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Elaine Stritch (1925-2014)
Brassy Broadway legend truly at liberty now
"...her award-winning one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, for Austin Cabaret Theatre: "Fifty-plus years on the boards that included..."

July 17, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Gay Place: HelloDolly!
Two doors down (or so), they're thowing a party for Dolly
"...Youth Drop-In Days In a town as welcoming as Austin, it's easy to forget that most of us experience..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Long Center for the Performing Arts: Light that first candle!
As the performing arts venue turns one, Marvin Hamlisch sings "happy birthday" to it
"...pretty well. Let's see ... Yo-Yo Ma and the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Sir James Galway and the Austin Symphony..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Payne Pleasures 2004
Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals
"...year's nominations for the B. Iden Payne Awards. The Austin Circle of Theatres' annual honors for excellence in local..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Search Through the Skies
The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.
"...thesis when he was getting his masters in children's theatre at UT -- that is titled The Journey. And..."

April 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Real Estate and Perfect Mates
The Year in Austin Culture
"...1. Cabaret (UT Performing Arts Center) There is glitz and glamour..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Home for Heroes (and Others)
Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill. But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard labor, they have created one of Austin's most user-friendly theatre spaces.
"...thorough cleaning of the interior, as they readied the theatre for opening earlier this year, turned up such artifacts..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Phil West

Peerless
All About Joe (York)
"...second floor of this restored Victorian manse, one of Austin's favorite venues for weddings and soirées, isn't really roomy..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Frailty, Thy Name Ain't Woman
"...As it turns out, this week Austin's stages are burgeoning with tales of women chafing against..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Line Dancin', Terminatin', and Writin' in This Week's Recommended Events
Lots to do, and it's not even the weekend
"...the urban landscape, but within a gallery context, inviting Austinites to reflect on our own complicated and rapidly changing..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Home Improvement
Live Oak Theatre and the Overhaul of the State
"...won't be leaving any little bundles under Live Oak Theatre's tree. Oh, it isn't because this longtime local stage..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism
Chronicle Art Reviews
"...Paramount Theatre, through November 23 Running Time: 2 hrs, 15 min..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Arts Review

Most Valuable Players
A Guide to Austin Stage Actors
"...MVP for: Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Qmmunity: Making It Ourselves
Examples of queer creativity abound in Austin, Texas
"...A new texture oozes into Austin through MASS Gallery's current queer-focused exhibition. "Hard Served Soft:..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Column by James Scott

Holiday Eventsoff the Beaten Path
Suggestions for those who have done every merry thing
"...the weather gets colder (and then randomly hotter), the Austin holiday season wouldn’t be complete without tried and true..."

Nov. 29, 2022 Arts Post by Ali Juell

Art Aid
In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help
"...Even as Austinites have made astounding efforts to meet the critical needs..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

If It's Thursday, This Must Be Texas
On the morning of January 24, NY Loves America: The Broadway Tour delivered a Big Apple thank you in the form of a dozen beautifully belted show tunes to a small but appreciative audience in the Texas State Capitol Rotunda.
"...January 24. Cooked up by the League of American Theatres and Producers, the tour was a showbiz way for..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Down the Rabbit Hole With Avant Glam
Darkly dreaming with Sassy Delure about her newest show
"...but Sassy Delure and the performers of Avant Glam Cabaret have promises to keep, and miles to go before..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

One-Two Cancer KO
Two benefits working to deliver a knockout to the Big C
"...but this week a pair of benefit efforts from theatre artists aim to put the Big C on the..."

July 17, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Unclothed for Business
Kitty Kitty Bang Bang keeps burlesque alive in Austin
"...we were some international group that had stopped in Austin to perform," says the glamorous Emerald Lovejoy with a..."

July 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

All the Hill Country's a Stage
No matter where you are in the Hill Country, you're never too far from a theatre. From Boerne to Kerrville, Marble Falls to Uvalde, community theatres are enthusiastically serving up choruses of "76 Trombones" and Odd Couples with a Lone Star twang, as well as some theatrical surprises.
"...to tube down, you're never too far from a theatre. True, stages aren't nearly as numerous or as celebrated..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tying the Knot: A Drama
Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.
"...merger. Think wedding. Yes, the union of the Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts and the State Theater Company..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?
Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'
"...We being Austin playwrights Amparo Garcia-Crow and C. Denby Swanson and Dreaming..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Working Vacations
Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.
"...Ice Factory '99, Soho Think Tank's festival of fringe theatre, rocks the City That Never Sleeps this summer, three..."

July 9, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2016 SXSW Film Venue Guide
Where to go, how to get there, and what that line’s going to be like
"...SXSW is with some serious know-how. We’ve got the Austin insider’s guide to film venues, the queue system, and..."

March 7, 2016 Screens Post

Nominations for the 2004-2005 B. Iden Payne Awards
A complete list of all Payne Award nominees.
"...Charlotte's Web, Second Youth Family Theatre..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Arts Feature

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
"...On Monday, June 7, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism
"...which held the unforeseen ills of humankind, KINESIS Dance Theatre's Gender Boxes houses humorous social-political vignettes. Under the direction..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Arts Review

Positively Operatic
The Year in Austin Culture
"...are my choices for the top theatrical productions in Austin during the Nineties, as well as a list of..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

1998-99 B. Iden Payne Award Winners
The year's best work on Austin stages.
"...On Monday, September 13, the Austin Circle of Theatres gave out its 25th Annual B...."

Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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