Vaudeville Vanya

St. Idiot Collective's 'Vaudeville Vanya' ambitiously seeks to explode a great old play with a great old medium, but it ends up a sheen of vaudeville brushed over a hellbent staging of Uncle Vanya

"...wine glass without missing a beat. Gabriel McIver and Jeffery Mills turned a broken teacup into a lazzo on..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Mother Courage

Melba Martinez's legacy at Mary Moody Northen Theatre

"...Larson, Bradley Carlin, Elizabeth Wakehouse, Andrea Skola, Brent Werzner, Jeffery Mills); and – the big one – a relationship..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Government Inspector at Mary Moody Northen Theatre

The St. Edward's University Theatre Department delivers Gogol's Russian satire with gigagags at top speed

"...the switch flips on the machine that is actor Jeffery Mills as his character, Hlestakov, decides to pose as..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Delighted Lee

Actor Lee Eddy is back onstage in Austin after five years away, and boy, is she happy

"...dealing with a pair of knuckleheaded servants (played by Jeffery Mills and Michael Joplin) in Everything Is Established, a..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mud

Salvage Vanguard Theater's staging of Maria Irene Fornes' Mud has plenty to compel our attention, most of it coming from the three gifted actors in the cast

"...the antagonism among them, inflaming their tempers. Jenny Larson, Jeffery Mills, and Robert Pierson collectively raise the temperature onstage..."

June 15, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 Performances That Transported Me in 2004

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

"...In the inspired hands of BA Artistic Director Stephen Mills, the Bards melancholy Dane became a fierce man of..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Everything Is Established

Physical Plant's new work is a fast, funny, disturbing example of great Austin playmaking

"...in this case, a marvelous trio made up of Jeffery Mills, Michael Joplin, and Lee Eddy – who pull..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Top 10 Performances of 2004 That I Ruminate Over After the Dust Has Settled

Heather Barfield lists her favorite stage performances of 2004

"...3) Jeffery Mills in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Mary..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

The Death of a Cat

C. Denby Swanson's unconventional new play, 'The Death of a Cat,' takes us into a weird world as dark and funny as an Edward Gorey cartoon

"...to see the twins embodied by Jenny Larson and Jeffery Mills with their chalky faces and red-rimmed eyes, looking..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Hotel Vanya, or A Metaphysical-Paradigm at the End of Everythingness

For a getaway steeped in Chekhovian longing and ennui, The Hotel Vanya is the only place to stay

"...by the Good Doctor, for whom she pines. But Jeffery Mills' Doctor has resigned himself to the futility of..."

June 3, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2015

Wild theatrical energy and masterful performances were the hallmarks of outstanding theatre in 2015

"...Just to see gifted actors Lee Eddy, Jeffery Mills, and Michael Joplin play off one another was..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2015

The most memorable art of 2015 carved strange and brilliant new spaces out of familiar ones

"...Kenah and performed by Lee Eddy, Michael Joplin, and Jeffery Mills for Physical Plant at the Off Center, an..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fall Arts Issue Critics Picks

From the arts harvest, our critics pluck choice treats

"...human minds. This is an Austin premiere directed by Jeffery Mills from a script by him, Jason Newman, and..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rainbow Family of the Serendipitous Now, or the Orpheus Project

Rainbow Family of the Serendipitous Now refracts the Orpheus myth through the lens of the Manson family in a seamless, complex, color-coded vehicle

"...unnerving to think that an actor as talented as Jeffery Mills can also bring such heavy firepower to his..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Play AwardThe Assumption, Rebecca Beegle, Ron Berry, Sonnet Blanton, Jeffery Mills, Chase Staggs, Cyndi Williams..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

UT Opera scores a wealth of green while ALO is in the black, and Salvage Vanguard Labor Party wins a vote of financial confidence

"...of a Cat, starring Larson, Dietz, Cyndi Williams, and Jeffery Mills, on Friday, Sept. 10 ("pay as you wish"..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

St. Ed's Director Fired

Melba Martinez, artistic director at Mary Moody Northen Theatre for the past 12 years, has been fired from that position

"...and skilled actors in Austin, among them Lee Eddy, Jeffery Mills, Jenny Larson, Bradley Carlin, Elizabeth Wakehouse, and Brent..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

St. Edward's University has bravely undertaken Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the show is, strangely, a good time

"...actors such as Gabriel McIver as bomb-obsessed Scanlon or Jeffery Mills as the stuttering, perpetually shy Billy Bibbit prove..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

A Revolution in Acting

The SITI Company's J. Ed Araiza is transforming the way Austin actors view their art

"...These actors – Bradley Carlin, Brent Werzner, Elizabeth Wakehouse, Jeffery Mills, and Andrea Skola, among others – project a..."

April 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

The Kentucky Cycle

The Mary Moody Northen Theatre's decision to stage Robert Schenkkan's monumental The Kentucky Cycle is laudable, and the St. Edward's University student actors and their Equity counterparts put their all into every moment of effort, but the production's nuggets of brilliance are lost in technical inadequacies, inconsistent acting, and awkward staging.

"...conniver in the opening play, Masters of the Trade; Jeffery Mills' smooth operator in Part Two's Tall Tales; Gabriel..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Romeo and Juliet

St. Edward's University's lavish production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is, for the most part, an enjoyable, educational -- albeit long -- night of romance and comedic and dramatic irony, with some intense swashbuckling.

"...servant Peter, steals his scenes with simple, comedic clarity. Jeffery Mills turns the usually bland Benvolio into something much..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Equus: Probing the Darkness

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...of the bargain beautifully, with strong performances throughout. Sophomore Jeffery Mills leads the way with a moving, energetic, and..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

This Is Who We Are #5: Salvage Vanguard Theater's Death of a Cat

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...to see the twins embodied by Jenny Larson and Jeffery Mills with their chalky faces and red-rimmed eyes, looking..."

May 8, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

spacestation1985

This theatrical riff on loneliness in space looks great, but we've seen it all before

"...funnyman Jason Newman, composer Graham Reynolds, and co-writer/director Jeff Mills – ensures that people will pay attention. It was..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Jeffery Mills, Mud..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Jeffery Mills, Death of a Cat..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...Jeffery Mills, All My Sons/The Kentucky Cycle..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...Austin's Unsung Acting Program? Witness the amazing performance of Jeffery Mills as Alan Strang in the Mary Moody Northen..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Austin’s Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival Has No Bounds In Stock

The annual juggernaut of performative hijinks returns to the ATX

"...Plant Theatre, and starring you and Lee Eddy and Jeffery Mills? That’s gonna be performed in a full production..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pleasure of the Paynes 2014

The 'Fix' was in at the 40th theatre awards ceremony

"...Featured Actor Jeffery Mills, Fixing King John..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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