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"Meet the Beetles"
This Art.Science.Gallery exhibit celebrating the order Coleoptera in art will have you screaming "Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Oct. 20, 2016
"Lorena Morales: Urban Kaleidoscope"
At CAMIBAart, the artist's altered images of Austin hint at the fickle phenomenon of memory and its transience
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Oct. 20, 2016
Jarrott Productions' The Price
This staging of the Arthur Miller drama keenly appraises the worth of a life
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Oct. 13, 2016
UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water
Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Oct. 13, 2016
"The First Horizons of Juno" at MASS Gallery
Within this smart and variable group show are three works that are muscular, robust, something to pump your fist to
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Oct. 13, 2016
Hyde Park Theatre's Lungs
The company has gathered all the right people for this beautiful, painful, timely tale of a man and a woman in a dying world
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Oct. 6, 2016
Mary Moody Northen Theatre's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
This gangster spectacle based on Hitler's rise feels more than timely in the current election year
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Oct. 6, 2016
"Richard Forster: Levittown" at Lora Reynolds Gallery
The artist's reconsideration of his suburban hometown hinges on the conflict between the mass-produced and the personal
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Oct. 6, 2016
Silent Sky at Austin Playhouse
This luminous staging of Lauren Gunderson's play brings wonder to the universe and makes it at once vast and intimate
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Sep. 29, 2016
"Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World" at the Ransom Center
This survey shows how the photographer captured the culture of his time in ways both compelling and frightening
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Sep. 29, 2016
Teatro Vivo’s EL
Raul Garza's new play explores the power of the storyteller
Reviewed by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Sep. 22, 2016
The Theorists’ Hiraeth
A sprawling evening of art and community organized by Amy Morrow and the Theorists showed the challenge of editing in our age
Reviewed by Jonelle Seitz, Sep. 22, 2016
“Figure/Heads: David Bae and Erin Cunningham” at ICOSA Collective Gallery
It's rare for a show to combine work by two artists so different in such a complex and intensely unified way
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Sep. 22, 2016
Theatre en Bloc's The Totalitarians
This ridiculous but smart satire about a Nebraska political race may be the only political play that can deliver laughs this election season
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Sep. 15, 2016
Ethos' Atlantis: A Puppet Opera
This new musical take on the fall of Atlantis pulls us into an ancient place, powered by myth and ritual
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Sep. 15, 2016
"Femme National(e): Audrey Brown, Christina Coleman, Kasumi Chow / Desiree Michelle Espada, Emmy Laursen, Juliana Isabel Ramirez"
This group show is messy and a little berserk, but that's what makes it important and kindles joy in us
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Sep. 15, 2016
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2016: The Frank Mills, Loverboy, People of Earth
These three improv troupes gave us an earful at this year's OoB
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Sep. 8, 2016
"Sum You Some Me" at Butridge Gallery
This show pairing artwork by Felice House and Dana Younger feels dedicated and warm, a committed homage to the body
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Sep. 8, 2016
Hand to God at Hyde Park Theatre
Capital T Theatre delivers a fast-paced, funny take on this tale of a demonic hand puppet in a church basement
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Sep. 1, 2016
"Goya: Mad Reason" at the Blanton Museum
The images of war in Goya's prints are brutal and immediate, and it is for this reason that we must look at them
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Sep. 1, 2016
Austin Jewish Repertory Theater's W.
This solo version of Woyzeck is a fresh, compelling take on Buchner's play, powerfully performed by Joey Hood
Reviewed by Shanon Weaver, Aug. 25, 2016
“Engaged in Conversation” Gallery Shoal Creek
The pairing of works by Katie Maratta and Sydney Yeager offer visual pleasures that might have otherwise gone unseen
Aug. 25, 2016
Gale Theatre Company's Salomé
This original drama reworks the familiar tale to give us a new perspective on the Judean princess
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Aug. 18, 2016
The Institution Theater's Fuck, It's Hot
The Austin-oriented sketch show has its rough spots, but it delivers lots of laughs as a cooling balm in the dog days
Reviewed by Shanon Weaver, Aug. 18, 2016
"Disparate Mythos: Women of Sculpture" at Dimension Gallery
In this varied group exhibition, Magdalena Jarkowiec's two-ness shows the richness of sameness and difference in duos
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Aug. 18, 2016
Emma Cline's The Girls
This seismic literary debut tracks a California girl drawn to a dark cult in 1969
Reviewed by Tim Stegall, Aug. 11, 2016
Last Act Theatre Company's Postville
In Don Fried's drama, small-town Midwesterners face a clash of cultures when Hasidic Jews move in
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Aug. 11, 2016
Summer Stock Austin's Carnival
The production offers impressive spectacle, but the musical's treatment of women is still a problem
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Aug. 11, 2016
"Rachel Wolfson Smith: Midas" at grayDUCK Gallery
The vehicle crashes in this solo exhibition, artfully drawn in graphite, manage to contain both peace and a madness
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Aug. 11, 2016
Zach Theatre's Mary Poppins
Great singing and dancing make Dave Steakley's staging soar, but a spoonful of calm would help the spectacle go down
Reviewed by Elizabeth Cobbe, Aug. 4, 2016
Summer Stock Austin's The Addams Family
The company's young artists infuse the musical incarnation of those spooky, ooky Addamses with fresh blood by the buckets
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Aug. 4, 2016
Unlocking the Joys of Austin’s Puzzle Rooms
Escape rooms bring the solitary diversions to life
Reviewed by Marc Majcher, Jul. 28, 2016
Spectrum Theatre Company's Spunk
This Austin company weaves three classic tales by Zora Neale Hurston into a spirited service full of sass and grit
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Jul. 28, 2016
Zilker Theatre Productions' Shrek the Musical
The lovable ogre and company spring to life on the Hillside stage with loads of laughs and professional polish
Reviewed by Shanon Weaver, Jul. 28, 2016
"Peter Brown Leighton: Live Snakes" at Photo Méthode Gallery
The words that best describe the manipulated vintage photos in this exhibit are blithe, triumphant, and hilarious
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Jul. 28, 2016
Good as Gone: A Novel of Suspense
Amy Gentry's page-turning thriller is set apart by its realistic and empathetic portrayal of abuse victims and their families
Reviewed by Jessi Cape, Jul. 21, 2016
Hyde Park Theatre's The Flick
Annie Baker's drama movingly shows us that the drama in a movie theatre isn't only on the screen
Reviewed by Robert Faires, Jul. 21, 2016
Shrewd Productions' Hold Me Well
Playwright Eva Suter's reworking of Othello in a world without men depicts love in many forms with power and beauty
Reviewed by Shanon Weaver, Jul. 21, 2016
"Scorch and Drag" at Flatbed Gallery
John Robert Craft's objects and prints, combined with the viewer's eye, creates a chamber of reverberating visions
Reviewed by Sam Anderson-Ramos, Jul. 21, 2016
Austin Chamber Music Festival: Marian Anderson String Quartet
At the end of a tragic week, the Marian Anderson String Quartet reached for grace and tendered it to us
