Before Magik Theatre sends "Pocahontas" on the road for a national tour, the cast and crew will give the hometown crowd a chance to see it for themselves. There will be performances at 10 a.m. Sept. 20-21 at Thiry Auditorium…

There’s nothing flashy about Horton Foote’s "The Carpetbagger’s Children" — it’s basically three sisters spinning stories about their family and painting a picture of life in the south after the Civil War. Magda Porter, Rita Crosby and Elise Marie Lopez,…

Playwright James Venhaus and the folks at the Overtime Theater, who pulled off the terrific piece "The Happy Couple" earlier this year, have another winner in "Broken Record." The piece, an expanded version of a 10-minute play Venhaus wrote a…

Today’s story about the fund-raising campaign to restore five costumes worn by Viviene Leigh in "Gone with the Wind" (you can read it here) was trimmed a bit for space, and the San Antonio connection to the tale got lost….

The 2010 edition of the San Antonio Theatre Coalition’s TheatreASAP is amping up. It takes place Sept. 11 in the Palmetto Center, the fantastic theater at Northwest Vista College. This year’s playwrights are Laurie Dietrich, Lee Hurtado, Sheila Rinear, Richard…

Christopher Littlefield, who did a lot of great work as a music director around town and moved to New York about four years ago, just got a gig on the first national tour of "9 to 5." Littlefield will serve…

Christopher Littlefield, who did a lot of great work as a music director around town and moved to New York about four years ago, just got a gig on the first national tour of "9 to 5." Littlefield will serve…

Christopher Littlefield, who did a lot of great work as a music director around town and moved to New York about four years ago, just got a gig on the first national tour of "9 to 5." Littlefield will serve…

Every time that Krystal Kohler appears as bad seed Mary Tilford, an electric charge surges through the Shadow Show Theatre Company’s staging of "The Children’s Hour." It’s a disturbing, terrific performance, and one of the elements that contribute to a…

Instead of producing a 2010 edition of TeatroFest, the annual Latino theater festival at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Vincent Toro decided to put all of his energy into a single production. "King of Shadows," which opens Oct. 15, was…