Norman Lear to Receive AFF Award

Norman Lear will get AFF Outstanding Television Writer Award

"...takes place October 29-November 5, has just announced Norman Lear, producer of the groundbreaking show All in the Family,..."

April 9, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The History of King Lear

A long-reviled revision of Shakespeare's tragedy proves fascinating as revived by the Hidden Room Theatre

"...Slap a happy ending on King Lear? Deface this titanic tragedy of Western lit by keeping..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Lear Jaunt

Matthew Radford explains how a professional British actor wound up playing Lear in a Central Texas barn

"...years, has another trio ready for your pleasure: King Lear, As You Like It, and The Two Gentlemen of..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

Hidden Room Theatre Resurrects King Lear

The once-popular but now obscure revision of Shakespeare's play by Nahum Tate is revived, complete with happy ending

"...Downtown Austin, Beth Burns and company are resuscitating King Lear. Oh, not the one from your high school English..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Stephanie Carll

K.Lear: Straitjacketed Shakespeare

A Denton performance artist straps on a straitjacket to explore madness in Lear

"...quite like what Jeff Kaplan is doing with King Lear...."

Aug. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

A Thousand Acres

"...Jason Leigh and Colin Firth. Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning, Lear-on-a-John Deere novel has reached the screen with its bleak..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Ran

Kurosawa uses Shakespeare's King Lear as a template, but in Ran Lear's three scheming daughters are sons, and the action is transposed to a mythic, dreamlike, feudal Japan. Like an adrenalized fever dream of ultimate power gone awry, Ran reveals Kurosawa's grasp of visual splendor at its most powerful.

"...hurt matters, of course, that Kurosawa used Shakespeare's King Lear as a template -- in Ran, Lear's three scheming..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch

'All in the Family: The Complete Series'

"...how popular television could impact popular culture when Norman Lear's All in the Family debuted on CBS on January..."

Oct. 30, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Vortex Repertory Company's Storm Still

Gabrielle Reisman's script refashions King Lear into the daughters' story, and the Vortex stages it with admirable heart

"...Turner), they act out the story of (surprise!) King Lear...."

Sept. 15, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Thieves Quartet

"...Directed by: Joe Chappelle. Starring: Phillip Van Lear, Joe Guastaferro, Michele Cole, James “ike” Eichling, Richard Henzel..."

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chrystal

Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.

"...scale (with Thornton as a sort of backwoods King Lear), exceeding its grasp. Better is the slow build of..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The King is Alive

"...someone will miraculously stumble across them. They stage King Lear in order to pass the time and divert their..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Substance of Fire

"...brood in an act of bitter willfulness that echoes Lear, and, as with that king, its repercussions are tragic...."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Madness of King George

"...us a George mellowed with a little touch of Lear. Like Shakespeare's king, this one struggles with madness, and..."

Feb. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

ATX TV Fest Recap: Taking the Future One Day at a Time

Series creator says "there’s hope" show will be saved

"...decision to not renew its contemporary re-imagining of Norman Lear's classic sitcom One Day at a Time, but the..."

June 11, 2019 Screens Post by Beth Sullivan

King Lear

In the Public Domain Theatre Company's production of King Lear, director Robi Polgar and company bring Shakespeare's play into the present with high tech and high fashion, and the smooth execution of the concept create a novel version of this familiar tragedy with a striking proximity to our lives.

"...King Lear: Downfalls of the Rich and Famous..."

March 9, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Lear

The flashy modern setting takes priority over Shakespeare's text in this update

"...Lear..."

June 3, 2011 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

TV Eye

Stephen Harrigan cozies up to Shakespeare for a Texas tragedy

"...That timeless Shakespearean tragedy King Lear wears all the great themes of life like a..."

May 31, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Edward, the Owl & the Calico Cat

Austin playwright Emily Cicchini tells the true story behind Edward Lear's magical "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" in Edward, the Owl & the Calico Cat, and the Pollyanna Theatre Company production delivers it smartly, if at a somewhat breathless pace.

"...It was terribly clear..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Review by Kate X Messer

ATX Panel and Event Picks

Not sure what to do at ATX? Start here.

"...of You & a Conversation with ATX Awardee Norman Lear Friday, June 10, 2pm, Paramount Battling old mentalities has..."

June 10, 2016 Screens Feature by Beejoli Shah

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...she portrayed Li'l Bit in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, co-produced by Subterranean and the State Theater..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

TV Eye

David E. Kelley is one of the most gifted and savvy television writers of the late Nineties : So why is he degenerating into Aaron Spelling?

"...Who else is there to pick up where Norman Lear left off? Lear's penetrating comedies of the Seventies turned..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Ethan Hawke Pens a Valentine to Theatre in A Bright Ray of Darkness

His new novel is also a prayer for the stage and a reminder of the healing power of performance

"...at age 12 watching Laurence Olivier's version of King Lear on public television. An hour in, he was "stupefied..."

April 23, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hidden Room Theatre Is Working With a Presidential Assassin

Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, we reckon you’ll really enjoy the show

"...transtemporal collaboration, of course, and the Ransom Center’s Eric Colleary is partly to blame...."

June 12, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pleasure of the Paynes 2016

Annual theatre awards think Terminus is the living end

"...Costume Design The History of King Lear, Jenny McNee..."

Oct. 27, 2016 Arts Post

TV Eye

Local filmmaker Heather Courtney's award-winning doc, Los Trabajadores, hits the small screen.

"...children: The former king of socially conscious comedy, Norman Lear, is returning to TV -- as a collaborator on..."

March 21, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Secret History of Tuna

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

"...for Williams and Sears -- a statistic that makes clear how much their imaginary West Texas burg defines these..."

April 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...2001; Mr. Sowerberry/Dr. Grimwig, Oliver!, Austin Musical Theatre, 2001; Lear, King Lear, Public Domain, 2001; Banquo, A Macbeth, State,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows...

"...Bill Lear helped develop the first car radio, which Motorola began..."

Nov. 24, 1995 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

ATX Television Festival Says Cheers to James Burrows

TV legend to be honored at next year's fest

"...L. Brooks (coincidentally, creator of Friends and Lovers, Norman Lear (for whom Burrows directed the 2019 Live in Front..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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