Mayor Pro Tem Contest Kicks Off New Council Storylines

A leading role at City Hall?

"...simple, but lazy, to write off the back-and-forth as comedy, a race for a post with "no power." But..."

Jan. 22, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The 2013 Cohen New Works Festival

If you can count on one thing in this biennial binge of student-generated works, it's that you'll be surprised

"...most surprising work I saw at the 2011 Cohen New Works Festival because so much of what the students..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Trust Is the Vibe at Fallout Theater

The Downtown comedy club celebrates its fifth anniversary by looking to the future

"...Even the location is unique. The small, black box comedy club is located in a former fallout shelter in..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

TNM's Megaphone Marathons Takes on Two Cities

The annual comedy mini-fest rocks the ATX and NOLA

"...swear that the last time I talked to The New Movement's Chris Trew, the comedy entrepreneur and host of..."

July 9, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Not Everybody Is In This Weekend's Austin Sketch Fest

But that doesn't mean we've forgotten The New Movement

"...And as much as local comedy attention is focused on that star-studded Fest right about..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fallout Theater Says Fuck This Week

The improv alchemists of this weekly show turn the crap in your life into comedy gold

"...group of funny strangers can turn your crap into comedy gold...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings

Chris Tellez Says: "Shit's Golden!"

At his stand-up comedy showcase tonight, anyway.

"...because he's been wrangling stand-up comics at this monthly New Movement gig for two years now...."

May 11, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

One in a Crowd: Trolls

Patent troll comedy seeks crowdfunding

"...then there are the people who make the money. New Austin comedy feature Trolls will show the former finally..."

June 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How the Gods Kill

Danzig and the Jesus Lizard headline the fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...No Age, Red Sparowes, Shonen Knife, Fuck Buttons, Times New Viking, This Will Destroy You, Crystal Antlers, Growing, the..."

Aug. 25, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Hell Yes Fest

Austin's newest comedy festival wants to get it 100% correct

"..."I've been to comedy festivals big and small all over the country as..."

April 8, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics

The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene

"...Room (named for Awn's Ronnie Velveeta character) and brightening comedy mics all over town. "One high point," says the..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Making Offers No One Can Refuse

The Five Families of Austin improv go Out of Bounds with the 13th annual comedy festival

"...The Hideout. Merlin Works. ColdTowne. The New Movement. The Institution Theater. Ladies and gentlemen, these are..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Chris Trew Project

The comedian's trifecta in Waterloo Park includes shaving off half his beard

"...Fest trifecta on the Yellow stage: appearing with his New Movement comedy group, performing as his rapper/MC/alter ego Terp2It,..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

ColdTowne Theater: Always in Motion

The comedy venue is home to diverse audiences and performers, but needs a permanent home of its own

"...– Isaac Newton's first law of motion..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

Laugh on Laugh

The Globe stage is comedy central for Sound on Sound

"...night owls should make note of the Late Knight Comedy Club on the Camping Only stage, featuring headliners and..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Improv-Educated

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival makes more room for Austin's increasingly savvy audiences

"...– at least not with the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, which opens its 12th year of tomfoolery Tuesday,..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ships and Giggles Show Tips Waitstaff Overboard

Comedian Rob Gagnon and friends take it to the river

"...“I’m usually against daytime comedy,” says Rob Gagnon, local hardworkin’ performer of things both..."

July 9, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Inability to Cater

What is so 'punk' about JT Habersaat and the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour?

"...Or Sonic Youth's Goo LP, or Off!'s new release: stark white cover, Raymond Pettibon illustration of probably..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Assaulting the Stand-Ups at Austin's Heckle Factory

The New Movement: Our favorite content(ious) providers

"...Usually, the ideal – the comedy-gold standard – is that the audience will just STFU..."

April 10, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Wise Guy Theater Co.’s Dead. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the End

Theater becomes theatre as Fallout comedy club experiments with drama

"...name of the game for Fallout Theater, the improv/sketch comedy/stand-up venue founded in 2018 and located in a former..."

July 12, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Are Kids These Days Bringing OOB the Laughter for Love’s Sake?

What dire agenda, we wonder, lurks beneath their odd & infectious joy?

"...So much talent coming to Austin's Out of Bounds Comedy Festival from all over the country this year. So..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

It's WaffleFest Time at the Hideout Downtown

So … what's something that you'd put on sweet toasted dough?

"...We're thinking a little comedy improv might be the perfect capper to a cold..."

Nov. 20, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The 43 Hour Improv Marathon

Comedy worth losing sleep over

"...("Hideout Theatre Marathon," July 3, 2009). And thus a new comedy tradition was born. The Hideout has repeated the..."

June 1, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Where ShowGO Needs You to Go Now

Time's almost out to make 'Spirit Molecule' screening happen

"...we can say with absolute confidence that the local film/arts/comedy showcase is doing interesting work...."

Jan. 10, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Sketch Fest Rocks Our City All Week Long

The ninth annual festival puts scripted comedy front & center

"...That third leg of live comedy?..."

May 17, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Get Up Into the Arts Midwest Conference

Get Up – as in, Shannon McCormick & Shana Merlin

"...throughout the city. Now, together again, onstage at The New Movement...."

Sept. 10, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...the year's biggest improv party, the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, commencing this week, Chronicle writers Wayne Alan Brenner,..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Cuff and in Your City

A roundup of Austin improv schools

"...viewing opportunities, host to the annual Out of Bounds Comedy Festival (Sept. 1-7) that brings in talented troupes from..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Epic Movie

The filmmakers are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves the audience in a perpetual cringe.

"...the world. Stealing shamelessly from the kitchen-sink approach to comedy pioneered by Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers (Airplane!,..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Italian for Beginners

"...W. Berthelsen. Italian for Beginners is an amiable romantic comedy from Denmark that interweaves the lives of several Copenhagen..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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