Plan Yourself a Hell of a Summer

Holy-moley, this is one smokin’ hot Summer Events Calendar

"...be biblically accurate? No! But that’s the fun of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s concept-album-turned-Broadway-sensation. Wouldn’t you just..."

May 16, 2025 Features Feature by Chronicle Staff

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judas Lloyd Webber

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

Oct. 8, 2019 Postmarks

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

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

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

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...Grant Terry, Kurt Fuller, Dendrie Taylor, Grace Victoria Cox, Andrew Caldwell (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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

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

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

'Om Shanti – Once Upon a Time in Bollywood'

The cinematic musicals of India dance their way onto the stage in Austin

"...else was attempting it – or hadn't since the Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced Bombay Dreams of a decade past –..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From Screen to Stage … Seriously?

Surveying the unlikeliest candidates for Broadway adaptation

"...When word came down this week that Andrew Lloyd Webber (yes, that ALW) had acquired the rights..."

April 10, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

The Many Lives of an Incorporeal Icon

A new 'Beetlejuice' sequel may be in development, but Warren Skaaren already pondered 'Beetlejuice in Love' two decades ago

"...a Phantom of the Opera-type plot, perhaps inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster musical, which opened on Broadway in..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

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

Dame Edna

The Australian gigastar visits Austin after missing a January gig due to illness

"...11-week stint on British telly, playing Simon Cowell to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Paula Abdul on the BBC series I'd..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sinéad O'Connor

"...the stripped version achieves a measure of raw shading. Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How to Love Him"..."

June 29, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Jesus Christ Superstar/Jesucristo Superestrella

Zachary Scott Theatre's Jesus Christ Superstar/Jesuchristo Superestrella transcends the usual ascension into the heavens of rock & roll to become an anthem of Mexican tradition

"...as if it were, well, gospel. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's original Jesus was more flawed superhero than..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

An Opera for Wartime

Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians arrives when its message is urgently needed

"...he recalls. "I mean, I'd written a musical before, [Andrew Lloyd Webber's] Sunset Boulevard, and in that case, I..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!

The Jewish Community Association of Austin production of 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!' is that rare revue where you actually care about the characters and what happens to them

"...their material like it was Rodgers and Hammerstein or Andrew Lloyd Webber. Fresh-faced Blake Simmon plays the boy Barry..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

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