Walkabouts, Rallies, and Carnaval in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

The chilly weekend is heating up

"...sobs. This one-woman show broke barriers at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and just this past month won over audiences at..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

FronteraFest Celebrates 30 Weird and Wild Theatrical Years

New and returning artists flock to this year’s 30th edition of the theatre fest

"...FronteraFest might have reached the big 3-0, but it’s not..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...feature, New Queer Cinema icon Gus Van Sant lassoed two rising Hollywood stars for his dreamy-eyed arthouse film about..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

An Open-Door Policy for Performance Art at FronteraFest

Austin’s innovative and egalitarian gathering keeps its public service mission

"...the worth of a thing is most appreciated. Take FronteraFest, Austin's celebration of alternative and experimental performance, which went..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

FronteraFest Is Back to Push New Boundaries

The theatrical fringe festival proves there's still space to experiment in a crowded Austin

"...longest-running and most beloved performance festival returns after a two-year pandemic hiatus. In 2023, FronteraFest will be a collaboration..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Arts Events in Austin This Weekend

FronteraFest, Refigured, Ellsworth Kelly, Ballet Austin, ColdTowne

"...1) This is the last weekend of 2018’s FronteraFest Short Fringe, which means that it’s..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

FotoATX: Pics and the City

This new arts festival celebrates Austin as seen through the lenses of local photographers

"...name implies, focuses on photography by locals – joins two established festivals in January (see "More First Month Fests,"..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Arty Events: Jan. 12-14

The year continues! The present trips into the future! Who'd'a thunk?

"...Second week of January, and how are those resolutions holding up?..."

Jan. 11, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

FronteraFest: The Place to Start

Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' annual performance festival keeps giving artists a spot to launch a stage career in Austin

"...FronteraFest, now entering its 23rd year, has become a tradition..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...of the city's "movers and shakers" presenting work this week and the next ("December Dancing," below), it seemed an..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Excitingly Unpredictable

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

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

Jan. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

FronteraFest: The Basics

"...The Short Fringe Five weeks of short-form works, each 25 minutes..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Theatre Thinker

In the online dialogue about the art of the stage, Travis Bedard is a star

"...If you're reading this at two o'clock in the morning, there's a good chance that..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

FronteraFest 2013

Performance jamboree's 20th brings back old faves and welcomes new stars

"...school graduations, so why should performance festivals be different? FronteraFest, our annual jamboree of homegrown theatre, poetry, improvised comedy,..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Encryption'

Stephen Pruitt wants you to tune in to the mystery of sounds in the dark

"...2006 and "TBA" in 2009. The latter, created for FronteraFest, was a meditation on late-night radio, sounds in the..."

July 15, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The FronteraFest Way

Christi Moore's top rule for producing the annual festival: Just say 'yes'

"...year. All you have to coordinate is this: five weeks of performances, five nights a week, five performances a..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

FronteraFest Schedule

"...The Short Fringe at Hyde Park Theatre..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature

FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Two

A high-speed train of spoken word, crackling improv, and raw poetry

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Two..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Clayton Maxwell

FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week One

A night full of the unexpected surprises that make FronteraFest worth going to

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week One..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

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

FronteraFest Short Fringe Week Two

Wednesday's show offered plenty of pleasant surprises in the form of good laughs and provocative moments

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Two..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

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

FronteraFest Short Fringe: Week 3

No one would ever plan a night of theatre such as the night of theatre that was the FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of Week 3, but it set a high-water mark for entertainment

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe: Week 3..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

FronteraFest Short Fringe: Week 1

The novel dose of the now offered by the FronteraFest Short Fringe was on view Jan. 19, notably in "Bliss," a verse drama of dangerous beauty, and David Hendler's poems of Jewish identity

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe: Week 1..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

FronteraFest 2007: The lowdown

"...out what to go see and when. This year's Short Fringe – the traditional showcase of performances 25 minutes..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature

FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of the Week, Week 4

The Best of the Week for week four of the 2006 FronteraFest Short Fringe lived up to the high expectations for 'the fringe theatre event of the Southwest'

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of the Week, Week 4..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

FronteraFest Short Fringe

With FronteraFest 2006 in full swing, the January 27 Short Fringe program offered an assortment of theatrical ingenuity, frivolity, and tenderness

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Three..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Two

For an evening that included a mutilated cat, a self-loathing writer, and selling one's soul, the second Thursday at the 2006 FronteraFest Short Fringe proved surprisingly upbeat

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Two..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Off-Off-Broadway Bound

An Austinite's account of taking the stage in New York City

"...Next month, when the New York International Fringe Festival, the largest theatrical fringe festival in North America,..."

July 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

FronteraFest 2005

"...FronteraFest 2005 This annual five-week collection of short theatre pieces..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Arts Review

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