popular productions and challenging works that intrigue and enthrall. With the 2024-25 season, announced today, both are represented in both returning favorites and brand-new productions.

If you think opera is just warbling about Teutonic deities, newly-announced Austin Opera's 2024-25 season may change your mind, with a Cold War paranoia drama, a new work about the Day of the Dead, and a choral landmark from a master of opera to be performed alongside a tragic classic.

David Sedaris is used to crowds. As a New Yorker, he’s used to being in one of the most crowded cities in America: not crowded as in simply packed, but in the constant presence of a bubbling humanity in its streets.

If you’ve been to Justine’s Brasserie, the much-loved Eastside French bistro and perennial Best of Austin winner, you already know it’s a place of beauty – beautiful people, beautifully composed plates. Imagining all that transposed to an art museum is no stretch.

Skeptical passersby peer into the bustling bar, barely lit by the late afternoon February sun. It’s too early for the typical Saturday night crowd on Austin’s Dirty Sixth Street. But not too early for Ryans.

The eclipse may have been a cloudy bust, but there’s still time for some twilight fun today with a special book signing for and reading from the new book from local author Ernest Cline.

Many plays have two acts, but not many are two legs of a journey. That's just part of what makes new production Overheard on a Train so unique.

The best of Broadway keeps making its way to Austin, with Texas Performing Arts announcing the titles for its 2024-25 Broadway in Austin season at the Bass Concert Hall. The schedule is filled with beloved classics like Hamilton and Funny Girl, and red hot new smashes like MJ and Shucked.

Funny women are headlining this year's South by Southwest Comedy Festival, with solo shows from BAFTA Breakthrough artist Luisa Omielan and WGA award-winning writer Yamaneika Saunders just part of this year's celebration of laughter (running March 8-12 and open to all badgeholders).