Review: Broadway in Austin's Hamilton

This national touring production doesn't throw away its shot

"...The hugely popular musical about America’s founding fathers that positions Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton as..."

May 30, 2019 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

Chicago

The current touring version of this Kander & Ebb musical doesn't deliver much in the way of spectacle

"...Chicago is the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. That fact is right on..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Long Center/Texas Performing Arts

Austin's biggest concert halls team up to present touring Broadway musicals

"...the new facility compete for all those big touring Broadway musicals that the University of Texas Performing Arts Center..."

March 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'A Chorus Line'

Long Center launches its new musical series with a singular sensation

"...for 2013-14. A Chorus Line, that singular sensation about Broadway's anonymous hoofers and what they did for love, opens..."

July 19, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

The stage musical version of The Lion King finally lands in Texas, and even four years into its Broadway run, the show still truly creates a world of wonders.

"...Since it opened on Broadway in 1997, The Lion King has been a genuine..."

July 19, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Wicked

An election-year return to Oz finds the hit musical packing an extra punch

"...the classic film at 13, and obsessed over the Broadway musical Wicked at 15...."

Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Kate Shindle Talks Fun Home

The former Miss America on why she loves starring in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical

"...up in Fun Home by accident. The former Miss America, current president of Actors' Equity, author, and lifelong AIDS..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Howdy, Pardner!

In 2010, the watchword among Austin creatives was 'collaboration'

"...with recognition for local dance pioneers Acia Gray (the American Tap Dance Foundation's Hoofer Award), Sally Jacques (a chapter..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gay Place: Liberace Was Gay???

Adelina Anthony comes back to town, and Liberace on the radio

"...PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT A*FAB Austin and Broadway Across America present the camp classic. Buy your ticket..."

May 10, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

From Outerspaces to Deep Inside, this is the week that is... gay

"...PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT A*FAB Austin and Broadway Across America presents the camp classic. Buy your ticket..."

May 3, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Place

Volleyballin' it, on the court and on the big screen

"...PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT A*FAB Austin and Broadway Across America present the camp classic. Buy your ticket..."

April 26, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

He Will Go and He Will Shine

'Billy Elliot the Musical' reviewed

"...Bass Concert Hall stage with the arrival of the Broadway Across America national tour of 'Billy Elliot the Musical.'..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Sound of Music

The Hillside comes alive with a joyful production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic

"...in Austin since Wicked – and that was a Broadway Across America touring show...."

July 20, 2012 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

Radio City Christmas Spectacular

Well-executed entertainment that still left the writer pining for more art

"...www.broadwayacrossamerica.com..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Annie: A review

Roadshow at Bass Concert Hall, June 5-7

"...Presented by H-E-B Broadway Across America-Austin...."

June 6, 2009 Arts Post by Katherine Gregor

Hamilton's Resident Director Makes Bass the Room Where It Happens

Austinite Ashley Brooke Monroe leads the touring Broadway show back to the stage she loves

"...For many Austinites, their first taste of a Broadway show doesn't involve walking up Seventh Avenue from Times..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Word Is Out

After Broadway, Def Poetry Jam goes national and Austin's Pro Arts Collective snags them

"...the megamusicals and million-dollar star vehicles and shouted, "Hey, America, the word still matters!" It was a gutsy move..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Step

Inspiring doc on Baltimore teenagers

"...senior struggles are demonstrative of situations faced by young African-American women in cities across America. Frustratingly, Step, on occasion,..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sarah Vowell's Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman

"...development at the Public Theater, the show opened on Broadway to rave reviews, but it was NPR's free streaming..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...Mateo Director: Aaron I. Naar Mateo follows America's most notorious white mariachi singer on his misadventures in..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Dinos, Sharks, Muppets, and Lots of Fireworks Lead Our Recommended Events

Get ready for the Fourth or the weekend in general

"...Symphony Orchestra will fill the air – probably including “America the Beautiful,” the best of our nationalistic themes –..."

July 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Review: Come From Away

Tale of ordinary people embracing strangers is extraordinary

"...people of all different sizes, shapes, and ages. Most Broadway musical casts are full of lithe young singer-dancers, with..."

Feb. 19, 2020 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

Scanlines

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

"...to hit the big screen, series creator Judge takes America's two most notorious miscreants and sends them around the..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...in terms of people's homes and what they're doing across America, it's really more what they're not doing. Nobody's..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...This new animated feature from Amblin Entertainment (Casper, An American Tail) is based on a true story about a..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

From the Vaults: Hoops Players Onscreen

Let's hope Kevin Durant's film career doesn't go the way of Shaq's

"...new movie starring Kevin Durant, opens today in theatres across America. Durant plays himself in the film, a skilled..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exit 'Downtown,' Right on Sunset

In her latest project, singer Petula Clark sets aside her image as chirpy pop starlet to play mad screen diva Norma Desmond in the musical version of Sunset Blvd. Clark tells Stephen MacMillan Moser how she came by this radical departure in roles.

"...since the early Fifties. Seemingly an overnight success in America, she had already been a major star for most..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Taking the World Stage

How more theatre made Here is getting Out There and what that means

"...country for two years and is now negotiating an off-Broadway run...."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...It's where they do the moving that's often surprising: across the faces of skyscrapers and in office lobbies, atop..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The House That PAC Built

"...that sprawling complex of theatres and recital halls scattered across the 40 Acres, a similar chain of connections suggests..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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