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La Fenice’s Cthulhu Beach Party
This commedia spoof mashes up surfside love and Lovecraft for an incredibly fun romp
Aaron Johnson
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Austin Playhouse’s Bloomsday
Steven Dietz’s rumination on a great love lost lacks some of the vivid passion it needs in this staging
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Fight for $15 Protests Fast Food Working Conditions
Rallies come on heels of negative labor report on Austin restaurants
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Theatre en Bloc’s The Totalitarians
This ridiculous but smart satire about a Nebraska political race may be the only political play that can deliver laughs this election season
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Without Teeth, Are Nondiscrimination Laws Effective?
City ordinance aims to protect LGBTQ Austinites, but the punishment for violators is mild
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Austin Playhouse’s The Explorers Club
Nell Benjamin’s sublimely silly satire of Victorian pomposity ventures where other comedies fear to tread
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Zach Theatre’s Tribes
Nina Raine’s award-winning drama explores the different forms of language and how we understand each other
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FronteraFest: The Place to Start
Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks’ annual performance festival keeps giving artists a spot to launch a stage career in Austin
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Top 10 Theatre Performances of 2015
The Austin stage actors who gave the most impressive performances in 2015 just made it look so damned easy
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Austin Playhouse’s The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard’s play receives a remarkable revival with a seasoned cast
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Dressing Down the Superhero
How the irreverent comic ‘Kick-Ass’ made the leap from page to picture show
