Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel

Spank Dance Company's 'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel' may not move you to the next plane of existence, but its force and beauty will make this plane much more satisfying

"...Blue Theater, through March 26..."

March 17, 2006 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel'

In 'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel,' choreographer Ellen Bartel creates three dances exploring the idea of how we travel without moving

"...runs March 9-26, Thursday-Saturday, 8pm, Sundays, 5pm, at the Blue Theater, 916 Springdale. For more information, call 927-1118 or..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

A Human Interest Story

In 'A Human Interest Story,' the dirigo group shows us a world lighted only by the dim glow of television, which makes us aware how much is lost in the dark

"...Blue Theater, through March 4..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Of Cactuses, Crickets, and Cars

Cataloguing the diverse wonders of FronteraFest Long Fringe 2006

"...All Long Fringe performances are at the Blue Theater, 916 Springdale. Dates and times for remaining performances..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

StallGraffiti ATX

StallGraffiti ATX throws short, original plays from local writers into a full-length variety show that revolves thematically around the porcelain palace

"...Blue Theater, through June 25..."

June 17, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Killer Choreography

Ellen Bartel's blood-spattered new dance 'Killsport' mocks our love of the old ultraviolence

"...blood. KillSport runs March 17-April 3, Thursday-Sunday, at the Blue Theater, 916 Springdale. For more information, call 927-1118 or..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Jinn

In Kirk Lynn's playful and wistful 'The Jinn,' three couples with magic lamps find out if what they wish for is really what they want

"...The Blue Theater, through March 12..."

March 11, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Battle of Hickory Ridge

"...Hickory RidgeThrough Oct. 20. 916 E. Springdale, in the Blue Theater. freshupclub@yahoo.com...."

Oct. 8, 2004 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Backward 'Spin'

Catherine Berry explains how to reverse engineer your very own musical

"...Spin runs Aug. 19-Sept. 4, Thursday-Saturday, 8pm, at the Blue Theater, 916 Springdale. For more information, call 927-1118 or..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Apple Benefit

Twisted Olivia star Everett Quinton joins the cast for Zach's House Arrest

"...one-shot performance is Saturday, July 17, 8pm, at the Blue Theater, 916 Springdale. No reservations; it's first-come, first-served. For..."

July 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts Bullets

Two Austin arts groups go to D.C. for an international arts festival, and another is headed to New York for one

"...leaner version of the show he mounted at the Blue Theater two years ago – will be one of..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature

The Mercy Seat

With Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, the dirigo group takes us back to 9 / 11 and shows a couple laying bare their relationship against that day's monstrous tragedy

"...The Mercy SeatThe Blue Theater, through March 27..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Luv Doc Recommends: FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of Show

Hyde Park Theatre, Saturday, January 24, 2004

"...The festival is primarily held in two venues: the Blue Theater in East Austin, which hosts the Long Fringe..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

The Middle of the Night

With its isolated farmhouse and unseen menace, The Middle of the Night may look like a conventional thriller, but playwright Lowell Bartholomee refuses to play by the rules, creating an offbeat drama that keeps us perpetually off-balance by playing against our expectations.

"...The Middle of the NightBlue Theater, through Oct. 26..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Mister Z Loves Company: An X-Rated Self-Help Odyssey

Local Arts Reviews

"...Mister Z Loves Company: An X-Rated Self-Help OdysseyBlue Theater, through Oct. 18..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

TCB

"...country laments and relatively light on the Boys' usual bluegrass barnburners. It's also notable because Weary-written originals -- "Cruel..."

July 25, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Hedda

In the dirigo group production Hedda, director Laura Somers reimagines Henrik Ibsen's classic as a perverse and sometimes brilliant Doris Day / Rock Hudson flick, coupling late 1950s zip -- party dresses and sweater vests, manhattans and vodka martinis, breezy entrances and exits -- with a forbidden sexuality that ratchets the tensions of Ibsen's play to a whole new level.

