What's Up with Matt "Rubber Repertory" Hislope, Lately?

Esther's Follies, mostly, but let's not forget that other thing

"...Last time we checked in with Rubber Repertory's Matt Hislope, the frequency of his sexual encounters had just..."

Sept. 11, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Matt Sex = Coffeecake, Regularly.

In which Mr. Hislope gets culinary with coitus. 

"...going to talk about only one more thing here.Because Matt Hislope's getting laid regularlyand we love coffeecake.No, seriously: Rubber..."

Feb. 20, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Transcript of Passing Fancy

Q&A with Rubber Repertory's Matt Hislope and Josh Meyer

"...to know a bit more about Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope, the Rubber Repertory duo who (along with Rebecca..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature

The Price of 1,000 Songs

'Ordinary Peephole' celebrates the delights of songwriter Dick Price

"...name you'd rush to include – unless you were Matt Hislope. As one-half of the Rubber Repertory creative team,..."

Jan. 20, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Theatrical Provocateurs Rubber Repertory Return to Austin

Two of the best and oddest come back for their own good and ours

"...Meyer & Hislope, Hislope & Meyer: They’re back and they’re bound to..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Choice Is Yours

Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

"...Luby's Cafeteria with me and his partner in theatre, Matt Hislope. He's talking about an experience they had during..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

We Don't Think They're Not in Kansas Anymore

Austin's Rubber Repertory rents a former church in Kansas and fills it with a diversity of artists

"...Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope, founders and directors of the Rubber Repertory theatre..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Discomfort Zone

How far can Rubber Repertory push you?

"...was that we didn't want audience participation," co-Artistic Director Matt Hislope says...."

April 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

The Fever

In producing Wallace Shawn's The Fever, Physical Plant Theater issues a call to think, from your car radio, and it's worth heeding

"...in the chair is the dapper figure of actor Matt Hislope – an actor on a stage, truly. That..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Ordinary Peephole: The Songs of Dick Price

This expertly curated celebration of Austin's premier composer of camp ought not to be missed

"...dig deeper to find the Dick in question, but Matt Hislope is doing his darndest to change that...."

Jan. 25, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Dining for One at the Rubber Repstaurant

Austin’s Rubber Repertory provided, I mean, anything you desired

"...and c’mon, there’s the possibility that Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope and their culinarily collaborative friends are going to..."

Jan. 27, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Surprise Annie'

Who the hell is Annie La Ganga?

"...She's not Josh Meyer or Matt Hislope: They're the artistic directors of Rubber Repertory, the..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Biography of Physical Sensation'

Which chair will be just right for you in Rubber Repertory's new show?

"...The title tells all. Rubber Rep co-Artistic Directors Matt Hislope and Josh Meyer have abstracted just the physical..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Mister Z Loves Company

Rubber Repertory's revival is a marriage of depravity and delight, of filth and fantasy

"...of this disgusting, brilliant spectacle from Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope of Rubber Repertory. The company that most recently..."

April 17, 2009 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wallace Shawn's 'A Thought in Three Parts': The author approves

After making a special visit to Austin to see Rubber Repertory's production of his play A Thought in Three Parts, Wallace Shawn called it 'an incredible moment in his life'

"...Matt Hislope and Josh Meyer of Rubber Repertory had been..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Thought in Three Parts

In staging Wallace Shawn's famously unproduced and pornographic A Thought in Three Parts, it'd be so easy to stumble or misjudge, but Rubber Repertory has gotten almost everything stunningly right

"...her affection-starved mate. Surely that wasn't mere coincidence: Directors Matt Hislope, Josh Meyer, and Carlos Treviño are both too..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Red Cans'

The performers in 'Red Cans' have to stuff themselves into tiny laundry hampers where they can't see, must use their arms to walk, and get horribly cramped and bruised, but you won't hear them complain

"...that is both remarkable and bizarre. Meyer and co-director Matt Hislope felt lucky to find claustrophobia-free actors who were..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

FronteraFest Is Back to Push New Boundaries

The theatrical fringe festival proves there's still space to experiment in a crowded Austin

"...'part TED Talk, part memoir, part madness.' And anything Matt Hislope does is going to be freaky and likely..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Loving Wally

"...when I got worked up and cracked somebody's windshield." Matt Hislope recalls Physical Plant Theater's 2004 production of Wallace..."

May 11, 2007 Arts Feature by Spencer Parsons

Okay, Everybody– Back Into the Pool!

Esther's Pool, that is: Winning fools, grooving stars.

"...And always – and here's the meat of the matter, the fluoride enhancement of this water – the skits..."

Sept. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Surprise Annie

This show is two glorious, uncut hours of Annie La Ganga manifesting theatre

"...Ganga manifests theatre. And her directors/producers/friends Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope of Rubber Repertory have likewise manifested 12 top-secret..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Trickster

Vortex Repertory Company's latest production, about those weaselly mythological misfits who pull pranks and break rules, Trickster, is an extravaganza

"...With Matt Hislope as the Fool, we can suffer fools gladly...."

Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Holes Before Bedtime

Dan Basila's 'Holes Before Bedtime' is an unsettling work of art; but it is a work of art, as opposed to a mere vulgar spectacle, and that's the really weird thing about it

"...choreographed" is a big clue. The direction provided by Matt Hislope and Josh Meyer is nothing short of impressive...."

June 17, 2005 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mister Z Loves Company: An X-Rated Self-Help Odyssey

Local Arts Reviews

"...prepare us for the onslaught of scatology and shivers. Matt Hislope as Mister Z does indeed love his Company,..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

FronteraFest 2003

It's time again for that annual performance jamboree FronteraFest, and time to mark its first decade of presenting Austin with adventuresome new theatre, comedy, dance, and spoken word by anyone with the courage or folly to take a stage.

"...and juggling by Jon O'Connor and James Speer with Matt Jones and Lewis Pillsworth, at 5309 Woodrow, Jan. 24..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Stage, Left: Exit Josh Meyer

The co-honcho of Rubber Repertory heads for Hollywood

"...with his friend (and fellow University of Kansas alum) Matt Hislope, is no longer among us in this land..."

May 14, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Austin Shakespeare's Sense and Sensibility

Putting the pedal to the metal bolsters Jane Austen's classic work

"...discombobulated Edward Ferrars, played to a brilliant extreme by Matt Hislope, and the dashing Colonel Brandon, played by the..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Elizabeth Cobbe's Top 10 Arts Entrances of 2019

It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive

"...1) MATT HISLOPE entered, or rather re-entered, Austin theatre as a..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Paper Chairs' Plano

Paper Chairs' production gets inside the heads of three sisters over a decade that races by in a breakneck 90 minutes

"...that term can be used, by the Faceless Ghost (Matt Hislope) who lurks in the corners of the ranch-style..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

"Meeghan Morongova: Boundless Abandon" at Butridge Gallery

The photographer's first solo show is a clever and colorful fabrication of portraits

"...heard that those Rubber Repertory boys Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope were back in town, but I didn't expect..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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