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Billboard

'Billboard' comes across as false advertising

Dan Solomon, May. 17, 2012

'The 2012 Drawing Annual'

Don't let Tiny Park Gallery go without experiencing this exhibit of depth and meaning

Wayne Alan Brenner, May. 17, 2012

Sisters of the Skin

A heartfelt community theatre production that aims to rescue a lost tale of Civil War courage

Jillian Owens, May. 17, 2012

The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later

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

Dan Solomon, May. 10, 2012

The Pavilion

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

Elizabeth Cobbe, May. 10, 2012

Fusebox Festival 2012

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

Jonelle Seitz, May. 10, 2012

The Taming of the Shrew

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

Elizabeth Cobbe, May. 3, 2012

Murder on the Nile

The cast keeps this otherwise tepid fare afloat

Adam Roberts, May. 3, 2012

Nick Offerman

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

Dan Solomon, May. 3, 2012

The Time Machine

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

Dan Solomon, Apr. 26, 2012

Out of Ink 2012: Sound Off

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

Jillian Owens, Apr. 26, 2012

'Out of La Romita'

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

Wayne Alan Brenner, Apr. 26, 2012

Jubilee

This Rubber Rep show throws lots of weirdness our way, but some of it is beautiful

Dan Solomon, Apr. 19, 2012

Turandot

ALO's production puts the 'grand' in grand opera

Adam Roberts, Apr. 19, 2012

Love's Labour's Lost

UT makes this lesser-known comedy a heart-wrenching, gut-busting adventure into Shakespeare

Jillian Owens, Apr. 19, 2012

The Dragon Play

Jenny Connell's drama lets us see ourselves reflected in the mythical beast's scales

Robert Faires, Apr. 12, 2012

A Room With a View

A lack of scenery distracts from an otherwise fine adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel

Adam Roberts, Apr. 12, 2012

Memento Mori

The three artists showing here exhibit so much sentience, mystery, and grace

Wayne Alan Brenner, Apr. 12, 2012

April Fools

Acia Gray mines vaudeville for lost treasures of tap and makes them dazzle again

Robert Faires, Apr. 5, 2012

Austin Symphony Orchestra With Bion Tsang, Cello

The cellist swashed and buckled his way through Dvorák like a great actor playing Cyrano

Robert Faires, Apr. 5, 2012

The Aliens

This fierce work of theatre feels like unrehearsed life at its most casual and intense

Wayne Alan Brenner, Apr. 5, 2012

The Materiality of Impermanence

Sharon Marroquín's dance about her cancer experience was a triumph of life and art

Robert Faires, Mar. 29, 2012

Catalyst

Dance Repertory Theatre's successful spring concert guided its audiences to heaven

Jonelle Seitz, Mar. 29, 2012

Wit

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a terminal-disease drama that still has the power to move us

Robert Faires, Mar. 22, 2012

Jennifer Balkan: Peep Holes

In Balkan's figurative portraits, the realism is heartbreaking

Wayne Alan Brenner, Mar. 22, 2012

Beauty Is Embarrassing: The Art of Wayne White

White's phrases painted meticulously onto found artworks leave us at a loss for words

Wayne Alan Brenner, Mar. 15, 2012

The Schooling of Bento Bonchev

When you thought the love story well had run dry, up springs this irresistible new one

Jillian Owens, Mar. 15, 2012

3: MFA Dance Concert

The work of these grad student dancemakers was as individual as it was thoughtful

Jonelle Seitz, Mar. 15, 2012

Experience Joy

The quality comedy at SXSW 2012 is worth making extra time for

Dan Solomon, Mar. 14, 2012

Glengarry Glen Ross

Most of Mamet's gritty look inside salesmen's souls gets lost in surface performances

Dan Solomon, Mar. 8, 2012

Romeo and Juliet

City Theatre's choices give this very familiar tale a welcome, fresh twist

Adam Roberts, Mar. 8, 2012

Dark to Light

Issues of sensitivity and clarity hamper this dance program

Jonelle Seitz, Mar. 8, 2012

The 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm

In this play, jumping to a new life when the going gets tough proves a not-so-easy way out

Adam Roberts, Mar. 1, 2012

Messenger No. 4 (Or... How to Survive a Greek Tragedy)

This riff on Greek tragic conventions stuffs plays within plays with giddy charm

Jillian Owens, Mar. 1, 2012

'Noriko Ambe: White Scape'

Ambe's milky topography may make your aesthetic senses go snow blind in appreciation

Wayne Alan Brenner, Mar. 1, 2012

The Crucible

St. Ed's stages a chilling version of Arthur Miller's indictment of McCarthyism

Jillian Owens, Feb. 23, 2012

Civilization (All You Can Eat)

Jason Grote's play comes off as fuzzy, especially in the half-light of SVT's staging

Elizabeth Cobbe, Feb. 23, 2012

'Jamie Panzer: Bullshit Detector'

Panzer's tetrahedons are no bull

Wayne Alan Brenner, Feb. 23, 2012

Boeing-Boeing

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

Adam Roberts, Feb. 16, 2012

Next to Normal

Strong performances make this musical about mental illness worth seeing

Elizabeth Cobbe, Feb. 16, 2012

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