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The Hideout Theatre’s Grand Misery
This improvised send-up of the musical Les Miz is as much fun as the real show is serious
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“Future Artifacts of Sprawl and Sting” at Georgetown Public Library
Stuart Wallace blazes his way through a wasp factory of natural assemblage
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Austin Opera’s Silent Night
This production of the Pulitzer Prize winner powerfully creates the tension of the battlefield and just as powerfully lets it go
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Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
Bowling is something sacred in Elizabeth McCracken’s multigenerational novel
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“Interwoven” at MASS Gallery
In this group show of fiber artists, a stitch in time saves, nein?
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Southwest Theatre Productions’ Sweat
This production brings home the plight of the American blue-collar worker with sympathy
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Conspirare’s Hope of Loving
This concert of works by Jake Runestad conveyed a sense of love as a force that soothes, enlightens, and heals
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“When Everything’s Been Said” at ICOSA Gallery
In this two-man exhibition by Jonas Criscoe and Mark Johnson, some pictures work a thousand words
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Austin Symphony Orchestra’s Variation Voyage
ASO’s first concert of 2019 had us hearing all sorts of feels, but Leon Fleisher’s piano also got us thinking
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“Dave McClinton: Despite It All” at the Butridge
The digital collagist’s new solo exhibition is peopled with many colors
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Last Woman Standing by Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry’s Austin-set second novel is an electric revenge thriller
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“Post-Apocalyptic Harvest” at Atelier 1205
Artists Erika Huddleston, Tammy West, and Amy Scofield salvage beauty from a sundered world