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Book Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells
In this first full-length novel featuring Murderbot, the violent but endearing rogue AI is back for more adventures to delight “all the stupid humans”
Elizabeth Cobbe
Elizabeth Cobbe is a journalist, dramaturg, and playwright. By day, she writes python and javascript, and by night she writes reviews, arts coverage, and plays. She moved to Austin in 2005.
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Sad Girls Productions’ So Lucky
This world premiere from a brand-new company lacks polish, but it does honor its community’s stories
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Zach Theatre’s A Night With Janis Joplin
This re-created rock concert with the legendary singer is so good, it may be better than the real thing
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Austin Playhouse’s Tiny Beautiful Things
There’s excellent work in Austin Playhouse’s production about Cheryl Strayed writing an advice column, but where’s the humility?
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Elizabeth Cobbe’s Top 10 Arts Entrances of 2019
It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive
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Street Corner Arts’ The Butcher of Baraboo
This hilarious production of Marisa Wegrzyn’s black comedy starts strong and just keeps getting funnier
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Texas Book Festival: Nicky Drayden and Chris Brown
The Austin authors explore new frontiers in science fiction
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UT Theatre & Dance’s 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)
In a work more poetry than story, playwright Caridad Svich has drowned Ophelia resurface, freed from Hamlet’s shadow
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Paper Chairs’ Plano
This production gets inside the heads of three sisters over a decade that races by in a breakneck 90 minutes
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Road Tripping With a Serial Killer in Paper Ghosts
As well as being a riveting psychological thriller, this tale of a road trip across Texas with a serial killer shows the state in an intimate light
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Hyde Park Theatre’s Death Tax
This production of Lucas Hnath’s play questions who really pays when the Reaper comes calling – and before