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......

There's such as thing as damning with faint praise. To avoid being charged with doing just that, we want to make this clear: Different Stages' production of Agatha Christie's The Hollow, running until July 15 at the Vortex, is a thoroughly enjoyable night of theatre. The eclectic, brainy group of folks at DS (who in the past have brought Austin such varied works as Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Christopher Durang's Betty's......