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After three years as artistic director of Austin Script Works, playwright Colin Denby Swanson is leaving her leadership post at the organization to focus full-time on her writing

The Austin playwright's comedy about polite Minnesota hit men finally opens at home after hit runs in NYC and Ohio

Austin Script Works director Dan Dietz passes the pen to Colin Denby Swanson

Danceworks director Cindy Goldberger leaves Austin as playwright Colin Swanson returns for a visit, and who are Ballet Austin's lucky mothers?

Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart

Blanton Blooper?

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

Austin hosts not one, but two national conferences on the arts the same weekend in June

How a performative open mic From Iowa became a theatrical springboard in Austin

Nine current and former Austin playwrights storm the finals for the 2003 Hedieman Award, while playwright Lisa D'Amour storms New York.

Austin Playwrights Dan Dietz and Tom White get produced in L.A., playwright Colin Swanson gets two shows mounted in NYC, and set designer Christopher McCollum and painter Michael Ray Charles show up on PBS.

Austin playwrights are drawing attention around the nation, and one theatre company is getting hit by the Macbeth curse smack in the face.

The Power of Play Readings

The year 2001 saw a host of local cultural types taking journeys beyond their homes, traveling to other communities to share their art and finding new venues locally in which to produce their work and expand their creative sensibilities.

The Unfolding Now

The Chronicle's guide to Austin's biggest performance event.

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

The photography gallery Lake Austin Fine Arts closes its doors, and local playwrights Dan Dietz and C. Denby Swanson see new productions of their work.

It's the Changing of the Bard, from Dietz to Swanson, and Tina Marsh plays it cool for CO2. Artists talk techniques, and teens tell you where to find Good Love.

Big career moves for a couple of Austin playwrights and big parties thrown by a couple of Austin arts organizations.

Playwrights Dan Dietz and Colin Denby Swanson are among the 18 semi-finalists for the 2004-5 P73 Playwriting Fellowship , and Dietz’s Tilt Angel has been selected for full production at New Jersey Repertory Theater next season

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Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

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