It's Christmas Eve, and Rachel Fitzsimmons' euphoric existence is shattered when she learns her husband has done something recklessly unexpected. She escapes into a snowstorm …

"I guess being Jewish is where I go when I want to get at what I really am. I realized that you have to dig …

The most magical of musical journeys written by the legendary Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine featuring a bewitching collection of classic children’s characters on a …

  Eleven Women's Institute members find themselves exposed in ways they’d never expected, revealing more than they’d ever planned. Despite raised eyebrows from the local …

In this searing cry from the heart, one of the 20th century’s greatest playwrights paints an unflinchingly honest portrait of a dysfunctional and emotionally damaged …

The stage hit about three married couples covering up their love affairs that result in a hilarious comedy of errors. An entanglement of misleadings and …

  One of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. The farcical misadventures of two sets of identical twins and a hilarious romp with a family fractured and …

Acclaimed Irish playwright Brian Friel takes us across the sea to a musical and mystical land as City Theatre Austin continues its 2024 season with …

If your parents knew everything about you before you were born, would you be here? That is the question posed in Jonathan Tolins’ critically acclaimed …

It’s Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters—Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye—are not exactly in a festive mood. A cranky …

  New York City, and it’s opening night of Peter Austin’s new play as he anxiously awaits to see if his Broadway show will be …

Three strangers, in one room, locked...forever.   Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous play endures as a staple inexistentialist thought. It follows three strangers to a room, locked, …

 It’s Labor Day in the American Heartland. Two widows and their families are preparing for a picnic in two joint backyards...but before they can lay …

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” – Oscar Wilde  At a refined bachelor flat, trouble is brewing! The delicious confection …

THE LAST CYCLIST by Naomi Patz, after Karel Svenk In the darkest of times, arts sustains life...and hope. Written in 1944 by Terezin prisoner Karel …

Mystery, murder, and mayhem is the entertainment choice of the spring theatre season! And this time it’s complete with Nazi saboteurs, secret passageways, flickering lights, …

Robert Harling’s wisecracking and wise southern hit comedy serving up life, love, and laughter that’s as warm and comforting as sweet potato pie. In the …

The questionings…They began modestly enough. Am I endowed with a unique and awesome gift? – my God, yes, I’m afraid so. – Frank.   Throughout …

To end the summer “Back in Show Business” season, City Theatre Austin is honored to present the musical classic, The Fantasticks. It is a show years in …

After years of struggling at Cleo’s, a small-time night club in the Florida Panhandle, Casey’s got to get his act together fast – he’s broke …

“Einstein and Picasso walk into a bar....” describes the successful off-Broadway comedy by the popular actor, comedian, and screenwriter Steve Martin. In a 1904 Parisian …

Set on the campus of an East coast college, this intense dark comedy shines a blinding light on one, truth-exposing - booze and bantered - …

MOMENTS: A Musical Celebration of Stephen Sondheim. City Theatre Austin presents a special one-weekend performance event honoring the giant, the genius, who revolutionized musical theatre …

    “Dad, look out for that beaver!” – Cass, Wonder of the World   Wonder of the World is one woman’s outrageous journey that plunges her …

 Joining Austin’s 2021 summer theatre season, The City Theatre Company is excited to be back on stage with Moisés Kaufman’s celebrated stage play Gross Indecency: The …

The Spoon River Project II: Patch, Performing at the City’s Heart Once again, City Theatre Austin celebrates “Arts in Motion” with the premiere online production …

The voices of our family, friends, and neighbors have been speaking for over a century…are we still listening?    The Spoon River Project 30 Actors …

As 2020 comes to a close, The City Theatre Company proudly presents AUSTIN ACTS! A Virtual Stage Talent Competition. The original performance contest brings local …

    A young man adrift.  A young woman shrouded in loss.   An abandoned house on a forgotten hillside.  And the ghost residing there.  When Henry …

Yasmina Reza’s Tony and Olivier Award winning play      “You’re supposed to be my friend, what sort of a friend are you, Serge, if …

  Keep your 2019 holiday season going strong with lots of la – la – la – laughter as City Theatre Austin brings back the …

  It’s 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual, and much anticipated, holiday quiche breakfast. …

