Once upon a time — long before it became fashionable for every artist interested in performance to dub his or her work ‘transmedia’ — the Rude Mechs were making this thing called theater .
The Rudes used all kinds of things to make theater — video, lights, overhead projections, sounds, live music, recorded music, puppets, lots of fantastical props and costumes, audience involvement and yes, multi-talented performers who could act and sing and even do the kind of...
Frode Gjerstad Trio at the Carousel [Show Preview + CD Review]
Texas has become a sort of home away from home for a coterie of Scandinavian free-jazz musicians. Norwegian contrabassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, who had visited Austin and other parts of...
Alamo Drafthouse presents the Texas Monthly Rolling Roadshow...
It was probably tough to do (yeah, Texas-dwellers are a proud bunch), but a group of experts has narrowed down the ten best films made in the Lone Star State. The list they came up with has...
Yeehaw! Rodeo does Austin!
There are so many options for the next few weeks of your lives, you might be temped to skip the whole thing due to overwhelming indecisiveness. Don’t do that! With all these options,...
Coming Soon: Garrison Keillor
A gifted storyteller and humorist is making his way to Austin soon, and once again it's another who impacted me as a youth. This time, it's Garrison Keillor: author, radio persona, and...
It’s a “Monday Monday” Kind of Monday. [Extra Extra]
If you want to, er, keep abreast about the reception to Anna Nicole, the opera that just opened in London about the life of the Lone Star state's own Anna Nicole Smith, then this collection...
Post new comment