That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works. For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro,......

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works. For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro,......

The End of Words" src="http://www.austinist.com/attachments/austinist_jonathan/ionescoweblargecut.jpg" width="225" height="348" align=right hspace5 /> What are words for? This is the question posited by two of the three one-act plays currently being delivered by The Coda Project at play! Theatre. All early works from the pen of Eugène Ionesco, father of the Theatre of the Absurd, the plays run in a kind of rotating repertory, with all evening performances including only two plays, and a 3.5-hour marathon of all......

Coda Theater Project rushes headlong into their third season with not one, but three plays by that wacky Ionesco guy -- all running simultaneously (in repertory) at the play! Theatre. Now you, dear reader, can check it out for free. (See, we do love you.) Quick, to your keyboards! Fill out the form below to win tickets to Saturday night's performance, featuring Jack, or the Submission (directed by Eric Virkkala) and The Bald Soprano (directed......

And they're off.... The nominations for this year's B. Iden Payne Awards have been announced. We received 'em this morning, straight from the offices of the Austin Circle of Theatres. If you want to get in on the action, ballots will be available starting this Thursday, September 21, at ACoT (701 Tillery Street) & AusTIX (kiosk at the Austin Visitors Center, 209 E. 6th Street). You must be an ACoT member to vote, but......

Sadly for us -- very, very sadly for us -- we've been under the weather and have missed several previously scheduled programs. This includes Saturday night's Best of Week IV at Frontera Fest. Since we can't share our impressions of the evening, we thought we'd at least give a rundown of the winning shows (details from the HPT website). "Aucun Espoir pour l'Homme: a junk romance" by Rocky Hopson. Clown satire about the ups......