Theatre Scene

Stephen Sondheim premiered his play Sunday in the Park With George in 1984. It is the instantiation of art as a musical, being a stage play about George Suerat’s most famous painting. I wonder if […]

While the music of the 80s is near the top of everyone’s memory, plays from that decade have not made such an indelible mark on the cultural memory. On view now at the Austin Playhouse […]

An Arthur Miller Classic from 1947, currently being staged by Austin City Theatre, is a timeless look at the wages of war. “I resent living next door to The Holy Family!” exclaims busybody Sue Bayliss […]

Audiences have delighted in As You Like It ever since it was first performed more than 400 years ago. Adapting a Shakespeare play by placing it in a more modern time frame is always fraught […]

  Never have sardines played such a major role in a play, but that is not where the ‘smell of the theatre’ originates from in this classic British mapcap comedy from 1982 by playwright Michael […]

Listening to the lines of Anton Checkov, few would disagree he is a writer for our times: “Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers […]

For one last blast of Christmas fun in 2017, drive your sleigh over to the Long Center for the musical comedy A Christmas Story. The production has its roots in a movie that hit theatres […]