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Your A-List: Best Theater Company
I’ve been reporting the results of A List reader polls for a couple of years. I can usually predict in advance which reports will receive the most comments. This is one.
Esther’s Follies, an Austin comic tradition since 1978, took second with 14 percent.
Greater Tuna, almost as old as Esther’s, came in third with 6 percent.
Hyde Park Theatre, The Vortex, Salvage Vanguard, Austin Playhouse, Rude Mechs, ColdTowne and Latino Comedy Project bunched up below that.
Zach, Austin’s largest and most acclaimed theater company, received no votes.
Those are the results. Unhappy readers should vote next time. And if you must leave comments, snarkiness persuades no one here.
Congratulate City Theater and move on.
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By Carol Anne
January 6, 2010 10:04 PM | Link to this
I've been frequenting little theaters in Austin for the past few years. The quality of their work and end-product serves of great value if not greater sometimes than those organizations with larger amounts in patrons and pocketbooks. They put more local actors on stage, give more opportunities to local designers, directors and choreographers, and ultimately bring more new works to the Austin theatre scene for all of us to experience. I voted. Bravo to City Theatre!