Are You Experienced?

Why art that actively engages audiences is quintessentially Austin

"...Spaces), to imbibe during a show's built-in drinking game (Yellow Tape Construction Company's Warpstar Sexysquad), to type a love..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Classics Comeback

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

"...and Ed Howard; and In the West, by the company members of Big State Productions, proved that there was..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Warpstar Sexysquad

Yellow Tape's over-the-top, rockin' homage to sci-fi is damn entertaining and funny

"...Just another night of theatre, right? Yellow Tape Construction Company bills Warpstar Sexysquad as "a sci-fi..."

March 6, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Rocketing Through Hard Times

Yellow Tape and other small theatre groups blast past the black hole of the recession

"..."It's gonna be totally awesome!" says Morgan of Yellow Tape Construction Company's upcoming show, Warpstar Sexysquad. He could..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

A Thumping Raging Explosion of Light and Marvelous Texture

Yellow Tape's latest doesn't thump or rage but whispers something wonderful to you

"...Yellow Tape Construction Company's new dance production begins maybe not..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical!, Yellow Tape Construction Co. Direction..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Most Memorable Locally Produced Live Performance Offerings that I Chanced to See in 2007 (A Hierarchical List)

Chronicle Arts writer Barry Pineo on the most memorable moments onstage in 2007

"...4) Dance Carousel (Spank Dance Company/Austin Independent Choreographers) Spank's annual FronteraFest contribution. Always different, always..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

'The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical!' Saving the season with every Christmas story you've ever heard

The Yellow Tape gang works its high-energy, kitschy, crowd-pleasing magic on the holidays

"...trademark attorney before conjuring the name of a production company most likely does not constitute standard artistic practice. However,..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!, Yellow Tape Construction Co...."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'I Am Not Tartuffe': American rock & roll vs. French art film

Yellow Tape Construction Company's I Am Not Tartuffe reimagines Molière's satire as a tale of scheming French people plotting to take over America's future

"...real time, now is your chance. On March 15, Yellow Tape Construction Company premieres I Am Not Tartuffe, a..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

365 Days/365 Plays: Week 14

The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues with seven plays directed by Kathleen Fletcher

"...511 W. 43rd. Seven plays directed by Kathleen Fletcher (Yellow Tape Construction Company, Shrewd Productions, Vortex Summer Youth Theatre)...."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Top 10 Stage Excitements of 2006

"...5) I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical! (Yellow Tape Construction Co.) This show was utterly generational, and..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

Top 10 Pratfalls of 2006, Plus Some Shining Examples of Physical Comedy

"...crash in Vaudeville Vanya (St. Idiot Collective) The entire company danced with teacups on their heads in Chekhov's masterwork...."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Events That Made 2006 a Year to Remember

"...2) The Souls of Our Feet (Tapestry Dance Company) In paying tribute to rhythm tap dancers..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Hunting PLC wants to give a Texas artist $50K, puppet people want you, a Beegle play is Louisville-bound, 'Cantanker' publishes again, and KDHDC and Yellow Tape partying for your cash

"...give a Texas artist $50,000. The international oil services company, which awards that amount annually via the Hunting Prize,..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

We Are Normal, Cha Cha Chaaa

The dance 'We Are Normal, Cha Cha Chaaa' is such a whirl of motion, bursting with youthful exhilaration, that it suggests nothing so much as five girls hard at play on a long summer's day

"...or so it appears in the latest production from Yellow Tape Construction Company. For three-quarters of an hour, the..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar strikes a blow against the empire of 23-cent-overcharging convenience stores

"...HIPPEST? A press release from Yellow Tape Construction Co. says that "as part of our..."

July 28, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!

With 'I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical!', the energy-to-burn Yellow Tape Construction Company turn this cult film 'Heathers' into a loud, amped-up send-up of everything Eighties

"...back, adapted into a stage musical by the energy-to-burn Yellow Tape Construction Company...."

June 30, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Power and Light

A guide to 10 new companies that are charging up Austin's theatre scene

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

FronteraFest Short Fringe: Best of Week One

Improv, Butoh, cabaret, and one of those commanding performance moments that make FronteraFest made up the Short Fringe 2006 Best of Week One

"...The four lackeys in Yellow Tape Construction Company's "I.Don't.Care: A Poignant Investigation of the..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Come Home

Yellow Tape Construction Company's self-styled indie folk musical 'Come Home' plays out like a quaint indie film with Midwestern melancholia and harmony

"...Yellow Tape Construction Company heads out on the highway but..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Free Night of Theater: The List

These Central Texas theatre companies are offering free tickets as part of the national Free Night of Theater campaign

"...Gobotrick Theatre Company: Do Something for Yourself: The Life of Charlotte Bronte..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Feature

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...errors, but we have tried to mark where the tape gave us fits. Enjoy! – Kate X Messer..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

"...negotiate from a position of weakness. Heck, Intel, a company with financial resources, left us with a big empty..."

July 19, 2002 Column

Storyteller

Talking turkey with X-Ray

"...think I like it because of the challenge of construction, because sometimes creating -- not music so much as..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Bygone Buildings

Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.

"...open in the time it takes to rewind a tape. A vacant lot becomes a Dell facility seemingly overnight...."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Devin Greaney

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...not-quite-finished-feeling about the new airport and jokes about the construction vehicles and yellow "Danger!" tape still dotting the landscape..."

May 28, 1999 News Feature

Postmarks

Reusing Seaholm

"...car parking garage on Long Bow Drive off Congress. Construction costs (alone) are over one million dollars. Add to..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...After almost a year of riding through bureaucratic red tape, the Yellow Bike Project has finally moved into a..."

Oct. 2, 1998 News Feature