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Robert Faires is Arts Editor for The Austin Chronicle, where he's been covering the local arts scene for more than 30 years. In 2011, American Theatre Magazine named him to a list of 12 of the nation's most influential theatre critics. He's also been active in local theatre since 1980, having worked on more than 75 theatrical productions across the city as an actor, director, and writer.
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City Arts Funding Tempest
Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern
News Feature, Sep. 20, 2018
Fast Forward Austin Does Compute
New-music champions science the shit out of its upcoming concert with The Difference Engine
Arts Feature, Sep. 20, 2018
Austin Playhouse's Monroe
In Lisa B. Thompson's tender drama, young African-Americans work out where they belong in the world
Arts Review, Sep. 20, 2018
Miró Quartet at Bates Recital Hall
The ensemble's opening concert for its 15th season as UT's Faculty-Quartet-in-Residence was uplifting in a number of ways
Arts Review, Sep. 20, 2018
Capital T Theatre's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
This production of Edward Albee's play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece
Arts Review, Sep. 13, 2018
Jason Phelps & Co.'s Landfallen – the lost and found
This new work of dance-theatre takes us on journeys through wild wastes and personal histories, but leaves us in a place of hope
Arts Review, Sep. 6, 2018
Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List
Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more
Arts Daily, Aug. 29, 2018 8:00 PM
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2018: Picks
In the bounty of improv, sketch, & stand-up, some of our picks
Arts Daily, Aug. 28, 2018 7:00 AM
Review: dat Black Mermaid Man Lady
Let Sharon Bridgforth's performance installation wash over you
Arts Daily, Aug. 24, 2018 1:05 PM
Austin Scottish Rite Theater's Wit
In this production, people are there for one another and no one has to face the end alone
Arts Review, Aug. 23, 2018
Ground Floor Theatre's There and Back
This new play by Raul Garza lets us spend a lifetime with an immigrant and all the decisions she makes
Arts Review, Aug. 16, 2018
ZM3 Live Productions' Echo of a Refugee ... Me?
Zell Miller III's latest was a state of the city address that called out Austin for gentrification and policies harmful to its black citizens
Arts Review, Aug. 16, 2018
Summer Stock Austin's Rob1n
This new musical brings Sherwood Forest's noble outlaw to our time with a message of togetherness
Arts Review, Aug. 9, 2018
Paper Chairs' The Audience
Elizabeth Doss' adaptation of García Lorca's unfinished play is less a drama than a dream, unbound by logic, reason, or convention
Arts Review, Aug. 9, 2018
Austin Classical Guitar's dream
The quality of the music in this concert was exceptional, but what made it special was the quality of the listening
Arts Review, Aug. 9, 2018
Nicole Eisenman Receives Booth/FLAG Art Prize
NYC artist is the first recipient of the $200,000 award
Arts Daily, Aug. 6, 2018 12:35 PM
Zilker Theatre Productions' All Shook Up
Take Elvis at his silliest, mix in Twelfth Night, stir playfully, and you have the latest Zilker Summer Musical
Arts Review, Aug. 2, 2018
Exposing the Art of the Scam in Lie, Cheat & Steal
Comics Pat Sirois and Kath Barbadaro school you on the grift in their podcast
Arts Feature, Jul. 26, 2018
Recommended True Crime Podcasts
Fill your auditory canals with nefarious activities
Arts Feature, Jul. 26, 2018
Hyde Park Theatre's The Antipodes
A ton of tales enliven this play by Annie Baker, but what do they tell us about the state of storytelling?
Arts Review, Jul. 26, 2018
2018 Texas Teen Book Festival Lineup
Tenth fest brings YA stars Marissa Meyer, Patrick Ness, & more
Arts Daily, Jul. 25, 2018 5:30 PM
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 4
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 23-31
Arts Daily, Jul. 23, 2018 12:01 PM
MASS Gallery Moving
Gallery leaving 507 Calles Saturday, selling art to fund move
Arts Daily, Jul. 19, 2018 2:26 PM
Forklift Danceworks' Dove Springs Swims
The company's latest community production showed why Dove Springs' pool matters to that neighborhood and to all of us as well
Arts Review, Jul. 19, 2018
Steve Parker Wins 2018 Tito's Prize
Big Medium selects composer/sound artist for $15,000 award
Arts Daily, Jul. 17, 2018 12:10 PM
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 3
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 16-22
Arts Daily, Jul. 16, 2018 5:34 PM
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 2
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 9-15
Arts Daily, Jul. 9, 2018 3:45 PM
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
A double murder in an East Texas town draws a black Texas Ranger deep into the shadows of the Piney Woods and the tangled race relations there
Arts Review, Jul. 5, 2018
July Is Crime Month: The Crime Blotter, Week 1
A curated guide to unlawful activities around town July 4-8
Arts Daily, Jul. 4, 2018 12:25 PM
Music to Wave Flags By
The 411 on the 4th of July concerts in the 512 and environs
Arts Daily, Jun. 29, 2018 1:45 PM
Primed for Some Literary Vibranium?
Readers say, "Austin African American Book Festival forever!"
Books Daily, Jun. 22, 2018 4:00 PM
Fair Youth Make Fairer Shakespeare
Two fine chances to see young people make the Bard come alive
Arts Daily, Jun. 21, 2018 5:45 PM
Austin's Artspace Crisis and Microvenues
Are home art galleries and mini-performance venues the answer to the space crunch?
Arts Feature, Jun. 21, 2018
Spectrum Theatre Company's Juneteenth Chronicles
With this play, Crystal Bird Caviel honors ancestors who were slaves and her colleague, the late Dr. Billy F. Harden
Arts Feature, Jun. 14, 2018
Heartland Theatre Collective’s Little Bird
The vulnerability of small things is at the heart of Nicole Oglesby’s drama of girls and ghosts in East Texas bayou country
Arts Review, Jun. 14, 2018
The Ransom Center's "Vaudeville!"
This exhibition reveals how the history of that entertainment form is really the history of the U.S.
Arts Feature, Jun. 7, 2018
The Critics Table's Crème de la Crème
The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards
Arts Daily, Jun. 5, 2018 1:35 PM
Glass Half Full Theatre's Polly Mermaid: Apocalypse WOW!
This playful eco-fable by Caroline Reck and Indigo Rael creates a surprising plastic paradise under the sea
Arts Review, May. 31, 2018
The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2018
Actor/director Norman Blumensaadt, dance artists Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Anuradha Naimpally, and philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein join the ranks of cultural heroes
Arts Feature, May. 24, 2018
Generic Ensemble Company's Carmen
This devised work shares the name of Bizet's opera, but it has its own story to tell, one that's modern, irreverent and funny
