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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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

"Fair" Play
Director Scott Thompson doesn't want the audience for Austin Musical Theatre's production of My Fair Lady to get too comfy, and here's why.
"...audience, and while you might think the co-founder of Austin Musical Theatre would welcome a crowd who knows a..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

But You Can Win Her Yet
TexARTS revives a classic musical and a big musical theatre dream
"...some of the young charges in TexARTS' Summer Intensive Musical Theater Academy, and as the sweat-stained T-shirt on Robin..."

June 23, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

An Angel for AMT
The recent fiscal crisis for Austin Musical Theatre threatened to keep the company from mounting any future productions, but producer Charles Duggan has come to AMT's rescue, offering to produce a week-long retrospective of musical numbers from the company's first 15 productions.
"...They don't call 'em angels for nothing. When theatre backers provide an infusion of cash for a show..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Of Thee I Sing (and Dance)
The musical is America's gift to theatre, and here's the local state of the union
"...What better time to celebrate the musical than the month in which our nation was founded?..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 'It' Program
Musical theatre struts back onstage at Texas State to rave reviews
"...On Aug. 11 of this year, the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University-San Marcos woke up..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!
The full list of winners for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art, as presented during its annual ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.
"...On Monday, June 2, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Places at the Table
The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.
"...of it. That essentially describes the reaction of the Austin Critics Table to the last year in the arts...."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Just Another Pretty Face
With the Naughty Austin theatre company, there's more than meets the eye.
"...That's how it works in Pageant, the widely produced musical comedy by Bill Russell and Frank Kelly, receiving its..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

High School Thesps Earn More Than Applause
New area musical theatre awards announce first nominations
"...across the area packed into the Long Center's Rollins Theatre, some having driven 40 miles before dawn to make..."

March 21, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bombshell Incoming
'Smash' star Megan Hilty launches Zach concert series tonight
"...Last fall, Zach booked musical theatre legend Bernadette Peters to bless the Topfer Theatre..."

June 18, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dreaming ART
This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.
"...Spring Storm is receiving its world premiere production in Austin. Inside the B. Iden Payne Theatre, an opening-night crowd..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2019 B. Iden Payne Award Winners
Five shows share top honors with four awards each
"...For many in Austin's theatre community, they will remember, remember the fourth of..."

Nov. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Let Him Entertain You
Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen
"...first decade of the 21st century to the second, Austin-based producer Duggan is giving his hometown a heapin' helping..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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