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Five Deeper-Cut Panels to Catch at ATX TV Festival
It’s go time, TV nerds
"...In 1972, Norman Lear’s CBS sitcom Maude broke ground when its lead character..."

May 29, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

ATX TV Festival, Burlesque Festival, and More Events to Start Your Week
The weekend is over, but that won't stop us
"...and a special tribute to the late, great Norman Lear featuring script readings from Maude and Good Times.  ..."

May 24, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

ATX TV Festival Adds Apple TV+ Miniseries The Big Cigar, Plus Panels on an Industry in Flux
Conversations planned about the strikes and their aftermath
"...Night tribute to the legendary writer and producer Norman Lear; a Girls5Eva karaoke party; Hacks Season 3 finale and..."

May 10, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Theatre Review: The Baron’s Men Presents Romeo and Juliet
The Curtain Theatre’s BYOB outdoor production is a magical night out
"...comedy and a tragedy (watch out for their King Lear in October). They’ve slotted this classic in lieu of..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

American Fiction, American Reality
Cord Jefferson is putting the Black middle class back on the screen
"...the Black middle class. The recent loss of Norman Lear highlighted the importance of The Jeffersons in that representation,..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Writer, The Editor, and the Filmmaker: The Story of Turn Every Page
Lizzie Gottlieb on her father and LBJ biographer Robert Caro
"...wait – or, as he says, like in King Lear, ‘To love and be silent.’ Whereas Bob Caro’s got..."

Jan. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lemon Twigs, Obongjayar, the Zombies, and Ambré Added in SXSW 2023’s Second Lineup Drop
With a whopping 301 musical artists
"...(Berlin GERMANY) Theodore (Athens GREECE) THICK (Brooklyn NY) Thin Lear (Waldwick NJ) Thor & Friends (Austin TX) The Tiarras..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

ATX Television Festival Says Cheers to James Burrows
TV legend to be honored at next year's fest
"...L. Brooks (coincidentally, creator of Friends and Lovers, Norman Lear (for whom Burrows directed the 2019 Live in Front..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Austin Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Less-than-magical production salvaged by a night of unexpected spontaneity
"...world turned upside down in dark works like King Lear, Macbeth, and Timon of Athens...."

May 13, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Austin at Large: Look What We Made Them Do
So, why do these creeps care so much about other people’s abortions, anyway?
"...and wrong things and should not be trusted to learn from their mistakes. But neither I nor anyone younger..."

May 6, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Seven Decades of Fame and Fear in Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
New documentary on legendary star plays Cine Las Americas, Tribeca
"...sharing sets with luminaries from Héctor Elizondo to Norman Lear, many of whom are interviewed for the film. Then..."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blindspotting Premiering at ATX Television Festival
New Starz show joins Central Park, Mythic Quest, more
"...series of three conversations with the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society on medical issues in..."

May 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX TV Honors Michael J. Fox
Small Axe, Ziwe, Faking It make the must-see list
"...honorees that includes Henry Winkler, James L. Brooks, Norman Lear, Marcy Carsey, and Phylicia Rashad...."

April 22, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ethan Hawke Pens a Valentine to Theatre in A Bright Ray of Darkness
His new novel is also a prayer for the stage and a reminder of the healing power of performance
"...at age 12 watching Laurence Olivier's version of King Lear on public television. An hour in, he was "stupefied..."

April 23, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The World to Come
Frontier romance speaks of a love that cannot speak the name it does not yet have
"...an innate urge or one forged by circumstance is unclear, given the contextual setting. Whatever it is, Abigail and..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

ATX Television Festival Takes on the Coronavirus
Virtual festival will tackle how the pandemic changes lives
"...• USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society will look at mental..."

May 14, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds Glass Animals, Girlpool & Black Lips
Artist roster expands by 162 acts
"...Thin Lear (Queens, NY.)..."

Feb. 27, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

As Millions Demand Justice, Texas Prepares to Take Rodney Reed's Life
Looking back at a long road of injustice for the death row inmate
"...the boyfriend to jail; Fennell drove the woman, Connie Lear, to a nearby park. They got out and he..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

"Shoot Like a Grrrl" Takes You on a Club Crawl Through Lost Austin
Photographer Martha Grenon's exhibit at SouthPop covers the Austin music scene in the Eighties and Nineties
"...mood, his bewhiskered face that of a Lone Star Lear, fiercely singing to the clouds to blow and crack..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

ATX TV Fest Recap: Taking the Future One Day at a Time
Series creator says "there’s hope" show will be saved
"...decision to not renew its contemporary re-imagining of Norman Lear's classic sitcom One Day at a Time, but the..."

June 11, 2019 Screens Post by Beth Sullivan

AFF Crowning Game of Thrones Showrunners
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss join prestigious roster of honorees
"...Recreation), Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), Marta Kauffman (Friends), Norman Lear (All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at..."

May 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One Day at a Time Comes to ATX Television Festival
Fest adds Veronica Mars, Letterkenny, and more
"...The latest from TV legend Norman Lear, it updates his 1970s show, relocating from Indianapolis to..."

April 14, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What'cha Watchin'?
Editor Kim Jones programs hifalutin Shakespeare and the highly gross mortifications of the pubescent body
"...King Lear (Amazon Prime) The original Succession, if not the Bard's..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

The Hidden Room Theatre Is Working With a Presidential Assassin
Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, we reckon you’ll really enjoy the show
"...transtemporal collaboration, of course, and the Ransom Center’s Eric Colleary is partly to blame...."

June 12, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

How TV Talks About Abortion
Showrunners wonder why shows avoid stories about a common experience
"...Society (a program of University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center that provides up-to-date information for entertainment storylines on..."

June 11, 2018 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend
Oh, the places you’ll go! The people you’ll see!
"...2) What the acclaimed Hidden Room does for original-practices..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Felicity Comes to ATX Television
TV fest reunites cast of beloved show, plus Mayans, more
"...such as Henry Winkler, James L. Brooks, and Norman Lear...."

April 3, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: A Christmas Carol
In this season of giving, who is the best Scrooge?
"...role for aging actors, up there with Macbeth and Lear...."

Dec. 24, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drawn to Batman at Wizard World
Kevin Conroy and Loren Lester on voicing the dynamic duo
"...he performed at UT in touring productions of King Lear and Mother Courage. "It was a light tour of..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Vortex Repertory Company's Storm Still
Gabrielle Reisman's script refashions King Lear into the daughters' story, and the Vortex stages it with admirable heart
"...Turner), they act out the story of (surprise!) King Lear...."

Sept. 15, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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