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KUT’s Michael Lee turns the spotlight on happenings in the arts, theatre, film, visual arts, and more around the Austin area. Tune in to Eklektikos for this special feature that runs throughout the week.
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A Return to TRU
Twelve years ago, Jaston Williams took on the role of Truman Capote in the one-person play TRU. To inhabit the legendary writer, Williams immersed himself in Capote lore until he had a greater understanding of the man. Now, he's undertaking the demanding role again, this time with a few more years...
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A Noir Mystery
The new play Invible, Inc. is making its world premiere this month at the Rollins Studio at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. It's a Depression-era noir mystery, set in the world of two dueling magicians.
Invible, Inc. is produced by Hidden Room Theater, and features...
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20 Years of Fringe Theater
Over the past two decades, Austin's Frontera Fest has emerged as the premiere fringe theater festival in the American southwest. For the next month or so, dozens of artists will take to the stages of Hyde Park and Salvage Vanguard theaters to try out new material or to showcase acts that wouldn't...
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Get Your Geek On
The talented improv actors at the Hideout are no strangers to the world of pop culture; they've done shows based on the worlds of Star Trek, Batman, and the Twilight Zone among plenty of others. Now they're kicking that fan-friendly improv style into high gear, by inviting superfans of eight of the...
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The Nutcracker (with extra Juggling and Dog Tricks)
During the holiday season, one doesn't have to look far to find a version of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. There's Ballet Austin's yearly production, of course, along with a few other stage versions and plenty of filmed adaptations to choose from. But if you're looking for a version of...
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Palindrome Ends as It Began
Palindrome Theatre began life with a end date in mind; when the company was started in 2009, the founders planned to work together until December 2012 and then disband. True to that vision, Palindrome is now staging its final performance, the premiere production of artistic director Nigel O'Hearn's...
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Bah Humbug in the Barrio
This holiday season, Teatro Vivo will be presenting its unique take on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Cuento Navideño re-imagines Ebenezer Scrooge as a Latina businesswoman, Evangelina Cruz. Evangelina (played by Mary Alice Carnes) is visited by the ghost of her former...
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Bah Humbug! A One-Man Christmas Carol
For many of us, the holiday season is all about tradition, and Damian Gillen's Christmas tradition involves packing a minivan full of costumes and props and hitting the road. For almost a decade, Gillen has spent a month a year taking his one-man production of Dickens' A Christmas Carol...
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Art, Food, and Music at Cherrywood
Now in its eleventh year, East Austin's Cherrywood Art Fair is a two-day event featuring works by more than 100 artists, along with live music and local foods. Held on the grounds of Maplewood Elementary School, the fair is presented by the non-profit Chula League, which supports arts and arts...
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A Painful and Itchy Thanksgiving
Just in time for the start of the holiday season, the folks at Capital T Theatre are presenting The Pain and the Itch, an ensemble dark comedy about a particularly unpleasant family Thanksgiving.
The play, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Bruce Norris, features a cast of notable...
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Pride and Prejudice
Ann Ciccolella, the artistic director for Austin Shakespeare, had been looking for a suitable stage adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for quite a while when she found a new version by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan. This take on the classic story struck her as just right,...
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A Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tale
The folks at Paper Chairs try to stage one show a year at a location that has never hosted a play before. For the premier of Jason Tremblay's new post-apocalyptic fairy tale Boom For Real, they're heading over to the mysterious Museum of Human Achievement, which is somewhere on the east side (you...
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Getting Lost in the Corn
All this fall, the folks at Barton Hill Farms are hosting the Fall Festival and Corn Maze. There'll be food, games for the kids, tons of live music, and a five-acre corn maze, which brings us to an interesting bit of trivia: many corn mazes in the southern U.S. are actually made of sorghum. The...
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Five Scenes and Seventeen Years
Agnes and Alfred, from Physical Plant Theater, is a new play that was two years in the making. Writer Steve Moore, director Carlos Trevino, and actors Thomas Graves and Hannah Kenah collaborated over that time to bring the story and its characters to life, resulting in a play that's...
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