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Bravo, Harden, Kinney, and Sawyer to be inducted this year

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

Pro Arts Collective gets your attention with BAM!, a new performing arts festival bringing dancers, actors, poets, and musicians to Austin to display the surge of creativity among African-American artists

Dying and the worth of individual lives are treated with a refreshing and uplifting respect in Zell Miller III's family drama 'Kissing the Goodbye'

From the prologue through the rousing finale, ProArts Collective's new production of 'Black Nativity' saturates the Christmas story in rich emotion

Pro Arts Collective's production of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" brings all the emotion of the Rodney King beating and its aftermath rushing back

After a cruel 2005, ProArts is moving forward in the new year, with its first stage show, Kissing the Goodbye, by award-winning Austin writer Zell Miller III

Class of 2004

The city's consultants recommend a new, one-stop shop and more funding for Austin's arts programs.

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2008

Feed your art habit with these recommended events for the week

Pro Arts Collective Pro Arts Collective celebrates the season with a gospel sound in the Austin premiere of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity.

After Broadway, Def Poetry Jam goes national and Austin's Pro Arts Collective snags them

Pro Arts Collective premieres Suzan-Lori Parks' breakthrough drama Topdog / Underdog.

Pro Arts Collective's presentation of two Pearl Cleage one-act plays delivered this playwright's poetic, often witty dialogue with style and some convincing performances; the only thing missing from this quality production was the audience.

Pro Arts Collective's new production of A Raisin in the Sun does credit to Lorraine Hansberry's powerful script. Even though it runs for three hours, the show is gripping to the very end.

This Pro Arts Collective production of Athol Fugard's "Master Harold" … and the boys sneaks up on you, seeming mundane at the outset but in the end delivering a dramatic power that draws tears.

In Pro Arts Collective's admirable production of Having Our Say, the intimacy of the performing space and warmth of the show's two actresses make the experiences of the centenarian Delany sisters -- and the history they have lived -- come alive in a remarkably personal way.

The eight members of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2004 led the way to culture

God's Trombones: Say Amen, Somebody

Boyd Vance, founder and director of Pro Arts Collective, acclaimed musical theatre performer, and leader in nurturing and promoting African-American arts for a quarter of a century, has died

A snapshot of the impact that this year's 31% cut in Cultural Contract funding had on 10 Austin arts companies that were on a strong growth track and had that growth in city funding abruptly reversed.

Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander: Time Passages

Five performing arts groups that revive holiday-themed shows every December share the traditions they've developed within these seasonal traditions

On Oct. 27, the City Council sweetened some of the bitterness of Boyd Vance's passing this year by naming the new theatre at the Carver Museum and Cultural Center after him

For seven years, Pro Arts Collective has consistently drawn an impressive and intriguing lineup of dancers, choreographers, and companies from across the nation for its annual African American Festival of Dance, and the 2003 edition continues that tradition.

Heather Barfield lists her favorite stage performances of 2004

Austin Chronicle reviewer Barry Pineo delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable moments in Austin theatre for 2002.

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards