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Austin Sketch Fest 2013

May 15, 2013 10:33 am by: Mike Lee

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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 troupes from Austin and around the country will be on hand for the five-day fest, including Superego with special guest Paul F. Tompkins, Ennis and Kaye featuring Mr. Show alum John Ennis, and Beige from the Upright Citizens' Brigade. Plus local favorites like Stag!, Your Terrific Neighbors, Master Pancake, and many more. ...
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Earth

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Earth

For the past few years, the folks at the Vortex have been producing performance pieces in the Elemental series, all of which have incorporated the elements themselvs; Air featured performers suspended in mid-air, Fire included actual fire, and Water had a...
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Diffuse Reflection Lab

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Diffuse Reflection Lab

For the next two months, Diffuse Reflection Lab will be on display at UT’s Visual Arts Center. Designed by Lead Pencil Studios, a Seattle-based art and architecture collective comprised of Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, it's a two-story, inhabitable exhibition, comprised of myriad...
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SoundSpace: Post-Classical

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SoundSpace: Post-Classical

In addition to holding a doctorate in trombone, Steve Parker is the Artist-in-Residence at UT's Blanton Museum of Art. In that capacity, he started an occasional concert series called SoundSpace, in which local musicians and bands perform (often at the same time) in different areas of the...
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Uneven Surfaces and the Wooden Lens

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Uneven Surfaces and the Wooden Lens

Painter Andy St. Martin and sculptor Chris Levack have been friends and studiomates for the past decade and a half, but they've never exhibited works together until now. This was partially a matter of practicality; while Andy's work has often been shown in galleries, Chris's sculptures tend to be...
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Look to the Left

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Look to the Left

Artist Wendy Wagner works in many different media; she's been painting and drawing since childhood, and in her adult years, she's expanded into many other artforms. The characters from her paintings inspired her to create sculptures, which then led her to create soft sculpture, plush versions of...
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A Celebration of Nobelity

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A Celebration of Nobelity

To say that Turk Pipkin’s non-profit Nobelity Project has done a lot in the past decade or so is an understatement. Since the inception of the project, they’ve built classrooms, schools, water systems, and more in Kenya and elsewhere; they've recently been planting trees in Bastrop State Park,...
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Hip-Hop Theater at the Vortex

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Hip-Hop Theater at the Vortex

The folks of Xenogia Spoken Word Collectice - Da'Shade Moonbeam, LaLove Robinson, Enrique Cabrera, Zell Miller III, and Ebony Stewart - are set to premiere their debut full-length hip-hop theater piece, SPEAK, this weekend at the Vortex. Mixing hip-hop culture with a jazz aesthetic,...
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The Winter of our Dyscontent

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The Winter of our Dyscontent

Every now and then, the folks at Dystheatre will decide to have a Dysfunction, in which they invite all their friends and colleagues in the performing arts scene to come out and play. Their newest Dysfunction (presented with Lucky Chaos) is The Winter of Our Dyscontent, a veritable...
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Austin Seen, in progress…

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Austin Seen, in progress…

Photographer Jo Ann Santagelo originally moved to Austin in 2006; after leaving for a couple of years and returning in 2010, she began to document the ongoing changes she was noticing in the city. Considering how fast things can change in Austin, that documentation became an ongoing, daily...
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A Steady Rain

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A Steady Rain

2013 marks the tenth anniversary of A Chick and a Dude Productions. To kick off the new season, the chick (Melissa Livingston-Weaver) and the dude (Shannon Weaver) have chosen to stage the Austin premiere of the Broadway hit A Steady Rain. This two-actor play by Keith Huff centers around...
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Richard II

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Richard II

Poor Shadows of Elysium is a new Austin theater company specializing in faithful stagings of the plays of the English Renaissance. Their debut show is Richard II, one of Shakespeare's histories that the company feels is underperformed. While the production is true to the text of the play and...
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At the Drive-In

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At the Drive-In

In between writing books and screenplays, Josh Frank has found time to reinvent the drive-in movie theater. After creating a makeshift drive-in as a romantic surprise for the woman who is now his wife, Frank began to wonder why the drive-in had fallen from favor and why nobody seemed to be working...
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Texas Photo Roundup

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Texas Photo Roundup

Now in its second year, Texas Photo Roundup isn't technically a festival yet, but it does seem to be heading in that direction. What began in 2012 as a one-day event is now a three-day celebration of the art and business of photography. Photographers will be traveling to Austin from around the...
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Game Show of the Arts

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Game Show of the Arts

Starting January 31, The Greatness: Game Show of the Arts will take to the stage of the ND on the last Thursday of every month, bringing a healthy dose of competition to the worlds of the variety show and the arts showcase. Every month, artists will compete within genres (poets take on...
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