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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ — Fall 2009 arts picks: 2
When it debuted in 2003, the New York Times called Charles L. Mee’s homage to Texas-born artist Robert Rauschenberg ‘brashly, unapologetically entertaining.’
A collage theatrical tribute to perhaps the most inventive of all visual collagists, ‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ will get a staging this fall at St. Edward’s University’s Mary Moody Northen Theatre.
Rauschenberg, who died last year at age 82, embraced pop culture and rejected the angst and self-involvement of the Abstract Expressionists who came to the fore in post-war America. The stuff of everyday life became the medium in which Rauschenberg worked as he forged a breathtaking body of work rooted in the creativity chance and found images and not the authoritarian individual artist.
‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ plays 7:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturdays, Sundays at 2 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 17-27. Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward’s University, 3001 S, Congress Ave. Advance tickets $15 ($12 students, seniors, St. Edward’s community). All tickets $18 at the door.
Image: Robert Rauschenberg, ‘Retroactive I,’ 1963
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Latino Comedy Project extends ‘El Channel’
Due to popular demand, the new show by the Latino Comedy Project will be held over for a third weekend.
‘El Channel’ is the Emmy-nominated troupe’s latest wonderfully irreverent riff on all things immigration, politics and pop culture. And to boot, ‘El Channel’ is the live version of a pilot LCP is preparing for Spike TV. So catch LCP live now before this lively Austin troupe and when they hit the cable TV big time, you can say you saw it first.
Read more about it here.
See www.lcp.org for ticket information.
