Excitingly Unpredictable

The best fringe since fashion week, FronteraFest 2015 promises a month of exhilarating alternative performance

"...events. January is when Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' FronteraFest begins, kicking off a month of some of Austin's..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Alone in the Lab

FronteraFest gives solo performers plenty of room to experiment

"...The first time she performed a solo show in FronteraFest's Long Fringe, Annie La Ganga wasn't really going solo...."

Jan. 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

Institutionalized Innovation

In its 11th year, the annual Austin theatre celebration FronteraFest is as edgy as ever.

"...Eleven years is a long time. Nowadays, most people don't work one job for..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Anything Goes

That free-for-all spirit is part of the kick of FronteraFest

"...else will you find such oddities and wonders but FronteraFest, the annual jamboree of homegrown performance where anyone and..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Change of Venue

This year, FronteraFest is takin' it to the streets – and a chapel, a bookstore, a home ...

"...Come January every year, FronteraFest fans begin flocking toward Hyde Park Theatre and Salvage..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Robert Faires reports his recent binge of arts festivals programming.

"...have erupted around town in recent years is no longer a joke. Austin hosts so many fests annually now..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...FronteraFest, our annual jamboree of homegrown performance, where anyone and..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Singled Out

Eight solo performances to watch out for in FronteraFest 2012

"...Historically, solo performances have accounted for many of FronteraFest's most outstanding works. Here are eight of this year's..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

'Where Are They Now?'

Cyndi Williams is living a playwright's dream with her play 'Where Are They Now?,' which is being staged for the third time in 15 months

"...order. The script was first staged in the 2005 FronteraFest Long Fringe, but Williams got a chance to remount..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Bastion Standard Time

Austin theatre's 'enfant terrible' swapped his poison pen for a Poison Apple and still gets people talking

"...Poison Apple production of Jakob Holder's Housebreaking. The company's FronteraFest 2012 piece, Holier Than Thou, which Carboni wrote and..."

July 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

The Earth Moves

For choreographer Ellen Bartel, dance does make the world go 'round

"...wobbly axis, circling its partner the sun, performing a long-term promenade with fellow dancers Mercury, Venus, Mars, and all..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

FronteraFest Long Fringe

Dance!

"...FronteraFest Long Fringe: Mass Maximum..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spank Dance Company

The fire at 304 E. Fifth has forced choreographer Ellen Bartel of Spank Dance Company to close Center Studio, the dance space she's been managing there for a decade

"...the showcase of 40 one-minute dances opening in the FronteraFest Long Fringe this week, and Greyhounds and Other Virtual..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Macbeth

In the State Theater Company production A Macbeth, director Guy Chandler Roberts strips the Scottish Play of its dramatic spectacle and boils it down into a compelling ritual of human evil, a Black Mass.

"...the Scottish Play that proved so successful at the FronteraFest Long Fringe and with this new State Theater Company..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Ground Plan

Lisa Scheps' Christmas gift to the local stage scene is a new performance venue, Ground Floor Theatre

"...radio's Off the Stage and on the Air, this lifelong lover of the stage ran her own 100-seat venue,..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Spirits to Enforce

Twelve superheroes plus The Tempest equals FronteraFest at its finest

"...Mickle Maher is the best play I've seen at FronteraFest in the five years I've attended. Hilarious, layered, well-executed..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

A Writer's Vision(s)

A playwright hallucinating crazed figures makes for a frenetic, fast-paced riot

"...cast that any show in Austin, let alone a fringe show, would be ecstatic to have. Stories about writers..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Lost Land

This ambitious time-tossed tale of love lost isn't all there but shows promise

"...FronteraFest is about trying out new ideas. Kokai shows potential..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Dolly Would: Here you come again

An encore run for Getalong Gang's dance salute to Tennessee country queen Dolly Parton

"...to do with each other. But this year the Getalong Gang Performance Group proved that while the country legend..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SLABBER: Audience With Mystery

The FronteraFest 2000 Long Fringe round-up continues with Robert Faires' review of SLABBER, by Lisa D'Amour.

"...find such a thing or what it means to belong or how to sift through the artifacts of our..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Holier Than Thou

Poison Apple Initiative's show draws reality TV and religion together in a thoughtful, thought-provoking way

"...new play, a reprise of Poison Apple Initiative's 2012 FronteraFest Long Fringe piece, pits seven angsty reality-TV competitors against..."

July 5, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Making Room to Play

Create Space Austin kicks off the drive to secure more performing venues in the city

"...of the playwright service organization ScriptWorks, helmed the mini-conference, along with performer/producer Jason Phelps and director Derek Kolluri, as..."

April 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

A Veteran's Voice

Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life

"...did something he'd done as an Army Airborne Ranger along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. "You go on these raids, you..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

'Surprise Annie'

Who the hell is Annie La Ganga?

"...Self-Appointed Saints, and her one-woman show at this year's FronteraFest Long Fringe was a riotous success. ("I laughed, often..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Two wounded friends walk a line between nostalgia and regret in Street Corner Arts' staging of Rajiv Joseph's play

"...earlier this year by Capital T Theatre in the FronteraFest Long Fringe), balances that line...."

May 31, 2013 Arts Review by Matthew Irwin

A Samuel Beckett Cabaret

This show of three Beckett shorts embraces both their absurdity and tragedy

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Let's Make Love Tonight!

The comedian's tales about sex are often uproarious and always intimate

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Culture Flash

Honors for Conspirare, two artists who teach at UT, and a student playwright

"...U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and was staged in the FronteraFest Long Fringe this year...."

May 7, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Five.Foot.One 2 'Five.Two.Ten'

Tiny dynamo Andrea Ariel works up short dances

"...popular series of one-minute dances put together for the FronteraFest Long Fringe by Ellen Bartel and Spank Dance), she..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

365 Days/365 Plays: Week 13

The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues with seven plays performed by members of M.E.M.E.

"...The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues. Each week..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Arts Feature

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