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Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend

Because SXSW 2018 is over, yes. But that doesn’t mean all local creative entertainment’s suddenly gone dormant like a sociocultural tardigrade hunkering down for an eight-legged nap, right?

12:01PM Fri. Mar. 23, 2018 Read More | Comment »

Review: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Onstage at the Brutalist-design Bass Concert Hall sits a Victorian theatre, complete with antique lighting sconces and a sumptuous red velvet curtain. It’s a proscenium within a proscenium and the perfect setting for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, which asks us to look at both its interior and exterior as we laugh our bloody fool heads off.

11:45AM Thu. Mar. 22, 2018, Shanon Weaver Read More | Comment »

Bill Murray Plays It Straight – Mostly

Standing onstage in front of a packed Long Center on Sunday, Bill Murray fumbled a stack of paper that floated down from his podium. The pianist responded with a swing melody, then in came the cello with a blistering, out-of-tempo rendition of “Flight of the Bumblebee.”

5:30PM Mon. Mar. 19, 2018, Dan Gentile Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Paramount Theatre

Amy’s Fest
at Bouldin Acres

Anton Chekhov Is a Tasty Snack at Penfold Theatre

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In Memoriam: Draylen Mason

First things first: Draylen Mason was a musician. Let's be clear on that before this talented young bass player comes to be defined by his age or how he lost his life. He was active in the city's music scene and had been accepted to both the University of Texas' Butler School of Music and the University of North Texas music program. Mason knew the score.

6:25PM Fri. Mar. 16, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy Review: The Comedian’s Comedian

At Sunday's SXSW taping of The Comedian’s Comedian, host Stuart Goldsmith described his show like this: “I take one headliner at a time and go really deep into their creative process. At about the 40-minute mark, I try to find out if they’re depressed. And if not, I convince them they are.” First up: James Davis.

5:20PM Tue. Mar. 13, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy Review: Jo Firestone & Friends

Jo Firestone opened her SXSW Comedy showcase with crowd work, asking the audience who else they’d seen. Answer: Elon Musk and Lena Dunham. “Those people are here, and you chose to come to this?” she joked. Everyone was glad they did because surprise guest Jeff Ross joined an already great lineup.

6:02PM Mon. Mar. 12, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy Review: The Randown With Robin Thede

Robin Thede, former head writer of The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, and current host of her own late-night show, The Rundown, recorded an episode of The Randown, the show’s new companion podcast. First topic: Trump. Or as Thede put it: “The current president being sued by a porn star.”

2:20PM Mon. Mar. 12, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy Review: Cavett on Comedy With Dave Hill

Dick Cavett was friends with Groucho Marx, frenemies with Norman Mailer, confidant of Bette Davis, and a character witness for John Lennon. But it was his friendship with Muhammad Ali that brought him to SXSW this year and into a hilarious and touching conversation with WFMU’s Dave Hill.

11:33AM Mon. Mar. 12, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

The Horrors of SXSW Can’t Touch Nate Southard

Of course there’s a plethora of horror-genre stuff going on at SXSW. Because the festival boasts a ginormous film component – one of its original big tracks, after all – and because horror is a perennial draw, audiencewise, and even auteurwise, right?

2:30PM Fri. Mar. 9, 2018, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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