Le Placard (The Closet)

"...grande dame of Epic Overacting, Gerard Depardieu (Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac). He plays Félix Santini, a boorish, brashly..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Simple Twist of Fate

"...story. The 1987 film Roxanne, an adaptation of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, is a beautiful, endearing romance framed by..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Here are the sounds we’re consuming

"...bangers previously only heard as demos: "I Gotta Fever," "Cyrano DeBerger's Back," and the galloping nearly hardcore of "Delta..."

June 26, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019

History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year's most memorable shows

"...PATRICK DAVID WHEELER IN CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Archive Theater Company)..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Trey Gutierrez's Top 10 Moments That Left Audiences Speechless in 2019

The year celebrated through moments when performers stunned their audiences into silence

"...6) THE CYRANO DE BERGERAC ENSEMBLE (Archive Theater Company) A soundboard hiccup..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

Summer Stock Austin's Carnival

The production offers impressive spectacle, but the musical's treatment of women is still a problem

"...puppets aren't real. It's like Pride & Prejudice meets Cyrano meets Sesame Street...."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Page Two: You Always Remember the Dance

First steps, two step

"...medieval precedents while delivering a debater's killer closing like Cyrano taunting his antagonists...."

Sept. 25, 2015 Column by Louis Black

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...Beyond Leslie Hollingsworth, Chicago (Half & Half) Marc Pouhé, Cyrano de Bergerac/The Mountaintop/The Taming of the Shrew Gricelda Silva,..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Beyond Leslie Hollingsworth, Chicago (Half & Half) Marc Pouhé, Cyrano de Bergerac/The Mountaintop/The Taming of the Shrew Gricelda Silva,..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Marc Pouhé, Cyrano de Bergerac/The Mountaintop/The Taming of the Shrew..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Top 10 (+1) Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2012

In 2012, dance memorably explored profound topics, and classical embraced Charlie Brown and George Washington

"...B MINOR' (Austin Symphony Orchestra) Cellist Bion Tsang as Cyrano, swashing and buckling his way through the robust, romantic..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Try To Remember

How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical

"...little piece by Edmond Rostand, who's chiefly remembered for Cyrano de Bergerac, but the version to which Jones was..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 9 Ways to Decorate a Set

Looking back at 2009 through its most memorable scenic designs

"...3) STEPHEN PRUITT FOR 'CYRANO DE BERGERAC' (MARY MOODY NORTHEN THEATRE) Mirrors, mirrors everywhere!..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Top 9 Theatre Productions of 2009 That Did Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention

A year of failed romances, Greek myths, and more that were staged so ingeniously

"...6) 'CYRANO DE BERGERAC' (MARY MOODY NORTHEN THEATRE) A grand romantic..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"...Mick D'Arcy, Cyrano de Bergerac..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001

"...The Beaux's Stratagem and The Duchess of Malfi and Cyrano de Bergerac and The Beggar's Opera and Antigone, and..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...P. Dowd in Harvey or the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac. Classics or modern, cerebral or goofy, children's..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants

A dollop of creme de la trivia atop your weekly data eclair.

"...its first appearance in a 1657 novel by Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac...."

May 25, 2001 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Royal Pair: Games We Play

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's latest offering, Royal Pair: Games We Play, offered abstracted versions of popular children's games with subtle humor and playfulness, yet the production's lighting and electronica-style accompaniment conflicted with the choreography in what seemed a friendly battle, for center stage.

"...Pair: Games We Play, sprang from a quote from Cyrano de Bergerac ("No more wonder than getting a royal..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Review by Dawn Davis Loring

Public Notice

Your pals at Pub Notes say, "Get your love on in the name of ol' Saint Valentine!" Here are some suggestions to take your lover a step or two beyond the flowers and chocolate routine and benefit a few local causes, to boot.

"...life-sustaining limbs only to serve as your own personal Cyrano de Bergerac. Crappier still is when the flowers outlast..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

TV Eye

As a television viewer, I'm amused by the 2000 presidential election. As a citizen, I'm appalled.

"...Will & Grace. Last week's episode found Will playing Cyrano for Jack (Sean Hayes), who tried to woo a..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

With a Twist: Literary Classics Get a Modern Makeover

"...In this teen romance loosely based on Cyrano de Bergerac, two young high school boys -- one..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Theatre Critics Table Nominations 1997

"...E. Savas, The Bacchae: Torn to Pieces Michael Stuart, Cyrano Douglas Taylor, Black Coffee Actor, Comedy Michael Arthur, Craving..."

May 9, 1997 Arts Feature

Peerless

All About Joe (York)

"...(Sin), Bill McMillin (Critical Mass Productions), and Michael Stuart (Cyrano) -- and to hear him tell it, almost no..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Just the Goofy Guy

The Actor Behind the Antics of Michael Stuart

"...all the resources in Stuart's considerable bag of tricks: Cyrano de Bergerac, in The Public Domain's production of the..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film

Film Reviews

"...a love story of the first order, a sweet Cyrano tale and, in fact, one of the sweetest stories..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a love story of the first order, a sweet Cyrano tale and, in fact, one of the sweetest stories..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...a love story of the first order, a sweet Cyrano tale and, in fact, one of the sweetest stories..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

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