Theatrical Magic: When One Actor Plays Many Roles
But the one actor carrying multiple important roles is not often the standard, at least anymore.
Austin
Making Things Happen: Director Ben Wolfe at Austin Playhouse
As a director, Ben Wolfe is game for anything.
Dreaming in Data: Run the Code at the Blanton
In Run the Code: Data-Driven Art Decoded by Thoma Foundation X Blanton Museum of Art, code does not sit invisibly in the background. It becomes the medium itself: elastic, unstable, and strangely luminous.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Happening Here: Austin Inspires Artists for Fusebox Festival’s Return
Though one of Texas’ biggest multidisciplinary arts events, Austin’s Fusebox Festival, moved from an annual to biennial schedule in 2024, that doesn’t mean the Fusebox organization took a year off to relax.
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving
Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.
TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism
“I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Performania: A Spotlight on Texas Stages
Tensions of Time and Remembrance: Zalika Azim at UT Visual Arts Center
In Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground), the ground is never just ground; it is a witness and a griot, a surface that keeps score of what passes over it and what takes root.
Boheme+Broadway: Austin Opera marks 40th anniversary
Is it strange for an opera company to stage Fiddler on the Roof? Showcasing the Broadway landmark makes total sense to Annie Burridge, Austin Opera’s CEO.
Innovation, Ingenuity and Intimacy: Texas Theater Designers Create Big Worlds in Small Spaces
“We can’t build sets in here. We have to build a real thing,” says Azizi of what he approximates is a 20 feet by 70 feet space, with half of that reserved for the audience.