Kentucky by Way of Austin

A decade after The Kentucky Cycle's premiere, the hometown of playwright Robert Schenkkan has the opportunity to experience the work's power in with a homegrown production at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre.

"...who mine it. It's an epic journey through the evolution of the territory called Kentucky -- revealing in nine..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Copenhagen

If director Don Toner's staging of Copenhagen, a drama about 20th-century physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, is good but unexceptional, the trouble may lie in Michael Frayn's script, which is full of intriguing ideas but less than satisfying as a story.

"...greatest physicists, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, provides an evening of turbulent drama, disturbing ironies, intriguing questions, but, ultimately,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Where They're Coming From

Connecting the Dots of Texas Writers Month 2002

"...That was 1998, on the eve of the Month's fifth year, and Holland was being..."

June 7, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Ev Lunning Jr...."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Austin Theatre Critics Table 2000-2001 Nominations

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

"...announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts. The group recognized artistry in the..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature

E/R Emergency Room

The smallish stage of the Mary Moody Northern Theatre is effectively transformed into the downright bloody, intense and exciting emergency room at a Chicago hospital when the Organic Theatre Company's E / R Emergency Room is brought to life at St. Edward's University under the tourniquet-tight direction of Ev Lunning.

"...damned effective splattering. It's damned effective theatre, too, this revival of the original E/R Emergency Room, scripted years ago..."

April 27, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

One Flea Spare

Telling the story of unlikely roommates – a staunch middle-aged couple and two young stowaway servants – trapped in a house in 1665 London at the height of the plague, One Flea Spare is an altogether decent sex-and-death psychodrama, and the high caliber of this production an altogether auspicious beginning for School of Night Productions.

"...their vinegar-soaked homes, all in a panicked effort to prevent contamination from a disease no one understood. Reason, imprisonment,..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death

A vague performance at the center of the Public Domain Theatre Company's production of Edward Bond's Bingo diminishes the impact of Bond's play, but does not eclipse it. It feels relevant right here, right now.

"...Edward Bond's Bingo. So much for progress. The plot revolves around none other than William Shakespeare, who has retired..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Julius Caesar

Though it shows evidence of higher aspirations, the Austin Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, directed by Ev Lunning Jr. is a one-dimensional melodrama, lacking the rhetorical firepower and guiding vision that gives this drama its political punch.

"...Beverly Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theatre,..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

A Question of Equity

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

"...and he also knows that no such contract was ever drafted for this show. The company producing the show..."

June 9, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Sweet Thing

"...D: Mark David; with Jeremy Fox, Amalia Stifter, Ev Lunning Jr., Lana Dieterich, Michael Dalmon, Evan Greenwalt, Stephen..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Taming of the Shrew: Indeed a Revel

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...circumnavigate any wholehearted moral outrage with the play. Indeed, even Shakespeare may have been loath to simply stage the..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

1999 Critics' Table Nominations

"...Theatre Critics' Table has released the nominations for its seventh annual awards for achievement in theatre. Critics representing the..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature

The Thing in the Lake

"...Five times in this decade, you could find a revival of one of these Pinter plays -- Betrayal or..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Exhibitionism

"...as the night of the teachers. An annual role reversal in which the graders, criticizers, and mentors are put..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Review

Articulations

Seasons in the Sun

"...start letting us know what they have up their sleeves for fall. Several groups have announced seasons for 1998-99,..."

June 5, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Theatre Critics' Table Nominations 1998

"...have announced nominations for their sixth annual awards for achievement in theatre. The participating critics — Michael Barnes, Jamie..."

May 15, 1998 Arts Feature

Exibitionism

The Life of Galileo:body, Motion, Color

"...quick history lesson — was an Italian astronomer who eventually recanted his staunch support of the Copernican theory at..."

May 1, 1998 Arts Review

Exhibitionism

The Cherry Orchard: About Real People

"...any successful staging of Chekhov, and it is this levity that make his classics function well, if at all...."

Oct. 10, 1997 Arts Review

Articulations

Lawdy, What a Payne!

"...at The Metropolitan Club. The annual celebration of outstanding achievements in local theatre typically runs closer to two and..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Comeback Kids

"...scene's good health? No, it isn't the fact that everyone still has a working liver after this week's Critics..."

May 16, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

"...There is a magic zone that happens every night between 2am and sunrise. The rest of the..."

May 16, 1997 Arts Review

False Accusations

"...The truth is that Mr. Strawn has twisted the events in such a way as to create an image..."

March 21, 1997 Column

Austin Theatre Refuses to Fade in 1995 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

The past 12 months saw some of Austin's

"...Washington attack the arts, it seemed many people wanted everyone else in theatre to go, too. But Austin theatre..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

The 1995 Harvest

"...Bill Watson. With Tom Orr, David Oliver, Janelle Schremmer, Ev Lunning, Jr., Laura Worthen, Deborah Green...."

Nov. 17, 1995 Arts Feature

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