All Over Creation: Die Another Dad

Puzzling out the meaning of the theatre's Summer of Dead Dads

"...Winedale's latest staging of the granddaddy of dead-dad plays, Hamlet, I have witnessed patriarchs being offed offstage and on,..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Author? Author?

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Writer Amy Freed plays the question for laughs.

"...told, some 80 candidates have been offered in the 21/2 centuries that this guessing game has been played. (Authorship..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...classical music, and visual art. The nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards, covering the period from May..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...On Wednesday evening, South by Southwest announced the 2024 Jury and Special Award winners of the 31st SXSW..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Measure for Measure

Ophelia may go to a watery grave, but it's great prep work for an ingenue

"...could tap into six years later in Fight Club. Hamlet also offered her the chance to work on that..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"...arts writers gathered to put together nominations for the 2001-02 Critics Table Awards, they found so much exceptional work..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...American masters of the past century, from Borges and García Márquez to Neruda and Paz, Fuentes represents a type..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Smaller Than Life

Chronicle critic Ada Calhoun finds The Off Center's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead gasping for air..

"...Running time: 2 hrs, 30 min..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Channel Surfing

"...My Own Private Idaho, a retelling of Henry IV,..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Paramount Theatre Summer Film Classics

"...6/2 7:30 Casablanca 9:40 To Have and Have Not..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Shakespeare Around Austin

Productions this fall show us there's no limit to how the Bard's plays get done

"...the Royal Opera House, filmed three of the Globe's 2009 productions and made them available for international distribution. The..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...Guy 2: Yeah (undoing it)...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Valentine's and Beyond With This Weekend's Recommended Events

From dark stories to romantic dance

"...to lurk in the shadows.   – James Renovitch Hamlet..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Luv Doc: The Old Dude

The word "immature" is both overused and ineffective

"...When we get in a fight, my girlfriend always..."

May 10, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Unmistaken Child

This documentary is a full-immersion glimpse into the ancient traditions of Buddhist reincarnation and one that no filmmaker has ever before explored with this level of freedom and insight.

"...until one day he finds in a nondescript Nepalese hamlet a chubby little tyke who may (or may not)..."

July 31, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Performances That Transported Me in 2004

Robert Faires lists his favorite theatre, dance, and classical productions of 2004

"...Falls II (Blue Lapis Light) Sally Jacques took her 2003 exploration of grief and comfort to a new site..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Comedy Club. This year's set of honors – the 12th presented by this informal association of local arts writers..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playing the Bad Guy

With actor David Stahl currently appearing as the wicked Richard III and actor Katherine Catmull having recently played the evil Goneril in King Lear, the challenge of playing villains seemed a ripe topic to launch a series of artist-to-artist conversations on craft.

"...we played George and Emily, Thornton Wilder's Our Town ingénues, for Big State Productions in a version directed by..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...2. slip (Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre): An account of madness from..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

All the Dirty Little Secrets: Halina Reijn Digs Up Bodies Bodies Bodies

The director of the Gen Z Clue on why she won't direct on stage

"...While American audiences may know her from from films..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fair Youth Make Fairer Shakespeare

Two fine chances to see young people make the Bard come alive

"...in a 19th century hay barn. Since retiring in 2000, Ayres shifted the concept to even younger students, ages..."

June 21, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Veteran's Voice

Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life

"...Theatre & Dance's Cohen New Works Festival (see "The 2013 Cohen New Works Festival," p.32). "It's like, where did..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

American Repertory Ensemble

Coming soon to a computer or TV screen near you: dance and classical music from ARE?

"...and I don't mean just arena-rock gigaspectaculars such as U2 3D. Check out how the Metropolitan Opera has been..."

July 24, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Superlatives

The 2008-2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...this year's awards, covering the period from May 1, 2008, to May 3, 2009, were the Austin American-Statesman's Michael..."

June 5, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ballet Austin: Save the last dance for me

Four of the company's most gifted dancers are taking their leaves after this season's finale

"...Eric Midgley joined Ballet Austin in 2001, dancing Romeo to Gina Patterson's Juliet in the premiere..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Seagull

Breakin' String Theatre's take on Chekhov goes down like a shot of fine vodka

"...Running Time: 2 hrs, 35 min..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

2007 B. Iden Payne Awards

More than 60 shows scored nominations for ACoT's annual theatre honors

"...star, a vain British matinee idol, and a hillbilly Hamlet have in common? Beyond being interesting role models for..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Wyrd Sisters

The Vortex's 2007 Summer Youth Theatre showcases more talented youth with Terry Pratchett's lighthearted, adventurous Wyrd Sisters

"...The Vortex, through July 28..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...exhibitions, with The Assumption, Refraction Arts' twisted adaptation of Hamlet, the only other production to win more than three..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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