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Nov. 19, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Review: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Tony-winning musical serves pure stage magic & killer hilarity
"...at the Brutalist-design Bass Concert Hall sits a Victorian theatre, complete with antique lighting sconces and a sumptuous red..."
March 22, 2018 Arts Post by Shanon Weaver
Five Recommended Austin Arts Events
Our weekly pick of the top art events to get you out of the house
"...Sun., Oct. 17, 3pm The Curtain Theatre, 7400 Coldwater Canyon $10 blipswitchmovement.com Conspirare: Path of..."
Oct. 15, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner
Paul Beutel Retires
Arts leader who ran Paramount, Long Center wraps 42-year career
"...for UT, and managing and programming both the Paramount Theatre (for 18 years) and Long Center (for eight). Well,..."
June 7, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Long may Zach Theatre's musical Queen reign!
"...And that is how, in Zach Theatre's production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, three brilliant..."
Oct. 21, 2016 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska
The Rude Mechs' Fixing Timon of Athens
The theatre collective's latest repair job on a broken Shakespeare play is wildly accessible, welcoming, and enthralling
"...overly pretentious to the layman who doesn't attend live theatre, for this very reason. Lynn rebuilds the story from..."
Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver
The King and I
In a new staging of The King and I that's long on Asian authenticity, audiences are "getting to know" this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic in a most personal way
"...The King and I Zach Topfer Theatre,
202 S. Lamar, 512/476-0541 www.zachtheatre.org Through Oct. 18 Running..."
Oct. 10, 2014 Arts Review by Russell M. Dembin
Different Stages' The Dresser
Different Stages’ The Dresser shows where to find the juiciest drama in the theatre: backstage
"...fixes. Different Stages' production of The Dresser raises the curtain on this unexpected part of the stage – exposing..."
July 7, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska
Sophisticated Ladies
Zach Theatre's revival of this Ellington revue is just like Sir Duke's music: elegant and wildly entertaining
"...The show is being revived in Zach's beautiful Topfer Theatre in a staging by Associate Artistic Director Abe Reybold,..."
July 31, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell
The Night Alive
Hyde Park Theatre captures five lonely Dubliners in all their broken humanity in Conor McPherson's drama
"...end with the trademark powerful stillness of Hyde Park Theatre...."
July 17, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver
"Thou Spleeny Swag-Bellied Miscreant!"
Create Shakespearean insults of your own with this handy tome.
"...Baron's Men's production of Romeo and Juliet at the Curtain Theatre sometime in the next few weekends?..."
April 16, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
First They Take Manhattan … Then They Don’t
The Alamo Drafthouse abandons the Upper West Side
"...Curtain Call on Broadway: Almost a year and a half..."
Oct. 1, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
Res Publica
Good times for good citizens, March 26-April 3
"...SHAKESPEARE, POLITICS, AND WOMEN A public forum where theatre meets politics. Speakers include former UT women basketball coach..."
March 27, 2009 News Feature
Instant Classic
Paramount Theatre's Summer 2000 Series
"...The Riviera Theatre was a palace of dreams -- a one-screen, velvet-curtained,..."
May 19, 2000 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer
A Film Critic Re-Emerges to Watch In the Heights the Way It Was Meant to Be Seen
After 424 days away from the movie theatre it's time to be alone in the dark again
"...moment – or, as I stepped back into a theatre for the first time in 424 days, a place..."
May 28, 2021 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker
Review: Our Town
City Theatre’s safe staging of the classic embraces nostalgia
"...The City Theatre Company, which has temporarily lost its permanent venue due..."
Feb. 27, 2019 Arts Post by Bob Abelman
Antony and Cleopatra
Poor Shadows of Elysium boils this powerful Shakespearean tragedy down to its essential elements
"...Curtain Theatre, 7400 Coldwater Canyon Dr. www.poorshadows.com Through May 18..."
May 16, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith
Queer Comic Clara Blackstone Is Creating Good Pollution
New Fallout Theater comedy show elevates weird comedy for trash people
"...aims to elevate in her new Wednesday night Fallout Theatre show – Good Pollution...."
July 22, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott
Fantastic Fest: 'Nevermore'
One-man Poe show closes festival
"...Technically, Fantastic Fest ended on Thursday: But the final curtain did not fall until Saturday and the last Austin..."
Oct. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Arms and the Man
Different Stages' 'Arms and the Man' is an honest attempt at entertainment with a political edge, but it swallows or ignores the complex interpretation that this script deserves
"...young Raina coyly hides the enemy behind her bedroom curtain as mother and servant search for intruders. Thus, the..."
Nov. 26, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole
Playing 'House' (and 'Garden')
At Austin Playhouse, running Alan Ayckbourn's paired
comedies side-by-side is double the pleasure, double
the fun
"...lark it must be for the audience, this whole paired-comedies-performed-simultaneously-in-adjacent-theatres thing, watching actors dash off stage in one play,..."
Feb. 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
First Generation
The 2011 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
"...published literary quarterly in America, as well as the Curtain Club, which became a major force for theatre at..."
June 3, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Try To Remember
How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical
"...had no real outlets for their creative passions – theatre for Jones, music and art for Schmidt – and..."
Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Nothing Succeeds Like Access
"...go out -- perhaps to the movies or the theatre. If you're like me, at most you decide to..."
June 11, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis
Getting the Look
Following the Path of Theatrical Designers
"...In the theatre, there are masters of the Look, artists whose purpose..."
July 12, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Let Me Down Easy
In Anna Deavere Smith's personal journey to confront mortality is a gift of grace
"...Zach Theatre Whisenhunt Arena Stage, through May 10..."
May 8, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Looking for Las Vegas
An Austin playwright discovers Sin City by going to Louisville
"...show at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Curtain is in 90 minutes. It's a 50-minute flight. You..."
May 5, 2006 Arts Feature by Dan Dietz
The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?
Robert Dubac's The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? has its moments, but
its stereotypes and reliance on material recycled from the
men-are-from-Mars-women-are-from-Venus catalog make it more
soapbox than entertainment.
"...Paramount Theatre,..."
Dec. 8, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson
The Grand Dame
Galveston's Grand Opera House survived Ike. Here's a dispatch from one of the staff.
"...on the island to view the damage to the theatre. Fortunately our Grand “gal” suffered no structural damage (at..."
Sept. 19, 2008 Emergency Post by Kate X Messer
Review: Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat
If you happen to go, bring a toddler in tow
"...The design's also odd. Is this absurdist theatre?It's under an hour, which is all the more weirderThere's..."
