The Wizards of Austin's Webzines Behind the Curtains

"...Content Love Knowles of "Babylon" photograph by KENNY BRAUN I'm..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Sam Martin

Performance Park Preview at the Vortex

"...the Emperor (Gabriel Maldonado), the Hierophant (Eryn Gettys), Death (Content Love Knowles), and Knight of Wands (Ali Marie Stuckey)..."

March 22, 2018 Photo Gallery

Net Worth

"...interactive media was sort of like asking a jilted lover to give the toast at your wedding. Wolff certainly..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Working Beauty

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

"...names on the Sleeping Beauty production team are familiar: Content Love Knowles, co-writer, composer, musical director, performer; Ann Marie..."

March 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

FronteraFest Short Fringe: Best of Week One

Improv, Butoh, cabaret, and one of those commanding performance moments that make FronteraFest made up the Short Fringe 2006 Best of Week One

"...'fro wearing a powerfully red T-shirt that says "Make Love Not War," yelling into a microphone at an absent..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Sleeping Beauty

The Vortex Repertory Company's 'Sleeping Beauty' shows the company in a playful mood, delivering a musical adaptation that is fanciful, lighthearted, and disarmingly sweet

"...co-wrote and directed the show, and her musical collaborator Content Love Knowles have shaken loose much of the more,..."

March 25, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

FronteraFest 2007: The lowdown

"..."Radio Ghosts," by Greg Romero (Jan. 17); "Like Meat Love Salt," by Adrienne Dawes (Jan. 24); "Brand Loyalty," by..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature

The Vortex's Performance Park

Whatever you want to call this play/scavenger hunt/immersive live roleplay, it’s a one-of-a-kind, wonderful theatrical experience

"..."citizens" further into the world they've created, where magic, love, truth, and justice combine to dismantle systems of oppression..."

May 4, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

FronteraFest 2013

Performance jamboree's 20th brings back old faves and welcomes new stars

"...Jan. 31: Emily Fordyce, producer – "I Put My Love Right Cheer So's I Wouldn't Fergit Where It Was,..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Eurydice

The best way to describe Different Stages' retelling of the myth: beautiful

"...the things that make us cling to life: family, love, marriage, memories, even sad memories...."

Jan. 22, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Getting Kids Into the Act

Curtain up on GRRL Action and Vortex Summer Youth Theatre

"..."It's a love-oriented program," says Sarah Crowe, a 15-year-old who is now..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Articulations

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.

"...'L' Is for Lysistrata and Love..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Performance Park Takes Over the Vortex

Bonnie Cullum’s dream wakes the Tarot into life in her company’s immersive theatrical experience

"...got Melissa Vogt, who's an amazing Baba Yaga. And Content Love Knowles is Death. And – it's a lot..."

March 23, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Reframed

Photography provides the impetus for improv in this new project from LuckyChaos Theater

"...Hearne, Heidi Rogers, Luke Wallens, and Christina Parrish, with Content Love Knowles providing a fitting musical counterpoint on the..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

2010 B. Iden Payne Awards

The homegrown musical of mayhem in the swamp leads the nominations with 11

"...Wills' direction; the performances by Florinda Bryant, Robert Pierson, Content Love Knowles, and the ensemble; the designs by Lisa..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sleeping Beauty

The strength of Vortex's original musical adaptation is in its imagination

"...vision. Bonnie Cullum (also the producer and director) and Content Love Knowles wrote the book and music for this..."

April 30, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Murder Ballad Murder Mystery

You'll be hard-pressed to find a riskier production in Austin this year than this strange string of ballads and mysteries

"...to music. Two of the songs particularly stand out: Content Love Knowles stops the show in the first act..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Oceana

The Vortex's latest theatrical immersion in myth sinks you down 20,000 leagues

"...McCann's Gulf Girl as she tours the undersea world. Content Love Knowles' score supports this aquatic environment, not so..."

May 22, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Summer Youth Theatre's 'The Visit'

Kill Schill?

"...work side by side with professionals. This year actress/composer Content Love Knowles (Dark Goddess, Sleeping Beauty, "Time Alphabet") plays..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Sleeping Beauty, Content Love Knowles & Bonnie CullumOriginal Score..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Black Tower

In The Black Tower, the experimental performance company ethos creates another theatrical museum through which audiences may examine living dioramas populated by Greek gods engaged in struggles with each other as old as the human race.

"...Johnson, Juliana Gilchrist, Jo Beth Henderson, Matthew Patterson, and Content Love Knowles. Under the pull of that sky, that..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Holy Well, Sacred Flame

Irish mythology is littered with conflicts more dramatic than the material for Holy Well, Sacred Flame. Still, writer-director Bonnie Cullum makes a unique rite from sincerity, sensuousness, and outlandish vision.

"...as the god Dagda, who talks dirty to Danu (Content Love Knowles), mother of the Earth. They introduce us..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Rob Curran

2010 B. Iden Payne Awards

Four shows took home nearly half the honors at this year's ceremony

"...Branch Towne. But while there was a lot of love in the room for the show, there was no..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All the Neighborhood's a Stage in the Drive-Through Vortex Odyssey

The Vortex keeps things safe, sacred, and mythically provocative in their newest stage spectacle

"...and Blaise Ricin's Hermes sing to the music of Content Love Knowles ......"

Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Payne Pleasures 2004

Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals

"...their loudest endorsement to a pair of homegrown musicals. Love Jerry, Megan Gogerty's difficult yet compassionate tale of a..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Happenings Online: A Chronicle Round-up for Your Quarantined Exploration

Live and creative diversions – from your talented friends & neighbors

"...Austin Opera doesn’t care how many lovely fat ladies may be singing somewhere, it ain’t over..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Circle the Wagons'

Exchange Artists' latest site-specific theatre piece is a ticket to ride in eight cars in one night

"...eight. As they progress from car to car, composer/musician Content Love Knowles will provide music from the bed of..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Most Memorable Theatrical Offerings That I Chanced to See in 2005 (A Hierarchical List)

'Chronicle' theatre writer Barry Pineo names his 10 favorite stage productions of 200

"...Repertory Company) An original musical by Bonnie Cullum and Content Love Knowles, with more than a couple of wonderful..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Improv … Tragedy? Absurdity? WTF, Institution Theater?

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks Beckett, what is it?

"...silence and consider what the hell just happened. I love it, on both ends, and everywhere in between."..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

2007-2008 B. Iden Payne Award Nominations

The full list of honorees for the Austin Circle of Theatres' annual theatre honors

"...Mark Scheibmeir (Big Love)..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature

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