Canadian Stand-Up Comic Takes Austin by Storm
Austin comedy audiences hold their laughter like a confidence — measured, contained, released only when something has fully earned it. Walk into Cap City Comedy Club on a Friday night…
Voices of Austin: A New Album Asks What the Live Music Capital Actually Sounds Like
A compilation released on May 29 makes an argument I have watched build for fifteen years. Voices of Austin, an eight-track album from South Austin studio Driftwork Sound, features musicians…
Vincent: A Portrait of an Artist and his Brother in Turmoil
Vincent. Written by Leonard Nimoy, yes, that Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) of Star Trek fame! Before delving into the play and one of the most memorable performances I’ve seen in…
Erma Bombeck: at wit’s end
How a Suburban Mom Transformed Boredom and Dread Written by Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, featuring Sarah Fleming Walker, the Austin Playhouse Associate Artistic Director, and central character who performed…
When the Place Remembers
THE HUMAN ATLAS DISPATCHES I am sitting in Place Clémenceau in Vence, France. To my right, the Mairie of Vence (Mayoral office) — that canary yellow building, the colour of…
Take Care of My Friend
Director Elizabeth Newman of the Filigree Theatre strayed a bit from her previous repertoire with the world premiere of Take Care of My Friend. Starring Kathleen Fletcher, who wrote the…
Dear Evan Hansen Waves Pain Through a Window
Most theatregoers know the story of Dear Evan Hansen, as it was a tremendous success on Broadway for six years in a row and was also a film and a…
Others Were Here Beforehand: City Theatre Austin’s Men on Boats
There is a single line in Jaclyn Backhaus’s Men on Boats, now running at City Theatre Austin through April 12, that cuts through everything: the rapids, rhetoric, gender politics, and…
Witch — Bewitchingly Witty
I was fortunate to grab one of the remaining tickets for the closing night performance of Witch, at Hyde Park Theatre, a bewitchingly witty play directed superbly by Ken Webster…
Davis Harris: Bootstrapping Austin’s Liaison AI into a Hub for Enterprise AI
Davis Harris, founder and owner of Liaison AI, has spent the last several years quietly building one of Austin’s most practical bridges into the enterprise AI ecosystem. Liaison AI doesn’t…