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Frontera names Subterranean Theatre Company the new producing company in residence at Hyde Park Theatre.
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In honor of this week’s commencement ceremonies at UT, here’s a roundup of recent college-related honors for theatre historian Oscar Brockett, composers, Kent Kennan and Kevin Putz, late playwright David Mark Cohen, and UT theatre department alum Marcia Gay Harden. Plus, the 2001 Funniest Person in Austin is Rich Gabe.
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Arts Center Stage got a new lease on life — or at least a new lease on Palmer Auditorium; the Bad Dog Comedy Theatre offers last call, and the Rude Mechanicals gets their second plug of the year in The New York Times.
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Austin artists and arts companies continue to hit the road at a breathless pace.
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An era ends: After 10 years, Vicky Boone resigns as artistic director of Frontera Productions.
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Another Austin theatre company suffers a mid-performance disaster and responds to it with resourcefulness and pluck, and the Austin Community College Drama Department marks Shakespeare’s 437th birth with an all-star “Billy Bash.”
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Real drama bled into the staged kind when actress Latifah Taormina cut herself during a performance of Adam Sobsey’s Hang Town Fry, and Salvage Vanguard releases The Cry Pitch Carrolls on CD.
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The “first lady of Austin theatre” — actress and educator Nan Cameron Elkins, whose credits included more than 300 Austin theatre productions and teaching speech and stage skills to thousands of Central Texas students — has taken her final bow.
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Playwright Adam Sobsey cooks up some drama at Central Market, the UT Department of Theatre & Dance serves up six weeks of new works, and UT student Kristi McGarity snags the 2001 SEAMUS / ASCAP prize.
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Liz Smith writes up Zach Scott, Jaston Williams plans new acting projects, and ArtPlex undergoes a name change.
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New York is calling, and Austin performers from the Rude Mechanicals to the Flaming Idiots to MOMFest are answering.
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Big career moves for a couple of Austin playwrights and big parties thrown by a couple of Austin arts organizations.