Spank Dance Company and Refraction Arts are hosting a festival this month celebrating modern dance. Because most of you were probably out at that little music festival last weekend, you might have missed some seriously rockin’ dance performances during opening weekend. Don’t be sad, though, because there are two more weekends in September for you to get your contemporary dance on. Hot September Flurries is a massive collaborative event with involvement from Salvage Vanguard Theatre,......

Austinist recently had the opportunity to speak with Rue McClanahan in anticipation of tonight's book-signing at Book People and her Sunday afternoon appearance at Zach Scott Theatre. For the latter, in a format much like Inside the Actors Studio, Ms. McClanahan will be dishing with Zach’s Dave Steakly about her new book, her upcoming projects, and all-things-Rue. Tickets are selling fast…so fast that the appearance up and moved to the Kelberg Stage to accommodate a......

Broadway casting group Telsey + Company (Wicked, Hairspray, Rent is looking for hot new male talent--aren't we all?--for an upcoming production entitled Cry Baby. Based on John Water's campy 1990 flick starring Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, Iggy Pop, and Stephen Baldwin, Cry Baby told the classic tale of a gentle street thug who falls in love with a totally square chick, but then some bad stuff happens along the way that we can't remember.......

Think you're normal? Think the production company that brought you this summer's funnest show, I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical! is normal? They think they are! So much so that they've titled their latest show, a dance epic, We Are Normal, Cha Cha Chaaa. Hm. We have our doubts about that. However, we don't doubt this dance performance -- including live accompaniment by Cari P (from not one but two local indie-pop......

The propaganda machine is running at maximum capacity. Priests calling from their pulpits for book-and-film-banning in churches around the globe, and for a New World Government that prohibits the public from reading and seeing what they wish, all in the name of God. The devout, standing on the hilltops in white robes, proclaiming violent opposition to the lies propogated by The Wicked and demanding the repentance of all sinners. Vagrants in the street waving......

We weren’t sure how to answer the question, “Who are you with?” when we stepped up to 2nd Street’s new wine bar, Cru, last week, until they explained that what we thought was opening night was actually an INVITATION ONLY VIP HOITY-TOITY soiree. “LA DEE DA!” we thought, insisted we were with the DJ and managed to fake our way to the bar where the highly-poised and professional bartender, Elise, gave us the rundown. “What’s......