The Water Principle
Director Ken Webster's production of 'The Water Principle' seems as much at cross-purposes with the quirky, strange script as its characters are with one another
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Arts, June 24, 2005
Message in a Can
What's been scrawled on bathroom walls inspires the songs and stories of 'StallGraffiti ATX'
Arts, June 3, 2005
Strange Visitor From Another Planet
Hip-hop poet Zell Miller III is special, one of those people who radiate energy like the brightest of stars breaking through clouds on the darkest of nights
Arts, May 27, 2005
The Wonder Bread Years
Pat Hazell's 'The Wonder Bread Years,' his solo comic riff on growing up as a kid in the Sixties, touches the late-generation baby boomer in all of us
Arts, May 13, 2005
Honk!
Mary Moody Northen Theatre's production of 'Honk!' reimagines the ugly duckling in a musical that's long and uneven but offers some excellent acting and moments of unquestionable magic
Arts, April 29, 2005
Wise Up
For its staging of Sandy Asher's ironically titled children's comedy 'The Wise Men of Chelm,' Second Youth Family Theatre gets to bring the playwright to town
Arts, April 29, 2005
Reefer Madness
The Bedlam Faction tackle the cult hit 'Reefer Madness' with a postured, exaggerated approach that's totally intentional and often quite funny
Arts, April 22, 2005
Maple Leaf Wags
If it's Hyde Park, this must be a quirky Canadian comedy
Arts, April 8, 2005
The Ones We Owe
'Nickel and Dimed' lionizes America's minimum-wage heroines
Arts, April 1, 2005
KillSport
In KillSport, Spank Dance Company's latest, performers shoot, stab, bludgeon, and explode stuffed animals to satirize our lust for blood
Arts, April 1, 2005
Dream Come True
Back home in Texas, Lisa Scheps finally gets her place to play!
Arts, March 18, 2005
The Man Who Would Be Swing
A new play gives Ray Benson the chance, finally, to chat with the King, Bob Wills
Arts, March 4, 2005
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad socialist?
In Howard Zinn's play, Karl Marx is back, and he's pissed
Arts, Feb. 25, 2005
Our Motto: Be Depraved
'I Am Alpha' takes a darkly satirical look at a certain all-American youth group
Arts, Feb. 11, 2005
Blown Sideways Through Life
Tour de force describes what actress Barbara
Chisholm's performance in 'Blown Sideways Through
Life,' Claudia Shear's autobiographical journey through
the workplace
Arts, Feb. 4, 2005
Songs of a New Race, Sung Again
A celebration of African-American chamber music
Arts, Feb. 4, 2005
Elaborate Life
His love of theatre has led 'Aida' director Matt Lenz on an amazing journey
Arts, Jan. 28, 2005
Risk: It's What They Do
What's at stake for the frontier-crossing artists of Long Fringe 2005
Arts, Jan. 21, 2005
Square One
Steve Tesich's bitingly funny, dark play Square One'
posits an oppressive U.S. frighteningly close to our
country today.
Arts, Jan. 21, 2005
Sonny's Last Shot
Though it has the episodic feel of a screenplay,
'Sonny's Last Shot' is, all in all, a satisfying evening of
getting your jollies at the expense of the Texas
Legislature
Arts, Jan. 14, 2005
Top 10 Most Memorable Theatrical Offerings That I Chanced to See in 2004 (A Hierarchical List)
Barry Pineo lists his favorite stage productions of
2004
Arts, Jan. 7, 2005
Just Like a Woman
How the men of naughty Austin's 'Pageant' get their glam on
Arts, Dec. 24, 2004
Between the Lions
'The Play of Daniel' revives the biblical prophet just in time for … Christmas?
Arts, Dec. 17, 2004
Christmas Choraling
With Conspirare’s Christmas at the Carillon and
Austin Civic Chorus’ Sing It Yourself ‘Messiah’, you’ll
get a thrilling dose of that most potent Christmas
commodity: song!
Arts, Dec. 10, 2004
Metamorphoses
Theatre review
Arts, Nov. 19, 2004
Becoming Birds
'The Philomel Project' allows myth to take wing at the Blue Theater
Arts, Nov. 5, 2004
Cherrywood
Theatre Review
Arts, Nov. 5, 2004
Dracula: A Woman Scorned
Theatre review
Arts, Oct. 22, 2004
Nightswim
Theatre review
Arts, Oct. 22, 2004
'Three-Five-Zero-Zero,' Meet Two-Zero-Zero-Four
Another 'dirty little war' makes 'Hair' current again
