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From the first stomach-turning minute, audiences for the Vortex Repertory Company production of Shopping and Fucking are in for a rough ride; they're witness to the horrible depths to which its characters have sunk and the desperation with which they try to claw their way out.

With the arrival of September, Austin is again awash in Shakespeare. Five productions -- from a minimalist Romeo and Juliet to a deconstructed comedy goofing on all the plays -- are currently playing Central Texas stages.

Aaron Brown can write, no doubt about that, but in his new play The Bridge Burner the Austin playwright has used his fine ear for dialogue, skills of characterization, and sense of outrage to cover familiar territory in the vein of dysfunctional family drama.

If any company in Austin is equipped to handle the mythological heft of the Greek tragedies, it's VORTEX Repertory Company, and under the direction of Bonnie Cullum, Fractured Greeks, a collection of scenes taken from and inspired by the Trojan War plays of Euripides and Sophocles, holds together pretty well.

Ratgirl drops her tights to comment on Wayne Alan Brenner's review of Uncaged.

New Paintings By Sarah Higdon: Nonsense and Sensibility

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

On Monday, June 3, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the Austin arts in a ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

Yes, and it's all because of those creepy Blackbower Mediums

In 10 years of leading Frontera productions, Vicky Boone has touched many lives and changed the community.

Local Arts Reviews

Altamont Now: Maybe Later

Top Ten Theatrical Experiences of 1997

Dracula and Fur Tempt Females With the Dark Side

To what citywide scandal has our monopoly daily directed its powerful attention? It's a local scourge, a plague, a deep-rooted city problem: the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. (Okay, well, we don't get it either.)

Annual celebration of succulence and slaking will fête you this fall

An invocation on the eve of South by Southwest