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Arts EclecticNow Now Oh NowThe Rude Mechanicals are known for their unusual, highly collaborative performances, and their latest, Now Now Oh Now, is certainly in keeping with that ethos. It’s an interactive promenade piece, which means that the small audience (limited to only 30 per performance) should wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to roam around a bit. Also, they might want to bring an umbrella if coming on a rainy day.
The show involves puzzles, the science of evolution, Dungeons and Dragons, LARPing (Live Action Role Playing), and more issues and topics that might or might not be related.
As is the case with most Rude Mechs works, Now Now Oh Now is a collaborative piece, created by the entire cast and crew (with staging by Shawn Sides and writing by Hannah Kenah). It's evolved... |
Arts Eclectic
LAFF: Ladies Are Funny Festival
Austin's a city of festivals, which shouldn't be a big surprise -- it's the natural result of having so many people who are really passionate about so many things. Austin's current festival takes place this week: LAFF, or Ladies Are Funny Festival. It's a celebration of women, comedy, and women in...
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Journey: Tradition to Innovation
Anuradha Naimpally is a performer of the classical Bharata Natyam, and has been dancing worldwide for some three decades; for the past twenty years, she's made Austin her home. Her latest performance piece,...
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The Dragon Play
This month, Shrewd Productions is presenting the first-ever production of Jenny Connell's The Dragon Play. The new work features two storylines, one concerning a married couple in Minnesota and one centered on a young boy and a dragon in central Texas. The lines between these two moments...
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Around Town, Arts Eclectic
Art on the Green
All this spring, AMOA-Arthouse is hosting an artist-designed miniature golf course at its Laguna Gloria and Jones Center locations. There are nine holes at Laguna Gloria, each designed by a local artist or design team, and a tenth bonus hole in the lobby of Arthouse at the Jones Center...
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Dark to Light
As part of Ballet Austin's ongoing Light/The Holocaust and Humanity Project, Chaddick Dance Theater will this week present “Dark to Light,” a contemporary ballet in four parts. Choreographer Cheryl Chaddick says “Dark to Light” grew out of her own lifelong spiritual journey.
The...
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Proof
David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof opens this weekend at Black Box Theatre. This unique venue, a 90-seat theater space located on the fourth floor of 901 Trinity Street in downtown Austin, is home to Trinity Street Players, who have been producing works there for the past few...
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Around Town, Arts Eclectic
Fusebox Festival
Started nearly a decade ago as an underground festival funded mostly by organizer Ron Berry's credit card, Austin's Fusebox Festival has grown into an arts fest behemoth. In this, its eighth year, Fusebox will span twelve days and fifteen venues, and will feature artists from around the world. The...
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The New Movement
The New Movement isn't just a comedy theater; in addition to nightly shows, they also offer improv classes, tour regularly, and work on film and television projects. For the past three years, though, they've been doing that work while based out of a former laundromat on Austin's East Side. That...
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Wit
Margaet Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit is currently running at City Theatre. It’s the story of poetry professor Vivan Bearing and her battle with cancer, a disease that's touched the lives of many of the cast and crew. Judith Laird, who, like the character she plays, is a...
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Spiral Plexus
Spiral Plexus is the third installation undertaken by Art on the Way, Austin's new urban museum. Though still in its early stages, Art on the Way plans to one day host outdoor art installations across the city; they'll...
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Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross returns to the Austin stage this weekend, courtesy of the fine folks at A Chick and A Dude Productions. Set in the high pressure,...
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The Adventure Room
The Hideout is known as one of Austin's top improv comedy venues, and the folks there present a wide range of shows. Most of those shows, however, are aimed at adults only. So when, a few years ago, a handful of improv performers who are also parents started talking about putting on a show that...
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