Top Books of 2018 for Heroine Addicts
Sisters were doing it for themselves in historical fiction, alt-historical fiction, romance, and a graphic novel
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Rosalind Faires, Dec. 27, 2018
Melany Jean’s Top 10 Fine Art Moments of 2018
Unforgettably textured sculptures, unsettling exhibitions, and unusual spaces made for a memorable year in art
Melany Jean, Dec. 27, 2018
Top Books of 2018 That Make the Past Present
Whether in biography, graphic novel, crime fiction, or retold Greek myths, these books brought history to life
Jesse Sublett, Dec. 27, 2018
"Suchitra Mattai: Landfall" at grayDUCK Gallery
The artist's channeled chaos vividly explores relationships between the natural and human worlds
Wayne Alan Brenner, Dec. 20, 2018
Zach Theatre's The Santaland Diaries
A new creative team energizes a 20-year-old holiday tradition at Zach
Trey Gutierrez, Dec. 20, 2018
Permanent Record's White
In James Ijames' satirical portrait of the artist as a privileged white guy, a black woman provides the most vivid and interesting shades
Robert Faires, Dec. 20, 2018
Ground Floor Theatre's Fun Home
Lisa Scheps' production is invested with a level of care that makes this musical memoir movingly familiar
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
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
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
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
Wayne Alan Brenner, Dec. 6, 2018
Emergency Contact
It’s wry and vulnerable love via text message in this YA novel set in Austin
Rosalind Faires, Dec. 6, 2018
Street Corner Arts' We Are Proud to Present ...
This production is more than exceptional theatre; it asks thought-provoking questions about authority, perspective, and intention
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
Robert Faires, Dec. 6, 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
Melany Jean, Nov. 29, 2018
Austin Playhouse's The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This musical production makes for an effervescent alternative to that other Dickens holiday show
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
Robert Faires, 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
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
Bob Abelman, Nov. 22, 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
Melany Jean, Nov. 15, 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
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
Robert Faires, 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
Melany Jean, Nov. 8, 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
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
Marisa Charpentier, Nov. 1, 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
Robert Faires, Nov. 1, 2018
The Wedding Date
For a good time, read Jasmine Guillory's delightful debut romcom
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
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
Robert Faires, Oct. 25, 2018
Books for Days
The read goes on forever at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
