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Boeing-Boeing

Austin Playhouse succeeds in booking a funny flight to Madcap Farce City

Next to Normal

Strong performances make this musical about mental illness worth seeing

Joshua Saunders: Crip/Blood

Attaching gang names to mundane objects, the show seems to be one big punch line

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  • All Over Creation: Unexpected Losses

    Sudden deaths make us stop, but they should also make us think

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Feb. 10, 2012

  • Diana Al-Hadid

    The artist's VAC installation creates an afterimage for the afterworld

    By ANDY CAMPBELL, Fri., Feb. 10, 2012

  • Arts Review

    A magnificent-looking and intelligent staging of Tom Stoppard's masterpiece

    By JILLIAN OWENS, Fri., Feb. 10, 2012

  • Arts Review

    Who knew Antarctica was really made of cheese?

    By DAN SOLOMON, Fri., Feb. 10, 2012

  • Arts Review

    Truth was stranger – and more interesting – than the fiction in this Canadian dance

    By JONELLE SEITZ, Fri., Feb. 10, 2012

  • 'Long' Haul

    Delivering the goods on the 2012 FronteraFest Long Fringe

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Feb. 3, 2012

  • Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

    A peek beneath the tutu from Austin's Mike McKinley

    By JONELLE SEITZ, Fri., Feb. 3, 2012

  • Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival

    In Austin's newest festival, stand-up finally gets top billing

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Feb. 3, 2012

  • Arts Review

    An election-year return to Oz finds the hit musical packing an extra punch

    By JILLIAN OWENS, Fri., Feb. 3, 2012

  • Arts Review

    Lyubov Petrova powers this Lucia with vocal fireworks and nuanced acting

    By ADAM ROBERTS, Fri., Feb. 3, 2012

  • Method to Their Madness

    Two leading ladies reflect on their psychotic characters' unique relationships with the score

    By ADAM ROBERTS, Fri., Jan. 27, 2012

  • Gerre Hancock

    Remembering the renowned organist, choirmaster, composer, and educator

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 27, 2012

  • Austin Cabaret Theatre

    Stuart Moulton is getting his ACT together and taking it on the road (MoPac)

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 27, 2012

  • Ballet Austin

    Ballet Austin shines a light on human rights and the Holocaust in reviving its 2005 work

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 27, 2012

  • Arts Review

    This tale of a Scotsman who loved and sang country music rang Texas true

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 27, 2012

  • Arts Review

    A concert which proved that eloquence survives in the age of the sound bite

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 27, 2012

  • Arts Review

    The artist as data, casting the metrics of her life in visual form

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

  • 'Long Gone Lonesome'

    A new play tells the true story of a Scottish fisherman who was also a great country singer

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 20, 2012

  • All Over Creation: Re: Views

    What makes a review a review?

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 20, 2012

  • Arts Review

    The show's brief monologues work like pop songs, conveying universal feelings in condensed form

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., Jan. 20, 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

  • The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth

    A dystopian future meets a pop-culture obsessed past in Ready Player One

    By JAMES RENOVITCH, Fri., Aug. 19, 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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