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Nov. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman
Review: Georgetown Palace Theatre's Cabaret
A risky and risqué staging opens the company's season of stalwart productions
"...1920s Berlin as the Nazi Party ascends to power and the tragic life of nightclub singer Sally Bowles dramatically..."
Oct. 21, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman
Divine Decadence, Darling
AFS presents the dark musicals of Bob Fosse
"...backstage. That experience would ignite parallel obsessions – sex and show business – that steered not just his wildly..."
Aug. 4, 2017 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Looking at the Big Picture
Paramount Summer Classic Film Series goes large
"...the theatre. Cabaret, based on the musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on the play I Am..."
May 20, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Chicago
A cast of familiar faces conjures Kander and Ebb's Jazz Age classic in an entertaining way
"...Booze, jazz, and speakeasies hold an allure all their own, but throw..."
June 26, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell
Twice That Jazz
Double the mayhem, double the heat when Austin Playhouse and Georgetown Palace both stage Chicago
"...A conniving, avaricious attorney. A public thirsty for blood and the shameless media giving 'em all the red meat..."
May 29, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Top 10 Reasons (+3) I Stayed in Love With Theatre in 2014
Valentines to theatre and comedic craft played a large part in making 2014 a memorable year in theatre
"...THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART (National Theatre of Scotland/Texas Performing Arts) On a Bass Concert Hall stage transmuted..."
Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Keeping Score
With a bumper crop of musicals onstage in August, musical directors give some notes on what they do
"...the 50th anniversary of its Broadway bow this year, and the Austin Jewish Repertory Theater (of which I am..."
Aug. 1, 2014 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts
Chicago
Half & Half Productions' immersive staging of the Kander & Ebb musical keeps the joint jumpin' for a full two hours
"...Maggie Mae's Gibson Lounge, 323 E. Sixth www.halfandhalfproductions.org Through June 1 Running time: 2 hr...."
May 30, 2014 Arts Review by Adam Roberts
Chicago
The current touring version of this Kander & Ebb musical doesn't deliver much in the way of spectacle
"...fact is right on the cover of the program and all of the production's marketing materials. It makes sense..."
Nov. 29, 2013 Arts Review by Dan Solomon
Shame
Exquisite control and spasmed anguish mark the performances of Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in this dark, NC-17-rated story about a sex addict.
"...James Badge Dale, Nichole Beharie, Lucy Walters, Elizabeth Masucci and Robert Montano...."
Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Chicago
Teen actors show a good grasp of Kander & Ebb's jaded Jazz Age satire
"...of musicals for young performers in their teens. John Kander and Fred Ebb's 1975 satire has a dark and..."
March 4, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Cabaret
UT's Cabaret is a risky departmental production
sufficiently primed as postelection catharsis
"...by the UT Department of Theatre & Dance. Rhetoric and hope intermingle in an escapist world set on the..."
Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole
Cabaret
Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of Cabaret embraces the play's sexuality and hedonism but doesn't always convey its debauched defiance
"..."Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways." Although each age is flavored by..."
June 18, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner
Articulations
UT delays the closing of Bass Concert Hall for a year, Conspirare wants to sing an ode by a young Austin poet, and Zach decides whether it wants to go out with Sally Bowles or Roxie Hart
"...Marriage of Great Things, around the relationship between poetry and music, with choral settings of poems by Emily Dickinson,..."
April 2, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Cabaret
Theater at the J's production of Cabaret makes good use of the large hall at the Dell Jewish Community Center, creatively weaving the cabaret's musical shenanigans into the more serious larger story, in which the central characters fend off the accelerating horror of Nazi Germany by choosing not to see it.
"...Somewhere in the middle of the first act of Kander and Ebb's blistering and ever-apt musical, cabaret singer Sally..."
Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
TCB
Willie, ghosts, and the White Stripes … all in all, a good week
"...The line stretched around the corner of Ninth and Red River streets down to I-35, as the newspapers..."
July 4, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray
The World Goes 'Round
With The World Goes 'Round, director Dave Steakley has crafted a gem of a show, one that celebrates the musical team of John Kander and Fred Ebb with the panache and rich feeling of a beautifully crafted, sublimely entertaining musical of old, that makes us want us to come to the cabaret.
"...ones with the sweet-faced ingenues falling desperately in love and singing their undying devotion to each other in entrancingly..."
Aug. 10, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Cabaret: Blinding Furnace
The revamped revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, in its national tour, may not reproduce the intimacy of the original production's environmental design, but its strong performances and overt theatricality still grip the audience.
"...is cocaine, gin, smuggled French perfume, a disused typewriter, and sex. Lots of sex. Gender-bending, gender crisscrossing, bawdy, drippy,..."
Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Positively Operatic
The Year in Austin Culture
"...to look back further than just the past year and come up with some critical observations on the past..."
Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Articulations
Let's Do the Time Warp Again!
"...once. It was to be splendid with freshening showers and profusions of bluebonnets and, oh yes,Joe York in fishnets..."
March 26, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Exhibitionism
"...sudden sucking sound that precedes a bomb's explosion. Fingers and hands ripped off in a sliver of time. And..."
Jan. 29, 1999 Arts Review
Exhibitionism
"...THE SANTALAND DIARIES: A LITTLE ELFIN MAGIC..."
Dec. 11, 1998 Arts Review
Top Ten Stage
Top Ten Theatrical Experiences of 1997
"...Center) This bastard love child of All About Eve and The Bad Seed may be just some pleasurably bitchy..."
Jan. 9, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
`Tis the Season...
When Zachary Scott Theatre Center Flies With Angels
"...took years to reach the site of his redemption, and the same is true of Zach. From the time..."
June 27, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
No Rest
Composer Allen Robertson Keeps the Beat
"...by Robert Faires There's busy, and there's Allen Robertson. Most theatre artists are lucky to..."
Aug. 25, 1995 Arts Feature
