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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.
"...Renee Nunez, whose long limbs expanded to fill the stage with beautiful lines and three-dimensional shaping while her fellow..."

May 11, 2001 Arts Review by Dawn Davis Loring

Dispatches From the Edge
Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe
"...it is a sex toy hopping madly around the stage like some horny jumping jack. At center stage, a..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Ben Willcott

Real Estate and Perfect Mates
The year 2000 in the Austin arts, with Top 10 lists by Chronicle Arts critics and their picks for stories and personalities of the year.
"...performing arts: The Hideout, the Mary Ann Heller Opera Center, the Blue Theater, and the Bad Dog Comedy Theater...."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations
Director Don Toner makes his exit from the State Theater Company, and Austin creeps back into the pages of American Theatre magazine.
"...American Theatre magazine, the premier periodical of the nation's stagehounds, keep finding mention of the Austin arts scene creeping..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations
More money for the Long Center, more art for AMOA, and more national exposure for a Flaming Idiot.
"...gifts for the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts. Last week, arts patrons Bill..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Show and Tell
Spring Previews 2000
"...order to get this gangster movie financed. The film centers on a mob hit man named "Ghost Dog" (Whitaker..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Doctor Madd Vibe, Tall, Dark & Lonesome Emo's, January 21
"...energy he poured into his former role as vocalist/ saxophonist/stage-jumping madman for seminal punk-ska group Fishbone, Angelo Moore took..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Public Notice
Haute Kid-ture
"...Austin Center for Attitudinal Healing presents their first Wild, Wacky &..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column by Kate X Messer

In Person
"...band the Wild Monkeys. Who Do then took the stage to the immediate swaying of much of the crowd..."

April 24, 1998 Books Feature

Austin Aqua Festival '97
"...a clown, and he plays the Captain Barton's Cove Stage tonight, Thursday, the first night of Aqua Fest. That's..."

July 25, 1997 Music Feature

Played Out
After 14 Years, Capitol City Playhouse Is Evicted
"...14 years now, having produced an abundance of memorable stage work and been a leader in the development and..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hit Man
Glen Powell co-wrote this real-life wild tale of a professor who goes undercover as a fake hitman
"...Gary is abruptly pushed from behind the scenes to center stage. Tasked with pretending to be a hit man..."

May 24, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bob Dylan Puts an End to “Rough and Rowdy Ways” With Two Nights in Austin
Triumphant world tour concludes at ACL Live at the Moody
"...request: “Play something we know!” she shouted to the stage...."

April 8, 2024 Music Post by Shawn Badgley

BLK ODYSSY Brings Tenpiece Band to Tiny Desk Performance
Watch the Austin-launched project premiere new song “WANT YOU”
"...Austin-launched BLK ODYSSY premieres on the NPR Tiny Desk stage (er, office corner) today. For the notable mini-concert series,..."

Jan. 24, 2024 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Carpet Cowboys
The American dream crumbles in the Carpet Capitol of the World
"...some indication of the film’s tone), but eventually taking center stage is Roderick James, a Scottish expat whose love..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Review: Broadway in Austin’s Disney’s Aladdin
Poster child for Broadway's Disneyfication still crazy entertaining
"...Like so many other animated screen-to-stage musicals created by Disney since the 1994 adaptation of..."

Feb. 16, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

The Sound of Crystals at Corteo
Inside rehearsals at the traveling Cirque du Soleil show
"...then the sound of light-shoed feet grazing along the stage...."

Feb. 3, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Violent Night
David Harbour cracks down hard on the "naughty" list in the Christmas slugfest
"...at a luxury home in the middle of a hostage situation, he must channel a little bit of Christmas..."

Dec. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Don't Look at the Demon
Malaysia-set horror film employs skill and style to scare
"...can genuinely rip when the prosthetics and wirework take center stage. And that makes Don’t Look at the Demon..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

An Ode to 25 Years of Joy With Peter Bay
Celebration puts Austin Symphony Orchestra conductor center stage
"...orientation for this anniversary performance: The instrumentalists face the stage along with the audience, and all eyes rest on..."

March 31, 2022 Arts Post by Jasmine Lane

Delicious
French historical cooking drama mixes class and cuisine
"...last year as Wrath of Man), that passion takes center stage via the burgeoning career of chef Pierre Manceron..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Ema
Pablo Larraín fuses sex and dance in this kinetic drama
"...crisis. Kin to Natalie Portman’s performance, Di Girolamo is center stage, offering a powerful presentation that electrifies Ema. Ema..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Around the World: Seven of the Best at Austin Asian American Film Festival
From Hawaii to Kasmir, documentaries to dramas at this year's virtual and drive-in fest
"...Community First! Village Drive-In Cinema: Virtual access June 4-6) Center Stage...."

June 4, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Cheer Up Charlies Principal Maggie Lea Takes on Breast Cancer
Cheer Up Charlies co-owner reflects on business and mental health evolution following diagnosis. Meanwhile, the Convention Center expansion gets approval by Music Commission, and Project ATX6 announces a new lineup.
"...at 33," admits Lea, who received a diagnosis for stage 2 breast cancer two months ago. "I'm just glad..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Missing Link
More than just fuzzy fun in this latest stop-motion wonder
"...to adulthood. In Missing Link, it’s finally adults on center stage – even if they are a little emotionally..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Arcade Fire Plays to the Hardcores
Polarizing new album can’t stem Canadians’ catharsis
"...notably sparse crowd Wednesday night at the Frank Erwin Center. Not that it slowed the Montreal collective for a..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Music Post by Samantha Lopez

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Visually arresting tale of a high school gone to sea
"...to lose the narrative dialogue, but Shaw keeps it center stage. Plus, several of our forever-crushes serve as voice..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Ashley Moreno

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
This unasked-for sequel goes down like an overdose of baklava
"...unleashed in an apparent free-for-all as they vie for center stage at the Parthenon. In reprising the role of..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

For Friday the 13th... Alice Cooper
Shock rocker delighted kiddies at the Moody Thursday
"...no less that Sir Paul McCartney at the Erwin Center in 2013. That Detroit-born Vincent Damon Furnier, 67, likely..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

College Tuition or Michael Bublé?
Canadian Sinatra just wants ‘To Be Loved’
"...velvety voice around 9,000 fans at the Frank Erwin Center Sunday, Michael Bublé made good on the promise of..."

Aug. 5, 2014 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

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