Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...What is it about this town and public nudity? Whether it's excursions to Hippie Hollow, frat-boy streaking hijinks,..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...you can count on to push the envelope where onstage nudity, profanity, social commentary, violence, and monkeying around with..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...it because you'll be so engaged in what's happening onstage. Austin's purveyors of experimental drama want to connect with..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Scratch Acid Makes Rare Appearance in Austin on Saturday… to Recount Escapades Past

Bradford, Sims, and Washam pop up at David Yow’s interview show

"...Scratch Acid were in the same place. That place: onstage at the Lost Well for a Saturday afternoon event..."

July 10, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The FronteraFest Way

Christi Moore's top rule for producing the annual festival: Just say 'yes'

"...never set foot on a stage; you have music onstage, food onstage, blood onstage, and occasionally group masturbation onstage..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Who Is Stella Burden, and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Her?

When the Rude Mechs do a show about acting, they find madness in the Method

"...to Andean folk dancing in Ecuador to full-frontal male nudity in upstate New York. The Trigger..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

puh-LOB-o-liss!

How a handful of Dartmouth College stoners started a revolution in modern dance.

"...will pay you good money to have your fun onstage in front of them. And these guys were hooked...."

March 2, 2001 Arts Feature by John Job

Throwing a Few Back With Shit-faced Shakespeare

When it's time to perform Shit-faced Shakespeare, here's how an actor prepares

"...have only four hours until you have to appear onstage plastered...."

July 21, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Prophet for Our Times

For 10 years, Lisa Crystal Carver has been writing about sex and doing sex-drenched performance pieces under the name Suckdog. But her lifestyle is born of a profound quest for an uncompromised life, a search for truth and adventure that makes her a prophet for our time.

"...had overenthusiastic female audience members go down on her onstage a couple of times, which she says she is..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

25 Minutes and Nothing to Lose

Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is often curbed by Practical Concerns, but FronteraFest is a performance jamboree that gives artists the freedom to go for broke.

"...Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...guidelines to show her the written dress code. Her nudity, though legal, was inappropriate and disrespectful of the mayor,..."

June 21, 2002 Column

TENGGER, Bar Italia, LAIR, and More Reviews From Wednesday of SXSW

Hump day’s most memorable music fest moments

"...slow-motion dancing – and the kid looked so natural onstage, like he was born in a sound bath. In..."

March 14, 2024 Music Post by Dan Gentile

Austin Confessions

Chris Gray gets laid.

"...Jessica Simpson, moves to Austin and opens a nightclub. Nudity, money laundering, and hipper bands than Conan O'Brien. I..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Eighties Punks Meat Joy Reminisce After Landing in Austin for Reunion Dates

Triple homecoming shows around their 1984 LP reissue kick off tomorrow

"...suitable name to epitomize their punk-folk fusion and improvisational onstage antics proved no exception. At a tucked-away Highland neighborhood..."

Oct. 17, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

Cinderella/Mi Madre y Yo

Mothers danced in both Long Center venues on Mother's Day, but oh, what different moms

"...chicken-slaughter scene was actually on video, as was the nudity (Gómez's, not her mother's). As Gómez explained onstage, "A..."

May 15, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"...Bounding onstage to a band conducted by Austinite Roscoe Beck and..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Dark Goddess: Remembrance of Deities Past

Skipper Chong Warson reviews the VORTEX Repertory Company's ritual theatre piece Dark Goddess.

"...most of the goddesses, who take turns when not onstage. The accompaniment fits particularly well for Oya -- the..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Review: Ground Floor Theatre’s Jack & Aiden

Queer musical gets to the intimate, sexy heart of a relationship

"...[inset-1-right]Through the onstage narrative crafted specifically for Ground Floor Theatre by Lane..."

Dec. 12, 2023 Arts Post by James Scott

Review: Chris Fleming

Queer comedian behind YouTube's Gayle admits to being a show pig

"...with his body, how he never really tried “unironic nudity” before, until he went too nude too soon at..."

July 17, 2017 Arts Post by Courtney Naquin

Doctuh Mistuh's Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical

This send-up of the 1978 blue movie serves up the cheese and camp for a load of giddy fun

"...material. Quite a bit, it turns out, barring actual nudity or, ahem, physical penetration – though a moment to..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Playback: Holy Mountain Closing Oct. 1

Holy Mountain falls prey to skyrocketing rents Downtown

"...with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, or when the Cro-Mags stood onstage and talked about how important DIY all-ages hardcore venues..."

June 26, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

First night SXSW Music recommendations and hints

"...the musical Ragtime, the pompadour-wielding Brooks transfers his charisma onstage, fronting a Chicago neo-soul quintet whose third LP Howl..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night blurbs – hip-hop Picks and slept-on Sleepers

"...Fly Absurdist personas, noise guitar heroics, heartfelt songwriting, and nudity – the Kirin J Callinan package. The Sydney-based surrealist..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

The Elementals: Water

This Vortex dance exploring water as sacred is often beautiful but not always deep

"...choreography from Toni Bravo, the Vortex company imbues the onstage water with their own particular sensibility. As in many..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Hair

Little City fields a big, strong tribe for its go at the love-rock musical

"...ways to focus the action with that many bodies onstage. In the end, he basically succeeds in setting a..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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

"...and movements and music vividly embodying Hancock's trippy vision onstage and providing a glimpse into a weird world beyond..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

On the Frontera

Puppies, South Padre, and more from the front

"...– Nashville form without artistic content. Here’s Simpson prancing onstage, sporting Tupperware twin peaks with a valley a Humvee..."

Dec. 1, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Two-Wheeled Texas

Bikers' best bets on the highways and byways

"...steaks, cold drinks, and some of Austin’s finest entertainers onstage, on fire, and in your lap. Bike night every..."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Angela Armstrong

Beirut

Vortex's revival confronts issues of the body – as object, as weapon, and as prison – head on

"...The nudity, along with the violence, is pointed and excessive without..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Mr. Not So Frivolous

Wallace Shawn bares all about writing, why he does theatre, and that play with all the sex in it

"...AC: Well, regardless of stipulating nudity or sex acts onstage, you often ask very provocative..."

May 11, 2007 Arts Feature by Spencer Parsons

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