Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Kate Peterman, Colin Weatherby, Caroline Kwan, Will Neff, Jesse Benjamin, Claudia Restrepo (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Street Corner Arts' Junk

Ayad Akhtar's drama about Eighties junk bond traders plays like a prequel to 21st century America and its financial crises

"...Arts has gathered a strong ensemble, and thanks to Benjamin Summers' direction, every character's arc is clear and well-mapped...."

March 8, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Benjamin Summers, Pocatello Dustin Wills, Catalina de Erauso Hannah Wolf,..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Street Corner Arts' Grounded

Every element of this production works together to get us inside the head of a troubled military flyer

"...stick jockey as she is a devoted mom. Director Benjamin Summers successfully assists Danko in shaping the character, avoiding..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Street Corner Arts' Pocatello

Rich performances highlight the pain, hope, and heart in this staging of Samuel D. Hunter's family drama

"...during "Family Week." In Street Corner Arts' production, director Benjamin Summers finds all the nooks and crannies of each..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Street Corner Arts' Bull

Street Corner Arts turns a corporate office into a ring where fighting for your job is a bloodsport

"...and its deft handling by the actors and director Benjamin Summers. But perhaps that's the playwright's point. The business..."

April 22, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Realistic Joneses at Hyde Park Theatre

With Will Eno's comic drama, HPT brings a funny kind of fear to the 'burbs

"...quick-to-blurt Pony; the dimming light in the eyes of Benjamin Summers' downward-spiraling John. And the lack of movement in..."

March 18, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Playhouse's The Philadelphia Story

Don Toner's direction and a top-drawer cast make for a riotous evening in this version of Philip Barry's crisp comedy

"...Lord, his twitchy energy relaying his character's on-the-move nature. Benjamin Summers and Lara Wright give us a glimpse at..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Top 10 Theatre Duos & Trios of 2014

Remembering a year in theatre in which performers distinguished themselves in twos and threes

"...2) BENJAMIN SUMMERS & J. BEN WOLFE IN THE LIAR (Austin..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Waiting for Lefty

Street Corner Arts reveals how Clifford Odets did immersive theatre nearly 80 years ago

"...set in the Great Depression," as noted by director Benjamin Summers in the program (cleverly designed as a leaflet)..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

A Bright New Boise

Hyde Park Theatre's latest takes a compelling look at religious extremism through a glass, darkly

"...Benjamin Summers, as the dad who's stalked his way to..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Winedale's Lauds and Losses?

Shakespeare program earns honors as historic buildings fade

"...of the students who took part (including this writer, summers '78 and '80) that eventually academia and the realm..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Liar

Austin Playhouse's colorful production gives heightened dimension to an already heightened farce

"...As the title character, Benjamin Summers is hardly recognizable from the kinds of roles..."

March 7, 2014 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Top 10 Dramatic Turns of 2013

A look back at some of the year's most gripping performances

"...6/7) MICHAEL STUART AND BENJAMIN SUMMERS IN 'A WALK IN THE WOODS' (Street Corner..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Tragedy: a tragedy

Hyde Park fave playwright Will Eno keenly satirizes the TV news biz when a team covers the day the sun doesn't rise

"...the Legal Advisor (Michael Ferstenfeld); John in the Field (Benjamin Summers); the Witness (Nathan Brockett); and the Technician (Nahila..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

A Walk in the Woods

Street Corner Arts revives this tale of Cold War arms negotiations with style, notably in the forest set

"...Botvinnik's American counterpart, John Honeyman (a visceral and teeming Benjamin Summers). The Crowleys know how to support the rhetorical..."

July 26, 2013 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Two wounded friends walk a line between nostalgia and regret in Street Corner Arts' staging of Rajiv Joseph's play

"...Though we meet Kayleen (Molly Karrasch) and Doug (Benjamin Summers) when they are 8 years old and leave..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Review by Matthew Irwin

Born Yesterday

Austin Playhouse's tight revival of the 65-year-old political comedy never shows its age

"...to get a senator's assistance for a briefcase of Benjamins. He's a bully, with a bully's sense of entitlement..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Men of Tortuga

Rare is the theatre company whose debut is as deft and precise as Street Corner Arts' is

"...Wayne Bradley, Joe Penrod, Garry Peters, Rommel Sulit, and Benjamin Summers were doing anything but enjoying every manipulative minute..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

Six actors play everyone in the holiday favorite, and they become Bedford Falls

"...their own characterizations of the citizens of Bedford Falls. Benjamin Summers fuels his George with a youthful fire, making..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

2007-2008 B. Iden Payne Award Nominations

The full list of honorees for the Austin Circle of Theatres' annual theatre honors

"...Jude Hickey and Benjamin Summers (The Lonesome West)..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature

2008 Payne Awards Nominations

The full list of honorees for the Austin Circle of Theatres' annual theatre honors

"...Jude Hickey and Benjamin Summers (The Lonesome West)..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...James Mottern
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Joey Lauren Adams, Benjamin Bratt, Jimmy Bennett Regional Premiere..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Underneath its vulgar, profane surface, Bert V. Royal's look at the Peanuts gang as teens still honors its source material

"...As Matt, the homophobe who doth protest too much, Benjamin Summers is a fiercely focused villain. Kayla Newman is..."

May 30, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

The Lonesome West

Hyde Park's return to Martin McDonagh territory is as wickedly delicious as the potato alcohol his play's bickering brothers gulp down

"...Connor brothers, and the acting by Jude Hickey and Benjamin Summers is quite strong throughout. Summers in particular deserves..."

March 21, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

The Helio Sequence

Friday

"...march at home on a Modest Mouse effort (drummer Benjamin Weikel worked briefly with that group). The bad: "Shed..."

March 14, 2008 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

The World as He Knows It

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.

"...and grandfather's cutlery business from grade school on, including summers while he was an undergraduate at Stanford. "I really..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...THE HELIO SEQUENCE: This Portland, Ore., duo, vocalist/guitarist Brandon Summers and beat keyboardist Benjamin Weikel documented their message on..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Postscripts

Austin literary agent Jim Hornfischer hasn't been sleeping. He's taking the bar at the end of the month, he and his wife have three children, and he recently founded his own agency, Hornfischer Literary Management, Inc., after eight years with The Literary Group, an agency headquartered in New York known for handling celebrity books.

"...Brands' The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, $35), which was a finalist for the..."

July 13, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...THE HELIO SEQUENCE: This young duo of Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel has been making quite a buzz..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

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