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

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

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...plants in the nation, two green groups announced plans last Thursday to sue the company to halt construction of..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature

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

Radio Silence: a word opera

Zell Miller III's hip-hop opera is fascinating when it isn't flying by so quickly

"...poet, and, as with this show from Vortex Repertory Company and UpRise! Productions, author and director...."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The Positively Serene Death of Sir Ritter Hans Von Wittenstein Zu Wittenstein

Aggressive Muse's adaptation of Ondine is long, bloated, and lacking in precision

"...statement at the back of the program describes the company's view that theatre has grown overly complex and full..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

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

Lasting Commitments

The 2008 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...and whether their individual interests are comedy, music, architecture, theatre, or the visual arts, their devotion has been instrumental..."

May 23, 2008 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

Who Is Stella Burden, and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Her?

When the Rude Mechs do a show about acting, they find madness in the Method

"...Meaning other than Stella Adler, the acting teacher whose approach to the craft – and specifically..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Down the Rabbit Hole

The weird, ever-evolving world of ARGs

"...reality games industry calls Hon's seemingly mistaken discovery the act of "falling down a rabbit hole." The year was..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

'Porgy and Bess': Lawd, it's on its way

Despite some offstage storms, Zach's production made a big splash – and may win a second life

"...and Bess up before the public, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center came to feel a kinship to the hurricane-blasted..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hustle and Show

City Theatre Company's first year is a lesson in building a new stage and mounting a season at breakneck speed

"...Some theatre companies plan for years to take over their own..."

July 20, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène

Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place – make one in 48 hours

"...Project came storming through Austin for the sixth time last month, leaving in its wake more than a hundred..."

July 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Boots and Suits, Scheming and Dreaming

The Wilson Brothers on The Wendell Baker Story

"...Not after last night's premiere of The Wendell Baker Story, the brothers'..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

The Iron Man

Longtime local stage phenom Ken Webster has a record to rival that of a Baseball Hall of Famer

"...even if you didn't already know that for a fact, you could tell it from the confidence he exudes,..."

April 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What's Past Is Prologue

Recreating classic tap routines from the screen and stage opens an exciting new future for Tapestry Dance Company

"...the feet – all members of Austin's Tapestry Dance Company – match the masters step for step...."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Frozen

The premiere production of the City Theatre Company is excellent – a simple and powerful staging of Bryony Lavery's Frozen, a difficult drama about a serial killer and forgiveness

"...The City Theatre Company, through Nov. 26..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Yoga Drama

For a year, Austin will be practicing daily public acts of creative expression through the national festival 365 Days/365 Plays

"..."One percent is theory and 99 percent is practice. It is the 'doing' that brings the many benefits..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Scripting the War

Susan O'Connor's journey to game writing

"...a 200-page script for a production that no movie theatre will ever play. The script involves actors, a consuming..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Lear Jaunt

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

"...in Lear is being played by Matthew Radford, an actor who's been performing Shakespeare professionally in the UK for..."

July 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Clayton Maxwell

Just an Old-Fashioned Cat

Eartha Kitt is one funny dame

"...on a sitting president's enemies list. And Austin Cabaret Theatre is bringing her to town for a gala fundraiser...."

July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Good Humor Man

Former 'Seinfeld' writer Pat Hazell is funny, upbeat, generous, and, oh, yeah, he lives here now

"...Midwest in the Sixties and Seventies, at the State Theatre last year, and/or caught him doing stand-up as part..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...reinstatement after being fired for shooting teenager Daniel Rocha last summer. See below. Naked City• All who love Las..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature

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

The Distance Danced

Between its old and new versions of 'Swingin' Then & Now,' Tapestry Dance Company has swung a long way, baby

"...The last time Tapestry Dance Company presented the program Swingin' Then..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Drive, He Said

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

"...as artistic director for the roughly dozen years the company's been in existence...."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Payback as Comeback

The Rude Mechs boost a resurgence with 'REVENGE!'

"...comes at the idea of revenge from every angle. Characters in the soap opera take revenge upon each other...."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Steve Moore

Twelfth Night

What the State Theatre Company's handsome but curiously reserved production of Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' lacks is that liberating light-headedness of intoxication

"...State Theatre, through March 5..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

"..."Theatre gets to create a topic of conversation for a..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

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