Long Fringe @ the Hideout

"...FronteraFest, the oldest and largest performance festival in the Southwest,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Knot a Secret

After 17 years, playwright Hank Schwemmer is finally getting seen

"...be seen was during Schwemmer's annual emergence during the FronteraFest Short Fringe. See, since he obtained his master's in..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Won't You Come In?

For four years, playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl have forged an uncommon bond with audiences through the welcoming, intimate quality of their theatre work. They've also forged an uncommon bond with each other, a mutually fulfilling creative partnership that will continue for the rest of their lives.

"...part in the show, as they did in their FronteraFest '98 collaboration Dress Me Blue, Window Me Sky. They..."

May 11, 2001 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

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

Waterfalls and Sea Changes

The former and current artistic directors of Austin Script Works discuss new plays, local theatre, and the writer's voice

"...can help people figure out how to self-produce for FronteraFest. Christi's doing a class on How to Produce for..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz

Who Gives a Damn About Big Range Austin?

The answer might be a lot closer than you think

"..."Dance Carousel," says Bartel. "I've moved it out of FronteraFest, where I've done it for years, and into Big..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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 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

FronteraFest Short Fringe Week One

The first week brought packed houses, captivating shows, and the promise that the rest of the fest will be just as magical

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

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

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

Risk: It's What They Do

What's at stake for the frontier-crossing artists in Long Fringe 2005

"...case there's one right in the midst of us, FronteraFest, that annual Austin rite of regional theatre passage. Now..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Earth Moves

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

"...jarring work that premiered as part of last year's FronteraFest Long Fringe. "It was about what they do to..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

Frontera names Subterranean Theatre Company the new producing company in residence at Hyde Park Theatre.

"...wondered what this would mean for the company; for FronteraFest, its annual performance festival; and for Hyde Park Theatre,..."

May 25, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Robert Faires reports his recent binge of arts festivals programming.

"...exhaustion. In just the past month, we've had the FronteraFest Short Fringe and Long Fringe, Mi Casa Es Su..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Robert Faires talks FronteraFest.

"...FronteraFest Mea Culpa..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Long Fringe @ the Off Center

"...FronteraFest, the oldest and largest performance festival in the Southwest,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Long Fringe -- Bring Your Own Venue!

"...FronteraFest, the oldest and largest performance festival in the Southwest,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...theatrical conventions, and the annual performance jamboree it sponsors, FronteraFest, where more original work is performed in a month..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Courting Ecstasy

Exploring the Landscapes of Playwright Lisa D'Amour

"...then with My California, which D'Amour produced herself for FronteraFest '96. In My California, she used interlocking monologues to..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Five Shows to Light Up the Stage

As the new year's dark period lifts from theatres, it's time to get back in the stalls

"...those ugly, modern-farmhouse-style McMansions. Through Jan. 28, 8pm1165 Angelina$22latinocomedyproject.com FronteraFest..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

FotoATX: Pics and the City

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

"...January (see "More First Month Fests," below), and like FronteraFest and PrintAustin, FotoATX is wide-ranging in its scope. Among..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Glory Days

When is gazing back at the past looking in the wrong direction?

"...posted on Facebook a photo of a T-shirt advertising FronteraFest '97 with none other than Daniel Alexander Jones, arms..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Hazards

A catalog of terrors quotidian and cataclysmic, interspersed with odd dances and the odd comic twitch

"...HazardsSalvage Vanguard Theater, www.fronterafest.org Final performances: Thursday, Jan. 30, 7pm; Friday, Jan 31,..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

Summer of Solo Shows: The Second Wave

In Austin theatre, solo shows sometimes come in waves, as in the second half of August, which has four one-person theatrical vehicles opening the same weekend

"...women's studies prof, Dad a commie). Previously shown at FronteraFest and Refraction Arts' Fuse Box as 3 Feminine Instincts..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'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

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

Dance Fever

With Hot September Flurries, a corps of Austin choreographers burn up the Blue all month long

"...served the dance community in much the way that FronteraFest serves local theatre artists and the Austin Chamber Music..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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