Austin Shakespeare Festival: Playing in a theatrical mecca
A dream comes true for the Austin Shakespeare Festival when it gets to perform the Bard's As You Like It in Richard Garriott's replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
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Barry Pineo, April 6, 2007
'Texas Biennial, Site 1808'
The 2007 Texas Biennial exhibition at Site 1808 boasts strong outdoor artwork, but the use of PODS didn't quite realize its potential
April 6, 2007
My Child, My Child, My Alien Child
My Child, My Child, My Alien Child reveals poet-performer Zell Miller III in Richard Pryor mode, spinning tales of fatherhood in richly comic, broadly accessible style
Robert Faires, April 6, 2007
News Works Festival Schedule
April 6, 2007
'Texas Biennial, Okay Mountain'
The 2007 Texas Biennial exhibition at Okay Mountain generates color and a communal spirit while raising questions about festivalism and appropriating sources
April 6, 2007
A Guide to the Works
April 6, 2007
The Playing of the Shrew
Ballerina Allysin Paino reveals more about taming Kate for Ballet Austin's "Shrew'
Robert Faires, April 6, 2007
Ruth Denney: In Memoriam
Ruth Denney, one of the most influential arts educators that Texas ever knew, died March 26, little more than a week before her 93rd birthday
Robert Faires, April 6, 2007
The Laboratory of Playmaking
Artists from different realms join forces to concoct new strains of performance in UT's New Works Festival
Robert Faires, April 6, 2007
UT Chamber Singers/Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble: Vox Americana redux
American choral music earns more big love in 2007 with back-to-back concerts of American vocal works by the UT Chamber Singers and the Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble
Robert Faires, March 30, 2007
Texas Medal of Arts Awards: The stars at night are big and bright ...
Stars fall on Austin April 3 as the Texas Cultural Trust Council hands out its annual Texas Medal of Arts Awards to some of the Lone Star State's greatest cultural heroes
Robert Faires, March 30, 2007
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts: School of rock
For the second time in two years, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts – a true school of rock – will be auditioning students in Austin
Robert Faires, March 30, 2007
'2007 Texas Biennial, Butridge Gallery'
The Chronicle's visual-arts writers review the second Texas Biennial in dialogue and find the work at the Dougherty Arts Center to be diverse but presented awkwardly
March 30, 2007
Culture Flash!
Two Austin choreographers take over New York's Ballet Builders, two new pieces of Austin public art get dedicated at once, and Arts on Real blows out four candles on the cake
Robert Faires, March 30, 2007
Larger Than Life
The late Luis Jiménez created art on a grand scale – and lived his life that way, too
Robert Faires, March 30, 2007
La Víctima
The passionate revival of the 30-year-old Chicano Movement classic La Víctima has to be Teatro Vivo's strongest production to date
Patti Hadad, March 30, 2007
Luis Jiménez: The Texas Folklife Resources Tribute
Robert Faires, March 30, 2007
'American Fiesta': Big Apple in a Fiestaware bowl
That buzz last summer about an off-Broadway run for Steven Tomlinson's American Fiesta? Consider it confirmed: The show opens in New York on April 26.
Robert Faires, March 23, 2007
Mambo Italiano
Naughty Austin looks to be "coming out" for a more serious production with the gay "straight" play Mambo Italiano
Patti Hadad, March 23, 2007
UT Faculty Composers: All-stars take the field
A concert of works by Donald Grantham, Russell Pinkston, Bruce Pennycook, Dan Welcher, and Yevgeniy Sharlat will be a veritable home-run derby of music by UT's compositional heavy hitters
Robert Faires, March 23, 2007
Hamlet
Vortex Repertory Company's new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet has a strong contemporary feel, but ultimately it diminishes some of the power of the tragedy
Robert Faires, March 23, 2007
'Elaine Bradford: Freaks of Nurture'
In her exhibition "Freaks of Nurture," Elaine Bradford's crochet-covered menagerie of stuffed animals is equal parts lighthearted nonsense and poignant sadness
Amanda Douberley, March 23, 2007
Site Unseen
'America Starts Here' shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible
Amanda Douberley, March 23, 2007
'La Víctima': An old message still needing to be heard
As Teatro Vivo stages La Víctima, a groundbreaking look at Mexican-U.S. immigration, Rupert Reyes and Jorge Huerta discuss the play's origins and relevance
Belinda Acosta, March 23, 2007
Culture Flash!
The winners of the Amster Youth Concerto Competition tune up, the Biscuit Brothers get buttered up (by the Lege), and Koper scoops up Texas Biennial inside info
Robert Faires, March 23, 2007
The Lion King
The cast of this touring production of Disney's The Lion King performs with such skill and fullness of spirit that the show soars on an uplifting freshness
Robert Faires, March 16, 2007
'Draw'
Gallery Lombardi is in its new space on Seventh Street with another group show hanging salon-style, but there's something a little different about "Draw"
Salvador Castillo, March 16, 2007
'Christa Palazzolo: City Folk'
Christa Palazzolo was an astounding painter before she left Austin for New York, but her solo show at 1906 Gallery shows that her artistic skill has only deepened
Wayne Alan Brenner, March 16, 2007
'Cry-Baby': Rockabilly heartthrob needed for Broadway run
A new stage musical adapted from John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby needs a hunky musician for the title role and thinks he might be in Austin
Robert Faires, March 16, 2007
How Does an Artist Get a Passport?
Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'
