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Robert Faires’ Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019
History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year’s most memorable shows
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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
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Elizabeth Cobbe’s Top 10 Arts Entrances of 2019
It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive
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Paper Chairs’ Plano
This production gets inside the heads of three sisters over a decade that races by in a breakneck 90 minutes
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Paper Chairs Makes Theatre With a Little Lone Star Surregionalism
The Texas premiere of Will Arbery’s Plano play knows place like home
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Paper Chairs’ The Audience
Elizabeth Doss’ adaptation of García Lorca’s unfinished play is less a drama than a dream, unbound by logic, reason, or convention
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Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop
The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards
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Paper Chairs’ The Repentance of Saint Joan
Patrick Shaw’s new play is less a tale of Joan of Arc’s life than a divine meditation on love lost
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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
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Paper Chairs’ Catalina de Erauso
Elizabeth Doss’ latest plays with history in a way that serves its feminist hero, and it’s also a comedy that knows its stuff
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Paper Chairs’ Poor Herman
Elizabeth Doss’ new play shows the literary lion Melville to be just like one of us