See. Hear. Speak.

The other performance festival in January lines up primo comedians

"...Austin + January + performance festival has always equaled FronteraFest. (See "Risk Immersion.") But those creative sneaks in the..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dolly Would: Here you come again

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

"...could certainly inspire dance by others. In the 2007 FronteraFest Long Fringe, the Getalong Gang premiered Dolly Would, a..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mi Casa Es Su Teatro: Home is where the art is

Time again to get your theatre outside the theatre and inside someone's home, via FronteraFest's one-day, site-specific fiesta, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro

"...invigorating components of that offbeat and invigorating performance jamboree FronteraFest. For one Saturday in February, you have the opportunity..."

Feb. 9, 2007 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

ColdTowne

In just months, New Orleans improv troupe ColdTowne has become deeply involved in Austin's comedy scene, and now it's close to getting its own venue

"...at the Hideout and in the annual performance jamboree FronteraFest, producing their own three-day festival of comedy films and..."

June 2, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Playwrights

Four Austin playwrights are getting the opportunity to develop and showcase new work in the Big Apple

"...New York International Fringe Festival this August with his FronteraFest favorite, Puppet Government. Last year, he flew solo, as..."

June 2, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Council candidates talk the arts, the people's choice from City Hall's art exhibit, musical theatre training from Broadway pros, and local playwrights get read on both coasts

"...Most Beautiful Lullaby You've Ever Heard, presented in the FronteraFest 2006 Long Fringe, was read Friday, March 31. Tremblay's..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

ColdTowne Heroes

Help the ColdTowne Heroes get out of town (to hit a batch of comedy fests around the country) at Fun-Razor, an evening of improv, sketches, and films

"...working regular gigs at the Hideout, insinuating themselves into FronteraFest, and even making laughs out of their hardships with..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mi Casa Es Su Teatro

The unexpected is to be expected when it comes to FronteraFest's Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, which features everything from monologues to musicals to martial arts in theatres, living rooms, and bathrooms around Austin

"...expected when it comes to the envelope-pushing performances of FronteraFest, but never more so than with Mi Casa Es..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

FronteraFest Short Fringe: Best of Week One

Improv, Butoh, cabaret, and one of those commanding performance moments that make FronteraFest made up the Short Fringe 2006 Best of Week One

"...FronteraFest Short Fringe: Best of Week One..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

The Dish on Desire

In 'American Fiesta,' Austin's favorite economist / playwright / actor has plenty to say about what makes us want

"...They first worked together as actors in a 1994 FronteraFest production of an outtake from Tomlinson's first play, Pretend..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

Off-Off-Broadway Bound

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

"...FringeNYC is proving to be FronteraFest on steroids. In the same way that Frontera eliminated..."

July 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

Strange Visitor From Another Planet

Hip-hop poet Zell Miller III is special, one of those people who radiate energy like the brightest of stars breaking through clouds on the darkest of nights

"...Says Miller, "Last year during FronteraFest a spot opened up, and they asked me to..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Culture Flash!

Art in Public Places sets a fingerprint at the forensics lab, and Austin theatre is all over the map – of the U.S.

"...transformed to birds; and Steve Barney, with his hit FronteraFest monologue "Wade."..."

May 13, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Down at the Jinn Mill

Austin's dirigo group prepare to premiere the best new play one could wish for

"...directed some shorter pieces," she says, "some shows for FronteraFest, for Austin Script Works and Austin Shakespeare Festival. And..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Best of the Fest, Bill B

"...FronteraFest: Best of the Fest, Bill B..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Short Fringe: Wednesday Jan. 26

The Short Fringe lineup on Jan. 26 covered juice enthusiasts, life in a small Texas county, an action TV parody with a ticking clock, and a fading friendship as a wrestling match

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

The Company You Keep

There's no knowing Andrea Ariel without knowing the artists she works with

"...this week at the Off Center as part of FronteraFest 2005. Walker is describing how she and Ariel have..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Among Us

The gypsy feet of playwright Ruth Margraff keep wandering back to Austin, and we're fortunate that they do

"...operetta Judges 19: Black Lung Exhaling at the 2001 FronteraFest, she has toured it to the 2003 Novaja Drama..."

May 7, 2004 Arts Feature by Cyndi Williams

Are We on the Edge?

Getting the answers to timely and timeless questions at the 2004 FronteraFest Long Fringe

"...found – and found only – at the 2004 FronteraFest Long Fringe. This year's batch of longer works in..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Are We on the Edge?

Tongue and Groove Theatre's silly How to Belly-Dance for Your Husband Starring Little Egypt starts off delightfully enough but winds up as a handful of sesame-flavored cotton candy

"...and Groove Theatre, which has a history of providing FronteraFest material as well as larger, independent productions. I'm thinking..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

Playwright Dan Dietz gets his second play staged at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Johnson / Long Dance Company heads to Hamburg, and Zach shuffles its season

"..."A Bone Close to My Brain," which premiered at FronteraFest 2003. Eight other current and former Austin playwrights were..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Quake

Every visit to Hyde Park Theatre brings a discovery of something new, and in the case of Quake, it's playwright Melanie Marnich, whose surrealistic tale of a woman in search of a perfect love, a big love, a love that makes the earth move, is witty and perceptive.

"...turned the venue into a thriving enterprise (especially with FronteraFest, which Webster has continued to cultivate), that success didn't..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Talking the Talk

Angela Kariotis knows that everyone has their own stories, and in Reminiscence of the Ghetto & Other Things That raiZed Me, her one-woman show about growing up poor in New Jersey, premiering at UT's David Mark Cohen New Works Festival, Kariotis tells hers in her very own way.

"...Kariotis has performed segments of the 90-minute show at FronteraFest, where she proved to be a pistol-whip of a..."

April 11, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Smooth Ride

When Lana Dieterich is acting, nothing seems calculated or forced, no step is false. Her performances are smooth as glass, as silk, as a ride on the bike that she pedals regularly around her Hyde Park neighborhood.

"...to the stage in 1993 for the very first FronteraFest, she had the good fortune to have Lana Dieterich..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

The folks in Tuna offer support to Austin Musical Theatre students, Austin's Santa finds his Mrs. Claus, and the city seeks Art in Public Places panelists.

"...her own right and collaborator with Anderson on the FronteraFest/Playfest piece Hold On to Your Dreams, as their witness...."

March 29, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Ships coming in for Scott Thompson and Richard Byron, who get to stage Dames at Sea at the Goodspeed Opera House, and for Lynn C. Miller and Laura Furman, who will have their play Passenger on the Ship of Fools performed by legendary actress Irene Worth.

"...with a shortened version performed by Karen Kuykendall in FronteraFest 1998. Last year, part of it was performed by..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

How Playfest's Bernadette Nason Got Hooked on Theatre

As Playfest begins its 10th season this week, the Chronicle turned to actor-storyteller Bernadette Nason, one of the longtime regular contributors to the festival, to see what part theatre played in her childhood and how it influenced her current work.

"...her troubled wife in Faith Healer at this year's FronteraFest was gripping). As Playfest begins its 10th season this..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

FronteraFest Long Fringe

Dance!

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

Feb. 8, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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