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Uncommon combinations – dance with horses, music with robots, drama with a Tesla coil – made the year unforgettable

Walt Whitman's spirit logs on to social media with imagination in this Mickle Maher drama

As usual, ScriptWorks' annual showcase of 10-minute plays is a bit rough but shows the promise of creative minds

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

Hyde Park Theatre's The Christians is remarkable in its compassion for its characters' beliefs

Breaking String's two-course meal of Chekhov tales proves both meaty and effervescent

Mickle Maher's play is fiercely literary yet wholly accessible, and Capital T Theatre's staging is a joy

With this clever comedy, Capital T treats us to a kinder, gentler doomsday

Caridad Svich's 'Thrush' takes place in a war-ravaged world, but the writer's ill-conceived structure and Salvage Vanguard Theater's slow and sentimental production makes that world surprisingly dull

Director Ken Webster's production of 'The Water Principle' seems as much at cross-purposes with the quirky, strange script as its characters are with one another

'Spin' can be described as a one-woman cabaret with one woman who performs several one-woman exposés

Three local shows show breaking into song ain't what it used to be

Every visit to Hyde Park Theatre brings a discovery of something new, and in the case of Quake, it's playwright Melanie Marnich, whose surrealistic tale of a woman in search of a perfect love, a big love, a love that makes the earth move, is witty and perceptive.

Epic is not something often attempted in the theatre, much less by small arts groups, but with Orange, Refraction Arts Project is telling the epic history of a fictitious city across three time periods in four overlapping storylines, with the participation of 15 playwrights and 25 actors.

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become a global phenomenon, and Governor Rick Perry and Austin Mayor Gus Garcia speak out in favor of the Long Center.

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.

The State Theater Company's production of Dinner With Friends brings into crystalline focus the many facets of friendship and love that playwright Donald Margulies has exposed in his Pulitzer-winning script, and does so with crisp timing, finely blended humor, and moments of genuine theatrical honesty.

As produced by Hyde Park Theatre, playwright Melanie Marnich's Blur draws the audience along in a briskly-paced, dynamic ride.

With actor David Stahl currently appearing as the wicked Richard III and actor Katherine Catmull having recently played the evil Goneril in King Lear, the challenge of playing villains seemed a ripe topic to launch a series of artist-to-artist conversations on craft.

Frontera names Subterranean Theatre Company the new producing company in residence at Hyde Park Theatre.

In the Public Domain Theatre Company's production of King Lear, director Robi Polgar and company bring Shakespeare's play into the present with high tech and high fashion, and the smooth execution of the concept create a novel version of this familiar tragedy with a striking proximity to our lives.

Here's Cyndi Williams' new play, Fish: an evocation of people and situations like the psychic furniture of a darker David Lynch film.

The Subterranean Theatre Company production of John Mighton's Body and Soul is provocative and features a talented cast, but it never lets us get to know the play's characters.

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

With JT Habersaat, David Wheeler, Jodi Egerton, Marc English & more.

Ada Calhoun covers The Public Domain production of Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes.

Local Arts Reviews

The 21st annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest