• 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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Views and Brews: Tribcast Live

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Views and Brews: Tribcast Live

With Texas politics there is never a dull moment and the same is true when the cast of the Texas Tribune Tribcast visits KUT's Views and Brews. On this night we discussed both statewide and national election news and also looked at the ongoing debate surrounding healthcare in the state. The Texas...
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Puppets, Ducks, and Dirty Words

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Puppets, Ducks, and Dirty Words

The folks at Glass Half Full Theatre have just premiered their latest work, Fup Duck, an original tabletop puppetry performance based on the novella Fup by Jim Dodge. The book has a bit of a cult following; director Caroline Reck says it's the sort of book that inspires fans to...
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A Funny Play About Depression

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A Funny Play About Depression

Hyde Park Theatre artistic director Ken Webster calls Tigers Be Still "the funniest play I've ever come across about depression." It's a dark comedy with a small cast, which is just the sort of thing that the fine folks at Hyde Park excel at, so it's a natural fit for the theater. The...
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The Hillside is Alive with the Sound of Music

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The Hillside is Alive with the Sound o...

A little over half a century ago, Austin began staging the Zilker Summer Musical; the same year, The Sound of Music made its Broadway debut. Over the years, The Sound of Music has become the most requested musical for the Zilker folks, and this summer they're finally bringing the...
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Up Next with Views and Brews

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Up Next with Views and Brews

Nov. 13, 2012 Defining Intelligence: The Golden Record Revisited Voyager is on the cusp of exiting our solar system and entering the great unknown; along with it the Golden Record! Poet Tomas Morin and Elena Passarello are in the process of editing an anthology on the Voyager mission and...
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Karaoke Bar

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Karaoke Bar

Hidden in an office building parking garage with little to no cell phone reception there's a dark, divey bar like few others in this town. The place is called Ego's, and seven nights a week anyone can take the stage and live out their own little live music dreams through that time-honored tradition...
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Texas Ragas at Barton Springs

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Texas Ragas at Barton Springs

Chris Corsbie is a wonderful example of how Austin raises the bar for street musicians everywhere. Chris sets up shop under the big oak tree at Barton Springs and plays Texas style Indian Ragas with his heirloom lap steel guitar. As the music lures you in, you notice Indian throws, lawn chairs and...
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Views and Brews: The Life and Legacy of Edith Piaf

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Views and Brews: The Life and Legacy o...

The Cactus Cafe was overflowing with people and excitement as KUT's Views and Brews explored the life and work of Edith Piaf in July. Poet and historian Bette Oliver discussed Piaf's life; from her impoverished childhood raised in...
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StoryTime at the Cactus Cafe: August

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StoryTime at the Cactus Cafe: August

Local speaker, writer and author Spike Gillespie and journalist and political consultant Bob Mann opened up the August 1 StoryTime at the Cactus Cafe. Check out the videos below! ...
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Pedicab Confessions

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Pedicab Confessions

Walking around 6th street at 2am in 5 inch heels on a Saturday night might seem like a daunting task to say the least. That is unless you spot one of the intrepid and almost always friendly pedicab drivers steadily peddling toward you. KUT intern Geoffery King has been intrigued by these fearless...
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Views and Brews: Blues Men of The East Side

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Views and Brews: Blues Men of The East...

After WWII Austin played host to some of the greatest names in the history of The Blues. Legends such as B.B. King, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Freddie King made Austin a regular stop on their tours. However, they did not perform alone. Accompanying them were Austin's own greats like Donald “Duck”...
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The Spirit of the Olympics

Arts Eclectic

The Spirit of the Olympics

The Flame, the latest production by Aerial Arts collective Sky Candy, is a theatrical interpretation of the story of the Olympic flame, featuring the acrobatics, aerial stunts, and trapeze work that Sky Candy is known for. The show was conceived, choreographed, and directed by Andy Agne, a lifelong...
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Peter Bay’s Dancing Debut

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Peter Bay’s Dancing Debut

Allison Orr’s Forklift Danceworks is known for crafting performances around unlikely dancers. They've created original dance works centered around firefighters, gondoliers, and, in The Trash Project, sanitation workers and their trucks. Their latest endeavor, Solo Symphony, was...
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A Man With a Band and A Man With a Movie Camera

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A Man With a Band and A Man With a Mov...

When the folks at the Alamo Drafthouse gave musician Justin Sherburn free reign to compose an original score for the silent film of his choosing, he did a lot of research before settling on the 1929 Russian film Man With a Movie Camera. This experimental film from director Dziga Vertov may...
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