"...Blue Theater, through June 28..."

June 13, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Building a City on a Stage

Epic is not something often attempted in the theatre, much less by small arts groups, but with Orange, Refraction Arts Project is telling the epic history of a fictitious city across three time periods in four overlapping storylines, with the participation of 15 playwrights and 25 actors.

"...of Orange runs May 22-31, Thursday-Saturday, 7pm, at the Blue Theater, 916 Springdale. For information, call 927-1118...."

May 23, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Articulations

Two arts institutions end their runs: the iron belly muses theatre company and the South Congress visual arts venue Gallery 1313.

"...performance of Pains of Youth this Saturday at the Blue Theater, 916 Springdale. For information, call 459-7007...."

April 25, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Post-Neanderthal Diet

The Post-Neanderthal Diet is a slight but enjoyable satire of quick-fix culture by Hans Frank (of Lonely Highway), in which guru Nubby Farnsworth Jr., a chain-smoking huckster who seems to have taken a swim in an oil leak, promises to improve your life with bizarre insights and a gag-inducing fruit-and-raw-meat smoothie.

"...The Post-Neanderthal Diet: Salvation in a Raw Meat SmoothieBlue Theater,..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Sarah Hepola

Curieosity

Curieosity, writer-director-choreographer Sharon Sparlin's original work about Marie Curie and her physicist husband Pierre is an energetic collage of performance styles, with actors on the go like atoms smashing inside a supercollider and spraying their sub-atomic anatomies in every direction, in all manner of presentational genres.

"...Blue Theater, through Dec. 7..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Tower, etc. How about Tekgnar, 503 Coffee Bar, the Blue Theater, Glassy Knoll, Planet K, Amy's, Thundercloud, Oat Willies,..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column

Edmundo

Edmundo is writer-performer Jennifer Haley's imaginative, scurrilous, charming creation, part dusty, crude, but enjoyable vaudevillian, part raconteur of an era long past, and his story may be a bit dark, but Haley unfolds it with so much theatrical flair that it is impossible not to have something of a good laugh at the vagaries of Edmundo's chaotic existence.

"...The Blue Theater, through Nov. 9..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Why Ask Why?

Local art collective How+Why? stages its latest event, titled "Now More Than Ever," where art will co-opt advertising instead of vice versa.

"..."Now More Than Ever!" will take place at the Blue Theater (916 Springdale) on May 27 at 9pm. Tickets..."

May 24, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

The Rainbow Machine

Rick Ehrstin's play The Rainbow Machine is ultimately a tale of a man and a woman who simply cannot communicate, but this idea is drowned in a deluge of words and much tangential, quasi-absurdist schtick.

"...The Rainbow Machine: A Deluge of WordsBlue Theater,..."

April 19, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

FronteraFest Long Fringe

Dance!

"...of a Picasso, nothing else. Women enter, crowding the Blue Theater's floor, standing in loose formation, a flawed squadron..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Short Cuts

The Alamo Drafthouse is feelin' alright, while the rest of Austin isn't feeling too good itself.

"...Fest, which has moved its quarterly screenings from the Blue Theater to the Alamo Downtown (for space considerations) and..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The Moontower's Glow

Art Davis' new play The Moontower's Glow is a spiritual cousin to both The Rocky Horror Show and You Can't Take It With You, focusing on a houseful of eccentrics who have rejected the normalcy of society to live their dreams, no matter how ludicrous they may appear to the rest of the world.

"...The Moontower's Glow: Keep Austin WeirdThe Blue Theater,..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Star Play

Part vaudeville comedy, part poem, part search for philosophical meaning, part fairy tale, Michael Arthur's The Star Play produced at MOMFest by the New York-based 2texans theatre company, makes a wish for love and finds it in the most unlikely places.

"...The Star Play: Early ValentineBlue Theater, October 7..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...Array Gun play Saturday, Sept. 22, 11pm, at the Blue Theater...."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

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