(Nov. 4 5:16 PM) - Riverdance, the thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance that has tapped its way onto the world stage thrilling millions of people around the globe, will play 8 farewell performances in Austin at Bass Concert Hall from December 8-13.
(Nov. 3 2:39 PM) - Extraordinary singer songwriter Brandi Carlile has announced an Austin show on the second leg of her “Give Up the Ghost Traveling Show” which will begin January 12 in Boise, Idaho and includes more than 40 cities across the country. Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin welcomes Brandi Carlile and her Give Up The Ghost Traveling Show to Hogg Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, March 6, 2010.
(Oct. 25 1:30 AM) - Broadway?s most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to Austin! Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open at Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin?s Bass Concert Hall and play October 20-25 and is presented by H-E-B Broadway Across America?Austin.
(Oct. 22 8:19 PM) - Tony Winning (x7!) musical Spring Awakening is currently playing at the University of Texas’ Bass Concert Hall, and I was in attendance Wednesday night.
(Oct. 22 5:51 PM) - Texas Performing Arts' flagship venue Bass Concert Hall has moved from number 13 (mid-year ranking) to 7 on the top 100 Worldwide Theatre Venues with 215,237 tickets sold for events between January 1 and September 30, 2009, according to Pollstar, the trade journal for touring artists, booking agents and performance venues.
(Oct. 22 12:02 PM) - "The intensity and passion that often characterize my work is one of the results of working at this level of self-awareness. I strive for my work to exceed, push, go beyond - to exhilarate both the artists and the audience." - Trey McIntrye
(Oct. 20 12:30 AM) - Broadway?s most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to Austin! Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open at Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin?s Bass Concert Hall and play October 20-25 and is presented by H-E-B Broadway Across America?Austin.
(Oct. 19 5:17 PM) - BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the net and the first to bring viewers high quality videos, web radio, Twitter watch, coast to coast coverage, mobile access, interactive grosses, fan photos, 3rd party 'stage tube' videos and lots more is now also the first Broadway site on the net to release an iPhone application, available now.
(Oct. 15 12:48 PM) - Riverdance, the thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance that has tapped its way onto the world stage thrilling millions of people around the globe, will play 8 farewell performances in Austin at Bass Concert Hall from December 8-13.
(Oct. 15 9:59 AM) - Open Labs announced today it has joined forces with Tommy Lee and Methods ofMayhem producer Scott Humphrey in the Public Mayhem album collaboration project. As previously announced, isolated instrument tracks, or stems, from the upcoming album have been posted on the website www.thepublicrecord.com.
(Oct. 14 3:16 PM) - City Theatre Company will celebrate one year in its new space this year. The company was formed in 2008 and had their own space five weeks later. Andy Berkovsky, the company's Artistic Director, started the company with former student Travis Tinnin, who dropped out of NYU's drama program to act at the company's production manager.
(Oct. 14 1:39 PM) - The Horton Foote Festival will honor critically acclaimed playwright Craig Wright as the 2009 recipient of the Horton Foote Excellence in American Playwriting Award, according to notes on the Horton Foote Festival website. Amongst the events taking place during the festival weekend will be readings of Wright's plays ‘Grace' and ‘The Pavilion', academic panel discussions of his work, and a tribute to Horton Foote.
(Oct. 12 9:55 AM) - The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece. Entitled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, the play will be performed in New York at Lincoln Center, over 100 other theaters across the country on October 12, 2009.
(Oct. 12 9:55 AM) - The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece. Entitled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, the play will be performed in New York at Lincoln Center, over 100 other theaters across the country on October 12, 2009.
(Oct. 6 1:31 PM) - The Austin Chronicle reports that Scott Schroeder, the Artistic Director of Zilker Theater Productions, resigned last week after a financial dispute with the company's Board of Directors. Schroeder had served as Artistic Director for eight years, however had been associated with the company since 1984.
(Sep. 25 2:19 PM) - Casting was announced today for the national touring troupe of IN THE HEIGHTS, which will launch October 27 at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. The cast will feature Kyle Beltran, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Natalie Toro, Shaun Taylor-Corbett.
(Sep. 16 9:18 PM) - Broadway?s most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to Austin! Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open at Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin?s Bass Concert Hall and play October 20-25 and is presented by H-E-B Broadway Across America?Austin.
(Aug. 31 12:23 PM) - The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece. Entitled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, the play will be performed in New York at Lincoln Center, over 100 other theaters across the country on October 12, 2009.