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A Chuck Mee play is a veritable playground for young artists, but while they put a lot of thought and effort into the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of The Trojan Women: A Love Story, the students behind it only scratched the surface of his work.

Utilizing technology to combine dance and computerized music has come a long way since the Eighties, as can be seen in the 2003 edition of EARS & Feet, the annual UT College of Fine Arts program that pairs student composers with student choreographers to collaborate on a piece.

There's nothing lower-case or lethargic about theatre director, actor, and producer Sharon Sparlin. She's bold, animated, even electric, and channeling all that high-voltage energy into creating equally energetic theatre all the time.

In his latest script, playwright Kirk Lynn sends the Rude Mechanicals off to War, and the result is another Rude Mechs show that is conceptual and cryptic, literary and obscure, but also very funny, with the company managing to make genuinely original observations on conflict and escapism in the energetic realm of absurdist comedy.

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

The passing of Austin dancer Tamara Barrington Yaryan and opera star Irra Petina Bussey.

VanScoy on Wrong Track

Dancing With the Clubkids

As Deadpool and Wolverine make the big leap, every MCU film reviewed

The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg is a must-visit for World War II buffs

Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001's best film and television moments.

Asleep at the Wheel turns your living room into a dance floor

From barbecue to burlesque, something for every Austinite this season

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

Austin thespians played for keeps, with boundless commitment and imagination, in the year's most memorable theatre

Two choreographers tackled weighty topics onstage last week in a remarkable fashion

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

Nu beats on famous bleats

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Harken back to the days of yore … on the dancefloor, as "After a Fashion" trips the disco ball fantastic in this boogie down Memory Lane.

Why U2 is the best band ever