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The new year is prime time to discover this musical anatomy of one couple's relationship

Austin Playhouse's production of this early Sondheim musical features some strong work, but it also feels dated and safe

It's surprising how much of the sharp edge in Mamet's Hollywood satire is polished off by Austin Playhouse's production

Austin Playhouse's production provides a pleasurable escape from our world of straight talk and minimal etiquette

Austin Playhouse revival reminds us that the war between creationists and Darwinists still isn't finished

Austin Playhouse's revival takes this female comedy beyond Thelma-and-Louise territory

'House' and 'Garden,' Alan Ayckbourn's coupled comedies performed in tandem by a single cast, is really one show divided between two stages

Rupert Holmes' adaptation of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' has more to do with Victorian music hall entertainment than Dickensian literature – and is all the more engaging for it

Two rather different versions of 'A Christmas Carol' illustrate the power still to be tapped from Charles Dickens' ghostly little book

Three different stage versions of 'A Christmas Carol' are playing this season, and one of them is sure to please the discriminating Dickens-lover in your household

To get into The Underpants, as it were, director Don Toner has deployed a reliable ensemble of able actors, who deliver a friendly poke in the ribs about matters a little farther south

Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate' is revived by the Austin Playhouse in such an atmosphere of fun (and ever-so-slightly wicked humor) that the production is rather endearing

Tom Stoppard's Travesties mixes early 20th-century history, European politics, and Oscar Wilde into a typically brilliant work, and the cast of Austin Playhouse's production rises to the intellectual challenges of the script and appears to be having a fine time playing with it.

If director Don Toner's staging of Copenhagen, a drama about 20th-century physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, is good but unexceptional, the trouble may lie in Michael Frayn's script, which is full of intriguing ideas but less than satisfying as a story.

For the debut of his new Austin Playhouse company, Don Toner provides a time-travel trip back to 1948 with old Moss Hart and his play about putting on a play, Light Up the Sky. And the trip is one sure to leave a smile.

Drama with a Gothic flair scored high in the nominations for the 2005 B. Iden Payne Awards, as announced by Austin Circle of Theatres on August 15

Director Don Toner announces a new theatre company for himself, David Stevens announces his departure from Chorus Austin, and UT's Department of Art & Art History announces a rare meeting of critical minds.

With this play, Crystal Bird Caviel honors ancestors who were slaves and her colleague, the late Dr. Billy F. Harden

Austin Playhouse finds the raw pain in this drama of a photojournalist wounded in the Iraq War

'Illumination Celebration' brings African-American theatre one step closer to the spotlight

Cyndi Williams' study of a subterranean retirement community during a catastrophe has promise but isn't always clear

Austin Playhouse stages this chaotic, ridiculous backstage farce with precision and fun

Nine local directors on the secrets of season selection

A cast that knows funny lands the laughs in Neil Simon's comedy about comedy

Horton Foote's moving drama is staged with the simple modesty of an old hymn

A production that makes Shaw's century-old ideas feel current – and very human

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

The show is at its best when its two leads are locked in combat like boxers in a ring

Imagine That's inaugural Equity production is a House united by brilliance

The play tempers talk of ideals and suffrage with lots of wit, action, and absurdity