Utopia Fest

Hill Country music fest selling briskly

"...When you attend some 20 music festivals a year, as I do, you come..."

Aug. 19, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Design for Living

Keen direction and outstanding performances bring us into Noël Coward's Thirties dandyism

"...Long Center, 701 W. Riverside, 474-5664 www.austinshakespeare.org Through Feb. 24 Running time: 2 hr., 50 min...."

Feb. 15, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Dripping With Taste Wine & Food Festival

The Dripping With Taste Festival finds a new home at the Texas Hill Country Olive Company

"...Texas Hill Country Olive Company (2530 W. Fitzhugh Rd., Dripping Springs) www.texashillcountryoliveco.com Saturday, Sept. 8,..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Messenger No. 4 (Or... How to Survive a Greek Tragedy)

This riff on Greek tragic conventions stuffs plays within plays with giddy charm

"...How To Survive a Greek Tragedy)Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale, 684-3220 www.cambiareproductions.com Through March 4 Running time: 2 hr...."

March 2, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Arcadia

A magnificent-looking and intelligent staging of Tom Stoppard's masterpiece

"...701 W. Riverside, 474-5664 Through Feb. 19 Running time: 2 hr., 30 min...."

Feb. 10, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Point Austin: Shameless

Perry's dismal campaign finds a worthy successor

"...the embarrassing dominoes of Perry's final collapse (see "Cain 6,324 ... Perry 2,494"), and the tone of Perry's entire..."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Benjamin and Byron's Long-Term Affair

An émigré author, a bad-boy poet, and an epic trilogy at its end

"...after year to the classic works of literature – Hamlet, Great Expectations, Huck Finn, et cetera – and trying..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Books Feature by Roberto Ontiveros

The Slacker 2011 Interviews: Spencer Parsons

Spencer Parsons on Slacker 2011

"...With the world premiere of Slacker 2011 just a few days away, we thought it would..."

Aug. 25, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: Life as We Don't Know It

Our planet casts a shadow

"...was going on the month of his death. December 2010 was a Captain Beefheart kind of month...."

Jan. 14, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Humble Boy

With this comedic riff on Hamlet, the production's strength is in the acting

"...City Theatre, 3823-D Airport, 474-8497..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Way, Way Outer Space

Dusting off Starcrash, an interstellar swashbuckler

"...the man who once was Rudyard Kipling's king, Oedipus, Hamlet, the classicist...."

Sept. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: And So It Begins

International spectacles of darkness and light

"...South by Southwest 2010 kicks off Friday, March 12, the cover date of..."

March 12, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Top 9 Dance and Classical Music Treasures of 2009

Uncommon beauty and power danced a potent duet in the music and movement of 2009

"...2) WELCHER: 'SYMPHONY NO. 5' (AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA) A symphony..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fun for the Whole Family

Traversing the Texas Book Festival

"...–a mute boy, a dog named Almondine, shades of Hamlet, etc. –but summed up the rest: "Like all stories,..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Allisyn Paino

One of Ballet Austin's leading ballerinas is bidding farewell to the spotlight

"...Shrew, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gertrude in Hamlet, Painter in Cult of Color: Call to Color, the..."

May 8, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Age of Arousal

The play tempers talk of ideals and suffrage with lots of wit, action, and absurdity

"...Running time: 2 hr, 15 min..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Top 10 Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2008

Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires recalls 2008, in the theatre

"...Theatre) George Gershwin's 1930s folk opera rescored for the 21st century. Arranger Greg Bolin distilled the original's grand orchestra..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Parts and Wholes (In No Particular Order), Plus One Standout

Chronicle Arts writer Hannah Kenah on her favorite moments onstage in 2008

"...2) Sharon Marroquin's "Crandall Canyon Mine" (Big Range Austin Dance..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Playing Through

Four reasons to jump on the Austin Toros bandwagon

"...you: If a minor league basketball team earns a 30-20 record, wins its division, gets through the league semifinals,..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Column by Josh Rosenblatt

The High Art of Low Comedy

"...Let's start with Love's Labour's Lost, Kenneth Branagh's 2000 reimagining, which was soundly thrashed by film critics when..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bat Boy: The Musical

Weekly World News' favorite cover boy is alive and well in Summer Stock Austin's energetic show

"...Running time: 2 hr, 20 min..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

2007 B. Iden Payne Awards: Prize night

Running down the winners at this year's awards from the Austin Circle of Theaters

"...Awards ceremony began in high style on Sunday, Oct. 21, with the ever-divine Karen Kuykendall accepting ACoT's Special Recognition..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Special Evening With Stephen Mills: With him, it's special all the time

As Ballet Austin presents a Special Evening With Stephen Mills, some of the artists from the ballet explain why they think their artistic director is a special guy

"...grabbed the national spotlight with his staging of Shakespeare's Hamlet and drew still more focus three years ago, when..."

May 11, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Top 10 Pratfalls of 2006, Plus Some Shining Examples of Physical Comedy

"...2) The duel in The Assumption (Refraction Arts Project) Is..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Food-o-File

Around town, with an appetite

"...opening of Bess Bistro on Pecan (500 W. Sixth, 477-2377), where I'm told his title is corporate executive chef......"

Nov. 17, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Lear Jaunt

Matthew Radford explains how a professional British actor wound up playing Lear in a Central Texas barn

"...as Buckingham in ASF's Richard III earned him a 2006 Austin Critics Table Award.) Shakespeare at Winedale alum Clayton..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

The Beard of Avon

Different Stages' production of the Amy Freed comedy 'The Beard of Avon' benefits from two actors who create an Elizabethan odd couple in delightful balance

"...The Vortex, through April 28..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Bad Sleep Well

Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawa serves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing

"...Criterion, $29.95 Akira Kurosawa's hallowed samurai epics camouflage the Japanese sensei's..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

There's a sincerity and sweetness to Different Stages' production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre' that makes the show tender and touching

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

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Rethinking the Three R's

Reagan High's digital-media lab opens doors for young students into filmmaking.

"...English teacher Trent Sharp launched Reagan's digital-filmmaking program in 2001 as a weekend class where students at risk for..."

May 2, 2003 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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