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Movie actor Marco Perella has at least one doozy of a story for every picture he's made, and in his Adventures of a No Name Actor, he makes each one so light and salty and tasty, you just want to keep tossing 'em back, like popcorn.

With Adventures of a No Name Actor, a comic memoir of his adventures in the screen trade, anonymous player Marco Perella is finding literary stardom.

"I have a big fan base of five-to-ten-year-olds," Austin actor Marco Perella confides in his new book Adventures of a No Name Actor. "I get invited to speak at elementary schools and Cub Scout pack meetings. I'm a big draw at after-school library parties."

A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre

The original Austin Chronicle review from Nov. 15, 1985

How In the West Became Deep in the Heart (of Texas)

Though it has the episodic feel of a screenplay, 'Sonny's Last Shot' is, all in all, a satisfying evening of getting your jollies at the expense of the Texas Legislature

Zach Theatre faithfully re-creates the beloved holiday film onstage, though it lacks part of the original's shine

How Big State Productions' little monologue show changed Austin theatre

In the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Side Man, director Dave Steakley conducts the play's overlapping conversations and monologue "solos" like a good bandleader, but that fine work can't compensate for the distance from the action created by playwright Warren Leight in depicting the gap between jazzmen and their families.

Dramatizing the pull of music on a human life is no easy task, but Warren Leight's Side Man shows jazz players hanging on to their music to keep from giving in to despair, and its Austin premiere will benefit from the skill of Zachary Scott Theatre Center Artistic Director Dave Steakley, who has consistently demonstrated an uncanny knack for portraying the impact that music can have on a life and the place where drama is best expressed through music.

Classes and a contest.

First Marco Perella told us about the apparently very funny experience of being a nobody in his Adventures of a No Name Actor; now Bruce Campbell wants us to know what it's like to be both a B-movie king and a regular Joe.

With the Austin Symphony Orchestra in street clothes and everyone sporting bright yellow Symph-o-Vision glasses that turned even the dullest brown wall at the Bass into a rainbow of light, the kid-packed audience was taken on a colorful family musical journey.

Stirred up by the arts, sounding off on local TV

Mexican Traditional Toys and Miniatures: a Desire to Play

The Austin body modifcation artist isn't playing around in his surprise new comedy

Last call for the big-hearted co-owner of Chicago House

Heavy metal and Satanism in a rural Texas town

African-American company's gala salutes the great Boyd Vance

Before 'Tuna,' he rode with 'Maid Marian in a Stolen Car'

The theatre is giving away a free wedding to some homegrown George and Emily

The co-owner of beloved arts venue Chicago House and one of the great moms of the arts scene has passed

Lawrence Wright's experiences in the years he spent researching The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 have become the basis for a one-man theatrical work

Austin's myriad thespian coaches teach us to seek, grow, and do … or at least act like it