Dropped in to catch a quick show last Saturday at Hyde Park Theatre: Double Exposure. Two locals, Auschron Editor Wayne Alan Brenner and poet/actor/writer David Jewell are putting themselves up on stage with the intent to entertain. It works. Jewell hits the stage first, and pretty much reads off of some pieces of paper for twenty minutes or so. Most of the time, it’s difficult to be sure what exactly he’s trying to express, as......

Sometimes theatre is a deep, penetrating look into the human soul -- a full course dinner from soup to nuts. Other times it's more akin to tapas -- a variety of yummy snacks that adds up to light fare. Radio :30 (check out that whippy e-card!) at Hyde Park Theatre is somewhere in between. Both tragic and comic, both heavy and light, it's served up like tapas but lingers (in a good way) more......

In honor of the big bi-lingual show that’s opening in town this week, we thought to ourselves, hey – why not write this post in both English and Spanish? But we don’t speak Spanish, so we used an online translator. El ir al teatro hará que las mujeres tienen sexo con usted. And now, on with our ¡Selección de Austinist de la semana! It’s a very close call between Petra’s Cuento, the aforementioned bi-lingual......

Shrewd Productions' latest offering, Cheater, features the work of some seriously bad ass local playwrights, including Michael Kranes, Robert LeBlanc, Gregory Romero, Ken Webster, Mical Trejo, and Andrea Skola, who also directs. Plus, the cast includes (amongst other notables) Monika Bustamante and Lana Dietrich -- awesome! Now you, dear reader, can cheat your way out of paying to see this fine performance, simply by filling out the form below. Ok, it's not really cheating......

Ah, the theatre. Drenched in history, glory, shame, and the passionate pursuit of dreams. Wrought with the epitomic struggles of man – the epochal moments of our modern age – wrangling that which is humanity onto our most noble public platform – the stage. So yeah, just like every week there’s a manwich-size portion of performance going on in town this weekend. Beyond the kick-ass stuff that’s already going on, the new show garnishing......

Canadian Chris Earle's analysis in descent, Radio: 30, follows an award winning radio personality who slowly breaks down over a day long struggle with a simple thirty second ad. Directed by Ken Webster and featuring Mical Trejo and Robert S. Fisher, the play depicts a man who can tell you, with a smile, how he seduced his best friend's wife and forced out his predecessor to achieve his standing. A truely post-modern man. Hyde park......