• The Cruel Circus

    The Cruel Circus

    The Cruel Circus is the newest play from Trouble Puppet Theater Company. It’s a darkly whimsical work set in the world of a collection of strange circus performers, who are embodied onstage entirely by original puppets. Trouble Puppet never has ...

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  • Peter Pan

    Peter Pan

    After selling out the cafetorium for last year’s musical (The Wizard of Oz), the kids of Rawson Saunders School for children with dyslexia are moving to a larger venue this year – the Stateside at the Paramount. They’ll be staging ...

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  • Austin Sketch Fest 2013

    Austin Sketch Fest 2013

    The Austin Sketch Fest (which producers describe, in a brazen lie, as "Austin's only Festival") is now in its fourth year. Every time out, the fest gets a little bigger; this year it takes place on Memorial Day weekend, which, ...

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Austin Sketch Fest 2013

Arts Eclectic

Austin Sketch Fest 2013

The Austin Sketch Fest (which producers describe, in a brazen lie, as "Austin's only Festival") is now in its fourth year. Every time out, the fest gets a little bigger; this year it takes place on Memorial Day weekend, which, for the purposes of the festival, begins on Wednesday. Dozens of sketch...
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Passing Strange

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Passing Strange

Half and Half Productions is a brand new theater company, but its artistic directors have been working in Austin for years. Before starting Half and Half, Julianna E. Wright and M. Scott Tatum studied together in college, taught together at the McCallum Fine Arts Academy, and worked together on a...
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Liner Notes

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Liner Notes

Liner Notes is a series of short feature segments that highlight the significance of great lives, works and moments in jazz history. The series is hosted by rabbi, historian and jazz musician Neil Blumofe and produced for KUT and KUTX by Rebecca McInroy. You can hear Liner Notes every Sunday...
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Everyone Says That at the End of the World…

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Everyone Says That at the End of the W...

Author Owen Egerton's latest book, Everyone Says That at the End of the World... is (spoiler alert) about the end of the world. That's a topic that seems to be on everybody's mind these days, which, according to Owen, is much as it's always been. The idea that mankind has always been...
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Masked/Unmasked

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Masked/Unmasked

There are two exhibitions currently on display at Austin's Mexic-Arte Museum, exploring different but connected aspects of Latin American, and specifically Mexican culture. In the main gallery, Masked takes a look at the history of Mexican dance masks, which for years have been tied to...
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Texas Burlesque Festival 2013

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Texas Burlesque Festival 2013

Since 2007, the Texas Burlesque Festival has been bringing together dancers and performers from Texas, the U.S., and abroad to celebrate and perform the art of the tease. The three day event will feature many of the best performers of the current neo-burlesque scene as well some of the legends of...
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The Brothers Merlin

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The Brothers Merlin

The new show from Loaded Gun Theory, The Brothers Merlin, was collaboratively written by nine members of the theater troupe. It's a comedic play set in the world of a carnival, an environment which extends off the stage to include a working midway outside the Off Center. Before the show,...
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HIT. Ten Years Later

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HIT. Ten Years Later

A decade ago, A Chick and a Dude Productions burst onto the Austin theater scene with their play HIT, directed by the chick (Melissa Livingston-Weaver) and written by the dude (Shannon Weaver) of the company's name. Now, to celebrate their ten year anniversary, they're restaging the show, with a...
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Views and Brews: Arnold Newman and The Changing Face of Celebrity

Views and Brews

Views and Brews: Arnold Newman and The...

The work of photographer Arnold Newman contains within it the essence and vulnerability of the individual. And connects the viewer not only to the subject, but to the subjects life, by presenting the humanity (or in one case inhumanity) of the people he photographed. Known as the Father of...
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Choral Song Meets Slam Poetry

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Choral Song Meets Slam Poetry

Arts Eclectic: Conspirare’s Fusion At first glance, the choral singing of Conspirare might seem far removed from the world of slam poetry, but that didn’t keep Cons…...
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Fusebox 2013

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Fusebox 2013

Austin's Fusebox Festival is now in its ninth year, and the thing just keeps getting bigger. This time around, it'll span 12 days, take place in twenty-something locations around town, and feature dozens of artists from Austin, the U.S., and abroad. This is a hybrid art festival, so you can...
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Time

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Time

This weekend, Tapestry Dance Company will premiere their new work Time: A Journey Toward Present Grace. It's a collaborative effort; all six of the dancers in the show came up with their own ideas of what time means to them, and the show took shape around those themes. Under the leadership...
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