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Rude Mechanicals: Grrl Action impacts Austin
The Rude Mechs’ greatest achievement? Maybe scoring funding for Grrl Action from nonprofit heavyweight Impact Austin.
Barry Pineo
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Austin Chamber Music Festival: The aria of Anne Frank
For the first time in its 11-year history, the annual Austin
Chamber Music Festival will present an opera: the Texas
premiere of Grigori Frid’s The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Zilker Summer Musical production of My Favorite
Year triumphed over the recent storms and occasionally
over the show’s weak material
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Austin Visual Arts Association: Thrilled to be hitting the big 3-0
The Austin Visual Arts Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary in high style, with a pair of exhibitions and a big reunion party for local artists
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The Arts Alive Institute: Reaching all learners with art
VSA Arts’ Arts Alive Institute brings together artists and educators from across the state to discuss best practices for using the arts to reach everyone in the classroom
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ASO Concerts in the Park: The gift at the gazebo
The Austin Symphony is again presenting its summer series of concerts in Wooldridge Park, and the musicians love getting out of the concert hall and inside that park’s gazebo
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Dan Dietz: The exit interview
As local playwright Dan Dietz prepares to leave Austin for
a teaching gig at Florida State, he talks about his
experience here and what he sees happening down the
road
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Fandango!: Double the plucking, as guitar and harpsichord wed
It may seem a strange marriage, a union between guitar and harpsichord, but when harpsichordist Keith Womer and guitarist Susan McDonald play together, all doubts fade away
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A Special Evening With Stephen Mills: With him, it’s special all the time
As Ballet Austin presents a Special Evening With Stephen Mills, some of the artists from the ballet explain why they think their artistic director is a special guy
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For years, Second Youth Family Theatre has set the standard for children’s theatre in Austin, but its latest show, The Page and the Caterpillar, doesn’t quite live up to that standard
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‘The Barber of Seville’: Oh, we meant to do it this way
With Bass Concert Hall no longer available, Austin Lyric Opera is working to stage The Barber of Seville in a hall with no orchestra pit, no proscenium, and no wing space
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Austin Shakespeare Festival: Playing in a theatrical mecca
A dream comes true for the Austin Shakespeare Festival when it gets to perform the Bard’s As You Like It in Richard Garriott’s replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre