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Nowhere to Play
The Cost of Art, Part I: Austin’s growth and rising rent take out theatre venues, one by one
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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Top 10 Theatrical Sets of 2013, to a Cat
The year’s scenic designs proved especially appealing to the feline theatregoer
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Exhibitionism
This classic American comedy plays murder for escapist fun, which Different Stages delivers capably
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Exhibitionism
This loose and gangly treatment of Shakespeare’s history is both remarkably original and fiercely energetic
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Exhibitionism
Mickle Maher’s play is fiercely literary yet wholly accessible, and Capital T Theatre’s staging is a joy
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Exhibitionism
As staged by UT, this drama of convicts making theatre in colonial Australia is fascinating to watch
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Exhibitionism
Neil LaBute’s play about body-size and social douchebaggery gets a sharp production from Theatre en Bloc
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Exhibitionism
This Fifties suspenser shows its age in UT’s production, which never quite generates all the suspense it could
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Creature Construction
How Trouble Puppet creates those ingenious, inhuman figures that populate its plays
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Exhibitionism
This new baseball musical hearkens back to both a simpler era and a simpler, sweeter kind of musical
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Exhibitionism
This struggle between an aging Mark Rothko and his idealistic assistant is a good fit for Penfold Theatre
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Exhibitionism
Reina Hardy’s update on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is fascinating, but the premiere is oddly lacking given the talents involved