Austin Playhouse Opens New Venue with Lowell Bartholomee’s Previews of Departing Attractions

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll … possibly think of Walter Matthau?

"...Lowell Bartholomee is an Austin playwright who’s been making people..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Speaking for Lowell

Every playwright needs a mouthpiece, an actor to communicate his vision to an audience, and Lowell Bartholomee has his in Robert Fisher.

"...put too much of a strain on the comparison, Lowell Bartholomee has his Robert Fisher...."

July 26, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Austin Playhouse's Previews of Departing Attractions

Twenty years in the making, Lowell Bartholomee's latest collection of short plays is worth the wait

"...It's been 20 years since playwright (and actor/director/designer) Lowell Bartholomee gathered, and this publication reviewed, a collection of..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Mouthing Off

Lowell Bartholomee has a lot to say, and he says it in plays that blaze like a Klieg instrument throwing gritty metrosphere of modern life into stark relief -- stark comic relief.

"...Lowell Bartholomee ... yeah, the name's a bit of a..."

July 26, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blah, Blah, Blah

In the 14 sketches that make up Blah, Blah, Blah, playwright Lowell Bartholomee skewers Hollywood with situations and dialogue that are clever and perceptive, but the actors seem to be working to put it across, straining even, when it really doesn't need the hard sell.

"...Lowell Bartholomee wrote and directed these 14 sketches, gathered together..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Animation Station

Through ADVision, Austin has become a hotspot for producing English-dubbed anime. Who knew?

"...Dirk Van Allen. And, yes, even Joe York. ADV's Lowell Bartholomee and Charles Campbell admit they don't pony up..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...with the Austin acting scene – particularly with writer/director Lowell Bartholomee – resulted in the company giving rise to..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Review: Austin Playhouse's The Norwegians

Revised revisiting of this dark comedy remains a guilty pleasure

"...Norwegian Minnesotan hit men (Ben Wolfe as Gus and Lowell Bartholomee as Tor) in Austin Playhouse's and director Lara..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Middle of the Night

With its isolated farmhouse and unseen menace, The Middle of the Night may look like a conventional thriller, but playwright Lowell Bartholomee refuses to play by the rules, creating an offbeat drama that keeps us perpetually off-balance by playing against our expectations.

"...setup from horror and suspense films beyond number, playwright Lowell Bartholomee adamantly refuses to follow through on the conventions..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

2019 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Five shows share top honors with four awards each

"...well as its sound and media design, both by Lowell Bartholomee...."

Nov. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation

To drink or not to drink – for local thespians, no question

"...Lowell Bartholomee: In a production of Macbeth at UT in..."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Matney vs. Cancer – FIGHT!

Artists and supporters from across Austin's theatre community unite behind actor Robert Matney to KO the Big C

"...and hilarious one – from Rude Mechs company member Lowell Bartholomee, starring Matney as both himself and his leechy,..."

June 28, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Onstage Works of Wonder in 2002

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

"...year, especially Cyndi Williams, Lana Dieterich, Robert Fisher, and Lowell Bartholomee.Honorable MentionsPeter Pan (Ballet Austin), for its buoyant choreography,..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

We're sorry you feel that way.

"...until last February, when Lipkowitz left and ADV hired Lowell Bartholomee," which infers that Mr. Bartholomee is now the..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Column

Street Corner Arts' Grounded

Every element of this production works together to get us inside the head of a troubled military flyer

"...(by Brandy Lee Harris) serves as the screen for Lowell Bartholomee's video design. Bartholomee keeps us in nearly perpetual..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Celebrity Crush

We've all got 'em, crushes on celebrities. At least, that's the premise of Refraction Arts' Celebrity Crush, and a bunch of talented artists reveal theirs in some quite entertaining ways.

"...like Jeremy Carpenter, Brandon Crow, Robert S. Fisher, and Lowell Bartholomee, who meet, albeit briefly, to discuss Christina Ricci..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Austin Playhouse's Tiny Beautiful Things

There's excellent work in Austin Playhouse's production about Cheryl Strayed writing an advice column, but where's the humility?

