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"...Orchestra, and features a thrilling libretto penned by the Rude Mechs’ appropriately raven-haired Shawn Sides.   – Wayne Alan..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Austinites Behind What Happens Later, Meg Ryan’s Return to Rom-Coms

Writers and producers share the details behind the intimate, eccentric, and nostalgic story

"...previous collaborator of theirs, Kirk Lynn, co-founder of the Rude Mechs theatre company and Dietz's colleague in the UT..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Meher Qazilbash

Five Fusebox Shows to Get You Buzzing

The annual Austin-born arts festival returns with five days of wonder

"...Fusebox International Performing Arts Festival, April 12-16. fuseboxfestival.com Rude Mechs: Contranyms (A Performance Ritual)..."

April 7, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: In the Beginning

Do gynoids dream of inflatable sheep in this wild woman dum dum show?

"...bright laughter and delight to audiences packed into the Rude Mechs’ Crashpad space over at Bolm Studios. Goodman is..."

Feb. 9, 2023 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Last Bow of an Accidental Critic

Lessons and surprises from a career that shouldn't have been

"...work of art? I couldn't. I had seen the Rude Mechs' staging of the Chuck Mee play Big Love,..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Arts Feature 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

"...and 18, they made it back inside at the Rude Mechs' Crashbox space on Bolm Road...."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rude Mechs Bring a Karaoke Christmas Carol Into Your Home and You’re the Star

Local theatre savants revamp Dickens for your holiday acting pleasure

"...fomented like the brilliant theatre-fomenting fiends they are, Austin’s Rude Mechs come roaring (approximately) back into the performative fray..."

Oct. 6, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Breath Project: Submissions Now Accepted

Theatre artists of color invited to submit videos of live performances

"...across the country, as social safety guidelines allow. (Austin’s Rude Mechs are among the partners of this ambitious program.)..."

Aug. 17, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

This Is Who We Are #1: Rude Mechs' Big Love

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...Sides speaks these words near the end of the Rude Mechanicals' production of Big Love, you may feel a..."

May 4, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Fusebox Festival 2020: Virtual Edition

Here's who will be charging up your screen April 24-26

"...Mein Erica Nix p1inkstar + Y2K Rianto Andrew Roberts Rude Mechs Tina Satter kt shorb + Katherine Wilkinson Justin..."

April 20, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Arts Events

"...Cass voicing the lyrics of Carrie Fountain, and the Rude Mechs' Shawn Sides directing the whole glorious shebang. If..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: SUGA

Travis Coe performs his personal solo work with rigorous grace

"...heritage and growth finds a short-term home at the Rude Mechs’ Crashbox...."

March 5, 2020 Arts Post by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019

History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year's most memorable shows

"...3) NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN (Rude Mechs) Even on a repeat viewing, this merging of..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wayne Alan Brenner's 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019

Kinetic performances and galleries mounting great show after great show kept the year exciting

"...4) GRAGERIART (Rude Mechs) Lana Lesley and Peter Stopschinski have turned their..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Barbara Purcell's Top 10 Only-in-Austin Arts Highlights of 2019

The year seen through a lens of the city, upending the expected and lifting up the unusual

"...1) NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN (Rude Mechs) This theatrical production of an epic poem contained..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

East Austin Studio Tour Maximum Tourage Recommendations

These five places will help you get the most EAST

"...of Suzanne Wyss, and more. Bonus: It's also where Rude Mechs' Crashbox is, and they're presenting a free staged..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Causing Trouble as We Smiled: A Dusty Story

Playwright Timothy Braun remembers the canine companion who changed his life

"...at our condo catered by Home Slice, and the Rude Mechs named him their Canine-in-Residence. Since that day, Dusty's..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Arts Feature by Timothy Braun

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

Rub a Duck at Blue Genie

These are the kinds of movements that will make everyone moist

"...erstwhile Rubber Repertory boys as an homage to the Rude Mechs' The Method Gun? It seemed that way to..."

June 21, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Turning Lipstick Traces Into a Graphic Novel

Lana Lesley adapts the Rude Mechs' punk spectacle to the printed page

"...When Austin’s Rude Mechs debuted their stage adaptation of Greil Marcus’ era-hopping,..."

May 29, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Rude Mechanicals' Not Every Mountain

This Rude Mechs performance piece shows us a mountain's lifetime in an hour and makes clear that nothing lasts forever

"...With their latest performance piece, the Rude Mechanicals theatre collective creates a broad portrait of time..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

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

"...works, scores for dance and theatre (many for the Rude Mechs), and an opera about Houston Oilers coach Bum..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin's Grimm Tales Gets Brutally Frank

Stephen Mills and company embody an artist’s fabulous vision

"...composers: Graham Reynolds, of Golden Arm Trio fame and Rude Mechs tenure and several Richard Linklater film scores. The..."

March 29, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Local Opera Company LOLA Made the Play Lardo Weeping Sing

Peter Stopschinski’s 17-year journey to bring Terry Galloway’s outsized, outspoken agoraphobe to the stage

"...first exposed to the show in 2002, when the Rude Mechs brought Galloway back to Austin – she'd moved..."

March 8, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Hires Playwrights Annie Baker and Branden Jacob-Jenkins

MacArthur Fellows will teach in theatre department, Michener Center

"...Dietz (Yankee Tavern, Becky's New Car, Bloomsday, et al.), Rude Mechs co-founder Kirk Lynn (Fixing Troilus and Cressida, Your..."

Jan. 30, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

line upon line percussion's The city wears a slouch hat

John Cage and Kenneth Patchen's experimental radio play proved an ideal vehicle for the creative daredevils of line upon line and the Rude Mechs to revive together

"...and to use in their first collaboration with the Rude Mechs, no strangers themselves to taking artistic risks. Line..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Men on Boats

With a diverse cast of women playing white men exploring the Grand Canyon, this show recasts history to show guys who just don't get it

"...With Shawn Sides of the Rude Mechs captaining Backhaus' time-warping, identity-flipped script at Mary Moody..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

2018 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Top honors go to Drowsy Chaperone and Fixing Troilus

"...The Rude Mechs' third entry in its Fixing Shakespeare series, Fixing..."

Nov. 7, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Paul Soileau’s Double Duty

With a new show for Rebecca Havemeyer and a new album by Christeene, is the busy performer having an identity crisis?

"...fundraisers for Austin Burlesque, Austin Pets Alive!, and the Rude Mechs (a theatre collective to which I belong); "a..."

June 1, 2018 Arts Feature by Kirk Lynn

Rude Mechs' Fixing Troilus and Cressida

The third show in the Fixing Shakespeare series makes his mess of a play about the Trojan War hilarious and even engrossing

"...Enter the Fixing Shakespeare series, courtesy of the Rude Mechanicals and Kirk Lynn as the credited writer. The..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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