Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera

The plodding stage musical finally comes to the big screen, its relentlessly bombastic score intact with a vengeance.

"...Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Simon Callow and Ciarán Hinds. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s plodding stage musical finally comes to the..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Judas Lloyd Webber

"...cross, rising from the dead and ascending into heaven. Andrew Lloyd Webber, like Judas, has betrayed Christ...."

Oct. 8, 2019 Postmarks

Cats

You can’t teach old Cats new tricks

"...time I became cognizant of Cats – that is, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poetry..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Beth Sullivan

Evita

"...eponymous star of a fabulously successful stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It’s perfect material for..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jesus Christ Superstar 50 Years On

New North American tour of JCSS launches in Austin Oct. 9

"...A half-century ago, a young English composer named Andrew Lloyd Webber teamed up with a young English lyricist..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Superstar Search

Three decades after its debut, Jesus Christ Superstar may not seem a radical piece of musical theatre, but Austin Musical Theatre's new production just may return the rock opera to its revolutionary roots.

"...Telebak and Stephen Schwartz for Godspell, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber for Superstar -- made it work in..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Evita: Over the (Big) Top

Director Dave Steakley, in daring to formulate an answer to the question "What if Fellini had directed Evita?" has pulled off a brazen, vast-scaled circus of a production, a completely over-the-(big)-top sensation of a theatre experience.

"...and, adding insult to injury, was ultimately immortalized by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Webber has, to my mind, always epitomized..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Georgetown Palace Theatre's Evita

In this engaging production, the saga of Eva Perón is told with immediacy and power

"...In the original 1979 review of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, The New York Times quipped that..."

June 28, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Zach Theatre's Evita

Zach Theatre's polished revival offers food for thought in this season of campaigns and debates

"...The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita, staged at Zach Theatre..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Record Reviews

"...Just as the world is divided into Andrew Lloyd Webber lovers and Andrew Lloyd Webber haters, so..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Music Review

Volleyball, Dalí, and Feminists Rule This Week’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture for the work-week socializer

"...her best Gloria Swanson in Broadway’s current revamp of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of this classic film. Fun..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Theatre Review: Georgetown Palace Theatre’s Cats

Cozy musical comfort in a purrfect classic

"...That's what Andrew Lloyd Webber said when collaborator Hal Prince pressed him..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

McCallum Fine Arts Academy

The high school theatre crafts a bilingual take on the Webber-Rice musical

"...McCallum High School's Fine Arts Academy, in tackling the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice megamusical Evita, developed its own bilingual..."

March 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exit 'Downtown,' Right on Sunset

In her latest project, singer Petula Clark sets aside her image as chirpy pop starlet to play mad screen diva Norma Desmond in the musical version of Sunset Blvd. Clark tells Stephen MacMillan Moser how she came by this radical departure in roles.

"...of Norma Desmond in the London production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical Sunset Blvd...."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

"...-- mostly hysterical numbers taking shots at everything from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Disney to MGM's old studio numbers..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Twins, Phantoms, and More Recommended Events

Seeing double on the weekdays

"...again, let’s duel at dawn.) Back in the Aughts, Andrew Lloyd Webber hand-picked the man to make his gothic..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar

New touring production electrifies with freshness and urgency

"...the Brown Album, that very first recording of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice rock opera that caught lightning in..."

Oct. 15, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad, Jim Belushi, Jake Lloyd...."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art, Eggs, Kink, and Sleaze in This Weekend’s Art Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar consideration

"...to the visions.   – James Scott Results with Andrew Bujalski..."

April 18, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Black & White

Two Arts Groups Cross the Color Line Creatively

"...strongly on the new work they are creating. Darla Johnson/Andrew Long & Company, a white multimedia dance group based..."

June 21, 1996 Arts Feature

Dames, Turtles, and More

The dog days of summer meet the heat of Austin film news

"...new material, and is being developed by music maestro Andrew Lloyd Webber. A notice in The Hollywood Reporter this..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

Phantom of the Opera: Window Display

"...Seated in Bass Concert Hall, watching Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation ofThe Phantom of the Opera,..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Arts Review

Some Local Arts, Pride, and More Recommended Events

Plan your Austin weekend

"...2019 film was such an unmitigated disaster, and why Andrew Lloyd Webber's sung musical, based on T.S. Eliot's 1939..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Review: Zach Theatre & Deaf Austin Theatre’s Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

An innovative approach to a marvelous play

"...journey taking an upswing, it’s sad to report that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella – a desperate rescue attempt..."

Feb. 5, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

aGLIFF Goes to Hollywood for Boulevard!

Plus Madeleine Olnek is this year's aGLIFF Legend

"...Yes, before Andrew Lloyd Webber turned it into a Broadway smash, before..."

July 26, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hamilton Comes to Bass Concert Hall in 2019

Season tickets now on sale for Broadway in Austin series

"...lyrics by Sara Bareilles (of NBC’s The Sing-Off), and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never..."

Feb. 20, 2018 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

The Phantom of the Opera at Bass Concert Hall

This new touring production makes a grandly restaged, compelling tale of thin source material, with a chandelier drop that still thrills

"...crash. Who are we kidding, that's why you see Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. It's the..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

DVDanger: All This Horror Business

Catching up with the major terror releases

"...She plays Kylie Swanson, a thinly veiled lampoon of Andrew Lloyd Webber's muse Sarah Brightman, appearing in a just-distinct-enough-for-copyright..."

July 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: American Idiot

Green Day's rock opera is gorgeously gritty, if not truly punk

"...still rather throw down with Billie Joe Armstrong than Andrew Lloyd Webber...."

Jan. 15, 2014 Arts Post by Stacy Alexander Evans

The Boxing Lesson

Box sets grow up and out

"...musical dreams/Ain't quite so bad." Thus hatches the genre's Andrew Lloyd Webber, Pete Townshend, whose mouthpiece Roger Daltrey emotes..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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