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The musical version of Carrie, no longer a legendary flop, makes a timely debut in Austin

Long Center supporters do a funding turnaround by asking the city for $25 million in bond money, and Austin Musical Theatre finds new life as Broadway Texas.

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

Payne Pleasures 1999

Payne Pleasures 1998

The UT alumnus left Austin to be in "the room where it happens": in Hamilton on Broadway

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

Richard Rodgers knew well the dog's bite, the bee's sting, plagued as he was by inner demons, personal trials, and psychic pain. Yet he was able somehow to produce from this dark world music of sweetness and light.

Central Texas writer Tom Grimes has a play date in L.A., Deborah Hay duets with Baryshnikov in Brooklyn, and Jouét flies off to Louisville, plus legislative applause for Austin musicals Jouét and Oliver!

Director Dave Steakley, in daring to formulate an answer to the question "What if Fellini had directed Evita?" has pulled off a brazen, vast-scaled circus of a production, a completely over-the-(big)-top sensation of a theatre experience.

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

Chronicle Art Reviews

Comeback Kids

What's not happening around Austin, arts-wise

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

Remembering the versatile theatre artist, who died March 2

38th annual local theatre awards ceremony tonight

The Georgetown Palace Theatre tours its hit musical to the State Theatre

An era of Austin theatre ends as Austin Musical Theatre files for bankruptcy.

Renowned composer and educator Kent Kennan has died, longtime Paramount Theatre manager Paul Beutel calls it quits, and Vincent Kitch signs on as the city of Austin's cultural arts program manager.

For its debut show, the Silverstar Theater Group staged Rebecca Schwarz's The USO Christmas Show, a new musical set during a 1940s radio broadcast. But inconsistencies in style had the Forties ambience fading in and out like a distant radio signal.

Christopher McCollum on Set Design

You wouldn't know this Sondheim musical was a legendary flop from the impressive staging at St. Ed's

TexARTS' Big River, its first foray into full-scale musical production, was more than impressive; it was energetic, entertaining, and joyous

TexARTS' highly anticipated version of 'The Music Man' brought Meredith Willson's classic musical to life with charm and verve and a fullness of character that's eluded many a production fully tricked out in period costumes and sets

Austin theatre's barnyard brothers are ready to take over TV – and the world

The scoop on the 2000-01 Austin Critics Table awards ceremony