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Leslie Bonnell’s Stitch Lab insists that you are not a number

A little bit of the grand opening, a little bit of the history

Big Stinkin' International Improv Fest: Full-Out Fun and No Net

Things are gearing up in public service-land for Austin's sizzling summer. Here are a few things to do this weekend, plus a jump on next, to boot.

Charles Mee's Big Love swirls almost madly from brainy discourse to visceral activity to contemplative imagery and back again, like a manic dance or, well, life, and the Rude Mechanicals, who are always up for a good dance, take Mee's play and tear up the floor with it.

Math rock is hard, let's go shopping with some robots

Austin's budding fashion industry gets a vote of confidence – and a shot at diversity

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Crowns sings a joyous hosanna to the African- American tradition of the church hat

A case study of one post-Winedale company, the Weetzah Players

Two theatre professionals explain how Shakespeare at Winedale changed their lives, even though they were never part of the program

Genius and madness are the ac and dc of inventor Nikola Tesla's life, as portrayed in the Rude Mechanicals' biographical tribute Requiem for Tesla, and this new version provides the atmosphere and quickening charge of an old Universal horror film.

Oh! It's such a chore to pull one's self together for a night out on the town … but some nights are really worth it. Plus, we are hosting another Drag Ball. Details inside.

Called by no less than The New York Times "the suavest of all male cabaret performers," Steve Ross is the personification of refined, romantic, elegant, and effervescent cabaret, and that makes him an ideal guest artist for the debut season of Austin Cabaret Theatre.

Love will get you when you least expect it. So it goes in Charles Mee's Big Love, a vigorous update of the ancient Greek drama The Suppliants, and so it went when the Rude Mechanicals theatre company saw the play. They fell unexpectedly and unabashedly head over heels for it and are staging it now in what they describe as "a huge love affair."

This Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Allen Robertson's original musical Jouét is a slick theatrical product, with enough gadgetry and opulent design work to fill the space with a rich, powerful sound and imagery, but it's difficult to sympathize with its diva-ish heroine and her mixed messages about compassion.

Local mavericks Rude Mechanicals have plundered biographies and scientific history to give us the whole story of maverick inventor Nikola Tesla, and their production Requiem for Tesla, with its unnervingly choreographed lights, arresting video, beautiful period costumes, original score on theremin, strange dance numbers, and working Tesla coil, literally crackles with current.

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.

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

This isn't your grandmother's fusty old fabric store

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center revival of 'The Rocky Horror Show' provides Austin, and especially fans of all that is Rocky, with an experience worthy of the word classic

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

With Leslie Bonnell, Arcie Cola, Lashonda Lester, Tim Doyle, and more

All the best glimpses caught by the Good Eye in 2014

We are spirits; this is material; let's get down to it.

And what's the best thing they gave? Nine citizens answer.

Austin Craft Riot Loots Palmer Events Center on Saturday

Inspiration begins with Stitch Lab's summer classes