Broadway Leading Lady Carolee Carmello on Taking Over Dolly!

Hello, Dolly prepares for run at Bass Concert Hall

"...Carolee Carmello is probably the most prolific Broadway leading lady you’ve never heard of. She may not..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Tyler Mount's Broadway Success

Playbill vlog king hosts High School Musical Theatre Awards

"...Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards begin tonight, Broadway will be in the house. That's because the ceremony..."

April 18, 2018 Arts Post 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

"...if an Austin actor has never made it to Broadway. Joe Sears and Jaston Williams celebrated A Tuna Christmas..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Chicago

Hello, suckers!

"...full price for a non-Equity, streamlined staging of the revival of the original Broadway show. We're suckers because we've..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...favorite local institutions launch special exhibition series devoted to revivals and classic movie fare...."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Every Little Step

This pleasingly meta documentary about the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line intersperses clips from Michael Bennett's original interviews with key players with scenes from the exhaustive search for a new cast.

"...and Adam Del Deo. 1974: A group of 18 Broadway dancers gather in a room. They aren't the stars..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Review: Zach's The Rocky Horror Show Still Tasteless, Plotless, Pointless, and Perfect

Cult classic is a welcome jump to the left, step to the right

"...When The Rocky Horror Show opened on Broadway in 1975, Newsweek found the outrageous rock musical by..."

April 18, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Fiddler on the Roof at Bass

Road show on through Sunday

"...plays Tevye, reprising his lead role in the record-breaking Broadway revival. It’s a great play - if you go,..."

March 4, 2010 Arts Post by Katherine Gregor

Brass Ring Lessons

How TexARTS' first two go-rounds in staging classic musicals are helping to make its new Carousel ride a winner

"...by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the Broadway stage in 1945 – and with it comes a..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Megan McGinnis is Full of Life in Beetlejuice, the Show About Death

The Broadway star on the magic of bringing a movie to the stage

"...Not Megan McGinnis: because as Barbara Maitland in the Broadway in Austin production of Beetlejuice, passing into the afterlife..."

Feb. 6, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Twice That Jazz

Double the mayhem, double the heat when Austin Playhouse and Georgetown Palace both stage Chicago

"...success of the 2002 Oscar-winning film version and the Broadway revival, now in its 19th year, testify to Chicago's..."

May 29, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Terrence McNally Knows About Lasting Impact

About to open a new play at Zach Theatre, the Tony Award-winning playwright talks about what endures

"...Compassion! received a Distinguished Lifetime Service Award at the Broadway League's Spring Road Conference. The following week, he celebrated..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

But You Can Win Her Yet

TexARTS revives a classic musical and a big musical theatre dream

"...it taught by nine New York professionals, including current Broadway performers, Tony nominees, and a leading dancer with the..."

June 23, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pippin

Summer Stock Austin embraces the sprawling fun and surreal silliness of this durable coming-of-age musical

"...through its countless high school productions to the recent Broadway revival (which cleaned up at this year's Tony Awards),..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

The 'It' Program

Musical theatre struts back onstage at Texas State to rave reviews

"...ago was performing eight shows a week in the pre-Broadway tour of Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage,..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: Zach Theatre’s The Sound of Music

New production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic tries to forget the Julie Andrews film, and finds new political relevance

"...Although The Sound of Music began as a 1959 Broadway production that won five Tony Awards and ran for..."

July 1, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Sue's Turn

After years of thwarting the singing kids on Glee, Jane Lynch takes the stage to belt some tunes herself

"...she developed while playing Miss Hannigan in the 2013 Broadway revival of Annie. By phone, Lynch told the Chronicle..."

March 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Special Kaye

Vaudeville, Broadway, TV, film &ndash Kaye Ballard has done it all

"...a career. Not Kaye Ballard. This veteran of vaudeville, Broadway, television, cabaret, and film is still at it, and..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

TV Eye

"TV Eye" delivers the skinny on the (mostly unimpressive) summer season debuts.

"...woman of any substance was last week's episode with Broadway actress Lea DeLaria. Unfortunately, her "cage interview" was woefully..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Articulations

Let's Do the Time Warp Again!

"...rights pulled when the national tour of the current Broadway revival fired up.)..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Review: Different Stages' The Tavern

Not to be melodramatic but, damn, Different Stage's revival is a satire worth sitting through

"...course of his remarkable career. Among them are "Mr. Broadway" (the result of the dozens of hit musicals and..."

March 24, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Austin Opera’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sharp Sondheim staging could benefit from some musical raggedness

"...downsized dramatis personae. Other offerings, such as the 2004 Broadway revival, have on-stage actors accompanying themselves on musical instruments..."

Feb. 1, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Sophisticated Ladies

Zach Theatre's revival of this Ellington revue is just like Sir Duke's music: elegant and wildly entertaining

"...revue in his honor, titled Sophisticated Ladies, made its Broadway debut. The show is being revived in Zach's beautiful..."

July 31, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Better All the Time

Cabaret and musical legend Barbara Cook is still learning

"...may think Barbara Cook hit the heights musically on Broadway in the Golden Age of Musicals, but the original..."

Sept. 19, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Is Life Worth Living?

This obscure Irish comedy really answers the question: Why do we need theatre?

"...of Different Stages' 32nd season. Though it saw an off-Broadway revival in 2009, the comedy is not exactly a..."

July 13, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Return to Clod-Cuckold-Land

Director David Yeakle revisits 'The Three Cuckolds,' the commedia classic that got his Tongue in Groove

"...Award-winner for his turn opposite Kathleen Turner in the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? called the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Annie Get Your Gun

Zilker Theatre Productions' staging of 'Annie Get Your Gun' is delightful enough to make you feel there are no show people like show people

"...Director Scott Schroeder follows the lead of the recent Broadway revival, which had Peter Stone prune much of the..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

It Takes a Village Idiot: Complicating the Simple Life

"...country's current pop culture obsessions, Mullen quipped that the Broadway revival of Mel Brooks' The Producers had collected 15..."

May 25, 2001 Books Review by Stuart Wade

Dance:

"...Sixties corporate ambition. This touring production of the recent Broadway revival stars Ralph Macchio. August 6-18, Tue-Sun, 8pm, Sat..."

July 19, 1996 Arts Feature

The Color Purple

Musical of Alice Walker's classic novel raised by stacked cast

"...Academy Award-nominated film from Steven Spielberg, and a 2005 Broadway musical smash with a Tony-winning revival in 2016. Now,..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

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