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ARTS REVIEWS

The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later

The follow-up is no mere epilogue but a powerful tale that stands on its own

The Pavilion

Penfold Theatre offers an example of a great production built on an almost-great script

Fusebox Festival 2012

This year the fest's dance works provoked questions about inequity, grrrl power, fame, and change

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The Nazer's Edge

Jokers Wild  Ramin scores the crown of Funniest Person in Austin 2012

this week

All Over Creation: Crossbred and Circuses

Fusebox's hybrid artworks get more exhilarating as they get more innovative

By ROBERT FAIRES

recent features

  • Orchestrating Partnerships

    Maestro Peter Bay likes to play with others – especially when they're outside the orchestra

    By ADAM ROBERTS, Fri., May 4, 2012

  • Studio Visits: Court Lurie

    Intersections of self and abstraction

    By ANDY CAMPBELL, Fri., May 4, 2012

  • Joan Jonas

    The layers, the layers, the layers of things

    By ANDREW LONG, Fri., May 4, 2012

  • Arts Review

    On the farm, Present Company offers as pleasant an evening as you'll spend with a shrew

    By ELIZABETH COBBE, Fri., May 4, 2012

  • Arts Review

    The cast keeps this otherwise tepid fare afloat

    By ADAM ROBERTS, Fri., May 4, 2012

  • Arts Review

    The audience came seeking cult icon Ron Swanson, and that's who Nick Offerman gave them

    By DAN SOLOMON, Fri., May 4, 2012

  • Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival Preview

    April 25-28, 2012

    Fri., April 27, 2012

  • You Get That Laugh ...

    Wanda Sykes has conquered all of show biz, but stand-up, she just can't quit you

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Where He Got That Pony

    Steven Wright on his inspirations and stand-up origins

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Sausage Bang

    Chris Cubas and Kath Barbadoro call the shots on Moontower's all-guy and all-gal shows

    By WAYNE ALAN BRENNER, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Wink, Don't Tweet

    Matt Bearden on what jokes you'll hear at Moontower and why he's not all a-Twitter

    By WAYNE ALAN BRENNER, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Dang Aloud

    Dana Gould likes hiding the pill in the banana

    By STEVE BIRMINGHAM, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Dr. Joker and Mr. 'WTF'

    Marc Maron on his double life as a comic and a podcast star

    By DAN SOLOMON, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Fusebox Festival

    Beaming down to Fusebox and charging it up are Captain Kirk and the King

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • ART From the Ashes Reseeding With Creativity

    A California nonprofit helps Bastrop recover by making art from fire-damaged materials

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Arts Review

    This aerial adaptation of H.G. Wells is neat, and there's nothing wrong with that

    By DAN SOLOMON, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Arts Review

    Eight playwrights wrote 10-minute plays, and the audience lived happily ever after

    By JILLIAN OWENS, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Arts Review

    Seven artists journeyed to an Italian monastery to make prints, with sumptuous results

    By WAYNE ALAN BRENNER, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • All Over Creation: I, Witness

    The victims of the Virginia Tech shootings were memorialized in a potent play at UT

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., April 20, 2012

  • Conspirare

    The Grammy-nominated choir leads off its Legacy of Sound campaign with a seven-figure gift

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., April 20, 2012

  • The Fun Platform

    Helen Knode's new murder mystery finds her leaving noir and stepping into the light

    By CINDY WIDNER, Fri., April 27, 2012

  • Austin Jewish Book Fair

    Community reads

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., Nov. 4, 2011

  • TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2011

    • Power to the Pen

      Paging through the Texas Book Festival

      By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., Oct. 21, 2011

  • Benjamin and Byron's Long-Term Affair

    An émigré author, a bad-boy poet, and an epic trilogy at its end

    By ROBERTO ONTIVEROS, Fri., Sept. 30, 2011

  • Review: Steplings: A Novel

    Kids prove better at adapting than parents when they run away from home

    By JAMES RENOVITCH, Fri., Sept. 23, 2011

  • Antifogmatic

    Novelist Dominic Smith and the glow of the particular

    By SARAH SMITH, Fri., Sept. 16, 2011

  • Darkness, Then Light

    Amanda Eyre Ward on the story she always knew she would tell

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., July 15, 2011

  • Review: The Sisters Brothers

    A black-comic picaresque set in Gold Rush country

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., June 24, 2011

  • Read Local!

    Summer books by Austin authors

    Fri., May 27, 2011

  • National Treasure

    Reflections on John Sayles' America

    By LOUIS BLACK, Fri., May 13, 2011

  • Review: Bright Before Us

    A mutilated body on a beach sends an elementary school teacher into a tailspin

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., May 6, 2011

  • Stickmen With Ray Guns

    Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Steam

    By MARC SAVLOV, Fri., April 29, 2011

  • Review: What You See in the Dark

    Manuel Muñoz's first novel spins haunting fiction out of an Alfred Hitchcock film shoot

    By BELINDA ACOSTA, Fri., March 25, 2011

  • Meat and Greet

    Texas Book Festival and 'Texas Monthly' to pair writers with barbecue

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., March 18, 2011

  • Review: Swamplandia!

    This debut novel boasts its own exclamation point for good reason.

    By KATE X MESSER, Fri., Feb. 25, 2011

  • You Know Nothing of Their Work

    Don Graham and the many minds of Texas

    By CINDY WIDNER, Fri., Jan. 28, 2011

  • Review: The Empty Family

    If you want to be sad – to surrender to the profundity and variety and physical force of that sensation – Colm Tóibín is your man

    By CINDY WIDNER, Fri., Jan. 21, 2011

  • Sad But True (Well, Mostly)

    Tapping real-life crisis for comedy in Drinking Closer to Home

    By MARION WINIK, Fri., Jan. 14, 2011

  • Her Fair Ladies

    Cristina García's antidote to the so-called 'spicy señorita'

    By BELINDA ACOSTA, Fri., Nov. 26, 2010

  • On the Seventh Day

    Judith Shulevitz considers the Sabbath at the Austin Jewish Book Fair

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., Nov. 12, 2010

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