Sara Hensley Turns Over a New Leaf

The new PARD director has big ideas – to realize them, she'll have to raise big bucks

"...Council Member Randi Shade wasn't suggesting that Austin's new Parks & Recreation Department director should leap onstage in..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Brave New Web

In the wake of Sept. 11 and the hard-line USA Act, the Internet has become a very unfriendly place for hackers.

"...prices reeling, ruin your personal credit, and distribute false news stories, sending us all into the streets in a..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

The New Nuclear Family

What Was Once Inconceivable

"...photos. And yes, outside, where 10-year-old Nicolas is at play with a neighborhood buddy, there is even a picket..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll

Al's New Coffee Grinder

Getting Press: The Have Nots

"...will be selling more albums than Stevie Ray Vaughan, playing for bigger crowds than the Butthole Surfers, and scoring..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

State Board of Education Brings a New Anti-Sex Circus to Town

Anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, and creationism advocates to help revise Texas public schools’ sex education

"...panel," said Kathy Miller of SBOE watchdog Texas Freedom Network. "These appointments are more about fighting the culture wars..."

July 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

New Elf in Town

Flaming Idiot Rob Williams trades his torches for the pointy little slippers of David Sedaris' department-store elf in 'The Santaland Diaries'

"...piece of writing, a colossally popular recorded adaptation on National Public Radio, and a career as one of the..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Hornucopia': Hello, New Season

2012 Texas Longhorns football preview

"...learning how Bevo Bucks work, not Coach Bryan Harsin’s playbook from front to back. After the mercy killing of..."

Aug. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Michael Corcoran

Shrewd Productions' The Madres

In Stephanie Alison Walker’s new play, women’s fight for the “disappeared” in Argentina’s Dirty War proves timely

"...This is a play you intensely wish were not so relevant. You wish..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Shrewd Productions' Alabaster

This deeply felt staging of Audrey Cefaly's new play brings us into a home where loss lives to show us when to leave

"...draw Alice to Alabaster and June. She's come from New York to document them in photographs, as she has..."

March 6, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Vortex’s Wild Horses

This staging of Allison Gregory’s new play takes you back to your 13th summer with all its freedom and fear

"...Allison Gregory remembers, and the proof is in her new one-woman play Wild Horses, which immerses us in the..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Vortex Repertory Company's Heartland

Gabriel Jason Dean's new drama makes a sensitive study of three people in two different countries and where they belong

"...That problem isn't the one that playwright Gabriel Jason Dean includes as a plot point in..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Past, Present, and FuturX of Latinx Performance in Austin

The current surge of Latinx theatre and dance in Austin speaks to both tradition and pioneering new directions

"...Floor Theatre's premiere of There and Back by Austin playwright Raul Garza; (Un)Documents, a new work by local performer/poet..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Arts Feature by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

Articulations

Salvage Vanguard Theater loses Dan Dietz as co-Artistic Director, the National Endowments for the Arts loses its new director, and the Rude Mechanicals sell out their Mid-America tour of Lipstick Traces.

"..."This is a friendly, amicable departure," says the acclaimed playwright and actor. "My relationship with Jason has been the..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

In Heartland, Playwright Gabriel Jason Dean Makes the War in Afghanistan Personal

Michener Center alumnus' latest drama turns down the volume of war

"...personal to me. Before that, the only thing I knew was that we were there with troops on the..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Staging Building the Wall Before Trump Builds His Wall

Robert Schenkkan races to get his latest work on stage

"...Robert Schenkkan had no time to waste. The playwright couldn't afford the years it took to craft his..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mad Beat Hip & Gone

Playwright Steven Dietz takes Austin on the road with Kerouac and Cassady – sort of

"...As one of the most in-demand playwrights in the land, he's regularly shooting off across the..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Valoneecia Tolbert Geeks Out in Tales of a Blerd Ballerina

The actress looks back at what it was to be young, geeky, and Black

"...Tolbert includes the term in the title of her new autobiographical solo show, Tales of a Blerd Ballerina, tells..."

April 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shrewd Productions' Jump

In Charly Evon Simpson's drama, characters caught in the dark currents of grief and depression seek a way through

"...a bridge and with Charly Evon Simpson titling the play that features them Jump, we can be justifiably concerned..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Articulations

A busy summer for Austin artists.

"...is plenty busy -- but in terms of the national scene. More and more of our playwrights, performers, dancers,..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

How Austin's Performing Artists Are Reopening Their Spaces

After months behind screens, the folks who run the city's theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside

"...doors and bringing people back in to see them play. It's a reunion that's been a long time coming...."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Tips: Slow & Steady Wins the Race

IA has a few additions for your band's SXSX to-do list

"...and I had a great view thanks to a new extended deck at the venue. It handily expands the..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

Home From Home

Austin opens arms to New Orleans 'guests,' longing to return

"...a helicopter plucked them from the balcony of their New Orleans apartment, Lester Sampson and Irma Louis found themselves..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...Texas is to take "hometown heroes" to a whole new level...."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

James Cameron, Ted Lasso team, Bill Hader also announced

"...virtual this year – led today’s programming announcement with news of Abrams and Jemisin’s keynote conversation together. One assumes..."

Feb. 11, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Wrestling Legend Dustin Rhodes Keeps Steppin'

The Austin native continues a family legacy with a new TV show and a revived career

"...for Double or Nothing, the pay-per-view show by Cody's new promotion, All Elite Wrestling. If it's a success, the..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Articulations

Critix Pix

"...shows with uniformly strong casts, the critics added a new category: Ensemble, citing the work of the companies in..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...is this year's opening night film. Now Wes Anderson's new star-studded canine animation Isle of Dogs will be the..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Rude Mechs

The Rudes' next show gets tapped for a prestigious New Play Development Project

"...proof that Austin's own Rude Mechanicals are on the national radar for making new theatre? Try this: The collective..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Media Clips

KUT's new general manager describes his vision for the future of the public radio station.

"...it faces competition from commercial stations, especially KGSR, that play music which was once reserved strictly for the left..."

July 28, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Hard Times in the Land of Plenty

Service nonprofits and their funders face the economic gale

"...extraordinary. According to the most recent study by the national food-bank network Feeding America, between 2005 and 2007 Texas..."

Oct. 23, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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