Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Theater
A Last Entrance: ‘Leopoldstadt’ at Main Street Theater
Early in Sir Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the Player King attempts to explain the nature of theater to Rosencrantz.
Diaspora Stories: Spring offers a bounty of Latinx Theater Festivals
Texas has rich communities of immigrants.
Theatrical Magic: When One Actor Plays Many Roles
But the one actor carrying multiple important roles is not often the standard, at least anymore.
Making Things Happen: Director Ben Wolfe at Austin Playhouse
As a director, Ben Wolfe is game for anything.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
The Decade-Long Journey Home: Inside Kitchen Dog Theater’s 35th Season at Its New Dallas Home
On Tim Johnson’s very first day as managing director of Kitchen Dog Theater (KDT) in 2014, he found out the company would have to leave its home of two decades at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC).
Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return
Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.
Shaping the Future: When Texas Theater Kids Grow Up
Whether used as a compliment, insult, meme, or pseudo psychological term to explain a politician’s antics, the phrase “theater kid,” (or “theatre kid” for the British, Canadian, and pretentious) has become something of a catch-all description for anyone enthusiastic about the performing arts or who holds a “pick me” mentality of life.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Homecoming: Jaime Castañeda returns to lead Dallas Theater Center
Since its founding in 1959, Dallas Theater Center has been led by only five artistic directors: Paul Baker, Adrian Hall, Ken Bryant, Richard Hamburger, and Kevin Moriarty. Now the Tony Award-winning regional theater can add one more name to the list: Jaime Castañeda, who officially assumes the position in July 2026.
Dancing with Bob, Breaking the Waves, a Set of Angels, a Breakout Hamlet, a Mountain and More!: The 2025 Season Wrap up
It’s that time of year again, when we gather on the page to consider all the shows that we have seen, what stood out, who wowed us, and more in 2025.