"...There aren't lessons that her letter writers (played by Lowell Bartholomee, Crystal Bird Caviel, and John R. Christopher) can..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Different Stages' Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Like the separate parts of the Creature's body, the technical and performance aspects unite to create a delightfully provocative production

"...violently fill with life. Quite impressive are video designer Lowell Bartholomee's digital projections splashed across Frankenstein's backdrop. Several recent..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Acting Tipsy

Local thespians reveal how they tackle the challenge of playing drunk onstage

"...before or during shows, however, isn't without its consequences. Lowell Bartholomee remembers an actor showing up for a performance..."

July 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In On It

The Dirigo Group production of Daniel MacIvor's 'In On It,' with two actors in multiple roles, succeeds beyond an exercise in acting and becomes a heartbreaking wound that feels good to receive

"...and Scotty Roberts. They're working under the direction of Lowell Bartholomee, who helms this production for the Dirigo Group,..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off-Off-Broadway Bound

An Austinite's account of taking the stage in New York City

"...from Refraction Arts Project; and Wade, by Steve Barney. Lowell Bartholomee has been there, having taken blah, blah, blah,..."

July 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

tempOdyssey

With tempOdyssey, which follows a temporary office worker named Genny through her first and only day in a new office, Dan Dietz has written an amazing play, and the amazingly talented cast gets this world premiere off to a great start, but an interminable second act makes this voyage one you'll be glad is over.

"...and natural, it looks more like life than acting; Lowell Bartholomee, while barely moving a muscle, elicits raucous laughter..."

June 13, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Bash

In Bash, a collection of monologues by Neil LaBute, the protagonists appear to be considerate, decent people, but in the stories they share they prove themselves capable of committing crimes straight out of Greek tragedy, and the dirigo group production achieves a breezy intimacy with the audience, engaging us so thoroughly that when the darkness falls, we find it hard to abandon them.

"...family man seeking to unburden himself to a stranger. Lowell Bartholomee gives him an unassuming attitude, that of the..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

You Made Me Love You

What is this thing called crush? Specifically, what makes us swoon over people we've never met? The creative minds at the Blue Theater have gathered over two dozen actors, musicians, artists, writers, and puppeteers to create art, wall-writing, and short performance pieces to address that very question in Celebrity Crush.

"...Playwright, actor, and heterosexual Lowell Bartholomee will do a piece about "my crush on..."

March 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Taking the World Stage

How more theatre made Here is getting Out There and what that means

"...a more interesting way than money ever will," says Lowell Bartholomee, who is performing in the current GYWO tour..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Down at the Jinn Mill

Austin's dirigo group prepare to premiere the best new play one could wish for

"...count on the support of her other co-artistic directors: Lowell Bartholomee, Judson Jones, and Christa Kimlicko Jones – except..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Jarrott Productions' The Sound Inside

An understated, intriguing page-turner

"...Flynn (costuming), Craig Brock and Rodd Simonsen (sound), and Lowell Bartholomee (projections) create a startlingly spare performance space, utilizing..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Vortex Repertory Company's Heartland

Gabriel Jason Dean's new drama makes a sensitive study of three people in two different countries and where they belong

"...tenderness, grief – as natural and genuine as breath. Lowell Bartholomee's Harold has absorbed The Old Man and the..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

En Route Productions' *some humans were harmed in the making of this show

CB Goodman's play is memorable for its exuberant satire, but an abrupt hairpin turn toward the serious makes the show even more memorable

"...with the crowd-rousing, pump-up-the-volume music supplied by sound designer Lowell Bartholomee or bouncing manically on a trampoline. All that's..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Hyde Park Theatre's The Antipodes

A ton of tales enliven this play by Annie Baker, but what do they tell us about the state of storytelling?

"...and in part it's the delivery by the actors: Lowell Bartholomee's almost exuberant description of a grotesque STD, Dave..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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