There’s the pleasure of watching tragedy. There’s the pleasure of being tragic. And then there’s the pleasure of watching characters taking pleasure in their own tragedy - which is a lot like comedy. Steven Gridley’s new play Post-Oedipus somehow manages to work effectively on all these levels, making it difficult to know exactly how to react to this genre-bending revision of Euripides’ Phoenician Women. But it also allows this genuinely unsettling show to be genuinely fun (and funny) to watch. more ›

Spencer Driggers is a sweet-faced man who works in a bank and runs a theatre group called, innocuously enough, The Getalong Gang Performance Group. He also gives great hugs. It is under these guises that he, along with his gang of theatrical ruffians, has created some of the most raucous, scurrilous, and clever pop theatre that Austin has seen in the last few years (i.e. Arthuriosis and Ben Franklin: A Rock Opera among the productions). Austinist managed to Inter-snag the elusive Mr. Driggers just long enough to chat with him about his group's new production of Post-Oedipus, violence on-stage, and the fact that masturbation is funny. more ›

Post-Oedipus, opening this Thursday at the Blue Theatre, is a comedic post-modern tragedy about the fallen Greek hero, Oedipus Rex. You may remember him from high school English class. The annals of myth are rife with such tragic heroes, those ill-fated men and women of great stature who, due to a crucial weakness or lapse in judgment, met with ignominious ends. But are these figures of lore unique or universal? Might might we find modern-day parallels to them? We just might. more ›

The crazy kids from the Getalong Gang have a lot of things these days. They have a roller coaster, apparently. They have a hip-hop narrator. They have a $50 gift certificate to Mars*. They have separation. And they also have one pair of free tickets to tonight's opening performance of We Have Separation that they've graciously tossed our way. This production, featuring the aforementioned goodies, centers on Roy, an amnesiac with a recently kidnapped sister... more ›

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,... more ›

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,... more ›