Bands Are Practicing Again, but Does Austin Have Enough Rehearsal Space for Them?

A love letter and state-of-affairs on the practice space scene

"...tell you a secret: I have dreams about the [Austin Rehearsal Complex], a couple a year," reveals Don Harvey,..."

June 18, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Penfold Theatre's Ghost Quartet

Among the threads of this darkling tapestry are spirits of malice and mayhem and longing and love

"...Sometimes you want to attend a musical, but you want an experience more intimate than some..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

12 Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Hip-hop, roots rock, pop, shoegaze, and more to keep your ears ringing

"...Want to hear the music that Austinites are buzzing about right now, before they bust out..."

March 7, 2019 Music Post by The Music Staff

Luv Doc Recommends: 50th Annual Zilker Summer Musical – Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater, Thursday, July 10, 2008

"...going to get laid by attending the Zilker Hillside Theatre’s production of Beauty and the Beast. In fact, it’s..."

July 11, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Downtown Austin Is Getting a Fresh Coat of Museums

"...In January of this year, the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) officially scrapped its plans for..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Austin Film News: Linklater, Rodriguez, and a Case of Millennium Bugs

Production updates, new releases, and job opportunities

"...and Michael Lovato (Graves) that recently wrapped shooting in Austin – including at Vulcan Video. Writer/director Alejandro Montoya Marín..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

The Satire's Still Timely in Gilbert & Sullivan Austin's Iolanthe

And the topsy-turvy team's show delivers a fanciful fairy tale, to boot

"...Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist walk into the Savoy Theatre in London's West End together. The everyday world may..."

June 21, 2019 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings

Your Austin New Year’s Eve Guide

These are the many ways to say goodbye to 2017

"...of the closet and head out into wilds of Austin and forget about what a tumultuous year it’s been...."

Dec. 27, 2017 Events Post by Chronicle staff

A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics

The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene

"...The original Funniest Person in Austin (as in the contest's first winner in 1986), this..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Improv

Three of Austin's top improv troupes get to play away this summer

"...Improv troupes are so numerous in Austin nowadays that you likely wouldn't notice if one or..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Eurythmy Ensemble: Our bodies, our instruments

With their performance of Touched Twice, the members of the Austin Eurythmy Ensemble mark 10 years of embodying sound through movement

"...words. Thus, most eurythmy performances are accompanied with both musical instrumentation and spoken-word texts...."

Dec. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Austin Filmmaking, Ten Years After

Film director Richard Linklater interviews Bob Ray, the director of the new Austin-made movie Rock Opera, about the Austin Film scene over the past 10 years.

"...Richard Linklater and crew took to the streets of Austin and filmed the now-classic movie Slacker. Little did anyone..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crosstalk: Arts Grants Open, KOKE-FM DJs Change Stations, and More Austin Culture News

The new Texas Touring Roster arrives

"...of all disciplines – including music, visual art, dance, theatre, storytelling, literary art, and folk art – who are..."

July 5, 2024 Music Column by Carys Anderson

Five Things to Enjoy in Downtown Austin

Head back to the heart of the city for your post-SXSW entertainment

"...Cline live in a house in one of North Austin's less noticed neighborhoods. Professionally, Starbuck and Muelhaupt are sculptors,..."

March 25, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fresh Takes on Gilbert & Sullivan

The company's series of unconventional spins on the comic operas actually do the duo a service

"...Gilbert & Sullivan Austin, that's who. The very group that for 45 years..."

July 2, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Freewheeling With the First Lady of Austin Country, Kelly Willis

Pondering her first solo album in more than a decade

"...about finding what made me fall in love with Austin when I moved here [in 1987] – when everything..."

May 11, 2018 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend

In glorious addition to Fusebox and Moontower, of course

"...Music Project is presenting Complaints Through the Ages, a musical anthology (played on period instruments, no less) of elevated..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Winners of the 43rd Austin Music Awards

The best bands, venues, backstage folks, and more, as voted on by you

"...Southwest unleashes a week of alcoholic activities – er, musical discovery – every March, but before the festival madness..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Music Feature

Bow to the Grandmaster, Austin’s Best New Act Winner

11-piece group talks supergroups, self-mythology, and their “more than a band” family unit

"...Now winners of the 2024-2025 Austin Music Award for Best New Act, the musicians label..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Music Feature by Catalina Perez

Austin Film Festival Review: Buck Alamo

Sonny Carl Davis shines as a fading Austin burnout

"...of the myth of a certain kind of old Austin. Eli Cody (played by Austin acting mainstay Sonny Carl..."

Oct. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...yet with the anthemic magnetism of the latter's late musical realism. Meanwhile, the rhymes pump forth as if from..."

June 11, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...title song carves out delicate Americana burnished by the Austinite's voice taking flight. Following a similar thread to 2018's..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...a patron in Robert Plant on the Zeppelin crier's Austin-kissed 2010 album Band of Joy...."

Sept. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Drive-In Cinemas Lighting Up Austin

The movies you want to see with the social distancing you demand

"...is back (courtesy of the pandemic), and this week Austin is adding three additional outdoor screens. Two established theatres..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The 2016-17 Austin Music Awards’ Texan Tower of Song

Thirty-five years of AMAs? More like 181 years of Texas on one stage, on one night!

"...Instead, Austin guitarist for the most famous living musician (he whose..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Gay Place: Austin's Gay Days

We've got all the Pride info and sneak peeks into a very gay fall season.

"...about this festive frisky week. It's on, baby bunnies. AUSTIN PRIDE..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

In the Blue Corner: Austin Film Festival

The festival dedicated to every part of storytelling on screen is back for its 20th anniversary

"...to celebrate in any given year of the annual Austin Film Festival, but seeing as this year marks the..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Top 10 Musical Triumphs, Plus Evidence That Austin Is Innovating the Classical World

Chronicle Arts writer Michael Kellerman recalls 2008, in classical music

"...1) Blue Rhapsody (Austin Chamber Music Center) The temptation was strong to top..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

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.

"...Musical theatre isn't exactly renowned for theological discourse. Once you..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Let Them Entertain You

The story of Austin Musical Theatre is itself a musical, complete with kids-with-a-dream beginnings, against-all-odds successes, and nail-chewing jams. Well, now comes the big-belting, high-kicking, pull-out-the-stops showstopper: a revue revisiting AMT's greatest song-and-dance numbers, Celebrate Austin Musical Theatre.

"...and Dolls. Well, here comes a ditty called Celebrate Austin Musical Theatre that is bound to, as the song..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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