The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical!Through 12/22, Th/Fr/Sa at 8pmSalvage Vanguard Theater (map)[info] | [tickets]Christmas will be here sooner than you think! What nicer gift than an evening out at the theater? Here're just a few shows we think worthy of being early stocking-stuffers. You've probably already seen the XL cover or read the AusChron piece (damn, Jonathon Morgan gets around!)—Yellow Tape Construction Company's Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical! opened last weekend. We loved......

Photo by Wylie Maercklein, courtesy YTCC The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical!Through 12/22, Th/Fr/Sa at 8pmSalvage Vanguard Theater (map)[info] | [tickets]The North Pole is a pretty raunchy place. That’s what the Yellow Tape Construction Company would lead you to believe, anyway. And while we don’t remember Frosty the Snowman dealing smack in any of the Christmas fables we used to read in kindergarten, it’s not implausible. He may be a sentient amalgamation of button, coal,......

Photo by Wylie Maercklein The good folks at Yellow Tape Construction Co. are giving away two tickets to Thursday's opening of The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical! According to their website, "When one little boy loses the Spirit of Christmas, his disbelief sends the North Pole into chaos — Rudolph is a diva, the elves are disenfranchised, and Santa has suddenly started growing old! Can Frosty the Snowman and his sidekick, Soniyeve — the pluckiest......

THURSDAY [29] theatre •Yellow Tape Construction Company presents I Am Not Tartuffe at play! Theatre (8pm) theatre •The City Theatre Company presents The Boys Next Door at The City Theatre (8pm) theatre •Ohio Trip, a "slide show adventure" by Elizabeth Cobbe at Women & Their Work Gallery (7:30pm) theatre •The Vortex presents Hamlet at The Vortex (8pm) theatre •Hyde Park Theatre presents Zell Miller III's My Child, My Child, My Alien Child at Hyde......

Yellow Tape Construction Company has done it again. Campy can be hard, but the kids in "I Am Not Tartuffe" have left us, as they say, rolling in the aisles. Fill out the following form and we'll shoot the first two winners a pair of tickets to Saturday night's performance. Full Name: Email Address: If you want to catch the show during the rest of its run, you've got 'til March 31. Laughter is......

Heya, remember that new work by Yellow Tape Construction Company we told you about yesterday? The opening night of which is tomorrow and features free wine, delicious cocktails, and yummy catered sweets? Well guess what? We've got some free tickets for ya. Now who says we never give you anything? Be the first to fill out the following form, and we'll shoot you two passes for tomorrow night's gala and performance: Congratulations to our......

(photo by Asa Potter) In the interest of full disclosure, we would like to make it known that Wylie Maercklein, one of the actors interviewed in this piece, is one of Austinist's amazing staff photographers. The Land of Shadowed Sand is quite the visual marvel. With less then 350K and a fair amount of filmmaking ingenuity, Austin-based Lettered Union Pictures have created a stunningly shot, intelligently constructed 1950s gangster flick – complete with hot......

Has it already been that long? Ah well, for the record, for posterity, for history, here are a few last images. Y'all apparently didn't have much interest in our Flickr pool before, but it's still there if you'd like to contribute. Many thanks again to our wonderful staff photographers, Eric Uhlir, Emily Kinsolving, and Wylie Maercklein (and K.E.B., too, if we can ever get her to get photos online). Much more below the Expand-o-Tron.......

Thanks to everyone who came out to Local Music is Sexy 2 last night! We'll be posting photos from the event in the next few days -- meanwhile, if you took any of your own, we ask that you to tag them with "austinist" and share them in our flickr pool. And a special thanks to everyone who helped us put this all together: Green Potato Ventures, The Mohawk, Sparrowhead, Super!Alright!, Car Stereo (Wars), Stay......