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Last fall, Zach booked musical theatre legend Bernadette Peters to bless the Topfer Theatre with its first performance. Now, for the launch of its new TOP Concerts series tonight, the theatre has recruited Peters' screen daughter on the TV series Smash and musical theatre legend in the making Megan Hilty to do the honors. Read More | Comment »

Limelight 1:15PM Tue. Jun. 18, Robert Faires

'Ida,' Ho!

Princess Ida. Not a title that's in heavy rotation on the Gilbert & Sullivan Hit Parade. Indeed, this eighth collaboration by the musical team has never been produced by the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin in its 37 years of mounting their comic operas. Even Artistic Director Ralph MacPhail Jr. hadn't staged the work. Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 1:48PM Thu. Jun. 13, Robert Faires

Who Dares Try to Out-Author the Authors, Onstage and Off the Cuff?

What would that terrific novel be like after the first chapter if the author hadn't gone any farther with it? Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 12:30PM Tue. Jun. 11, Wayne Alan Brenner

Jimmy Jalapeeno: In Memoriam

Friends of the late Austin painter and photographer Jim Bonar, better known as Jimmy Jalapeeno, will gather to celebrate his life on the morning of Sunday, June 9, at the Eye of the Dog Art Center in San Marcos. Bonar died Wednesday, May 22, after a bout with cancer. The man described as "witty and wise, silly and deep" was 66. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 10:30AM Fri. Jun. 7, Robert Faires

We Need More of Randall Reid's Fractured Signs in Our Times

You can't see much of Randall Reid's "Full Circle" art in any nearby gallery right now. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 12:02PM Mon. Jun. 3, Wayne Alan Brenner

Where Does Art Fit Into The Goodnight?

"What kind of a place do you think we're running here?" says bartender Derron Rogers, frowning at his boss who's just set his drink on the polished granite bar without first setting down a cocktail napkin. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 11:00AM Mon. Jun. 3, Wayne Alan Brenner

Celebrate the Riotous 'Rite of Spring'

If you'd told me in March that it'd still feel like spring mere days before the start of June, I'd have laughed in your face. Read More | Comment »

Works in Progress 3:07PM Wed. May. 29, Monica Riese

The Wind in Your Face

An eternal mystery of Texas life is how Lubbock can spawn so many creative people. Tonight three escapees from that Panhandle purgatory – Jaston Williams, Joe Ely, and Jo Carol Pierce – try to wrangle that riddle in Is There Life After Lubbock? Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 5:00PM Tue. May. 28, Robert Faires

Now You Can See 'What Jane Saw'

Two hundred years ago today, Jane Austen visited a museum for a retrospective of portraitist Joshua Reynolds. And now, you can see it too. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 3:30PM Fri. May. 24, Monica Riese

Not Everybody Is In This Weekend's Austin Sketch Fest

And as much as local comedy attention is focused on that star-studded Fest right about now, let's nobody forget about The New Movement, OK? Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 11:45AM Fri. May. 24, Wayne Alan Brenner

Joey Waldon: In Memoriam

Senses of humor and artistic outlooks don't come much weirder – or more Austin – than Joey Waldon's. During his days as a Velveeta Room regular and local cartoonist, Waldon routinely took the most ordinary subjects and gave them an offbeat spin that that tickled the brain just as much as the funny bone. Alas, that wonderful talent has left us. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 4:20PM Wed. May. 22, Robert Faires

Gender, Sex, and Fabric

The problem of the skirt – at least the long, voluminous skirt, as demonstrated in Nicole Roerick’s Morose Beauty – is one of access. Designed for the ease of the other, not the wearer, the skirted woman paws at the fabric, twisting and groping like an injured dog at its cone. Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 11:00AM Wed. May. 22, Jonelle Seitz

Mac & Cheers

"I was in a Walgreen's … at night. So already I fucked up," opined Mac Blake in leading off a very funny story about a mouth-breather shopping for a belt at the drugstore. Where the comedian didn't fuck up was walking into Cap City Comedy Club on Monday night. Because he walked out wearing the crown of Funniest Person in Austin 2013. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 11:45AM Tue. May. 21, Robert Faires

This Is a Blogpost About Austin's Jennymarie Jemison

That's right: Partly. Read More | Comment »

Limelight 2:00PM Mon. May. 20, Wayne Alan Brenner

After the Battle

When photojournalist Erin Trieb traveled to Afghanistan to embed with U.S. troops, she wasn’t expecting to find her calling. Over the course of three years, from 2009-2012, she traveled three times to Afghanistan, most extensively with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division based in Ft. Drum, N.Y. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 11:00AM Sat. May. 18, Natalie Zeldin

Moms the Word

Moms Mabley is inside Whoopi Goldberg. You can see for yourself when the multitalented, what-hasn't-she-done comedian/Oscar-winning actress/co-host of The View/drinkslinger on the starship Enterprise takes the Dell Hall stage at the Long Center on Saturday night. Read More | Comment »

Jokers Wild 4:00PM Fri. May. 17, Robert Faires

The Very Last Night at Wardenclyffe

Even Nikola Tesla, that genius and master of strange forces, had to leave us eventually. And now so does the Eastside artistic epicenter named after his laboratory. Read More | Comment »

Works in Progress 1:51PM Thu. May. 16, Wayne Alan Brenner

East Austin Arts Puts It Into a FRAME This Weekend

Four venues, twelve hours, a few hundred more stories in this nacred city. Read More | Comment »

Frame Up 12:59PM Wed. May. 15, Wayne Alan Brenner

Is Tonight's 'Pie and Ear Show' All Wet, or What?

They're back for one last show, and the God of Thunder can go fuck himself. Read More | Comment »

Shows to Go Ya 11:30AM Wed. May. 15, Wayne Alan Brenner

David Lindsay-Abaire: The Interview

Tonight is your last chance to see the Different Stages production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, the most produced play in the U.S. now. It was a departure for the writer: the first time he's written about his South Boston neighborhood. Read More | Comment »

Limelight 5:30PM Sat. May. 11, Robert Faires

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