Thirteen years after founding Salvage Vanguard Theater, Artistic Director Jason Neulander is stepping down. Neulander has grown SVT from a crazy little fringe collective to a powerhouse producer of cutting-edge works. No doubt it'll be very exciting to see what he gets into next....

Célébrez la performance! Entertain, or die. The mutli-faceted, loosely-connected, intellectually-rigorous fare that’s common from the Rude Mechs is again on display in Have You Ever Been Assassinated?. The boisterous-while-intricate, convention-bending staging by director Carlos Treviño coupled with the sharp dialogue and big-ideas-in-small-packages text by playwright Rebecca Beegle is often exceptionally witty and delightfully clever. So clever, in fact, that even though we hardly cared about the characters—a circumstance that’s generally a one-way road to......

Welcome to the Halloween edition of This Week in Theatre, and the first time since we’ve been in Austin that some company hasn’t produced a play about mystical and spooky stuff to commemorate this festive occasion. So, in lieu of seeing a “horror” play this weekend—an event where busty blondes disappear for no reason, only to return later after a highly unfortunate series of events has stripped them down to their underwear; or, you......

From the moment we woke up, something was different. Our fingers delicately tip-toed across our bedside table; we nimbly caressed our oddly rhythmic alarm into silence. Gone was our everyday stumbling stupor as we arose from the bed like a bird on a spring. ‘Twas replaced with physical ease – how nice – as we spun and we twirled, dipping and diving, shuffling gracefully to our morning…pee. (Ahhh.) This is no week in theatre,......

So, yeah. SXSW is coming up, and we know that’s all the rage. That’s what’s “cool”. That’s what you kids are “into” these days. We understand. (We like it too.) But just in case you’ve got some extra time after planning your afterparty schedule and writing that long-winded (but sincere-sounding) email to your boss explaining that your Grandma somehow got cancer again this year, and, though it certainly is a strange coincidence that these......

We sat down recently with Carlos Treviño and Steve Moore, authors of the amazing, unique, fabulous Physical Plant Theatre production, Not Clown, and had a lovely little chat. A spiffed up new version of Not Clown kicks off a two-week run on Thursday at the Off Center, with another two weeks in New York City immediately following. Having seen the first incarnation in '04, we can tell you with complete confidence that you will......

Frontera Fest is here! Austinist is, ahem, a bit behind with this news (blame it on the holidays), as tickets have been on sale for two days! (You can get 'em by calling 479-PLAY.) The Short Fringe starts this coming Tuesday, 1/10 at Hyde Park Theatre, followed close on its heels by the Long Fringe, which begins the following Tuesday, 1/17 at the Blue Theatre. Oh, and perhaps most exciting of all, there's an......