Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

By Ada Calhoun, Fri., Jan. 7, 2000

Top 10 Performance Things in 1999, Considering That I Didn't Start Reviewing Until Fall

1. Desire

2. Cabaret of Broken Dreams

3. Beautiful Bodies (Propaganda Theatre)

4. The Collection/A Kind of Alaska

(Subterranean Theatre Company)

5. Rubies, Roses, and Bolero (Ballet Austin)

6. All Things Delicious (Brentley Heilbron)

7. The Santaland Diaries (Zachary Scott Theatre Center)

8. David Sedaris (Paramount Theatre)

9. Obsessively Sam (KAiROS! Co.)

10. Lipstick Traces (Rude Mechanicals)

Positively Operatic

The best of Austin arts' stage productions and artists from 1999 get another round of applause from the AustinChronicle Arts writers in their Top 10 lists for the year, along with an overview of the year in Austin culture, a look back at Austin theatre in the Nineties, and a musical for the millennium.
Introduction

10 Shows From 1999 That Transported Me

Top 10 Theatrical Productions of 1999

Top 10 for 2K (in no particular order)
Top 10 Dance Events of 1999

The Longer View

THe Millennial Musical

Arts Critics Poll

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