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ARTS REVIEWS

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

There's plenty of blood in Capital T Theatre's staging, but also plenty of laughs and plenty to think about

Double Step

In this program of work by Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Kate Warren, the seriousness of the dancers was never in doubt

Something Lost

This group exhibition organized by Phil LaDeau lets UT artists redefine loss

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  • Best in Show

    The 2012-13 Austin Critics Table Awards

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., June 7, 2013

  • 'Double Step'

    Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Kate Warren bring their dance companies together, but they've been in step for decades

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., June 7, 2013

  • All Over Creation: Head in the Game

    In Houston, 'Warrior Class' and 'Road Show' show it is how you play the game

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., June 7, 2013

  • Blood, Sweat, and Cheers

    This play about competitive cheerleading doesn't always fly as high as its heroines, but the athleticism is awesome

    By ELIZABETH COBBE, Fri., June 7, 2013

  • Red Left, Blue Right

    GrayDUCK group show examines the degree to which the art object affects the senses

    By MATTHEW IRWIN, Fri., June 7, 2013

  • Harvey

    Zach Theatre's revival provides plenty of laughs, but is missing the poignant quality that makes the play so enduring

    By DAN SOLOMON, Fri., June 7, 2013

  • Culture Connectors

    The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., May 31, 2013

  • Studio Visits: Manik Nakra

    On a tarp-covered wall in a studio on Burnet Road, there lurk tigers ...

    By ANDY CAMPBELL, Fri., May 31, 2013

  • Austin Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor Peter Bay spices up the symphonic menu with some new compositions

    By NATALIE ZELDIN, Fri., May 31, 2013

  • Gruesome Playground Injuries

    Two wounded friends walk a line between nostalgia and regret in Street Corner Arts' staging of Rajiv Joseph's play

    By MATTHEW IRWIN, Fri., May 31, 2013

  • Twelve Angry Men

    With strong direction and a fine cast, City Theatre's revival of the jury-room drama of the 1950s feels very contemporary

    By JILLIAN OWENS, Fri., May 31, 2013

  • 'Not How It Happened'

    Artists Joel Ross and Jason Creps craft sardonic messages that may push viewers out of their comfort zones

    By CAITLIN GREENWOOD, Fri., May 31, 2013

  • Comedians With Theatre Damage

    The fourth annual Austin Sketch Fest scripts itself silly

    By WAYNE ALAN BRENNER, Fri., May 24, 2013

  • Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

    Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., May 24, 2013

  • 'Is There Life After Lubbock?'

    Jaston Williams, Joe Ely, and Jo Carol Pierce say, 'There is, there is'

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., May 24, 2013

  • The Happy Couple

    This Last Act Theatre show depicts a couple's nice life unraveling with equal parts tension and release

    By JILLIAN OWENS, Fri., May 24, 2013

  • The Cruel Circus

    Though often entertaining and quite humorous, this Trouble Puppet show seems to be missing something

    By ADAM ROBERTS, Fri., May 24, 2013

  • Body & Soul

    The flamenco artists worked to build the energy and tension throughout, but that goal proved hard to achieve

    By NATALIE ZELDIN, Fri., May 24, 2013

  • SUMMER FUN 2013

    • The Great Artdoors

      Summer's here, and the time is right for outdoor performances all over Central Texas

      By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., May 17, 2013

  • Funniest Person in Austin 2013

    From 209 contenders, the final 12 emerge to duke it out for this year's comedy crown

    By ROBERT FAIRES, Fri., May 17, 2013

  • SUMMER FUN 2013

  • Face to Face With Fiction

    Five notable authors come to New Fiction Confab

    By AMY GENTRY, Fri., April 12, 2013

  • Full Hearts Can't Lose

    The 21st annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

    By MONICA RIESE, Fri., Feb. 8, 2013

  • The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet

    Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines

    Fri., Dec. 14, 2012

  • The Overthinking Man's Fighter

    Floyd Patterson biographer W.K. Stratton explains the appeal of boxing's gentleman eccentric

    By JOSH ROSENBLATT, Fri., July 6, 2012

  • Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin

    A look at the unsung filmmaker, whose collaborators included Jerry Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, and Porky Pig

    Fri., May 25, 2012

  • TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2011

    • Power to the Pen

      Paging through the Texas Book Festival

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

  • Antifogmatic

    Novelist Dominic Smith and the glow of the particular

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

  • Review: East of the West: A Country in Stories

    If you have to staycation, at least see the world via books

    By SARAH SMITH, Fri., July 29, 2011

  • Darkness, Then Light

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

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., July 15, 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

  • Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses

    Two memoirs explore new parenthood and old childhoods with still-open wounds

    By KIMBERLEY JONES, Fri., Feb. 18, 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

  • New in Print

    Get radicalized: About to Die examines news imagery at the moment of death, while The Verso Book of Dissent spans Zola and Tupac

    By RICHARD WHITTAKER, Fri., Dec. 17, 2010

  • Her Fair Ladies

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

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

  • Review: Exley: A Novel

    This is a book that charms without seeming to try

    By CINDY WIDNER, Fri., Nov. 19, 2010

  • On the Seventh Day

    Judith Shulevitz considers the Sabbath at the Austin Jewish Book Fair

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