Review: Broadway in Austin’s Chicago

Hello, suckers!

"...it has flown in the face of more conventional musicals since its premiere in 1975. It asks audiences for..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: The Stage Austin's Hedwig and the Angry Inch

An audacious but underwhelming walk on the wild side

"...In mainstream musicals about musicians, like Jersey Boys (The Four Seasons), Beautiful..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Mean Girls

Tina Fey’s musical induces laughter, sensory overload, and acid reflux

"...Some musicals tug at your heartstrings (Dear Evan Hansen), punch you..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

Now is the Summer of our discontent after this flat jukebox

"...is the case with so many other bio jukebox musicals, in the second half of the show, the writing..."

May 7, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

Hot Summer Nights 4 Mixtape, Y2, Witchcryer, Suzanne Santo, Hovvdy, and James McMurtry

"...for the Banding Together ATX grant relief program benefitting Austin's entertainment workers. While the playlist leans rock, some of..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Summer Stock Austin Gets Fired Up to Go Back Onstage

Cheer up with Bring It On: The Musical

"...of live performance, but the crew at Summer Stock Austin will be doing it for real when they return..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Theatres Are Moving the Stage Beyond Zoom

Companies thinking outside the boxes bring theatre to your radio, your mailbox, and your neighbor's yard

"...happy hours – had gone: Zoom. Solo shows, Shakespeare, musicals, all were performed inside the Brady Bunch boxes on..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards Goes Digital

The Long Center’s annual celebration of excellence in high school musical theatre moves center stage to center screen

"...The Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Award show is like a..."

May 29, 2020 Arts Feature by Nataleah Small

Portraits of Austin Musicians With Their Pets During Stay-at-Home

"...Carrie Fussell, Jerry Sparkman and Josh Bickley (Calliope Musicals) with Crackers (cat) and Reeses (dog)..."

May 7, 2020 Photo Gallery

Austin Playhouse's She Loves Me

This old-fashioned rom-com musical oozes charm and earns its Pollyanna platitudes

"...Mail. So agreeable in tone and temperament is this Austin Playhouse production that it is not hard to imagine..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

Summer Stock Austin's Haunted: A Ghost Story

This new musical by Allen Robertson and Damon Brown is darker than their usual fare, but there's light at the end

"...merry band that filled the duo's prior Summer Stock Austin productions. In their place is an all-too-familiar clique of..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony's Happy Birthday, Lenny

In its concert celebrating Bernstein, the ASO shows the composer giving his all in even the briefest of works

"...That's what you heard again and again in the Austin Symphony's centenary celebration of the beloved, revered, and definitely..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Summer Stock Austin's A Shoe Story

Allen Robertson and Damon Brown's new musical reinvents "The Elves and the Shoemaker" as a timely tale of refugees but in a clever, playful way

"...as their ears. Just as in the duo's prior musicals for Summer Stock Austin (The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Tortoise..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

2016-17 Austin Music Awards

"...Best New Austin Band and Best Female Vocals winner Jane Ellen Bryant..."

March 13, 2017 Photo Gallery

Austin Jousters A-Z

Locals take the stage

"...BoomBaptistSun., 2:20pm, Forest stage Breakout beatmaker Andrew Thaggard, of Austin's Applied Pressure crew, brings a technician's touch to hip-hop,..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Summer Stock Austin's Carnival

The production offers impressive spectacle, but the musical's treatment of women is still a problem

"...challenging songs capably and with charm in Summer Stock Austin's production. Whether or not as an audience member you..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Austin Playhouse's A Little Night Music

Wonderful musical numbers, strong voices highlight Austin Playhouse's A Little Night Music

"...Not exceedingly fond of musicals and embarrassingly unfamiliar with Stephen Sondheim, I worried how..."

June 24, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

2015-16 Austin Music Awards Winners

"...Calliope Musicals..."

March 17, 2016 Photo Gallery

2015-16 Austin Music Awards

"...Calliope Musicals accepts the award for Best New Band..."

March 17, 2016 Photo Gallery

Frizzi 2 Fulci Haunts Austin

Fabio Frizzi on melody and mayhem with Lucio Fulci

"...a warm-up to this weekend’s MondoCon, takes place at Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church. For Mondo Creative Director Jay Shaw,..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fragile Rock: Austin's Emo Puppet Band

Maybe the world's only emo puppet band?

"...This all started because Brently Heilbron, formerly of old-school Austin improv troupe Monks' Night Out and frequent perp of..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...That talent emerged after the Austinite clocked considerable hours in the homey front room of..."

June 4, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...The uplifting Pre-Form, Future Museums' latest release for renowned Austin electronic outfit Holodeck Records, experienced what lead sound designer..."

April 16, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Here Are Your 2018/19 Austin Music Award Winners

Best band, musician, song, radio station, and more Top 10s chosen by you

"...BEST OF THE YEAR Best Austin Band..."

March 1, 2019 Music Feature

Austin Playwright’s Final Play Might Have Died With Him, but a Community Joined Together to Ensure Its Survival

Saving Jason Tremblay’s Gretel! The Musical

"...in that he lived it. Two years ago, the Austin playwright had begun work on a new project for..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Playhouse's Shakespeare in Love

The Oscar-winning film makes a successful transition to the stage through Don Toner's marvelous production

"...Most established theatre companies in Austin have a distinctive "voice" to their work, and Austin..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Austin's Paramount Theatre Turns 100

As the grande dame of Austin theatres turns 100, it matters more than ever

"...What we cherish now as the grande dame of Austin theatres had at that point about as much life..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin on Broadway: More Shooting Stars Than Ever

There have never been as many Austinites in Broadway shows as there are now

"...It isn't as if an Austin actor has never made it to Broadway. Joe Sears..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Payne Pleasures 2004

Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals

"...with sexual abuse may have been unlikely protagonists for musicals, but the shows that starred them turned out to..."

Aug. 20, 2004 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..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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