New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...No fan of lockdown, the iconic and irascible Austin High graduate, 75, keeps busy by ruminating on life...."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Dance India Calls on Us All to Respect Mother Earth

Multimedia, multicultural production Sacred Earth Stories appeals to the heart

"...live by local musicians, with spoken word commentary by Austin Critics Table Award winner Carla Nickerson and projected images..."

June 28, 2019 Arts Feature by Sumaiya Malik

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

The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop

Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America

"...too white for black kids and too black for Austin's vast majority, although you can be any color and..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Music Feature by Clara Wang

'When Austin Got Weird' Party at the Bullock

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum celebrated the opening of 'When Austin Got Weird' poster show last Friday, July 11

"...Texas State History Museum celebrated the opening of 'When Austin Got Weird' poster show last Friday, July 11..."

July 15, 2014 Photo Gallery

A Guide to Austin's Musical Theatre Scene

"...In Austin, these are good days for getting that razzle-dazzle rush..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Off Beat: Walker Lukens’ “Good Weird,” Austin-Centric Year-End Revue

Omnipresent producer brings variety show The Last Walt back to Paramount Theatre

"...Former Calliope Musicals frontwoman Carrie Fussell plays The Last Walt II under her new moniker BRUCE,..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

Theatre Review: Austin Shakespeare Presents Jane Eyre

Inventive production refreshes a classic tale of love and liberty

"...the novel’s 1847 debut, it’s been made into films, plays, and even a questionable musical. After all, what’s not..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Austin Film Festival: “Two Cents & a Footlong”

Kanin Guntzelman shows how one question can change a life

"...In Guntzelman's short, which screens at Austin Film Festival as part of the Shorts Program 2:..."

Oct. 26, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Austin Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Less-than-magical production salvaged by a night of unexpected spontaneity

"...Shakespeare wrote many of his greatest and most tragic plays in quarantine in late 16th- and early 17th-century London,..."

May 13, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Penfold Theatre Gives Live Readings of Radio Plays in the Ransom Center Archives

The company has dusted off radio adaptations of Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, and Thackeray for the 21st century to hear – live

"...Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Charles Laughton, and even Austin homeboy Zachary Scott. However the show did it, it..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re spending time with

"...Los Coast's first foray into country music preceded the Austin psych-soul troupe leaving on tour last year. A cover..."

May 8, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Get to Know Austin R&B True Blue Alesia Lani

The ACL Fest performer invites listeners into her universe

"...I first met Missouri-born and Austin-bred Alesia Buchanan at Cafe Java, a coffee-and-eggs spot corner-situated..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Austin Playhouse's Holmes and Watson

The joy in this staging of Jeffrey Hatcher's play is seeing the good doctor deduce which of three Sherlocks is the real deal

"...and who has written the characters in two other plays and a film, wants to do right by them...."

Sept. 13, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Film Festival Brings Paul Dano's Wildlife to Town

The actor becomes director with literary family drama

"...feature film, Wildlife, which screens this week at the Austin Film Festival. He sat for an interview last month..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 25th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

The lowdown on the 2017 submissions, judges, 10 finalists, and the prize-winning stories

"...to have been a big part of the 25th Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest, too...."

June 9, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Drum Legend Jack DeJohnette Returns to Austin

We talk to the jazz titan about Coltrane, his latest album, and more

"...Hudson River Valley on the occasion of his first Austin date since gigs with Miles Davis at the Armadillo..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The 24th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

The lowdown on the 2015 submissions, judges, 10 finalists, and the prize-winning stories

"...Ankara, Rome, and New York City before coming to Austin. She currently works in international education and is writing..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Film Festival: The Lion’s Path

He is Nietzschean, hear him roar

"...splendor. Overseen by leader/guru Gabriel (Sébastien Delorme), the film plays out, initially, like a horror movie waiting to happen...."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Elijah Wood Plays Impossible Tunes in 'Grand Piano'

Director Eugenio Mira and Wood on real time thrills and music lessons

"...Vigalondo's friend and score composer Eugenio Mira) opens in Austin this Friday...."

March 6, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Dot on That Great Golden Globe

'Before Midnight' and 'Dallas Buyers Club' get some HFPA lovin'

"...Austin's favorite bongo-player Matthew McConaughey garnered a nomination for his..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

Game On Austin

November 21, 2013. 15 photos.

"...Players came out to Game On Austin at the Empire Control Room to see new and..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Photo Gallery

England Plays Through

Boxing Day football from England

"...headlined by three Italy-England matchups (see full list below). Plays starts Feb. 24-25...."

Dec. 22, 2008 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

Austin Script Works: A daily dose does a playwright good

ASW helps writers face down the obstacles between them and their keyboards

"...Austin Script Works knows this. This summer, the service organization..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Austin Wranglers

"...to film 12 episodes of Friday Night Lights in Austin beginning in August. Each episode is expected to have..."

June 16, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Austin Playwrights

Four Austin playwrights are getting the opportunity to develop and showcase new work in the Big Apple

"...Michener Center for Writers and is soon to depart Austin, but in her final weeks here she received word..."

June 2, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Programs That Let Austin Youth Speak Out A Stage of Their Own

"...interviewed for this story who are involved in various Austin youth theatre programs. They know that what they are..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

ColdTowne Theater Hosts Inaugural Black Austin Film Festival

A weekend of screenings, improv workshops, and more

"...ColdTowne Theater’s twist on Cap City’s legacy – Black Austin Film Festival – brings together world-renowned artists and local..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Screens Feature by Jasmine Iman Wright

Austin Filmmaker Brings Her Rap Drama Back Home

Katherine Propper finds family in Lost Soulz at Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival

"...of an adult filmmaker. When I talked with the Austin filmmaker in 2022 about her last short, hybrid docudrama..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Trial of APD Officer Will Be One of the Most Consequential in Austin History

Here’s what it could mean for our city and for how law enforcement is held accountable

"...One of the most consequential trials in Austin history began this week, as attorneys spent hours selecting..."

Oct. 20, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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