Review: Austin Playhouse’s The (One-Act) Play That Goes Wrong
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Nov. 23, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman
UIL State One-Act Play Contest
Austin High's championship thespians get a repeat shot at the state title
"...Here's the score: Star player who helped lead the high school team to a..."
May 7, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Review: The Play That Goes Wrong
Physics and farce join forces to surprisingly hilarious effect in this Georgetown production
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The Power of Play Readings
"...Hey, there are four this week alone. They're called play readings. If you've only considered the play reading as..."
May 5, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Staging Mr. Burns, a post-electric play With Zero Waste
A UT student production of Anne Washburn’s play shows how to make theatre the sustainable way
"...on a global scale in Anne Washburn's award-winning three-act play, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play. The story takes place..."
Dec. 14, 2018 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings
We Have an Issue: This One’s on Us
"...Path Create some new holiday traditions with alternative light displays, cabaret, and a Christmas pop-up bar, to name a..."
Dec. 2, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones
Richard III
Last Act Theatre's all-female production takes this drama from the doldrums to dynamite for Women Who Act
"...Shakespeare's Richard III hasn't been historically one of those plays for (and about) the boys' club. The Bard's tale..."
July 21, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
Anne Washburn's inventive play shows how, after the apocalypse, we still cling to Springfield
"...form or another. Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns, a post-electric play takes us through civilization's end and rebirth with the..."
Oct. 2, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver
Sister Act Two: Back in the Habit
"...Oh, maybe some of the kids hired on to play the inner-city high-schoolers held out hope as they clunked..."
Dec. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Last Act Theatre's Seven
In this documentary play, seven women from around the world tell stories that are tragically familiar
"...of these women were collected in Seven: A Documentary Play more than a decade ago. The tragic truth is..."
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SXSW Short and Sweet: "Act of God"
Austin-made short busts the disability drama tropes
"...edges to him. How much did you want to play with audiences' habits of taking a one-dimensional view of..."
March 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Two Can Play That Game
"...illustrious predecessor, 1997's Def Jam's How to Be a Player. Alas, Keith “shows his ass” by taking a bootylicious..."
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Making History, Part One
Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'
"...In his new play All the Way, Robert Schenkkan draws on his time..."
Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Let the Right One In
This multi-award-winning Swedish film might be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gem. A discussion of the adaptation follows the film.
"...to their elders – when strange attractors come into play and everything seems frighteningly freighted with the surreal, the..."
Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Ways for Grownups to Act Like a Kid This July
Youthful diversions from kickball to video games
"...when summer was all about Popsicles, pool parties, and playtime? If your summer has been all work and no..."
June 30, 2022 Events Post by Katherine McNevins
Power Play
In Robert Schenkkan's new play, LBJ roars back to life to make civil rights history
"...Angus Bowmer Theatre, where All the Way, a new play about LBJ's first year in the White House, is..."
Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Of Weed Ladies, Play Parties, and Camp Meetings
What's going on in them Manchaca Hills?
"...the Manchaca Hills, but the chapter titled “Weed Ladies, Play Parties, and Camp Meetings” caught my attention. Edna was..."
May 12, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser
Play On!
In the backstage comedy Anton in Show Business, playwright Jane Martin wittily paints the contemporary stage as a madhouse overrun by loons and lunatics so preoccupied with money, image, and themselves that they can hardly be bothered to create art. And the State Theater Company's production takes us inside the insanity with an air of playfulness that keeps the audience primed for a good time.
"...hit at the 24th Humana Festival of New American Plays and a finalist for the 2000 American Theatre Critics/Steinberg..."
March 30, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Finally Punk, All-Girl Aughts Act, Talks Austin Reunion Shows
Unbanned, pioneering punks play Swass Nite Wednesday
"...Finally Punk but when the pandemic hit, nobody was playing music. Having a baby isolates you in some ways..."
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Nowhere to Play
The Cost of Art, Part I: Austin's growth and rising rent take out theatre venues, one by one
"...Only a few years ago, Austin Playhouse and the Blue Theatre had space available for other..."
Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe
Charles Stites' New One-Man Show Straitjacket Is Fun – Scary Fun
Charles Stites has another one-man show, and this time he's climbing into a Straitjacket for fun. Scary fun.
"...struck him as a terrific vehicle for a one-man play. He could explore and portray multiple characters – even..."
Aug. 27, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Top 10 (plus one) Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2007
'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires recalls 2007, in the theatre
"...as the foundation for George Brant's new drama, which plays like an oral history – all interwoven monologues in..."
Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Princes to Act
"...in this scene is an honorary member of the Never-Play-Shakespeare film club, Billy Murray, who makes no effort to..."
Aug. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt
All the Way With LBJ's Play
Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'
"...the Way for OSF's American Revolutions cycle of history plays, it only made sense to return for the opening..."
Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Warning: Do Not Play
South Korean horror is really about the terror of filmmaking failure
"...Warning: Do Not Play, the latest from South Korean horror director Kim Jin-won,..."
June 12, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Getting Kids Into the Act
Curtain up on GRRL Action and Vortex Summer Youth Theatre
"...year of Summer Youth Theatre. "We've never chosen children's plays for our youth theatre because we want to give..."
July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo
Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One
Some of our favorite performances that you can revisit this weekend
"...Lloyd Maines, Natalie’s dad, played pedal steel throughout, and her 21-year-old son, Jackson Slade,..."
Oct. 14, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston
Come Play
Monster living within your phone doesn't deserve your screentime
"...on moms wanting to protect their kids, and Come Play falls down because Sarah just never really seems to..."
Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Polishing His ACT
L.A.-Ex Gary Goldstein Brings Real News to
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"...Goldstein turns to me and for a second I play the part of a stationary camera in a TV..."
July 5, 1996 Screens Feature
The Curse of the Play
"...most recent developments in the saga of this cursed play...."
