FronteraFest Review: 'Iced Tea in Texas'

British ex-pat Bernadette Nason pours some sweet memories

"...the latest of her tea-spiced monologues to the FronteraFest Long Fringe, this one a tale of moving to America..."

Feb. 1, 2014 Arts Post 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

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

May 31, 2013 Arts Review by Matthew Irwin

The Dark Right Rises

Rhetorical lows of the fringe right after Aurora attack

"...sorely tested. You also don't have to wait too long for really offensive media ramblings and political posturing...."

July 25, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Spirits to Enforce

Twelve superheroes plus The Tempest equals FronteraFest at its finest

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

A Samuel Beckett Cabaret

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

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

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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

"...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

"...series of one-minute dances put together for the FronteraFest Long Fringe by Ellen Bartel and Spank Dance), she hasn't..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Stitch V: Would You Like Some Glam in Your DIY?

"...spats-like leg-warmers we had reclaimed from some other soul's long-forgotten sweater sleeves, we weren't feeling thrifty or clever, or..."

Nov. 11, 2007 Design Post by Anne Harris

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

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

Culture Flash!

Hunting PLC wants to give a Texas artist $50K, puppet people want you, a Beegle play is Louisville-bound, 'Cantanker' publishes again, and KDHDC and Yellow Tape partying for your cash

"...10-minute play, seen earlier this year in the FronteraFest Long Fringe as part of Austin Script Works' Cricket Radio..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Are We on the Edge?

In The Bateman Trilogy, about a family of working-class suburbanite Texans, Ken Webster reveals a fine playwright's voice to go along with his strong directorial style

"...a fine playwright's voice of his own to go along with his strong directorial style: a now-familiar blend of..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Are We on the Edge?

In the choreographic sampler Dance Carousel 2004, 10 local dance makers show how much dance they can create in a mere 60 seconds apiece

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Are We on the Edge?

The Austin Shakespeare Festival's Will Power: The Course of Love, a compendium of Shakespearean scenes, songs, and sonnets, is as short and sweet as a chocolate heart

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Are We on the Edge?

Spank Dance Company's Black Things, in which black-clad dancers dance in near darkness, is original, striking, and resonant of the shadow side of our interior and exterior worlds

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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.

"...but enjoyable, an example of one thing the FronteraFest Long Fringe provides: a perfectly good excuse for talented folk..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Sarah Hepola

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

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

Scavenging for Home

The NATObombing of Belgrade provoked playwright Lisa D'Amour to examine the intention behind her art and reasons for being an artist.

"...In SLABBER, which I will perform for the FronteraFest Long Fringe February 1-5, audiences will meet "Our Lady," a..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Lisa D'Amour

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe

"...– yes, after you've been doing this for that long and been ignored or dismissed by literally thousands of..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Portraits of the Artists as FronteraFest Regulars

Why they perform year after year after year

"...the festival bills itself, and rightfully so, as the fringe theatre event in the Southwest – have taken advantage..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Ethan Azarian, Soccer Mommy, OUTlaw Pride Fest, Fuckemos, Playboi Carti, and Dr. James Polk & Centerpeace

"...Ethan AzarianWyldwood Shows, Saturday 23 (outside, 5pm)On the Fringe Album Release..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Knot a Secret

After 17 years, playwright Hank Schwemmer is finally getting seen

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

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Nothing Less Than Magical

Veterans of the Zilker Summer Musical recall enchantment on the hillside

"...gather on the stage of Dell Hall at the Long Center for a special benefit concert in which they..."

July 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...plan wanted to avoid -- a city that mushrooms along U.S. 183 and... over the Edwards Aquifer.... [Government] policies..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Cyberculture Evolution

From Zines to Zen With R.U. Sirius and Jon Lebkowsky

"...beginning. Lebkowsky, co-creator of the Austin-based subculture media system Fringeware, Inc., met the co-founder and editor of Mondo 2000..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Screens Feature

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