How much would you pay for a white painting?Yasmina Reza’s award-winning comedy about three friends, the meaning of art and life, and the lengths we go …

Lovers, conjurors, ship-wrecked wanderers, and raging winds – and hearts - take the stage in Shakespeare’s epic romantic play.   Let the winds blow in this …

Written by the brilliant Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney, this smart, absolutely wild, cult favorite has its way again with The City Theatre Company. Welcome to …

    For a two-week special event, The City Theatre Company presents the comedic satire Lysistrata. With wars raging, the distressed women of Athens take matters into …

  “You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life.” The iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning classic presents life, …

The guys – and gals - are back! A Tuna Christmas is the outrageous holiday comedy with such southern fun and charm you don’t want to …

Kicking off the 13th season, City Theatre Austin is excited to present John Patrick Shanley’s critically acclaimed stage play Doubt: A Parable. Winner of the Tony Award and …

The City Theatre Company proudly presents THE WHO’S TOMMY Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend  Book by Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend  September 7 – …

City Theatre Austin’s sizzlin’ summer season heats up with the critically acclaimed theatre production The Grapes of Wrath, Frank Galati’s groundbreaking adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece of …

 In 1663, Charles II reopens the England theatre playhouses and, for the first time, women are able to take the stage. Considered little more than …

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How far would a man go to protect his family from the past? Arthur Miller’s award-winning stage classic tells the story of patriarch Joe Keller, …

  A wondrous romantic comedy that celebrates just how bewildering (yet utterly pleasurable) life can be     City Theatre Austin continues its 2018 spring season …

  Family and faith are not always kosher. When the patriarch of a Jewish family passes away, his very different grandchildren gather together to relive, share, and …

If comedies are your favorite choice of theatre entertainment, then look no further! City Theatre Austin is excited to continue its 2018 season with Michael …

When a retired professor is forced to retire to an estate in the vast country emptiness, his arrival, along with his beautiful young wife, devastates the routine …

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  Yuletide joy with holiday family fun…Texas style!  December in the Lone Star State – the holiday treat Christmas Belles comes to Austin for The City Theatre …

The Austin premiere play about luck, the past, and the power of friendship.   Acclaimed Irish playwright Conon McPherson takes us to mystical and haunting land …

The true classic of all whodunit mysteries  presented at City Theatre Austin, October 6 – 29.  Enter the world of murder, mystery, and the mastermind of Agatha …

Murder. Greed. Corruption. Treachery. And all that jazz! Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse   Come …

The City Theatre sizzlin’ summer season heats up with the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning production of August: Osage County. A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. …

Larry Kramer’s searing drama about the public and private indifference to the AIDS plague and one man's fight to awaken the world to the crisis. Heartfollows …

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, …

The early summer forecast for City Theatre calls for giggles, guffaws, chortles, and good old fashioned belly laughs…and it’s all thanks to the famed Little …

If it’s hypocrisy, greed, and seduction you’re looking for this spring, look no further than Molière’s outrageous farce, Tartuffe. Under the religious cloak of piety, the …

The City Theatre Company proudly presents  William Shakespeare - Tom Stoppard REDUX IN REP: Hamlet with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead A full production of two famous …

Earning a Pulitzer Prize and three Best Play awards, Edward Albee has created a masterwork of modern theater. Three Tall Women is a beautiful and enduring examination …

Where do you go when you have just shot your husband? When the life you planned didn’t work out? When misery has just got you …

Ring in the holiday season with the wild comedy of high jinks, good times, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. City Theatre Austin, November 18 – …

Lie. Cheat. Steal…all in day’s work.  Everyone plays an angle in David Mamet’s brilliantly written examination of the competitive world of sales. Delve into the seamier and more …

The out-of-this-world hit musical! August 19 – September 11 at City Theatre, Austin.Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Alan Menken Based on the film by …

The City Theatre continues its summer season with the Tennessee Williams American classic The Glass Menagerie, which revolutionized modern drama and is still an undisputed masterpiece …

 Let the mischief and merriment begin in this sizzling summer reimagining of Shakespeare’s most popular romantic comedy. In just one fantastic enchanted forest night, four …

This howlingly hysterical show is a send-up of beauty pageants everywhere as six contestants compete for the glittering tiara and the title of Miss Glamouresse. With …

