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Dispatches from the front row

During the past three years, playwrights, songwriters, choreographers, moviemakers, authors, performers and artists have responded — often allegorically, sometimes tangentially — to the war in Iraq. What follows is a selective list of what our critics — and some readers — have viewed as war-related art.

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Austin poet David Hendler.

Deborah Cannon
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The Rude Mechanicals' 'Get Your War On.'

More: The art of war

MUSIC
• 'Bloodless Revolution' by Carolyn Wonderland
• 'The Damage Done' by Butch Hancock
• 'Kakistocracy' by Tommy Spurlock (in the works)
• 'Iraqnophobia' by Alex Coke, performed by Creative Opportunity Orchestra
• 'Judgment Day' by Terri Hendrix
• 'Land of Milk and Honey' by Eliza Gilkyson
• 'My Mathematical Mind' by Spoon
• 'Paradise Hotel' by Eliza Gilkyson
• 'The Revolution Starts . . . Now,' by former Austinite Steve Earle
• 'Rich Man's War' by Stephen Bruton
• 'The Same Man' by Rachel Loy
• '13 Ways to Live' compilation produced by Bukka Allen and Screen Door Music
• 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon on Your SUV' performed by the AsylumStreet Spankers
• 'We Can't Make It Here' by James McMurtry
• 'We're Going Steady Now' by Robi Polgar
• 'Worlds Apart' performed by Trail of Dead

THEATER
• 'Americamisfit' by Dan Dietz, produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater
• 'Antigone' produced by Mary Moody Northen Theatre
• 'The Armageddon Telethon' by Hans Frank and Ken Webster
• 'The Evidence of Silence Broken: Becoming Zell' by Zell Miller III
• 'Fear of a Führer' by Abi Basch, produced by the University of Texas
• 'Genghis Khan' by Jason Neulander and Graham Reynolds, produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater
• 'Get Your War On' by Kirk Lynn from a comic strip by David Rees, produced by the Rude Mechanicals
• 'Hair' produced by Southwestern University
• '9x9x9' by Randy Wyatt, produced by Coda Theatre Project
• 'Mother Courage' produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater
• 'Not Clown' by Steve Moore and Carlos Treviño, produced by Physical Plant Theater
• 'Puppet Government' by Steve Barney
• 'Richard III' produced by Austin Shakespeare Festival
• 'StallGraffiti ATX' by Andrea Skola, etc., produced by A Chick & a Dude Productions
• 'Two Into War' produced by Different Stages
• 'Going After Cacciato' by Romulus Linney from a book by Tim O'Brien, produced by Texas State University-San Marcos

ART
• 'Asraa: Girl of Iraq,' by Alan Pogue
• 'The Battle for Hickory Ridge' by Peat Duggins
• 'Face of War' by Benini
• 'The Gospel of Lead' by Dario Robleto and Jeremy Blake
• 'Greetings from . . .' by Alia Hassan-Khan
• 'Portraits from the Bush Family Album — Sock Hop Shooting Gallery' by Jason Archer
• 'Refugee Camp Beautification Initiative' by Ian Cion
• 'The Weight' by Ryan Christensen

COMEDY
• 'Charlie and the Non-Existent Chemical Weapons Factory' performed by Gag Reflex
• 'Sketches of Mass Distraction' performed by the Latino Comedy Project
• 'The Sunni and Cher Show' performed by Esther's Follies

MOVIES
• 'Joseph Goebbels Project' by Christopher P. Obal (in the works)
• 'LSD a Go Go' written and directed by Scott Calonico
• 'Jarhead' written by former Austinite Bill Broyles

LITERARY
• 'The President's Tattoo' by David Hendler
• 'Repent, (Expletive)!' by Michael P. Whalen
• 'Rest In Pieces' by Thom the World Poet
• 'Speak Out' by Genevieve Van Cleve
• 'Untitled' by Kat Morris
• 'You & Yours' by Naomi Shihab Nye

DANCE
• 'KillSport' by Ellen Bartel, produced by Spank Dance Company
• 'Safe & Sound' by Acia Gray, produced by Tapestry Dance Company
• 'Whispers of Heaven' by Sally Jacques