Review: Glass Half Full Theatre's Yamel Cucuy

Modern-day Mexican folktale rallies against things that go bump in the night

"...earned the reputation for creating intriguing bilingual (Spanish/English) devised works, featuring a blend of shadow puppetry, three-dimensional rod and..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...the English actor, director, and teacher whose approach to Shakespeare revolutionized staging before becoming Chairman of the Department of..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Trouble Puppet Theater Co.’s Undark: A Radioactive Puppet Play

Henson-backed world premiere recounts a workers' rights fight

"...Norma Rae’s Crystal Lee Sutton. Hidden Figures’ Mary Jackson. North Country’s Lois Jenson. These groundbreaking women and their..."

May 31, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Review: The Santaland Diaries

J. Robert Moore's take on Crumpet sends the Macy's elf to camp

"...perfect that, years after the fact, they can still tickle your ribs just thinking about them...."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...of area arts writers and editors was Zach Theatre's take on Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George,..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Glass Half Full Theatre's Polly Mermaid: Apocalypse WOW!

This playful eco-fable by Caroline Reck and Indigo Rael creates a surprising plastic paradise under the sea

"...She may be the prettiest patchwork of plastic to..."

June 1, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's ANON(ymous)

At St. Edward's, this reworking of Homer's Odyssey gives names to the nameless in today's immigrant crisis

"..."Nobody." Then, when the one-eyed villain falls into a drunken slumber and our hero blinds him, the Cyclops runs..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Glass Half Full Theatre's Don Quixote de La Redo

This imaginative spin on Cervantes tells of walls and the stories that inspire us to tear them down

"...tremendous wall to be constructed with the purpose of making his country great again. But there was a problem...."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

This gangster spectacle based on Hitler's rise feels more than timely in the current election year

"...so far down in the dumps that he's hardly making trouble for anyone at all. But a sharp snub..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts,..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

1,000 Forest Gorillas in Kansas

Heloise Gold and Natalie George's dance-theatre work posed the question: What if we took the time to count?

"...rustles and snaps as their treads roll over its crinkles. Turning their heads toward the audience, the women regard..."

March 4, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...That irreverent riff on Chekhov earned the most love in the Table's 23rd presentation..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...this year the Critics Tables were turned, so to speak. Los Outsiders, in accepting their award for Outstanding Group..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts,..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Hamlet

The melancholy Dane gets fierce in this most professional staging by Mary Moody Northen Theatre

"...production of Hamlet is no exception. While guest artists Kenneth Wayne Bradley (Claudius), Meredith McCall (Gertrude), and David Stahl..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Pleasure of the Paynes 2014

The 'Fix' was in at the 40th theatre awards ceremony

"...a pair of white-faced clowns from the land of stinky cheese. Unable to wrap their Gallic mouths around the..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Orchid Flotilla

Glass Half Full Theatre reveals moving artistry in silence, smallness, and subtlety

"...though it's as if you've stumbled into some secret, oft-overlooked corner of the gallery's halls, tucked away and nearly..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Consummate Artistry

The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play and Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's The Undoing of Nonet were..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"It Was a Difficult Choice, But..."

The Austin Critics Table named its tops in the arts for 2014

"...category's Austin Critics Table award that it became the drinking game for the night: Whenever you hear a critic..."

June 3, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Once There Were Six Seasons

Glass Half Full Theatre employs puppets to show us a series of visions of the Earth transformed by climate change

"...or merely logical fatalism to suggest that if we keep going on about our business in the usual ways..."

May 30, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts,..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

This Wonderful Life

Martin Burke's solo performance of 'It's a Wonderful Life' is a tour de force, but also an act of faith

"...This Wonderful LifeZach Whisenhunt Stage, 1510 Toomey, 512/476-0541 www.zachtheatre.org..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 Designer Contributions of 2012

Celebrating the year's most exquisite – and often surprising – stage designs

"...4) KATHRYN EADER'S LIGHTING FOR 'UNDER CONSTRUCTION' (Mary Moody Northen Theatre)..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

Giving a lot of sweet bouquets (and taking their sweet time doing it)

"...seemed in full force as the Austin Critics Table marked its 20th year of presenting annual awards for outstanding..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...the visual arts as well as drama. I don't know how the city's loose affiliation of arts writers –..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...assembled by the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Cate Blouke (theatre), Claire Canavan (theatre), Luke Quinton (classical music/visual arts),..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Grand Theory of Everything Between

What's undeniably grand about this new dance is Peter Stopschinski's music

"...for almost two decades, her Ariel Dance Theatre has taken on some considerably larger-than-life subjects. In this original production,..."

May 20, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

My Favorite Year

The Zilker Summer Musical production of My Favorite Year triumphed over the recent storms and occasionally over the show's weak material

"...Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater, through Aug. 11..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...themselves, Blue Lapis Light's Requiem, staged on the concrete skeleton of the Intel building, took top honors, wining five..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Barnes (arts), Clare Croft (dance), Randy Harriman (music), Erin Keever (visual art), David Mead (music), Joey Seiler (theatre), and..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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