Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Pride in Local Music, Brownout's 20th, the Late Joys' farewell, and more live music

"...their 20th anniversary. More to the point, as bandleader Robi Polgar (also a novelist and playwright – the band..."

June 23, 2023 Music Column by Doug Freeman

All in the Family

Bonded for life

"...BookPeople event for one book and my Chronicle pal Robi Polgar (with editors Chris Gray and Sarah Hepola, one..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Late Joys Reveal Their Revolver

Austin band, live and bustin' out the Beatles’ seventh studio album

"...me that. Nor was it yesterday that Austin’s own Robi Polgar first staged the knockout theatre production called Wigan..."

Jan. 23, 2020 Arts Post by W. A. Brenner

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...our understanding of dance – in one Chronicle review, Robi Polgar wrote that watching Bravo was like "seeing a..."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Critics Table's Crème de la Crème

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...(theatre), Melany Jean (visual arts), T. Lynn Mikeska (theatre), Robi Polgar (classical music), Jonelle Seitz (dance), Shanon Weaver (theatre),..."

June 5, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...(theatre), Melany Jean (visual arts), T. Lynn Mikeska (theatre), Robi Polgar (classical music), Jonelle Seitz (dance), Shanon Weaver (theatre),..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Tortoise & Hare, Summer Stock Austin The Tree Play, Robi Polgar The Wild Party, UT Department of Theatre and..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Tree Play

For this story of a rain forest over a lifetime, Robi Polgar created a living, breathing poem

"...nurtured from seedling to sapling and beyond by writer-director Robi Polgar, clears a path through the passion and the..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Getting Political With The Tree Play and Robin Hood: An Elegy

Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects

"...its brief run (Aug. 6-8) at Ground Floor Theatre, Robin Hood: An Elegy premieres at the Vortex. Running Aug...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Grand Designs of Ia Ensterä and Jason Amato

"...light punctuating a saturated, dark, smoky playing area." – Robi Polgar..."

July 17, 2015 Photo Gallery

Live Feed

Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart

"...Troupe Texas. Sharon Bridgforth with root wy'mn theatre company. Robi and Michelle Polgar with the Public Domain Theatre. Madge..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Stages of Inebriation

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

"...Robi Polgar: When we did The Road To Wigan Pier..."

July 3, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

In Memoriam: Jennifer Bourianoff

ASO's longtime Assistant Concertmaster has passed away.

"...here because I missed Austin," she told Arts writer Robi Polgar in a 2001 profile in the Chronicle. And..."

Dec. 29, 2011 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Personnel Department: New Hires at Conspirare and the Mary Moody Northen Theatre

Personnel changes at local arts organizations continue, with the arrivals of a new executive director at Conspirare and a new business manager at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre

"...March 19. Meanwhile, over at St. Edward's University, Michelle Polgar is the new business manager for the Mary Moody..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

"...takes the form of a cozy, superinsulated trance. Playwright Robi Polgar, whose 2004 The Road to Wigan Pier (on..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Cabaret

UT's Cabaret is a risky departmental production sufficiently primed as postelection catharsis

"...Director and Chronicle arts writer Robi Polgar finely tunes this production by layering choices with..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Payne Pleasures 2004

Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals

"...of English miners reconceived by Chronicle Dance-Classical listings Editor Robi Polgar as a music hall entertainment, were both created..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...(music), and Randy Harriman (music) and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar (music, dance, theatre), Barry Pineo (theatre), Molly Beth..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...(visual art), Jacqueline May (visual art), Barry Pineo (theatre), Robi Polgar (music, dance, and theatre), and yours truly, Robert..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Road to Wigan Pier

Despite its focus on the bleak lives of English coal miners in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier, with its live music, film, and skits, is a ridiculous amount of fun

"...this play, penned and directed by the Chronicle's own Robi Polgar, is a ridiculous amount of fun...."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

FronteraFest Schedule

"..."Touring al-Mu'tamid," by Miriam Robinson Gould. Solo spoken-word performance that centers on the last..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature

Articulations

More budgetary bloodshed in the UT College of Fine Arts, as Daniel Johnson, nationally renowned early music specialist and director the UT Early Music Ensemble for 17 years, has been cut loose from the School of Music.

"...possible, if funding issues are resolved. Classical listings Editor Robi Polgar has also weighed in on the matter in..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art, as presented during its annual ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

"...(music), and Duncan Goodrich (art); and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar (music, dance, and theatre), Barry Pineo (theatre), Erina..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...(music), and Duncan Goodrich (art); and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar (music, dance, theatre), Barry Pineo (theatre), Erina Duganne..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become a global phenomenon, and Governor Rick Perry and Austin Mayor Gus Garcia speak out in favor of the Long Center.

"...stormed the small space for the reading staged by Robi Polgar. Katherine Catmull, as Lysistrata, schemed with Bernadette Nason..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.

"...in one show again. They'll all be reading Drue Robinson Hagan's new "woman's translation" of Aristophanes' Lysistrata under the..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Local theatre artists join a planetwide call for peace with the Lysistrata Project, the UT PAC's associate director leaves for Pittsburgh, and the Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center gets a room of its own.

"...with the reading (directed by Chronicle Classical/Dance Listings editor Robi Polgar) complemented by art exhibits, dance performances, and live..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...-- Robi Polgar, The Austin Chronicle, 2000..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 2002 Austin Critics Table Awards

On Monday, June 3, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the Austin arts in a ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

"...Chronicle writers Wayne Alan Brenner (theatre), Rob Curran (theatre), Robi Polgar (music), and yours truly, and Austin American-Statesman arts..."

June 7, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"...Muldoon (theatre), and Austin Chronicle writers Rob Curran (theatre), Robi Polgar (music and theatre), and yours truly. This year..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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