Visions Holy and Damned, Innocent and Experienced

The documentary 'The Devil and Daniel Johnston' – as well as this story – are just the latest attempts to make sense of his life and art

"...achieved international recognition as an important American cult/outsider/alternative musician/artist. Accompanying this has always been the dark side: He is..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Beyond Therapy

By billing it as a "neurotic" comedy, Naughty Austin seems to position Beyond Therapy in the Woody Allen movie genre, and its production best compares to the filmmaker's late career efforts -- one that he seemingly wrote during a spare hour in a psychiatrist's waiting room

"...By billing it as a "neurotic" comedy, Naughty Austin Theatre Company seems to position Beyond Therapy in the Woody..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...May 30, Tue-Sat, 8pm, Sat-Sun, 2pm, Sun, 7:30pm. Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress. $17-35. http://www.greatertuna.org. 472-5470...."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...divided by you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If you have..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...and pumped full of chemicals that will arrest the action of his lungs and heart. It's an unlikely setting..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Warning! Nudity!

Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

"...local spirit of au naturel carries over into the theatre community, where actors frequently get naked onstage. Just scan..."

April 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

In the Middle of It

Where Tapestry's Acia Gray Likes to Be ó and Is

"...photograph by Kenny Braun It isn't exactly the best time to be talking with Acia Gray...."

Feb. 20, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Programs That Let Austin Youth Speak Out A Stage of Their Own

"...this story who are involved in various Austin youth theatre programs. They know that what they are doing is..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...may not crowd the calendar with performances as the theatre and classical music scenes do, but the artists in..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

A Diva's Best Friend

Stuart Moulton knows what becomes a legend most. Just ask Carol or Charo or Eartha or Elaine ...

"...show-tune belter or standards-bearer polishing his or her cabaret act. Still, that intimate theatrical art form has grown much..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...Waterloo Brewing Company, Wednesday, March 18..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...story as elaborate as one of Scheherazade's, with vivid characters, winding plots, and sudden surprises. They set out with..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wandering Preachers, Holy Fools

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.

"...their messages proclaimed in the grand temples of the theatre. They are playwrights who do not have a home..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...touching that you cannot help but regret that the actor is not a father in real life Ð it..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Actors' Inequity

The Cost of Art IV: The artists onstage in Austin aren't just not paid what they're worth, many aren't paid at all

"...and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged."..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Gifts of the Magi

A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts

"...As Dave Steakley works in theatre, Stephen Mills in dance, and Craig Hella Johnson in..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Blood Wedding: Folk Tale Under a Glitter Moon

"...by only once. And while the play relies on actors' body language to tell the story, many of the..."

April 30, 1999 Arts Review

Postmarks

VanScorned

"...end of the year, slowing down, reflecting on the last year's events, refreshing themselves, and preparing for the new..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Column

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...symphonies and suites and art songs composed in the last 25 years by artists who are still living. More..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Frogs: Awkward Bawdy

Local Arts Reviews

"...The usual hazards of children's theatre are in full effect here at VORTEX Repertory Company's..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Exhibitionism

America Hurrah: period piece

"...John Henry Faulk Living Theatre, through May 16..."

May 8, 1998 Arts Review

The Choice Is Yours

Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

"...at Luby's Cafeteria with me and his partner in theatre, Matt Hislope. He's talking about an experience they had..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bats Left, Sings Right

With help from Esther's Follies, Austin Lyric Opera turns Strauss' Viennese waltz into a Texas two-step

"...the concert hall, a collision with a real opera company was inevitable...."

May 30, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sweet New Nut

Ballet Austin Gives an Old Favorite a New Look

"...Do the math. Ballet company + the month of December equals... Yup, The Nutcracker...."

Dec. 13, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All the Way With LBJ's Play

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

"...and unlikely success of All the Way and its impact on the development of The Great Society, which will..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...anyone and everyone is encouraged to take the stage, blasted off Jan. 13, and through Feb. 14, you can..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...achievements in the visual arts, dance, classical music, and theatre. The nominations for the 2008 Austin Critics Table Awards,..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

A painful week for friends of the theatre with the passing of educator and director Gil Sharp and producer, director, and actor Don Phillips, Jr.

"...week of April was painful for friends of the theatre, with the passing of two men whose lives were..."

April 11, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Tru Artistry

With Jay Presson Allen's Tru, performer Jaston Williams takes a vacation from the little town of Tuna, Texas, with which he is so closely identified, to portray celebrated writer Truman Capote, and in the process reminds us what an actor of range and skill he is.

"...The actor who makes comedy look too effortless runs the risk..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gricelda Silva, Equal Parts Pragmatism and Whimsy

For five years, the actress has been among the busiest and best on Austin's stages

"...undergraduate years, albeit in a new home: the Austin theatre scene. Over the past five years, Silva has steadily..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

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