Watching a musical, any musical, is always a bit weird at first. As the houselights fade, the audience is abruptly transported from a world where no one sings and dances without cause or provocation (except, perhaps, at 2am on Dirty Sixth) to one where everyone does, and that takes some getting used to.

There’s been a lot of debate of late, among entertainment industry members and advocacy groups, about whether LGBTQ+ characters on the stage and screen should only be played by LGBTQ+ actors.

In a 2021 Gallup poll, about 21% of adults in Generation Z identified on the LGBT spectrum.

In the 2015 sci-fi film The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is left for dead on the surface of Mars. While salvaging through the things his colleagues left behind in order to assess his resources for survival, he comes to realize that his only source of music is Commander Lewis’ vast collection of disco.

HBO’s hit series Barry - the comedy/drama about a hitman trying to get out of the killer's life by taking up acting - kicked off its third season Sunday night, but not before a special preview screening as part of Moontower Just for Laughs.

Jiggle what? Jiggle who? Jiggle for World Burlesque Day coming to you, courtesy of Austin's own innovators of the ecdysiastic arts, the Jigglewatts.

Deon Cole is an expert entertainer. Since hitting fame in ABC's Black-ish, the former Conan writer has become a touring stand-up star. At Moontower Just For Laughs last Thursday night, he strutted out from the wings to explosive applause: The audience knew exactly who they came to see, and Cole did not disappoint.

If Marc Maron ever writes an autobiography, it should be called Hope Dies First, and the small set of surviving Studs Turkel fans will get a final laugh at the nod as the world burns.

"I'll bomb, I don't give a shit," Shapel Lacey deadpanned into the mic. After all, he was safe: as the MC of the Moontower Comedy Just For Laughs New Faces show last night, he had least to worry about.