For the quiet, little town of Faversham, it never knew what was about to happen...   The City Theatre is thrilled to present the notorious …

William Inge’s American classic where eight snowbound strangers at a Midwest diner get a serving of longing and loneliness, with a warm side of love and laughter, …

 Politics is a dangerous place for a good man! The City Theatre is thrilled to announce the special stage presentation of Robert Bolt’s celebrated drama A …

The hilarious, yet heartwarming play focuses on the lives of four mentally handicapped men who live together under the watchful eye of their sincere, yet despairing, …

Celebrate the holidays with Robert Harling’s wisecracking and wise southern comedy hit!   Fall in love with the ladies of Truvy’s Beauty Salon all over …

 Mystery and murder is the entertainment choice this Halloween season! However, this time it’s complete with Nazi saboteurs, secret passageways, flickering lights… and, well, the blizzard …

Opening City Theatre’s 10th anniversary season, the Austin premiere play Love Alone by Deborah Salem Smith pulls no punches as it lays bare the emotions of two families …

Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight! Forum's joyous, musical romp through Rome has desperate lovers, scheming neighbors and secrets behind every toga. A Funny Thing is considered …

Love! Valour! Compassion! is hailed by many critics as McNally at the top of his form. The play centers on eight gay men who vacation together …

To toast ten years, powerhouse City Theatre stage performers Cathie Sheridan,  Michelle Cheney, Tracy Hurd, and Dawn Erin come together to sing their favorite songs …

Oscar Wilde’s most beloved and delightful comedy graces the City Theatre stage – a perfect summer treat playing June 12 through July 5.   The …

 The New York Times named Waiting for Godot “the most important play of the 20th Century.” Since it was first staged over sixty years ago, theatre artists, …

I've just got one thing to say, Ben…! What's that, sir? Plastics, Ben. Plastics.  These lines from The Graduate, so etched in the American psyche, are …

The stage hit about three married couples covering up their love affairs that result in a hilarious comedy of errors. An entanglement of misleadings and …

Tametheon is a young hero who sets forth on an odyssey in order to find the whereabouts of his long-lost family and discover the leader he was …

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”  Shakespeare’s timeless political thriller portrays the life and death struggle for …

Jeff Goode's wickedly funny alternative to traditional candy-cane cheer. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of …

Craig Lucas' comedy RECKLESS has been called the modern Christmas fable of our time. It's Christmas Eve, and Rachel Fitzsimmons' euphoric existence is shattered when …

If comedies are your favorite choice of theatre, then Farce of Nature is sure to please! From Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, the …

The City Theatre Company is thrilled to end its 2014 summer theatre season with the award-winning musical comedy Urinetown: The Musical. Don't let the title …

Edmund Rostand’s enduring masterwork about the power of love, the art of wordplay and the joy of finding what you've always wanted right under your …

Sand. Sun. Surfboards. Boys. Bikinis. Beaches. It's a party! A "Psycho Beach Party!" And laughs. Don't forget the laughs. The City Theatre Company has plenty …

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, gender bending, fools and bawdy revelry takes the stage in William Shakespeare's best – loved comedy.The City Theatre Company is thrilled …

When entrusting the subject of motherhood to such celebrated American writers, what results is a joyous, moving collection of stories that is hilarious, uplifting, and …

In a world overrun by greed and evil, one man stands between order and complete chaos. Did I say a man? Scratch that. He's more …

In 1966, when Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance had its Broadway premiere, just four years after his explosive hit Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he …

When recently failed marriages force slovenly Oscar to share an apartment with fastidious Felix, the pair must determine, along with good friends and new loves, …

Richmond, April 1865. The Civil War has ended, and a badly wounded Confederate soldier stumbles into the ruin of what was once his home. His …

Wikipedia: Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one …

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama: When Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English, is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer she reassesses her …

In an interview, Simon said: " 'I was going through some difficult times...I wanted to work, because work is always a cathartic process for me, …

Into the Woods is a musical that includes lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered …

Agnes of God is a play by JohnPielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the child was the result of a virgin conception. A psychiatrist and …

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Nunsense follows the crazy antics of five nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken convent. When their cook accidentally serves up some tainted soup, 52 of …

Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate …

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, …