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“I’m an A&R guy for Lucky Hound Music [and] a staff producer”

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

On a Mary Moody Northen Theatre stage painted with splashy autumn colors evoking fallen leaves, Melba Martinez and Michael Massey, co-directors/designers of this production of Death of a Salesman, take their audience on a trip through the dying world of Willy Loman, and a powerful trip it is.

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

TexARTS succeeds in telling the story of Williams' sadly sweet play clearly

With a single setting, one act, and two actors, Amos Kamil's play The Flame Keeper is decidedly simple in form, but it is far from simplistic, grappling with issues of identity and responsibility that are enormously complex.

St. Edward's University's lavish production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is, for the most part, an enjoyable, educational -- albeit long -- night of romance and comedic and dramatic irony, with some intense swashbuckling.

The Cherry Orchard: About Real People

Margaret Edson's drama Wit could be just another story about someone dying of a dreadful disease, but director Michael Bloom stages the State Theater Company production with the skilled and experienced hands of a surgeon and Megan Cole's striking performance as the terminally ill poetry scholar makes us face our own mortality and makes two hours feel like one.

Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play petty criminals who spend a night reckoning with the lord when they rob their neighborhood church.

Will Ferrell runs comic circles around NASCAR.

Melba Martinez's legacy at Mary Moody Northen Theatre

Another Austin theatre company suffers a mid-performance disaster and responds to it with resourcefulness and pluck, and the Austin Community College Drama Department marks Shakespeare's 437th birth with an all-star "Billy Bash."

Memories from another dying Austin venue

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

Austin Actors Teach by Example at St. Edward's

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

Seasons in the Sun

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Recall petitioners look for a battle they can Wynn.

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

Why the dogs can't catch the toll road speed machine

AFF's finalized lineup

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Our readers talk back.