Payne Pleasures 2006: The nominees
Your play didn't have to tackle a political theme to earn a nomination for ACoT's 2005-2006 B. Iden Payne Awards, but the top nominees reveal that it sure didn't hurt
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Robert Faires, Sept. 29, 2006
Gary Payne: Man of mystery
While he's best known for producing murder mystery dinner theatre, this month sees Gary Payne in a more traditional mystery: Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth
Barry Pineo, Sept. 22, 2006
A Moon for the Misbegotten
The Celtic Cultural Center and Renaissance Austin Theatre Company bring O'Neill's 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' to life with an authentically dark and droll Celtic sensibility
Patti Hadad, Sept. 22, 2006
'Kenneth J. Hale: New Works on Paper'
With his new series of collages, Austin printmaker Ken Hale trades in his flatbed press for a flatbed scanner with intriguing and sometimes luscious results
Amanda Douberley, Sept. 22, 2006
'Eric Zimmerman: Simplon Pass'
Eric Zimmerman's "Simplon Pass" plays off utopian visions of the past in ways that are beautiful and painful in their longing for release from spatial bounds
Nikki Moore, Sept. 22, 2006
Let Me Show You Something You May Have Missed
Sean Perry's photographs offer to show you familiar settings in a whole new light
Robert Faires, Sept. 22, 2006
Culture Flash!
The influential artwork of Micael Priest blesses the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, and ACT wants State Theatre patrons to come to the cabaret – for free
Robert Faires, Sept. 22, 2006
BAM! Performing Arts Festival: What's that sound?
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
Robert Faires, Sept. 22, 2006
The Muses: Memories of a House
Certainly theatre has been offered in homes before, but rarely have so many pieces (13) been offered in a single home as in 'The Muses: Memories of a House,' presented by the Vestige Group
Barry Pineo, Sept. 15, 2006
'Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond'
The Austin Museum of Art's exhibition 'Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond' prompts one viewer to piece together a story about postmodernism from patches of art and ethnology
Nikki Moore, Sept. 15, 2006
Talented If Not Young
The artists in Mexic-Arte's 'YLA No. 11' may be beyond youth, but they're still definitely deserving of attention
Rachel Koper, Sept. 15, 2006
American Fiesta: Doing the dishes one more time
Interest from New York producers is prompting a second encore run for Steven Tomlinson's award-winning one-man show 'American Fiesta'
Robert Faires, Sept. 15, 2006
Hairspray: 'The Beat' goes on
Austin gets its first blast of Hairspray via a new national tour, and director Matt Lenz explains what makes this musical such a crowd-pleaser
Robert Faires, Sept. 15, 2006
First Night Austin: Long day's journey into First Night
Pulling together the second First Night Austin has been a struggle and with New Year's less than four months away, Ann S. Graham has resigned as executive director
Robert Faires, Sept. 15, 2006
St. Nicholas
In 'St. Nicholas,' Conor McPherson wrote one hell of a one-man show, and Ken Webster executes it beautifully, making this tale of vampires seem as it might really be real
Hannah Kenah, Sept. 15, 2006
'Gladys Poorte and Naomi Schlinke'
D. Berman's joint exhibition of work by Naomi Schlinke and Gladys Poorte is an illumination of the "creatorly" power of the artist in process art
Nikki Moore, Sept. 8, 2006
Benefits Round-up: See Art, see Art run, see Art run and dance
Support your local nonprofits by buying prisoner art for the Inside Books Project, running a 5K for the Paramount and State theatres, and listening to Latino artists for the Austin Latino Theater Alliance
Sept. 8, 2006
Schumann in Concert
Sept. 8, 2006
Culture Flash!
Austin museums want you, and Richard Buckley conducts in the Windy City
Robert Faires, Sept. 8, 2006
Bell(e)
Bell(e), ethos' installation focusing on literary suicides, chucks the adolescent illusion that killing oneself is a meaningful act of passion
Patti Hadad, Sept. 8, 2006
'Oliver Boberg / 1997-2005'
The Oliver Boberg retrospective at Lora Reynolds Gallery is a must-see, but telling you why might spoil the surprise
Nikki Moore, Sept. 8, 2006
'Black and White and Read All Over': They got the shots
'The Austin Chronicle' pays tribute to the often-unsung shutterbugs who have added so much to our pages with the exhibit 'Black and White and Read All Over: 'Austin Chronicle' Photographers Celebrate 25 Years'
Robert Faires, Sept. 8, 2006
Plays Well With Others
Why Michelle Schumann is meant to be running the Austin Chamber Music Center
Robert Faires, Sept. 8, 2006
The Russell Collection: A second home Downtown
The West End space, vacated by F8 Fine Art Gallery, is now a new home for the Russell Collection, showing contemporary artwork alongside its paintings by the masters of yore
Robert Faires, Sept. 8, 2006
Salvage Vanguard Theater: Countdown to blastoff for 'Intergalactic' tour
Salvage Vanguard Theater launches 'The Intergalactic Nemesis,' its homegrown spoof of sci-fi serials, on a mission to seek out new life and new civilizations – or at least new fans – in seven cities across the country
Robert Faires, Sept. 1, 2006
Keepin' It Weird
It is a rare piece of theatre that can be uplifting, enlightening, and disturbing all at once, and 'Keepin' It Weird' is such a piece
Hannah Kenah, Sept. 1, 2006
Culture Flash!
The Art Palace glows in the 'Times,' and Dan Dietz gets a hearing at the Kennedy Center
Robert Faires, Sept. 1, 2006
Confessions of a Mormon Boy
In his 'Confessions of a Mormon Boy,' Steven Fales reveals intimate details about his life as a Mormon and a male escort and proves himself as brave and courageous as a performer can be
Barry Pineo, Sept. 1, 2006
Tag – You're It!
Celebrating urban scrawl in Gallery Lombardi's 'Austin Graffiti Art: From Birth to Present'
Amanda Douberley, Sept. 1, 2006
'The Long Drive South'
Art or anthropology? Volitant Gallery's 'The Long Drive South,' featuring work by New York artists who motored down to Austin, may be a revealing discussion on both
