The Off Beat: Walker Lukens’ “Good Weird,” Austin-Centric Year-End Revue

Omnipresent producer brings variety show The Last Walt back to Paramount Theatre

"...“We don’t have a lot of weird shit anymore in this city,” Walker Lukens declares. “We..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

A Theatre Mecca?!?

Honest, Some Folks Move to Austin for the Theatre

"...advertising campaign that showed lovely aerial shots of the city coupled with a nifty little jingle about the "feeling..."

July 18, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

The Spirit of the City and the Letter of the Law Collide at Sekrit Theater

Beau Reichert struggles with the city over his backyard arts complex

"...lit. The projectors aim across the lawn at the movie-theatre-sized screen Reichert built to share his sizable film collection..."

Sept. 2, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Art, Theatre, Film, and More Events for the Weekend

Take a peek at our recommended events

"...Weird City Sisters and the Austin Eagle ask, “R U..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Something Weird

How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.

"...anything, being a several hours' drive from Memphis, Kansas City, Springfield, Jefferson City, and St. Louis. Still, in the..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Weird Science Takes the Stage

The strange but true tale of how a high school class turned a science textbook into a play

"...was the Mason-Dixon line for pants length in League City, Texas, in 1984, and pointed me back to my..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Paper Chairs Makes Theatre With a Little Lone Star Surregionalism

The Texas premiere of Will Arbery’s Plano play knows place like home

"...showing you just how fucked up Plano, the Texas city a ways northeast of here, can be...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin's Queen of Soul Is Weird Made Flesh in Becoming Leslie

A personal look brings the local legend into posthumous focus

"...turn-of-the-century Austin in tiara and thong, he became the Weird Made Flesh, and when filmmakers Tracy Frazier, Ruby Martin,..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Comedians With Theatre Damage

The fourth annual Austin Sketch Fest scripts itself silly

"...And Austin is, luckily, a city about to be inundated with a weekend of enough..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Penfold Theatre's Interactive Show The Control Group Lets You Fix the Future

The sci-fi drama by phone calls on you to correct a crisis in the time stream

"...That bulletin comes courtesy of our pals at Penfold Theatre, who have had plenty of their own excellent adventures..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

"...than Dallas. San Antonio is the only major Texas city to have gained jobs in the past 12 months...."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

A Guide to Finding Beer Outside of Austin’s City Limits

Drinking outside of the box

"...just as many good breweries and brewpubs as the city proper. From Tex-Mex lagers and Belgian wits to American..."

May 19, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Weird Scenes Inside the Joke Mine

Austin Comics at the Montreal Comedy Fest

"...funny people from across the globe flood the Canadian city to attend the "Just for Laughs" Comedy Festival, a..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Arts Feature

Let's Have a Kiki: Sing-Along Edition

Sing your heart out with the Weird City Sisters for Out Youth tonight

"..."It's Raining Men" tonight, so break out the glitter..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The Rivals

This 1775 English comedy of manners is reset in 1980s America and suffers for it

"...he might be turning over in his grave over Weird City Theatre's current production of his famous comedy, The..."

July 24, 2009 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

There Will Be Blood

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

"...theatrical productions, comedy shows, and classical concerts of the weird kind, and unlike the seasonal offerings in December, these..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Nights With Monsters

ATX Halloween week: Witches, werewolves, and haints, oh my!

"...Price as the alternately creepy and campy Loren. Well, Weird City Theatre Company has brought that little chiller from..."

Oct. 22, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

'Night of the Living Dead'

Weird City Theatre brings George Romero's classic zombies to the stage

"...John Carroll, artistic director of Weird City Theatre, was 10 years old when he fell..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Classics Comeback

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

"...Old Geezer of Western Drama somewhere on the Austin theatre scene. As the mercury is rising to record heights,..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Night of the Living Dead

Is this stage adaptation playing George Romero's zombies straight or for camp?

"...Hyde Park Theatre, through Nov. 7..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Sherlock Holmes

John Carroll imbues the great detective with a gravitas true to Conan Doyle's creation

"...Dougherty Arts Center Theatre, through March 1..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Nosferatu

When this play looks in the mirror, the dramaturg is invisible

"...Weird City Theatre Company's Nosferatu is a dark play. Very,..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Luv Doc Recommends: Drone: A Border Affair That Crosses a Line

City Theatre, Friday, February 4, 2011

"...Austin is just teeming with people engaged in weird, quirky, and interesting creative endeavors. Wherever do they find..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Riders Against the Storm Year

ATX hip-hop duo gets its science down

"...Shakey Graves’ Blues on the Green concert tonight was..."

June 24, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

An 'Our Town' for Our Town

With 100 Austin stories, Zach builds a city on a stage

"...we don't see it portrayed much in our national theatre. Plays in this country tend to focus on smaller..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2017

Bold takes on history and art that moved around the city spoke to a growing, changing Austin this year

"...composer Graham Reynolds and director Shawn Sides with Mexico City's Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (and poet Carrie Fountain, singers..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

"..."Theatre gets to create a topic of conversation for a..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Won't You Come In?

For four years, playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl have forged an uncommon bond with audiences through the welcoming, intimate quality of their theatre work. They've also forged an uncommon bond with each other, a mutually fulfilling creative partnership that will continue for the rest of their lives.

"...Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl aren't just theatre artists. They're hostesses of the stage. When these two..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Moving Pictures

Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition

"...Like the city it depicts, Richard Linklater's Slacker sees no need for..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Waterfalls and Sea Changes

The former and current artistic directors of Austin Script Works discuss new plays, local theatre, and the writer's voice

"...I went to Europe in 1996 and did English-language theatre. ... And while I was over there, I realized..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz

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