Milwaukee Puts Its Flavor On Your Feet — Literally
I’ll confess something. I used to be a slave to fashion — or a slave to labels, as they called it back when wearing someone else’s name on your body…
Gilead Is Coming to Your Street: Hulu’s The Testaments Takes Austin and the Country
A purple bus, cryptic pies, and an army of purple-clad “Plums” signal the arrival of one of 2026’s most anticipated series. If you were walking along South Congress Avenue or…
SXSW and the Reinvention of the “Short”: Self Custody and the Language of Ambition
At SXSW, where new forms are constantly being tested, the question is not only what you are watching, but what you are being asked to call it. Garrett Patton’s Self…
SXSW, Tom Sachs, and the Myth of “Sympathetic Magic”
At SXSW, where ideas are supposed to feel ahead of the curve, Tom Sachs delivered something closer to a time capsule. Not entirely irrelevant. Not entirely compelling either. Sachs, the…
Don’t Let Your Biological Clock Feel like a Ticking Time Bomb
CCRM, located in Southwest Austin, is a cutting-edge fertility center. They hosted an informative panel during SXSW to talk about options for women and couples who cannot conceive a child.…
One Woman, Many Lives: Penfold Theatre’s “Wild Horses” Kicks Up the Dust of a Violent Coming-of-Age
Jennifer Coy Jennings carries an entire world on her shoulders — and makes it look effortless. There’s a moment in “Wild Horses,” when playwright Allison Gregory’s language hits “freedom takers…
Soul and Broadway Converge
If you were in the audience at ZACH Theatre for the one-night-only concert “A Little Bit of Broadway, A Whole Lotta Soul,” you already knew what you were getting —…
Yellow Face: The Mirror America Refuses to Hold Up
There’s a particular courage required to write a play in which you are the fool. David Henry Hwang possesses that courage in abundance, and Yellow Face — now receiving a…
When Stillness Becomes Stagnation: The Trip to Bountiful
There is a difference between quiet and stagnation. Horton Foote wrote his 1953 play The Trip to Bountiful during an era that tolerated stillness, repetition, and domestic realism as dramatic…
Beehive – A Musical Medley from the ’60s through the ’70s
Beehive, created by Larry Gallagher and directed by Megan Richards, with choreography by Erin Ryan, is a buoyant, high-octane throwback to my era. I grew up in the ’60s with…