Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, Sydney Sweeney Top SXSW’s Sixth Featured Speakers Announcement

Danny Brown, Nick Kroll, and Kirsten Dunst also announced

"...of Edith Productions, and Artistic Director of the Magic Theatre in San Francisco Sean San José take us into..."

Feb. 27, 2024 SXSW Post by Carys Anderson

Review: Alchemy Theatre’s A Christmas Memory

Truman Capote's childhood reminiscences are a poignant present

"...no better word to describe the energy suffusing the Alchemy Theatre’s current production of A Christmas Memory, Luke Hill's..."

Dec. 12, 2023 Arts Post by Jasmine Lane

Review: Alchemy Theatre's Pipeline

Weak choices undermine the hard-hitting angst that drives this play

"...New York City's Lincoln Center and currently onstage at Alchemy Theatre...."

Sept. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Alchemy Theatre’s The Baker’s Wife

Musical’s Provençale charm and wit lie just beneath the surface

May 19, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Alchemy Theatre’s The Baker’s Wife

Musical’s Provençale charm and wit lie just beneath the surface

"...Old, failed Broadway musicals seem to be Alchemy Theatre’s forte of late. Last season included Mack &..."

May 15, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Holiday Eventsoff the Beaten Path

Suggestions for those who have done every merry thing

"...Dec. 2-17, Friday & Saturday, 7 & 9pm Mastrogeorge Theatre, 130 N. Pedernales..."

Nov. 29, 2022 Arts Post by Ali Juell

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...While Austin's theatre community has seen a return to full stages and..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Alchemy Theatre's The Virgin Trial

Elizabeth I's violent life reimagined as part The Crown, part Criminal Minds

"...Virgin Trial, which was given a staged reading at Alchemy Theatre in 2018 and currently enjoys its Texas premiere..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Alchemy Theatre’s Mack & Mabel

Intimate staging bests Broadway’s Hollywood tragedy

"...in 1974 and currently being staged by East Austin’s Alchemy Theatre. The story focuses on the rakish silent movie..."

May 26, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

The Many Worlds of Author Marshall Ryan Maresca

The Austin-based maestro of Maradaine writes and sells at a steady and impressive pace

"...same thing, and the three of us had done theatre stuff at Penn State. We actually started a theatre..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Broadway Leading Lady Carolee Carmello on Taking Over Dolly!

Hello, Dolly prepares for run at Bass Concert Hall

"...“I think anyone who works in the theatre is hard-working, whether you are playing leads or are..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Trey Gutierrez's Top 10 Moments That Left Audiences Speechless in 2019

The year celebrated through moments when performers stunned their audiences into silence

"...3) KHALI MCDUFF-SYKES IN THE VINEYARD (Heartland Theatre Collective) A seemingly homeless McDuff-Sykes snapped, "I don't want..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

Austin Shakespeare's As You Like It

An Austin-infused Arden is more poetic license than artistic alchemy

"...There is no shortage of theatre traditionalists who think that the works of Shakespeare need..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

Alchemy Theatre's The Waverly Gallery

This production of Kenneth Lonergan's drama presents the human weight of disease and makes its pain tangible

"...Back when I performed short theatre competitively (aka Oral Interp) at high school speech tournaments,..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Drew Silverman’s Gorintō

A quintessential work which surpasseth all understanding with beauty

"...man did with his Gorintō project at Ground Floor Theatre last night, though. It only hinted that that Gorintō..."

April 28, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Satan & Adam

The personal and musical impact of a Harlem friendship

"...The alchemy of human connection defies predictable explanation. The transformation from..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lovely Sparrows Questions the Occult in New Video

“Shake the Shadow” spooks up stop motion animation

"...him in magical-realist video game creation and in experimental theatre company Twin Alchemy Collective. The video expands on the..."

Feb. 20, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Night Flight Flies Again

Stuart Shapiro resurrects his Eighties underground variety show

"...roll television, showing everything from punk showcase New Wave Theatre to bottom of the barrel B-movies like The Terror..."

April 10, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Kill or Be Killed

Western revenge, Texas style

"...Frankenstein (Alchemy) may seem like the most hollowed-out story, with nothing..."

March 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pete Holmes: The Interview

The comedian on the role SXSW played in boosting his career

"...to find some magic, you happen to work some alchemy and find something out of that, I think that..."

March 10, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Off the Record

Juan González answers to no one

"...hidden elements based on the principles of numerology and alchemy," notes the local label man and artist, now compiling..."

May 14, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Fup Duck

Live music by the White Ghost Shivers made this puppet adaptation complete

"...there's a certain lack in this work of not-for-kids theatre...."

March 26, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Studio Theater Project

Both dances in the show have great music, but only one delivers great choreography

"...Seeing dance in Ballet Austin's 287-seat studio theatre is a treat if, like me, you often find..."

April 3, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Frankenstein: A Trouble Puppet Show

In this puppet retelling, the monster is a hybrid of human and plant tissue

"...Theater Company's production, opening this week at the City Theatre. "The book itself makes for very poor drama," he..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Changes in the Weather

As Burnt Orange cools down, UTFI heats up

"...to be announced this month. "Making movies is like alchemy – trying to make things into gold that are..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Magic Time

Oh, the sights you'll see at First Night Austin

"...a dance with a bus, a colossal jackalope, and theatre under a bridge, plus more wonders from 60-plus artists..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hang the DJ

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

"..."Theatre gets to create a topic of conversation for a..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Warner Bros.: Avada Kedavra, Healy

'Wizard People, Dear Readers,' Brad Neely's wonderfully wacked-out homage to 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,' is no more

"...Wizard People, Dear Reader and the Volatility of Artistic Alchemy," July 23, 2004). Early in March, the studio contacted..."

April 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

It's a Screenplay!

Austin screenwriting contest Movie Midwifing helps scripts with their first baby steps.

"...The brainchild of Lorie Marsh's Austin production company Alchemy Works, Movie Midwifing is a statewide screenplay contest now..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...White Violet Light/Sleep, is a worthy epilogue to Young's theatre of the eternal drone, an oscillating envelope of sine..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

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