Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...Editor Louis Black spoke with Shrake in 1985 about the critically acclaimed Songwriter, starring Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson,..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...The Paramount Theatre's Summer Film Classics features mostly double bills..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Home for Heroes (and Others)

Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill. But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard labor, they have created one of Austin's most user-friendly theatre spaces.

"...The two-story building on Congress Avenue now known as The..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Phil West

WaffleFest 2015

For the 14th year, the Hideout Theatre brings 25 troupes together for a toasty mix of improv and free waffles

"...get a handle on everything that's going on," runs the description on the website for the Hideout Theatre on..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Improvising All Night Long! Twice!

The Hideout's annual improv marathon extends to 48 hours

"...it comes to doing something for 48 hours nonstop, the only thing most people can lay claim to is..."

June 21, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

My, My, Maestro

One reporter's firsthand account of exploring competitive improv at the Hideout

"...my friends, is a piece of cake. You know: the way that juggling three whirring chain saws while changing..."

Aug. 5, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin's Improv Comedy Marathon 2014

Supposedly sane people, totally making shit up for 45 hours straight

"...too, will be coming and going pretty much as they please … while eight improv stalwarts stick around hour..."

June 18, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Improvising Chekhov With Nothing and Everything

To improvise Chekhov plays, the cast of Nothing and Everything learned just how much goes on in them

"...That's the rap on Anton Chekhov's plays, you know. Those dramas..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Arts Feature by Alexa Harrington

SXSW Film Festival Reco 2002

"...Directed by: Various. The SXSW Film Festival 2002 has arrived. The Festival begins..."

March 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Festival 2002

"...Directed by: Various. The SXSW Film Festival 2002 has arrived. The Festival begins..."

March 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Can't MAKE This Shit Up

Well, maybe YOU can't, but THEY can

"...Okay, you know those people who run the Hideout Theatre Downtown?..."

July 1, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Gay Musical Brings Queer Comedy to Austin

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll leave dusted in glitter.

"...your Saturday? Something with music and glitter and queers? Then you’re in luck, because a big gay musical is..."

July 11, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

SXSW Comedy Review: A Good Trip With Shane Mauss

Mauss lights up Hideout with cleverness and faux-slacker charm

"...When Shane Mauss took the stage at the Hideout Theatre Tuesday night to perform..."

March 15, 2017 Arts Post by Sean L. Malin

Live! Nude! Improv!

They’re getting naked at the Hideout

"...They’re getting naked at the Hideout. WTF?..."

Aug. 11, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cine Las Americas

The slate through Sunday

"...The ninth Cine Las Americas opened Wednesday, April 19 and..."

April 21, 2006 Screens Feature

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...– say, an unlikely place for a crowd to gather, like a broccoli farm or the bottom of the..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2018: Picks

In the bounty of improv, sketch, & stand-up, some of our picks

"...no laughing matter … until it is. That’s in the final dog days when the Out of Bounds Comedy..."

Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Everybody Must Get 'Stoned'

Improv Guru Keith Johnstone brings his Maestro to the Long Center

"...Now, the above statement means either 1) nothing to you at..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cinematic Convergence

Oct. 14-21: The 11th annual Austin Film Festival

"...9:45 The Woodsman..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Screens Feature

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...in his lifetime, but he got a ton from the B. Iden Payne Awards Council Monday. When the theatre..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

"...daydreams we share in public," F.X. Feeney writes in the April issue of Written By. If this is true,..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Making Offers No One Can Refuse

The Five Families of Austin improv go Out of Bounds with the 13th annual comedy festival

"...The Hideout. Merlin Works. ColdTowne. The New Movement. The Institution..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Austin Secrets'

Handling real people's secrets sends improv pros places they've never been before

"...It's no secret that Austinites have been spilling their guts onstage of late. Indeed, so many people know..."

March 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...Bar 96, 11pm Nearly 15 years on, Austin's Ortiz brothers continue to stoke the fires of hard rock and..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Long Stories Short

The Cinematexas INternational Short Film Festival

"...7pm [UT Student Competition, Program 5] The Eyes of Texas (Are Upon You)..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature

Who Does 46 Hours of Comedy Improv Nonstop?

Eight stalwarts of the scene flirt with exhaustion and insanity

"...The Hideout Theatre & Coffeeshop has been running this annual..."

June 17, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Comedy: Your 2015 Lineup

Schumer, Harmon, Bell, and SNL lead this year's laugh-makers

"...Laugh lovers who have been holding their breaths waiting to hear who'll be at SXSW Comedy..."

Feb. 23, 2015 SXSW Post by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2017

From monsters to mountains, wolves to wild horses, the year came alive with figures boldly created onstage

"...1) LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (National Theatre of Scotland/Texas Performing Arts)/THR3E..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Reservoir Dogs

"...Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney and Michael Madsen. For all the hoopla and controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut, Reservoir..."

Oct. 30, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...own truncated moniker in 2016 for Get Out of the City. The shift allowed the decadelong Austin scene veteran..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

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