When your roster of artists includes dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and Oregon Ballet Theatre, musicians from the Tosca String Quartet, and two Artistic Directors that are already rising stars in their respective disciplines, your work has to meet some seriously high expectations. After seeing Dialogues, American Repertory Ensemble’s first performance event – a highly professional, intelligent, inventive and entertaining evening of music and dance – we think ARE lives... more ›

We are the Walrus. We are the Eggman. We are a shameless, self-promoting, self-interested no-goodnik with nothing but themselves at heart. We also have difficulty conjugating verbs while writing in the royal “we”. Why all the self-loathing? Because we've picked ourselves as the Austinist pick of the week! Even though Austin Lyric Opera is celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday by performing what is arguably the best opera ever written.... Even though Austin Shakespeare Festival, upon... more ›

UT's student resident dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre is premiering new work by David Justin, Yacov Sharir, and MFA candidate Ray Eliot Schwartz this weekend in an evening entitled PROOF. Sharir is one of the co-founders of popular Austin dance company Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, and Justin, now the Artistic Director of DRT, has danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Boston Ballet. Out of the "four short stories with lasting impact and truth"... more ›