As part of an ongoing series of art receptions at Bishop Art’s design store, {neighborhood}, co-owners (and husband and wife) J.P. and Erin Hossley welcome Austin’s Tim Kerr Saturday night. Kerr is a legend in the punk rock world with his time in punk/funk act, the Big Boys, but he’s…
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William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays without any character ever turning to another to say “Are you OK?” The two main characters in Amy Herzog’s 90-minute, four-person drama Belleville say it a lot. The lazy little linguistic glitch is the mark of a playwright less concerned about the literary merits of…
Over the weekend, the Nasher Sculpture Center unveiled Phyllida Barlow: tryst, a major exhibition of all new works by the influential British artist who has been working with sculpture since the 1960s. Using commonplace materials, Barlow has hand-built an imaginative world of organic structures that challenges common ideas about sculpture…
June is one of the biggest months for cinema. It’s right in the middle of what is known as blockbuster season. Or, if you want to be edgy, call it “popcorn cinema.” It’s the summer –the time when all the movies with giant budgets hi theaters: some with a brain,…
Even if you’re really, really interested in the theater, purchasing tickets to see a few shows a month can knock a huge hole in your entertainment budget, which should generally otherwise be reserved for purchasing copious amounts of alcohol. Still, you should make it a priority to see at least…
The sun is finally shining again, or at least we think it is. After two weeks of torrential rain, we all could probably use a little time outside of our respective apartments. Even if you’ve somehow managed to wade your way to the neighborhood bar, all that Netflix you’ve been…
Everything looks so much easier on TV. Baldness is cured with the simple spray of a can. A methamphetamine empire can be built in an RV with school supplies. A sponge can live in a pineapple under the sea without being contaminated by off-shore drilling. American Ninja Warrior, the NBC…
Little Edie and Big Edie were related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Edith “Big Edie” Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale were the aunt and first cousin of the former first lady. Grey Gardens, the Long Island home of the Beales, was almost shutdown by the health department…
The minutes before a play begins are usually spent flipping through the program, examining coupons for restaurants you’ll never visit and marveling that one of the evening’s performers was on Law and Order: SVU. Not so at the opening performance of Stop Hitting Yourself at the Wyly Theatre. One of…
We all know that dinosaurs are extinct. We know there hasn’t been a giant lizard or bird roaming the Earth that ranks higher than us on the food chain for at least the last 65 million years. Movies like the upcoming Jurassic World, starring Chris Pratt, have creatures that cost…
At 64, Warren Harris has led an exceptionally various life. Starting out in the psychedelic music scene in San Francisco back in the 1960s, he was a roadie for The Grateful Dead. He worked in the music industry for decades after that, doing engineering work at Motown and sound for…
Tattooing has come a long way since the early days of a needle, thread and a vial of Indian ink. Back then, the only Americans showcasing body art were outlaw bikers, inmates and sailors. They were the days when getting a tattoo was a right of passage, and you were…
Thursday, May 27 Stop Hitting Yourself Charity has always been something that the fortunate pride themselves on giving. However, rarely is charity given at the cost of competition. Fortunately enough for you, Rude Mechanical’s production of Stop Hitting Yourself provides that sort of satirical insight. Think of it as some…
Phyllida Barlow: Tryst If the Nasher Sculpture Center has taught Dallas one thing (and surely the number is vastly larger), it’s that sculpture transforms its environment, and vice versa. Fill a white walled room with golden balloons and entering it becomes an adventure; fill the same room with technicolor dirt…
Kitchen Dog Theater’s final play in its longtime home at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary is The Firestorm. What a title for a damp squib of drama by Meridith Friedman, getting an undeserved “rolling premiere” starting at KDT and moving on to other theaters elsewhere. Directed by Tina Parker, The Firestorm…
The smartest man in Radio Golf isn’t the man with money. That’s just one of the home truths in August Wilson’s final play in his epic 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle. African American Repertory Theatre’s strong production of Radio Golf benefits from sharp, well-directed performances by five hometown actors who click with…
The San Andreas fault stretches 810 miles up the Pacific coast, roughly the length of a dozen Dwayne “The Rock” Johnsons lying end to end. When it rumbles, we’ll need all 12 of him to spring into action — although, as Brad Peyton’s San Andreas warns, that still won’t be…
A movie about bringing down druglords that’s actually mostly about movies, Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection is stretched over driven-cop beats so familiar American audiences could probably follow it without subtitles. (It’s in French — add that to the title, and you get a sense of its police-film ambitions.) It’s a…
Good or bad, Cameron Crowe movies build to improbable declarations of sincerity, to the great acts or speeches a man must loose from himself into a world too cynical to value them. His heroes always must filibuster regular life with their decency. Superficially, these acts and speeches are performed in…
This Is the First Time the Rude Mechs Have Been to Dallas Just a quick hop down 35, the state’s most interesting theater troupe call Austin home. There, for the past two decades, they’ve been devising new work that has earned raves from critics for its inventive staging, satirical wit,…
We know, we know — it has rained. A lot. It is probably raining right now as you read this, which only makes you more likely to give into your hermit instincts and refuse to leave the house until the Trinity River looks normal again. Looking at the forecast for…
