This has been a year for weird plays in Austin. We've seen melancholy hipsters turned into almonds, cokehead yokels convinced that the government planted tiny bugs under their skin, and a self help tape-obsessed Oedipus drag around a gum ball machine as part of a new get-rich-quick scheme. Whatever it is you're sitting down to watch on an Austin stage right now, be prepared for some absurdism. Who knows what anthropomorphisms and non-sequitur dance sequences will pop up next. more ›

The world's just not as much fun as it used to be, what with all the global warming, credit crises, genocide, and other assorted world events that get us down, bum us out and convince us that, yeah, totally—the sky is falling. Thank goodness for Joe Hartman's new one man show, Overwhelming Underdogs, in its second strong week at Arts on Real. Hartman's writing and acting, Kirk German's directing, and maybe a glass of wine from the in-theatre bar is the perfect antidote to thinking about all that other stuff. more ›

Loaded Gun Theory is running their original new work The Automat at the Dougherty Arts Center. One word: Robots! 3/6-8, 12-15 @8pm & 3/9 @ 5pm. [tickets] // Austin darling Joe Hartman brings his Overwhelming Underdogs to Arts on Real. Thru 3/16, Th-Sa @8pm / Sun @5:30. [tickets] more ›