Art, Eggs, Kink, and Sleaze in This Weekend’s Art Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar consideration

"...“Brave New Textiles”..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Record Store Day, Formula 1, Dyke March, and More Event Recommendations

Your weekend is spoken for

"...of them, each terrifying and unique? That’s what the newly conjured Austin Horror Film Festival will be providing over..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...(who also shared writing duties) in a wild college comedy...."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Improv Celebrates the Day of the Dead With La Vida de los Muertos

Hideout Theatre breathes life into una vida improvisada

"...production through to the end. "From the start, we knew we wanted to do a show set in the..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

Your Queer Guide to SXSW

Keeping things kweer in 2018

"...Gaysha Presents: A Queer Riot Festival, 5-11pm, One World..."

March 2, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Texas schools need to be well-funded ["The Dropout Problem," News, Aug. 12]. I saw schoolchildren begging for money at..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Column

Articulations

Ridiculous Theatre Company's Everett Quinton comes to Austin to do a "twisted" version of Oliver! for Zach, Ballet Austin gets in touch with New York, and honors for painter Michael Ray Charles and Austin Babtist Women.

"...to postpone The Chinese Art of Placement, a one-man comedy he was to perform at the Zachary Scott Theatre..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Fusebox Facts, Sullivan’s Travels, and More Recommended Events

Some recommendations for the week ahead

"...be the first hyphenate writer-director, he was a screwball comedy virtuoso. In his 1941 Hollywood satire Sullivan’s Travels, Joel..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

2019 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Five shows share top honors with four awards each

"...five-way tie was spread across the divisions of drama, comedy, musical theatre, and theatre for young audiences. The most..."

Nov. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...production El Paraíso de los Maniquís (Proyecto Teatro); the comedy Agent Andromeda: The Orion Crusade (Sky Candy); and the..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...shows captured seven nods apiece: Capital T Theatre's cockfighting comedy Year of the Rooster, Zach Theatre’s musical salute to..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mining Laughs From Questions, Comments, and Concerns

Austin filmmakers get into the online act with the Web series Call Center

"...13-episode, Web-based series Call Center. It's part of a movement that, depending on how you choose to look at..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

So long, Sarah; hello, Halfway

"...A smattering of new series will launch soon, which means my DVR will..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Hiiiiiiiii-Yah!

Austin foley artist Buzz Moran strips the sound out of a forgotten kung fu flick and redubs it live at the Drafthouse. The result? Something to chop about it.

"...Kung Fu Masterpiece Theater, another entry in that burgeoning new genre of Alamo Drafthouse programs that combine screened films..."

May 17, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Letters at 3AM

October 1, 1955, a half-hour show called The Honeymooners slipped in some uneasy truths under cover of laughter.

"...... Blackboard Jungle introduced the (white) world to a new music with "Rock Around the Clock" ... Marilyn Monroe..."

March 31, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, Battleground

William Wellman's larger-than-life legacy: Reviews of Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, and Battleground.

"...and insisted on a boom mike and fluid camera movement. With machine-gun-paced dialogue and an ending that is still..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Star Maps Hustle

Interview With Filmmaker Miguel Arteta

"...an unnecessary tribulation at best: A recent drubbing from New Yorker's notoriously fickle Terrence Rafferty aside, Star Maps has..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Grand Design: Brady Corbet on The Brutalist

Writer/director on the foundations of the architectural drama

"...movie about migrants and architecture in postwar America, Corbet knew that she was the perfect choice, as shown on..."

Jan. 7, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...Ground Floor Theatre's Anna in the Tropics, Alchemy Theatre's new staging of Mack & Mabel, ZACH Theatre's minimalist but..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...prejudices. Maybe it's not enough time to make a new friend. But it's possibly enough to discover that we..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Gary Keller Now Owns West Austin's One World Theatre

Austin music benefactor adds One World to real estate portfolio, alongside Saxon Pub

"...of rumors regarding changes at One World Theatre, a new landowner has emerged. Gary Keller, co-founder of Keller Williams..."

April 1, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Online: Recommended Programming

Must-catch panels, films, music showcases, and more at this year's all-virtual Fest

"...Shepherd, and other women breaking down walls in stand-up comedy. (ON DEMAND)..."

March 12, 2021 Features Feature

Inside the 2019 Cine Las Americas Schedule

Talking different kinds of borders with Executive Director Jean Anne Lauer

"...traditions, but also contesting, and saying, 'Hey, there's a new generation with new ideas coming up.'" That's part of..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

LBJ Summit Returns to “Race in America”

Five years after landmark civil rights event, there's plenty to talk about

"...foundation, sees the present moment as ripe for a renewal of the movement. With an event like this year's..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Film Society Announces 2017 Film Grants

$143,000 in cash and support awarded to 34 filmmakers

"...impact on the national stage as told by the movement’s ultimate outsider, Ray Hill: a labor activists’ son, ex-con,..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Gay Place Guide to a Kweer SX

LGBTQIA SXSW and why queering SXSW is a big f-ing deal

"...“LGBTQ individuals are on the forefront of a social movement, leveraging style to create positive social change that extends..."

March 9, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Binge Watching in Wi-Fidelity

Austin WebFest, Texas’ first webseries festival, kicks off tonight

"...The webseries movement is relatively new and still treading uncharted waters. Webseries..."

June 26, 2014 Screens Post by Fernie Martinez

That Time of the Month

Christian Remde spans the calendar year with his Twelve Films Project

"...of citizen – a California transplant (by way of New York City, but still). But before we roll our..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Magic Flute

This new balletic adaptation boasted fantastic visuals but stodgy choreography

"...For his new ballet version of The Magic Flute, Stephen Mills rounded..."

May 13, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

A Guide to the Works

"...This year's New Works Festival runs for six days, with performances beginning..."

March 27, 2009 Arts Feature

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