Articulations

The Harry Ransom Center has acquired all the professional and personal materials of profoundly influential acting teacher Stella Adler

"...and Warren Beatty, among others. From membership in the Group Theatre in the early 1930s and studying with the..."

April 30, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Search Through the Skies

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

"...thesis when he was getting his masters in children's theatre at UT -- that is titled The Journey. And..."

April 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memoriam: Jason Tremblay

Playwright to be remembered at the Paramount on Sunday

"..."Jason Tremblay – Our Theatre Hero." So read the Paramount Theatre marquee on April..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Capital T Theatre had a reason to crow at the Austin Critics..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Everybody Is In This Weekend's Austin Sketch Fest

But that doesn't mean we've forgotten The New Movement

"...And as much as local comedy attention is focused..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Cooks in the Kitchen?

The Duplicates shake up the recipe for theatre

"...Or maybe, as some Austin theatremakers may suggest at Fusebox, these dudes just wanted the..."

April 12, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

The 'It' Program

Musical theatre struts back onstage at Texas State to rave reviews

"...On Aug. 11 of this year, the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University-San Marcos woke up..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rocketing Through Hard Times

Yellow Tape and other small theatre groups blast past the black hole of the recession

"...and Amanda Butterfield are the two of the peppiest theatre artists in Austin. You know this because they use..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...the always remarkable Hoffman as upstate New York regional theatre director Caden Cotard, whose marriage, relationships, home, and health..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The District!

This animated Hungarian feature is equal parts South Park and Magyar-inflected hip-hop, and an altogether smart, urban riff on Romeo and Juliet.

"...well develop it by the time you exit the theatre, and I mean that as a compliment. Hungary's first..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meet the Feebles

"...Fozzie Bear had made S&M/bestiality pornos in the Muppet Theatre basement. Imagine no more. Peter Jackson's second feature (shot..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"Yes, and ..."

Mike Birbiglia tackles improv group dynamics with Don't Think Twice

"...dime. Set in Manhattan, Don't Think Twice follows a group of six comedy hopefuls in a locally successful improv..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Beejoli Shah

Rate of Exchange

Why the Russian connection matters to Austin theatre

"...of four stops in the U.S. for a small group of theatre managers and artists from Russia exploring American..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

"...and howling gusts of rain-laced wind roared into the theatre. Closing the doors by hand secured the closer a..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Staging Mr. Burns, a post-electric play With Zero Waste

A UT student production of Anne Washburn’s play shows how to make theatre the sustainable way

"...75 years after that. At its core is a group of survivors re-creating live stage versions of Simpsons episodes,..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings

Street Corner Arts' We Are Proud to Present ...

Street Corner Arts' staging is more than exceptional theatre; it asks thought-provoking questions about authority, perspective, and intention

"...A play within a play, the show features a group of performers working on a presentation about the genocide..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Pleasure of the Paynes 2016

Annual theatre awards think Terminus is the living end

"...at the 42nd edition of the B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards on Monday, where the Vortex Repertory Company production..."

Oct. 27, 2016 Arts Post

2016 Long Fringe Canceled

Permit issue leads FronteraFest to shut down part of festival

"...Moore of ScriptWorks and Ken Webster of Hyde Park Theatre announced that the 2016 Long Fringe, scheduled for Jan...."

Jan. 22, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Unfriended

Social media strikes back in this grisly teen horror

"...IMs, YouTube, Chatroulette, and Google Chat confabs among a group of teens and an unknown user who claims to..."

April 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jacob's Ladder

The hero of this Theatre en Bloc premiere wrestles with ethical issues while working for FDR

"...a ladder, a metaphor for his ascension to heaven. Theatre en Bloc is currently offering a production of a..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

The Uses of Joy

When Conspire Theatre helps incarcerated women, it's all in the game

"...– Conspire Theatre's mission statement..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

The A-Team

It's the latest old TV show to be remade as a contemporary feature film and fares just about as well as the rest.

"...begs to be consumed alongside a jumbo tub of movie-theatre popcorn, complete with the butter-slick, tummy-sick aftereffects that are..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie

Animated Old Testament.

"...and learn valuable moral and spiritual lessons from a group of dinner-theatre pirates while waiting on van repairs. I..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

God's Army

"...Army tackles the faith, and lack thereof, of a group of missionaries who are stuck in the low-rent L.A...."

Aug. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gun Shy

"...leaves you scratching your head as you exit the theatre: What were they thinking? Apparently they were thinking that..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Man of No Importance

"...play performed under his direction by a ragtag community theatre group, comprised mostly of the passengers from Alfie's bus...."

Feb. 17, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

K2: The Ultimate High

"...melodrama because I see nothing intrinsically heroic about a group of people trying to climb a mountain. In this..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Austin’s Fallout Theater Phoenixes up from The New Movement Ashes

New bosses, different from the old bosses, herald a fresh start

"...to be called The New Movement comedy school and theatre.”..."

May 8, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DNA

Capital T Theatre's DNA reveals more about how animals behave in a group than an episode of Nature

"...dark comedy receiving its local premiere from Capital T Theatre. It's author Dennis Kelly himself who calls our attention..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Mahogany Project Makes Space for Queer People of Color

The latest performance by the theatre collective embraces joy

"...the Mahogany Project, Austin's most prolific black queer men's theatre collective. Unrestrained and unapologetic, Washington and others from a..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Arts Feature by Trey Gutierrez

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