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Ground Floor Theatre's Fun Home
Lisa Scheps’ production is invested with a level of care that makes this musical memoir movingly familiar
Reviewed by Trey Gutierrez, Dec. 13, 2018
Ballet Austin’s The Nutcracker
The company’s 56th run at this holiday classic retains its magic – enough beauty and wonder to transport you to enchanting realms
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Dec. 13, 2018
“Alba Corral: Thoughts in Action” at Generative Art Project
The new gallery screens our present into the future with beauty and depth
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Dec. 13, 2018
A Mile Above Texas
Gorgeous images of land and water shot from the air provide a fresh perspective on the Lone Star State
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Dec. 6, 2018
Garlandia
One family man’s fight to survive divine assaults and a community turned against him becomes a rollicking, rambling epic, superbly rendered
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Dec. 6, 2018
Emergency Contact
It’s wry and vulnerable love via text message in this YA novel set in Austin
Reviewed by Rosalind Faires, Dec. 6, 2018
Street Corner Arts' We Are Proud to Present ...
Street Corner Arts' staging is more than exceptional theatre; it asks thought-provoking questions about authority, perspective, and intention
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Dec. 6, 2018
line upon line percussion's The city wears a slouch hat
John Cage and Kenneth Patchen's experimental radio play proved an ideal vehicle for the creative daredevils of line upon line and the Rude Mechs to revive together
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Dec. 6, 2018
Austin Playhouse's The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This musical production makes for an effervescent alternative to that other Dickens holiday show
Reviewed by Bob Abelman, Nov. 29, 2018
Different Stages' Great Expectations
In this retelling of the Charles Dickens novel, a visible love of narrative is the show's greatest strength
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Nov. 29, 2018
"Annie Miller: I see london, I see france" at MoHA
This show in the Cage Match Project series casts the viewer as peeping Tom, looking through holes in a boarded-up trailer to view art
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Nov. 29, 2018
Immigrants, the Musical! (Part Two)
With this improvised musical series, one family’s tale of coming to the states becomes a tale about us all
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Nov. 22, 2018
Austin Shakespeare’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
This production is everything but sultry, which is the very thing the Tennessee Williams drama needs most
Reviewed by Bob Abelman, Nov. 22, 2018
Capital T Theatre's The Hunchback Variations and ...Faustus
The company's pairing of two Mickle Maher one-acts gets lit about art in a sublime way
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Nov. 15, 2018
Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Men on Boats
With a diverse cast of women playing white men exploring the Grand Canyon, this show recasts history to show guys who just don't get it
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Nov. 15, 2018
MASS Gallery's "Staycation: thresholds"
The gallery's first exhibit in its new home invites viewers into the private self and into the stretching of one's limits
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Nov. 15, 2018
"Steve Parker: War Tuba" at Big Medium
In exploring sound's relationship to conflict and use in it, the artist fuses past and present, melody and discord, into a remixed reveille
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Nov. 8, 2018
Doctuh Mistuh and Penfold Theatre's Nevermore
In Jonathan Christenson's musical, Edgar Allan Poe's life is imagined as a spooky, entrancing dance of the spirits
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Nov. 1, 2018
ICOSA's "Chiaroscuro: probing mystery, seeking clarity"
The first group show in the collective's new home shows its members stretching themselves and embracing change
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Nov. 1, 2018
"Whitney Turetzky: Feminine Grandeur" at the Elisabet Ney
In the way she transforms antique photographs of anonymous women, Turetzky elevates their subjects’ status to something holy and sacred
Reviewed by Marisa Charpentier, Nov. 1, 2018
Books to Prep You for the Texas Book Festival
The read goes on forever at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Oct. 25, 2018
There There
The Big Oakland Powwow provides a window into modern Native American life in Tommy Orange’s searing debut novel
Reviewed by Rosalind Faires, Oct. 25, 2018
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng’s second novel offers rich portrayals of motherhood in the suburbs
Reviewed by Rosalind Faires, Oct. 25, 2018
The Wedding Date
For a good time, read Jasmine Guillory’s delightful debut romcom
Reviewed by Rosalind Faires, Oct. 25, 2018
November Road
Lou Berney’s latest, set around JFK’s assassination, is a tightly written crime tale worthy of Raymond Chandler or James M. Cain
Reviewed by Jesse Sublett, Oct. 25, 2018
Austin Symphony's Happy Birthday, Lenny
In its concert celebrating Bernstein, the ASO shows the composer giving his all in even the briefest of works
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Oct. 25, 2018
“Candace Hicks: Many Mini Murder Scenes” at Women & Their Work
In her small-scale re-creations of murder scenes in mystery novels, the artist provides playful social commentary on the genre
Reviewed by Taylor Prewitt, Oct. 25, 2018
“Shanie Tommasini: Slippery Clump” at the Umlauf
The Umlauf Prize-winning artist uses big, playful shapes and environmental manipulation to look at art, nature, and conservation
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Oct. 25, 2018
Theatre Synesthesia's The Fault
In Katie Bender's play, an American family tries to save itself from being shaken apart
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Oct. 18, 2018
"Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance" at the Ransom Center
This evocative excavation into the artist's process of creating art and making books reveals the work of art is the completed book itself
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Oct. 18, 2018
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
This bittersweet novel charts a wrongful conviction's effect on a young couple
Reviewed by Rosalind Faires, Oct. 18, 2018
Prima Doñas' LatiNacional: tu casa es mi casa
The improv troupe behind Latinauts gives 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a makeover like the country has never seen
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Oct. 11, 2018
“Ana Esteve Llorens: Correspondence” at Las Cruxes
The textiles in this solo show map a negotiation between the weaver and her surroundings, a lattice charting stretch and slack over time
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Oct. 11, 2018
Suicide Club: A Novel About Living by Rachel Heng
This debut novel about a future in which people can live forever is a bittersweet yet life-affirming story of eternity versus death
Reviewed by M. Brianna Stallings, Oct. 11, 2018
From Slavery to Buffalo Soldier in Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
Sarah Bird's historical novel tells one woman's unique tale of freedom
Reviewed by Marisa Charpentier, Oct. 4, 2018
Zach Theatre's Once
This musical disarms the cynicism of our age with the sweet story of a guy and a girl who bond over music
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Oct. 4, 2018
En Route Productions' *some humans were harmed in the making of this show
CB Goodman's play is memorable for its exuberant satire, but an abrupt hairpin turn toward the serious makes the show even more memorable
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Oct. 4, 2018
"Shawn Camp: Equivocation" at Northern-Southern
In this three-part installation, the artist plays with light to creates work that is atmospheric and at times beautifully comtemplative
Reviewed by Melany Jean, Oct. 4, 2018
Hyde Park Theatre's Confessions of a Mexpatriate
Raul Garza's solo show tells us that finding your true self in another country isn't easy
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Sep. 27, 2018
Blue Lapis Light's Belonging, Part One
The work's dancers, whether on the ground or sailing through the air, were beacons of human hope and empathy
