Top 10 Arts Events of 2011 in No Particular Order

How festival goodness and powerful art exhibits made 2011 a year to remember

"...1) EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR The 10th EAST – of which Big Medium is the instigator and the epicenter..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Pinnacle of 10 Years' Worth of Comedy Festivals?

OOBs, they did it again

"...The Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival, what’s more familiarly called the..."

Sept. 4, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival

In Austin's newest festival, stand-up finally gets top billing

"...It isn't that stand-up gets no love from Austin's festival scene. Comedy and the jokers who make it have..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

De-Spurring the Moment

The making of the 2007 Out of Bounds Improv Festival

"...The thing about improvisation, comedy or otherwise, is that it's done on..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

OoBer Alles

A guide to the troupes in the 2007 Out of Bounds Improv Festival

"...All-Star Micetro: The eternal, ever-changing, cream of all the different improv crops, Micetro convenes a coliseum..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Sweetlamb It Is

The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival's founder returns to power

"...Yes, he's the producer of the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival that's turning Austin..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Schedule

Out of Bounds

"...The Out of Bounds Improv Festival runs Sept. 7-10, Wednesday-Saturday, at..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Feature

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...."

Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mission: Improvable

Austin's improv community gathers intelligence

"...The city is still faintly reeling. Next week, it's improvisers: talented people from all over the country, dropping into..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

ImproviNation

Can I get a suggestion for an Austin festival in which troupes from across the country gather to create instant comedy?

"...Our fair city is once more in the grip of the fever...."

Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off the Cuff and in Your City

A roundup of Austin improv schools

"...Consider improvisation, comedic and otherwise. What it takes to make something..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Your City Is About To Be Gentrifucked

The Latino Comedy Project returns with a fierce new skewering

"...Change is inevitable, of course, and it’s no less inevitable in a city..."

May 31, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

OoBer Alles

A guide to the troupes of the 2006 Out of Bounds Improv Festival (aka OoB V)

"...Available Cupholders: Former parts of Well Hung Jury, recently returned from their brief defection..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Memoriam: Robin Goodfellow

Singular Austin improviser has taken his final bow (wow wow)

"...As the rest of the world mourns the loss of Uggie, that furry..."

Aug. 12, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Tom Booker Roast

Last night, baby, it hurt so good

"...night at midnight, in the downstairs theatre at The Hideout, as part of the Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival,..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Be Prepared

The secret to improv's split-second successes is in years of training

"...see these six people performing this musical number together about the importance of being prepared at school – singing..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

This fall, one of the city's most active and daring improv companies is calling it quits (or quilts, as their Web site has it): well hung jury is breaking up.

"...The Jury's Out..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

TNM's Megaphone Marathons Takes on Two Cities

The annual comedy mini-fest rocks the ATX and NOLA

"...New Movement's Chris Trew, the comedy entrepreneur and host of the World Air Sex Championships was carrying a baby..."

July 9, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe

"...been standing in the rain for four hours, handing out fliers to encourage strangers in a foreign city who..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Don't Everybody Panic, but Online Sketch Troupe Backpack Picnic Has Definitely Gone What They Call 'Viral' and Is Also About to Contaminate the Alamo Drafthouse

Online sketch troupe Backpack Picnic has definitely gone viral

"...order to keep yourself from obsessively contemplating the possibility of a local terrorist attack based on the use of..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five New Things In Austin's Comedy Scene

A quintuple shot of Lakkalikööri for all my friends

"...like tequila and birth control. No wonder that most of these five things are stained with the wonders fermentation..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Everybody Must Get 'Stoned'

Improv Guru Keith Johnstone brings his Maestro to the Long Center

"...Johnstone is coming to Austin to direct a night of Maestro improvisation...."

Jan. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

ColdTowne: Home on the strange

When it comes to the improvisers of ColdTowne, you're in for a really enjoyable time watching these guys do their stuff

"...phenomenon where a whole is greater than the sum of its parts, right? And we've already covered a few..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Get Up: How funky and strong is their fight

Shannon McCormick and Shana Merlin – who make up the improv duo Get Up – are comfortable working together, like two parts of an interlocking dream machine

"...shortish fox with the million-watt smile. That's the comedy improv duo called Get Up, at least from the outside...."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Junk: When you're jonesing for the good stuff

The four improvisers who constitute the Austin troupe Junk prefer to work in long-form, and long-form certainly seems their forte

"...Andrea Young, Ted Rutherford, and Troy Miller. These four improvisers are collectively known as "Junk," but which of several..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature 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

"...taking a daylong nap, by getting baked and watching Office Space, or by venturing out on a Monday night..."

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

Shannon Stott Cracks Jokes and Breaks Barriers

Austin’s funniest short-form improviser wants more diverse improv

"...in early August, Stott was dubbed the funniest short-form improviser in Austin...."

Aug. 29, 2017 Arts Post by Katarina Brown

Rich Talarico

Key & Peele writer reveals how the comedy sausage is made

"...few are as gregarious as Key & Peele's. Most of the writers have deep improvisational comedy backgrounds, among them..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Martin

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Annual Events

Festivals aren't just for music and film

"...30 years, locals have been competing for the title of Funniest Person in Austin, and in that time the..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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