Features and Articles
Local

Social Issues, Puppets, Yellow Swings and Big Changes: The 2023 Wrap Up, Tara Gaines, Arts + Culture Magazine, Dec 2023

How the ultra-creative theater artists of Austin’s Rude Mechs have spent their pandemic, Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, June 2021

Rude Mechs Bring A Karaoke Christmas Carol Into Your Home, Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle, October 2020

Barbara Purcell’s Top 10 Only-in-Austin Arts Highlights of 2019, Barbara Purcell, Austin Chronicle, December 2019

Robert Faires’ Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019, Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle, December 2019

A visit to the Rude Mechs’ terrifyingly beautiful ‘The Method Gun’ is always welcome, Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, October 2019

Rude Mechs’ Lipstick Traces Becomes a Graphic Novel, Lana Lesley, Sightlines Magazine, June 2019

Rude Mechs on the Move – Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle, June 2017

Robert Faires’ Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2017 – The Austin Chronicle, Jan 2018

Exhibits, Arts and More, coming this week – Arianna Auber, Austin American-Statesman, March 2018

The Secret History of the Off Center – Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle, June 2017

Theater collective Rude Mechanicals has the ultimate plan to crush Austin – Andrew Friedenthal, Time Out Austin, August 2017

Off Center Teens Performances – Editorial, Austin Monthly, June 2017

STAGE RIGHT – Sarah Thurmond, Austin Monthly, October 2016

Regional

Dallas’ Outcry Theatre Makes Triumphant Stage Return with 2022 Season – Lindsey Wilson, culturemap Dallas, Aug 2021

With Theatres Closed, Austin Thespians Embrace Audio Dramas, Drive-through Musicals and Plays by MailTexas Monthly, January 2021

The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra Talk Immersivity on Texas Stages – Tarra Gaines, Arts + Culture Magazine, February 2018

National/International

This Month in Theatre History – Oscar Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism, American Theatre Magazine, July 2021

Streams from the Underground – Alexis Soloski, The New York Times, June 2020

The Artist Is President: Performance Art and Other Keywords in the Age of Donald Trump, Donald Grobe, Critical Inquiry Volume 46, 2020

6 of the most interesting arts events to stream April 3-9, Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, June 2020

At Wesleyan University, Students Pioneer New Techniques in Zoom Theater, Daniel Krane, Extended Play, June 2020

How Rude Mechs Built a ‘Mountain’ to Scale – Russell Dembin, American Theatre Magazine, July/August 2017

Rude Mechs Plan to ‘Crush It’ With Mobile 2017-18 Season – Diep Tran, American Theatre Magazine, July 2017

Yale Repertory Theatre Presents the World Premiere of Field Guide – Broadway World News Desk, January 2018

Field Guide at Yale Rep – Christopher Arnott, Connecticut Now, January 2018

Production Reviews

Local

Rude Mechs’ “Contranyms” responds to political division with language games – Courtney Thomas, Sightlines Magazine, Apr. 2023

Fixing Troilus & Cressida – world premiere – March 2018 at Nowlin Rehearsal Studio

Rude Mechs’ Fixing Troilus and Cressida – Elizabeth Cobbe, Austin Chronicle, Mar 2018

Rude Mechanicals Actually Fix TROILUS AND CRESSIDA with FIXING TROILUS AND CRESSIDA – Joni Lorraine, Broadway World, Mar 2018

Hey, finally! — The Rude Mechs fix “Troilus and Cressida” – L.B. Hopkins, Sightlines, Mar 2018

Rude Mechs modernizes another Shakespeare play, with dynamic results – Andrew J. Friedenthal, Austin American-Statesman, Mar 2018

National

Field GuideJanuary 2018 at Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT)

Funny Field Guide at Yale Rep, Grand, Yet Grounded – Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, Feb 2018

Yale Rep Stages Field Guide to 2018 – Jason Fitzgerald, New Haven Independent, Feb 2018

Yale Rep’s new ‘Field Guide’ boils down 1,000 pages into one imaginative play – E. Kyle Minor, New Haven Register, Feb 2018

BRING YOUR SNOWSHOES MOTHERF***ERS – Zak Rosen, Yale Daily News, Feb 2018

Marketing & Publicity Materials

Below are links to pdf’s of a select sampling of marketing and publicity materials:

MARKETING PIECES

Field Guide @ Yale Repertory Theatre – Production Page (includes promo videos, playbill, etc.)

Fixing Troilus & Cressida– Facebook Event Page

Salon in a Salon / art & science – Facebook Event Page

Bonus Video Samples

Bonus Video Samples
Short documentary on Rude Mechs by PBS’s Arts in Context, aired 2015
filmed while Rude Mechs was on tour with Now Now Oh Now in 2014/2015

Field Guide filmed live at Yale Repertory Theatre, February 2018 (New Haven, CT)

Production Stills

These are photos from our productions. Hover over a photo and click the arrows to advance to the next photo, or click on the image to move to the flickr site and play the slideshow there.

Click to view Production Stills from Fixing Troilus & Cressida, March 2018

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Click to view Production Stills from Field Guide world premiere, Jan/Feb 2018

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Click to view Production Stills from Requiem for Tesla remount, December 2016

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Click to view Production Stills from Not Every Mountain workshop production, April 2016

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