LBJ

Harrelson dons prosthetics for this complicated biopic

"...The biographical drama LBJ treads much of the territory Robert Schenkkan’s expertly crafted..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

All the Way With LBJ's Play

Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'

"...In two years, Robert Schenkkan's LBJ drama All the Way premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

LBJ Science Academy Sucks Rocks

Gee Whiz, Mr. Science

"...hasn't an enemy in the world. The principal of LBJ High School since the 1992-93 school year, Orum is..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature by Roseana Auten

LBJ Library to Host Civil Rights Summit

Carter and Clinton to deliver keynotes

"...Baines Johnson shepherded and signed into law – the LBJ Library will host a summit April 8-10 that "will..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

LBJ Summit Returns to “Race in America”

Five years after landmark civil rights event, there's plenty to talk about

"...Presi­dential Library and Museum marked the 50th anniversary of LBJ's signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with a..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rob Reiner Goes All the Way With LBJ

Tackling the contradictions of the unexpected presidency

"...In his newest film, LBJ, Reiner casts Woody Harrelson as the last Democratic president..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

LBJ Library to Host Civil Rights Summit, April 8-10

Carter and Clinton to Deliver Keynotes

"...Bond, author Taylor Branch, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, LBJ’s daughters Luci Baines and Lynda Bird Johnson, and Congressman..."

Feb. 16, 2014 News Post by Michael King

The Long Arm of LBJ

"...Robert Caro quietly told the standing-room-only crowd that the LBJ Library's leadership has been "unremittingly hostile" to him for..."

May 17, 2002 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

LBJ Library Director Steps Down

Mark Updegrove recalls “the greatest honor of my career”

"...The LBJ Library announced last week that Library Director Mark Updegrove..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Acknowledge LBJ's Depravity

"...assassination (The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ), I ask: When in polite society in Austin and..."

Nov. 11, 2013 Postmarks

LBJ Library Celebrates Fight for Equality in American Sports

The “Get in the Game” exhibition’s opening ceremony is April 21

"...out against inequality at the grand opening of the LBJ Library’s new exhibition: “Get in the Game: The Fight..."

April 18, 2018 Chron Events Post by Milo Webb

LBJ Swings Like the Pendulum Do

For a fun Sixties flashback – sans acid – see the LBJ Library's 'Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties'

"...From Ipanema," the Dave Clark Five and Slaughterhouse-Five. The LBJ Library and Museum is providing the flashback – sans..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

LBJ Library Spotlights the Little House That Motown Built

Collection stars Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Supremes & more

"...CDs carries its summer jams into January at the LBJ LIbrary...."

Sept. 20, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

APD Responding to Reported Shots Near LBJ

Campus placed on lockdown as precaution: Suspect now in custody

"...be an abundance of caution, Austin ISD has placed LBJ High School on lockdown after shots were reported in..."

Sept. 17, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Rethinking Reagan ... and LBJ

AISD searches for student and community involvement in high school redesign program

"...spending the year researching ways to redesign Reagan and LBJ high schools into a totally different high school model,..."

Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Making History, Part One

Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...in the Hill Country and his family connection to LBJ to bring the 36th President of the U.S. to..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Way Home

Zach Theatre gives Robert Schenkkan's All the Way its Texas premiere on LBJ's home turf

"...year in the White House not be staged on LBJ's home turf?..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Doubling Down

In The Great Society, playwright Robert Schenkkan and his subject, LBJ, both gamble big

"...world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, opens with LBJ likening the office to a rodeo bull ride, where..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Power Play

In Robert Schenkkan's new play, LBJ roars back to life to make civil rights history

"...Theatre, where All the Way, a new play about LBJ's first year in the White House, is receiving its..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Two Schools of Thought

The LBJ-S Merger Raises...

"...to you? Eighty million is the estimated value of LBJ-S, the new corporate entity created by the merger of..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after I explained that I..."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Psychedelic Acid Trope

Exhibits at the Bullock, Briscoe, and LBJ explore our recall of the Sixties

"..."The 1968 Exhibit" and "When Austin Got Weird," the LBJ Library and Museum with "Sixty From the '60s," and..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

'A Proprietary Love'

High-strung, hot-tempered Tom Miller made self-interest -- and his feuds with LBJ -- into Austin history.

"...simplification of the more complex reality; while Miller and LBJ managed to get a lot done, they also managed..."

July 4, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

It All Began So Beautifully ...

LBJ Library and Museum houses Austin's key connection to Kennedy's assassination

"...section of a wall in the room at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum named simply, "November 22, 1963."..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Making History, Part Two

Director Bill Rauch on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...cycle of history plays, what makes the play and LBJ Shakespearean, and why the play matters in the current..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zach Theatre's The Great Society

Robert Schenkkan's smart script and remarkable ensemble work make this a powerful look at LBJ's White House years

"...The play is about LBJ, starting with his victory in the 1964 election and..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

All the Way

In Zach Theatre's staging of this epic political drama about LBJ, the fight for civil rights feels particularly urgent

"...injustice so present in us, we're deeply invested in LBJ's labors during his first year in the White House..."

May 1, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Under the Stars and Maybe Some Space Aliens

The LBJ Library screens sci-fi classics

"...screening of The War of the Worlds on the LBJ Library lawn via the Alamo's 40-foot-by-60-foot road-show screen. Bring..."

March 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Public Notice: Ted Talks

AISD trustee lays it on the line about LBJ / LASA

"...LASA magnet school away from its shared campus with LBJ High, to a new campus, likely to be built..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

This Terrible Moment

'All the Way' playwright Robert Schenkkan and its LBJ, Bryan Cranston, on JFK's assassination

"...Bryan Cranston had the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum all to himself. The Breaking..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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