Others Were Here Beforehand: City Theatre Austin’s Men on Boats
There is a single line in Jaclyn Backhaus’s Men on Boats, now running at City Theatre Austin through April 12, that cuts through everything: the rapids, rhetoric, gender politics, and…
When Stillness Becomes Stagnation: The Trip to Bountiful
There is a difference between quiet and stagnation. Horton Foote wrote his 1953 play The Trip to Bountiful during an era that tolerated stillness, repetition, and domestic realism as dramatic…
Other Desert Cities
Continuing its 20th Anniversary Season, City Theatre Austin proudly presents Other Desert Cities, a searing family saga by Pulitzer Prize finalist, playwright, and screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz. Family pride proves…
W;T and the Weaponry of Words
This one act 90 minute show could’ve gone on for another hour. I was glued to my seat. As a scribe, words are my life. And tools. A scholar wrote…