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Bottle Alley Theatre is undoubtedly Austin’s most creative company. From their incredible scripts to their out-of-the-ordinary performance spaces, they can take a thread of thought and weave a singular moment in time for their audience.

Los Super Seven, featuring members of Los Lobos, will headline A Concert For Democracy in Austin, TX on May 24. The benefit concert supports Texas Turnout, a voter registration organization.

Impact Arts celebrates the 20th anniversary of Summer Stock Austin with an exciting 2024 season. Enjoy a variety of performances and events marking two decades of theatrical excellence.

Experience the world premiere of Max Langert's dark comedy, A MILLION MORE TO GO, presented by Jarrott and Cinnamon Path Productions. Learn how to purchase tickets.

City Theatre Austin will open its 2024 summer season with the brilliantly crafted comedy How the Other Half Loves. Guest director J. Kevin Smith leads the production with show dates June 7 – 23 at Genesis Creative Collective. 

 Hill Country Community Theatre has announced its 39th Season lineup. Learn more here!

Rover Dramawerks will continue their 24th Season with the classic farce Tons of Money by Will Evans and Valentine. Performances will be at the Cox Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano, running May 30 – June 15 on Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 p.m. and on Saturdays at 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.

ZACH Theatre has announced its 2024- 25 Season with five Mainstage and three Family Series productions along with Austin’s holiday  tradition A Christmas Carol as a season add on.  Learn more about the full lineup here!

The musicals of the 1920s-1940s are rich territory for parody since many imported the stylistic elements (vaudeville, dance hall style, revue, et al.) of popular entertainment of the era to carry the shows, often disadvantaging well-developed plot lines and complex characters.

Join us as a renowned film and stage actor returns home for a performance in TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS with Deaf Austin Theatre. Experience a captivating display of talent and passion.

Two more weekends! City Theatre continues the 2024 spring season with Shakespeare’s beloved comedy THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. May 9 - 19 at Genesis Creative Collective. See photos of the cast. 

Choosing to perform a Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983) play means genuinely committing to some of theater’s most salient aspects: in this case, a plot that must capture and then hold the audience in unfolding layers of tragedy, characters that are complex and often display less-than-desirable human characteristics, believable delivery of modified language to portray a specific region or temperament, performance of disconcerting and sometimes virulent spectacle on a human scale, and production design that rises to the needs of the story. 

Tapestry Dance, established in 1989 and existing as the only full-time, professional repertory tap dance company worldwide until 2021, will honor the history and legacy of jazz tap dance at its annual festival of rhythm - The Soul 2 Sole International Tap Festival, June 19-23, 2024.

Ballet Austin will conclude the 2023/24 Season Mother’s Day weekend with one of the most memorable classical ballets of all time, The Sleeping Beauty.

Join Handsome Dick Manitoba, former lead singer of The Dictators, as he brings his punk rock legacy to Texas. Expect electrifying performances in San Antonio, Houston, and Austin.

AKA, the dynamic vocal show group based in Lakeway, Texas, has announced an upcoming tribute concert honoring music legends Neil Sedaka and Carole King at the Hill Country Community Theatre.

As many students of history know, 1929 was the beginning of a chaotic, and often tragic, decade for the United States. Seven months after a small stock market crash and recovery on March 25, the bottom fell out.

Julie Zaffarano’s ABOVE THE FOLD, set in 1935, is a play about three investigative reporters and a photographer who are staying in the same hotel as they cover a grand jury. The work of this particular grand jury is to determine if there is sufficient evidence to conduct a trial for the murder of singer Evelyn Hoey by her lover, Henry Huddleston Rogers III, the son of one of the richest men in the world.

Austin Shakespeare, in conjunction with the University of Austin, presents Shakespeare’s classic love story, Romeo and Juliet, at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, May 23 to June 9, at the Curtain Theater.

ZACH Theatre has revealed two of the 2024-25 Season titles. See the lineup and learn how to purchase tickets!

Zilker Theatre Productions has revealed the cast for Legally Blonde the Musical. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Austin Playhouse has revealed the cast for “Leading Ladies: Live in Concert,” the third in the new cabaret series: Playhouse Cabarets. Learn how how to purchase.

The City Theatre Company will present the 2024 spring production of The Comedy of Errors, a glorious, bawdy, and way-out “shake your groove thing” theatre event you do not want to miss. Guest director Beau Pual leads the production with show dates May 3 - 19 at Genesis Creative Collective.

Texas Theatre and Dance will present Reimagined Shakespearean Classic in Bilingual ROMEO Y JULIET, Apr. 10-21

I am delighted to have had a chance to interview Jill Van Velzer who plays the role of Mrs. Burke in GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY. An accomplished actress, Velzer has also toured with productions of Phantom of the Opera and King & I, in addition to acting in numerous regional productions.