Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...theatres we see are companies that focus primarily on new drama, frequently self-generated, that play around with presentation, text,..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...group in the classical camp is also keen on new classical music – works made for today. Concerts are..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Red Cans'

The performers in 'Red Cans' have to stuff themselves into tiny laundry hampers where they can't see, must use their arms to walk, and get horribly cramped and bruised, but you won't hear them complain

"...are miraculously stuffed into tiny laundry hampers – the show's "red cans" – a sight that is both remarkable..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Decameron Day 7: REVENGE, Rude Mechs..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...that this year's VORTEX season was composed entirely of new works. It's indicative of Cullum's fervor for material on..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Stella Adler and the American Theater

UT's Harry Ransom Center, which acquired the complete archive of Stella Adler, celebrates her impact on American acting in the symposium Stella Adler and the American Theater

"...company. Local stage companies such as Salvage Vanguard Theater, Rude Mechs, and Bedlam Faction are founded on the same..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Articulations

The scoop on the 2000-01 Austin Critics Table awards ceremony

"...the week before, the Critics Table had no one show like The Producers that swept the awards. As can..."

June 15, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Grageriart: Design 4 Everyone at Crashbox

Math rock is hard, let's go shopping with some robots

"...It's those Rude Mechs, don't you know, inaugurating their new Crashbox space...."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recommended Art Events This Weekend

How can you lose with a sweet list to use before it's time to choose?

"...night’s Salon … in a Salon symposium with the Rude Mechs’ Madge Darlington and Kirk Lynn, with choreographer Alexa..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later

Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?

"...and blue sky seemed to signal this was a new day. And so it was for the city's music..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Consummate Artistry

The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Fame (Big Medium, Blue Genie Art Industries, and the Rude Mechanicals) and distributed honors in 42 categories. Trouble Puppet..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Taste the Hybrids

Fusebox Festival 2013 serves up more toothsome mash-ups of art, food, tech, and space

"...just the combination of elements that makes this annual showcase of cross-disciplinary and experimental art so eagerly anticipated each..."

April 12, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Change in the Weather

A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process

"...But just as 2004 has shown Austin a summer that may be called mild compared..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City of Brotherly Rudes

The Rude Mechs hit Philly with 'How Late It Was, How Late,' while company member Lana Lesley goes touring with SITI Company

"...This week, the Rude Mechs hit Philly in a big way, presenting their..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heart Attack & Fine

Actor Douglas Taylor is alive (again) and well in Austin, Texas

"...group of people that I didn't recognize. But I knew that I knew them from somewhere. And the only..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Pale Idiot': Return to the Rudeness That Started It All

As a celebration of 10 years of rudeness, the Rude Mechanicals are reviving the show that started it all, Kirk Lynn's absurdist comedy 'Pale Idiot'

"...ago, a group of friends wanted to start a new Austin theatre company. They asked playwright Kirk Lynn to..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Articulations

A major change in the staff for the Salvage Vanguard Theater; a new endowed chair for the UT Department of Art and Art History.

"...other than founding artistic director Jason Neulander running the show. According to Neulander's press statement, the move reflects "some..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Leon and Stella Alesi: Love Conjures All

Leon and Stella Alesi provide ocular proof of a life in the arts

"...the bright, busy situation of theatre-and-music power couple Shawn "Rude Mechs" Sides and Graham "Golden Arm Trio" Reynolds. Now..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Talent for Deception

When Joey Hood is onstage, you want to buy whatever he's selling

"...they can see Ronan Noone's The Atheist, a one-man show starring Joey Hood...."

Feb. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Delighted Lee

Actor Lee Eddy is back onstage in Austin after five years away, and boy, is she happy

"...brought from blog to stage in a riotous solo show. Even in her salad days at St. Edward's University..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

NEA grants in the stockings of three Austin arts groups, plus the Rude Mechs get their Big Apple on at the Public Theater's Under the Radar festival

"...Rude Mechanicals: $12,000 toward development and production of The Method..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Long Incubation of the Incubus

Playwright David Hancock and director Vicky Boone reveal how they developed the play The Incubus Archives over six years, through 11 sometimes radically different versions.

"...from the brow of its creator. Most often, the new drama getting its world premiere has gone through many..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin's Grimm Tales Gets Brutally Frank

Stephen Mills and company embody an artist’s fabulous vision

"...more progressive museums, Mills was inspired to devise a new work of ballet for his company, a work based..."

March 29, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

2018 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Top honors go to Drowsy Chaperone and Fixing Troilus

"...Austin Scottish Rite Theater Monday, and more than 30 shows from the 2017-18 season received awards, with three of..."

Nov. 7, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Long Center: Who's playing

Austin's new performing-arts center releases the performance schedule for its first few months

"...The countdown to the grand opening of Austin's new performing-arts center has passed the 80-day mark, and ratcheting..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Camp Guide

"...the only girl without a curling iron – who knew they could run on batteries? The details are different,..."

April 28, 2006 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...10 Shows From 1999 That Transported Me1. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

If You Build It ...

Ah, you know the rest

"...Center performances collided with the International Gem & Jewelry Show at Palmer Events Center and the Austin Reggae Festival..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across the Disciplines (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2008

"...3) "Erin Cone: New Paintings" (Wally Workman Gallery) Wow. Cone wouldn't have to..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luke Savisky: Creative Capitalist

Creative Capital helps Austin's projector of large-scale images get his work that much larger

"...Now, the New York foundation Creative Capital is helping Savisky get his..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Rachel Cook

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