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 and you’ll feel the room calibrating, the crowd watching with the careful attention of people who have decided, collectively, to Read more
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 who immigrated to this city from Colombia, Mexico, Palestine, Niger, and Guinea, and treats their traditions as the main event rather Read more
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 in the one-woman show Erma Bombeck: at wit’s end. Directed by Austin Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Lara Toner Haddock, she was Read more
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 something both official and optimistic — faces the small church where Chagall built his mosaic. I’m at a cafe table Read more
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 autobiographical play. The five friends included actors Talya Hammerman, Arielle Laguette (lead in Beehive: The 60s Musical), Kerry McGinnis, Molly McKee, Read more
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 book. I saw the film in 2021 during Covid, which made the topic even more poignant, especially as teenagers and Read more
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 anachronistic slang. John Wesley Powell, the one-armed Civil War veteran leading the first U.S. government-sanctioned expedition down the Colorado River in Read more
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 and written by the astutely social interpreter and playwright Jen Silverman. Witch pierced me in ways that touched the core essence of Read more
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 sell software or chatbots directly; instead, it acts as a trusted connector, helping companies navigate the crowded, often confusing world Read more
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 West 4th Street in Austin on March 16th and found yourself suddenly surrounded by a line of silent, purple-clad young Read more
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