Marriage Story

Driver and Johansson are note perfect as a couple falling apart

"...Directed by: Noah Baumbach. Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Azhy Robertson,..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback: Robert Johnson Plays Antone’s Anniversary!

Antone’s resurrects Robert Johnson for its 42nd anniversary

"...night since last October," Zach Ernst reveals of his musical obsession, the Antone's anniversary poster. "It's something you have..."

June 30, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music: 2015/16 Austin Music Awards

Robert Plant crowns magnum opus roots pull

"...Music Awards boasted “Deep Roots, Living Legends,” but the deaths of two of the city’s greatest musical stewards shaded..."

March 17, 2016 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

Son of Rambow

Amid this endearing story about two boys in Eighties England who join together to make their own Rambo movie, lies an uncommon, unaffected portrayal of young male intimacy.

"...Directed by: Garth Jennings. Starring: Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jessica Hynes,..."

May 16, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

King Tears

A decade after the ValuJet crash claimed Walter Hyatt's life, his posthumous archive celebrates his tender abilities once again

"...the subject of countless safety investigations. Yet with the death of Walter Hyatt among the passengers, Austin had lost..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Envy

Director Barry Levinson tackles the human vice of envy in this comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black.

"...Directed by: Barry Levinson. Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz,..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Spring Awakening

In this production at St. Edward's University, the use of movement adds emphasis to the musical's sex-positive moral

"...Mary Moody Northen Theatre's production of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening, the climactic scene is stunning not in..."

April 12, 2019 Arts Review by Lilli Hime

Girls Girls Girls' Broad Ambition

In this improvised musical, the women of this acclaimed troupe take it to the Eighties and take over the workplace

"...singing on the spot is part of an entire musical – that is also being made up on the..."

April 27, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...loquacious bar etiquette couldn't drown out testimony to our musical wellspring...."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Trinity Street Players’ Dani Girl

This musical may be about a child with cancer, but seeing it is a funny, moving, and healing experience

"...sure I was in the headspace to handle a musical about a girl with leukemia's search to recover her..."

May 26, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Against the Grain

A profile of Bad Livers bassist Mark Rubin

"...is not, and has never been, the band's visionary. By Rubin's own accounting, he's never written songs, contributed equally..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin Playhouse's The Mystery of Edwin Drood

This musical production makes for an effervescent alternative to that other Dickens holiday show

"...instance – is left unfinished due to the untimely death of the artist. But in the case of celebrated..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

The Secret Spot of Mayhem Fest

Scorpion Child’s wasteland sting

"...Friday, that meant surviving post-apocalyptic conditions and a caricature musical genre in order to glimpse Swedish death metal contingent..."

Aug. 5, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Grand Jury No-Bills in Maddox Murder

No charges against deceased assailant or widow

"...has declined to hand down charges related to the death in December of legendary Austin drummer Bill Maddox...."

July 8, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

They Call Me Hurricane

Newly discovered session tapes from 1979 document Stevie Vaughan before the Ray

"...numerous sessions at Hole Sound Recording, a studio owned by a local musician named Perry Patterson. It was a..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Signed Sealed Delivered

"...To define Stevie Wonder solely in musical terms undervalues his full contribution to humanity. The pure,..."

Dec. 5, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Orgazmo

"...Directed by: Trey Parker. Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar,..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Five Celebrations of the Cinematic Diaspora at the Austin Jewish Film Festival

From dissections of comedy to the complexities of history

"...in Fiddler on the Roof - the groundbreaking movie musical that is subject of one of this year's selections...."

Nov. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

UT Department of Theatre & Dance's Spring Awakening

This staging of the hit musical blends the old and new, petticoats and punk, with a power and seductiveness that enraptures

"...Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's musical is almost a direct retelling of Frank Wede­kind's fin-de-siècle..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

TILT Performance Group's Pandora: Life Outside the Box

This world premiere of Allen Robertson's musical releases kindness and joy into the world

"...own curiosity or on the box given to her by Zeus, thus unleashing on the world every evil from..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Lion King

Can you feel the shrug tonight?

"...Directed by: Jon Favreau...."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pavarotti

Ron Howard's documentary shows the great tenor in all his humanity

"...Directed by: Ron Howard...."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Year in Local Music Crams Onto One Stage at the 2018/19 Austin Music Awards

Unique musical moments make for a night of fan-voted accolades

"...The show's improbable 37-year mission – facilitating truly unique musical moments in a night of fan-voted local scene accolades..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Austin Music Awards’ Ecstatic Experience

Thirty-four awards and six musical sets in 211 minutes

"...loquacious bar etiquette couldn’t drown out testimony to our musical wellspring...."

March 1, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Five Faces of Frankenstein

This Halloween, Austin serves up five freaky takes on Mary Shelley's mad doctor and his monster

"...in which a lovelorn Mme. Frankenstein turns to her hubby's "brain wave" device to make a change that will..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Devo Q&A: Gerald Casale

Spud rockers rattled but unbowed by the death of Bob Casale

"...of his bandmate and brother, Bob Casale, whose sudden death in February deeply rattled the band...."

July 1, 2014 Music Post by Neph Basedow

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...7:20pm, Central Presbyterian Church; Sat., Elysium, 11:30pm Erika M. Anderson's 2011 debut..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Exhumed’s Necrocracy

San Jose gore/grind outfit gets political – for free

"...Toxic Holocaust, Richmond-via-Boston metal punks Ramming Speed, and local death/grind heroes Mammoth Grinder. Show’s free, so crusties have no..."

Jan. 29, 2014 Music Post by Andy O’Connor

True Norwegian Black Metal

"...That musical avalanche struck fast and hard, guitarist and bassist doing..."

April 22, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Albert

"...Bleached by the sun And scorched by the moon If I..."

Feb. 19, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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