Ding! goes a set of tiny elevators carved into a wall. The doors open. A curious little girl asks, “Do they really work?” “They don’t go anywhere. They just look realistic,” replies her father.
An adventurous boy and his anthropomorphic, magical dog and a cartoon bird and raccoon employed as groundskeepers — probably the last thing you would expect as the subject matter for an art gallery.
Small old buildings, acoustic guitars and freshly printed journals filled with the work of Austin’s young poets, dramatists and storytellers — this is the landscape of Austin’s literary renaissance.
In its last six years, many of the plays in the University of Texas New Theater Project have gone on to receive national acclaim and go onto productions around the country.
Much like the play it portrays, the Liberal Arts Honors Program’s production of Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” appears to be a shipwreck at first glance.
Milwaukee-based artist Joseph Reeves is out to prove that anyone actually can be an artist with his current exhibit, “The Cell Phone Photo Gallery,” at Co-Lab Projects in East Austin.
