Entries from Austinist tagged with 'agathachristie'
July 6, 2006
There's such as thing as damning with faint praise. To avoid being charged with doing just that, we want to make this clear: Different Stages' production of Agatha Christie's The Hollow, running until July 15 at the Vortex, is a thoroughly enjoyable night of theatre. The eclectic, brainy group of folks at DS (who in the past have brought Austin such varied works as Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Christopher Durang's Betty's......
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June 30, 2006
As we scourged all the theatre listings this week, endlessly digging for all the dirt on all the shows in all the venues from all the companies in all of Central Texas, we realized…there is no spoon. There’s also practically nothing opening this weekend. But never fear, dear theatre goer, there’s plenty, plenty of shows that are still running from previous weeks that – if you haven’t already seen them – will forever haunt......
Continue Reading "If a Tree Falls In the Forest and Hits a Mime: This Week in Theatre!"February 10, 2006
FRIDAY [10] conference/music » The 18th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference comes to town! At the Austin Hilton Hotel (schedule) (Through Feb. 14th) music » Massive instore, featuring (2pm) Freddie Steady 5, (2:45pm) Lost Bayou Ramblers, (3:30) Whit Smith's Hot Jazz Caravan, (4:15) Juan-Carlos Formell, (5:00) Jordan Chassan, and (5:45) Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez at Waterloo Records (link) music » Ghostland Observatory, The Arm, The Blackheart Society plus DJ Erin at Emo's (link) music......
Continue Reading "The Weekend IST List: February 10-12"July 5, 2005
The rest of the week is for nursing your hangovers. Happy 229th, America! TUESDAY [music] Rock & Roll Duo Lottery @ Beerland [film] Austin Film Society presents Luis Bunuel's La Voie Lactee (The Milky Way) @ Alamo Drafthouse Downtown - 7pm [cult icon] The Man with the Screaming Brain with Bruce Campbell live in person! @ Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar - 7pm, 9:45pm [book signing in addition] WEDNESDAY [music] Eisley with Lovedrug, Pilotdrift @ The......
Continue Reading "The IST List: Week of July 5"June 27, 2005
MONDAY [music] Say Hi to Your Mom, Summer at Shatter Creek, 1986 at Stubb's BBQ. [music] Digable Planets with The Procussions, DJ Vajra at La Zona Rosa [party] Digable Planets After-Party with Element 7D, DJ Kunal M, DJ Inverse at Red Fez. [poetry] Speaking the Spoken: The Art of Verse at The Vortex. Hosted by Xenogia and Zell Miller III. Readers $1, all others $3. 7pm-945pm. TUESDAY [film] Austin Film Society presents John Schlesinger’s "Billy......
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