Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Earning the most nominations this year were Austin Opera's staging of the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Year's Cheers

The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...to May 2, 2010, were assembled by the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Claire Canavan (theatre), Clare Croft (dance),..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Groups

A dozen culture providers have been very nice, according to the NEA

"...of support from the NEA and to Austin Lyric Opera and the Austin Chamber Music Center for teaming up..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...informal affiliation of arts writers, consisting of the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Jamie Smith Cantara (theatre), Sondra Lomax..."

May 27, 2005 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

"...informal affiliation of arts writers, consisting of the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Jamie Smith Cantara (theatre), Randy Harriman..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...premieres for feature films (101 World premieres, 9 North American, and 3 U.S. and counting), today's list also includes..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Porgy and Bess': A Select Chronology

The history of Gershwin's opera, from its conception in 1926 to its reinvention in Austin in 2008

"...1935: Renamed Porgy and Bess, the opera version premieres in New York, a collaboration among the..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

La Tentación de San Antonio

UT Opera Theatre tackles the American premiere of Luis Jaime Cortez's La Tentación de San Antonio with vigor, but there's too much here to take in in one pass

"...fresh scratches with La Tentación de San Antonio, his opera based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert currently receiving..."

March 5, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...informal affiliation of arts writers, consisting of the Austin American-Statesman's Michael Barnes (arts), Jamie Smith Cantara (theatre/music), Clare Croft..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...tome. Described by the theatre as an “innovative electro-pop opera,” this two-hour-and-thirty-minute love triangle will be available as pay-what-you-will..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2016

Uncommon combinations – dance with horses, music with robots, drama with a Tesla coil – made the year unforgettable

"...5) FRESH SQUEEZED OUNCE OF OPERA (One Ounce Opera) Not content with performing the tastier..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Billy Friedkin Kills It

Extended Q&A with the man behind 'The Exorcist,' 'French Connection'

"...basically follow his lead, as I do with the operas I direct. You know I direct operas now. Clearly,..."

Aug. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Show Busy

Michael McKelvey's just a guy who cain't say no (to musicals)

"...was here or Chicago, and I turned down an opera at Northwestern to come here. I started out as..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On the Map

Austin's art scene kept catching the eye of the nation in 2005

"...other creative enterprises – its theatre, its dance, its opera and classical music, its visual art – just didn't..."

Jan. 6, 2006 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

"...2002 to April 30, 2003. Contributing nominations were Austin American-Statesman staff reporters Michael Barnes and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...year. In addition to the economic shellacking that every American suffered, every artist and arts organization that made it..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dead Man Writing

"...consider Dead Man Walking a good source for an opera?..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Michael King

Austin Theatre Critics Table 2000-2001 Nominations

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

"...through April 2001. Participating critics this year include Austin American-Statesman staff reporters Michael Barnes and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature

The Many Lives of Candide

"...a satirical swipe at Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Bernstein liked the idea, and as Hellman..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From Baz to Batman

Costume designer Michael Wilkinson does it all from the Harvey Pekar schlump look in American Splendor to the fabulous Seventies fashions of American Hustle

"...Bales and Amy Adamses coming toward me in full American Hustle splendor," he tells the Chronicle. "That's always lots..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

Greg Bolin: Non-Austin Austin Composer

The score on rescoring Porgy and Bess

"...for this particular assignment. Bolin's doctoral thesis was in opera, he has an interest in musicals, and while possessing..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

Austin Chamber Music Festival: The aria of Anne Frank

For the first time in its 11-year history, the annual Austin Chamber Music Festival will present an opera: the Texas premiere of Grigori Frid’s The Diary of Anne Frank

"...Austin City Brass, the Wild Basin Winds, and the American Repertory Ensemble. But perhaps the most interesting event this..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...this season.) And of course, go to Austin Lyric Opera, and you'll see Armstrong's name on the Community Music..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Waiting for the Barbarians

Austin Lyric Opera's American premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians speaks powerfully to life in a time of terror and oppression, sounding a wake-up call to our humanity

"...From the outset, Waiting for the Barbarians, the new opera by Philip Glass making its American premiere in Austin,..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Scanlines

Million Dollar Legs

"...of Beer (all 1933) -- define a genre of American comedy. Fields wrote many of his films under a..."

June 25, 1999 Screens Feature

aGLIFF 2019 Announces Full Lineup, Including Trixie Mattel Documentary

Gay Chorus Deep South to open jampacked fest schedule

"...a series of attacks against LGBTQ+ liberties in the American south, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus decides that..."

July 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Points of Departure

The Viewpoints Invade Austin

"...things to a lot of different artists in the American theatre. At their most basic, the Viewpoints are a..."

May 8, 1998 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

The also-rans are as good as this year's animated nominees

"...a children's illustrated book: In stark contrast, Erick Oh's "Opera" is a remarkable feat, an ornate visual feast that..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Josh Frank Writes Himself Into the History of the Marx Bros.

There ain't no sanity clause

"...on Horseback Salad, an abandoned surrealist liaison between the American comedy greats and Salvador Dalí. Unfilmed and long lost,..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

Plenty of spooktacular events in the weeks ahead

"...Bee and for once we're not talkin' Bey. The American Honey Bee Association is throwing an epic drag party..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

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