Wandering Preachers, Holy Fools

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.

"...the Tennessee Williamses and Arthur Millers, at home on Broadway, their messages proclaimed in the grand temples of the..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Missing Broadway Texas..."

July 2, 2004 Column

Terrence McNally on Art and Commerce

The Tony-winning playwright talks about the business of show

"...at Columbia, practically every night. I was either on Broadway; Off Broadway; at the Metropolitan Opera; Philharmonic Hall; City..."

June 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Small Engine Repair

Toxic masculinity sizzles and pops, leading to a reeling third act

"...le mot juste, because Pollono, adapting from his own off-Broadway play, throws in a Molotov cocktail of a third-act..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wheels of a Dream

With the long-awaited Topfer Theatre, Zach races full-throttle into the future

"...technical complexity comparable to those in major resident theatres across the country and even in Broadway houses. The Topfer..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...Jimmy Carter, the Cold War, and the Ayatollah, Seventies America wasn't the stoner's paradise shown on revisionist fare like..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...officers hustled the second English punk band to play America (beat by the Damned in 1977) past 60 photographers..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Cabbie Knows

In Portland, Taxi Drivers Are Tuned Into the Food Scene

"...me in front of the Benson Hotel (309 SW Broadway, 503/228-2000), a charming turn-of-the-century hotel recommended by Chronicle co-workers...."

May 8, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Reissues

"...backdrops, the resulting synthesis of European classical formality and American jazz improvisation was so well-realized that it made the..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Plan Yourself a Hell of a Summer

Holy-moley, this is one smokin’ hot Summer Events Calendar

"...catalog expands to include Sia and Katy Perry numbers. texasperformingarts.org/event/moulin-rouge-broadway-austin-2025. The Drop-In..."

May 16, 2025 Features Feature by Chronicle Staff

First Generation

The 2011 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...become the third oldest continuously published literary quarterly in America, as well as the Curtain Club, which became a..."

June 3, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Master Builder

The impeccable craft and enduring genius of Arthur Miller, as explained by Tony Kushner

"...Caroline, or Change, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, you can see the younger writer carrying on the..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Dog' Has Its Day

Pro Arts Collective premieres Suzan-Lori Parks' breakthrough drama Topdog / Underdog.

"...Suzan-Lori Parks was living in the margins of the American theatre, one of those artists whose work was known..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Author Deborah Madison in Austin

Noted vegetarian cookbook author Deborah Madison comes to Austin with her new book, Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating From America's Farmers' Markets, in her basket.

"...her newest book, Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating From America's Farmers' Markets (Broadway Books, $39.95). It chronicles the resurgence..."

July 26, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

puh-LOB-o-liss!

How a handful of Dartmouth College stoners started a revolution in modern dance.

"...deep space to become the most exciting word in American dance, Richard M. Nixon was in his first term,..."

March 2, 2001 Arts Feature by John Job

Bigger, Better, Smarter

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

"...San Diego has one of America's finest harbors. It's the largest U.S. city that touches..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

`Tis the Season...

When Zachary Scott Theatre Center Flies With Angels

"...was Part One of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and..."

June 27, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Further Reflections

"...progress in her own life. "Drylongso" is an old African-American term that means "ordinary" or "just the same old..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

A Pinch of History, A Dash of Memoir

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

"...by Frances Mayes Broadway Books, $25 hard..."

June 11, 1999 Food Feature

A Question of Equity

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

"...membership of theatre professionals who are spread far beyond Broadway, and sometimes in such growing regions as Central Texas...."

June 9, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...Should he go free? That's a tough question. Sure, across his career, Cooper (née Vincent Furnier) has had his..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM: The Return of Our Angel

Marilyn Monroe has returned to us recently in various guises

"...her only as "Marilyn." Inevitably, someone asked her the American question: "What do you do?" She'd say something like..."

March 9, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

"...Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America. I'd read several admiring reviews – Michael Billington in..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Diamonds Are Forever

Does Baseball Still Matter?

"..."Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn base-ball, the rules, and realities of..."

June 23, 1995 Arts Feature

Books, Books, Books

The Summer of '95

"...-Margaret Moser "America was never innocent." James Ellroy's credo, it seems, as..."

June 2, 1995 Books Feature

Brighton Beach Memoirs: Sean Baker and Mikey Madison on Anora

How the new movie immerses itself in NYC's Russian enclave

"...a theme he revisited in his follow-up, Prince of Broadway, about a Ghanaian street vendor in Manhattan. Anora (in..."

Oct. 30, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Leonard for a Day

Louis Black and Leonard Maltin reminisce on 50 years of moviegoing

"...still living in Manhattan at the Regency Theatre on Broadway. We left walking on a cloud. Some people don't..."

May 24, 2013 Screens Feature

Best Beloveds

Molly Ivins' kickass boots are an ideal fit for prized actor Barbara Chisholm

"...with Ivins, including Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, and is a former editor of The Texas Observer,..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Feature by Amy Smith

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...The opening credits include the American International Pictures logo followed by "James H. Nicholson and..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Top 10 Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2006

"...The Musical (Zachary Scott Theatre Center) This unlikeliest of Broadway hits – a parody of Thirties political musicals, laden..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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