Les Misérables

This extravagant adaptation of the monster-hit musical is a little pitchy, but it's still a potent piece of cinema.

"...Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Samantha Barks, Aaron Tveit, Daniel Huttlestone, Colm Wilkinson, George Blagden and Isabelle Allen...."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Les Misérables

French drama keeps the name and spirit of Hugo’s classic

"...is amazing, especially the third act, which can be breathless at times. What Ly and his team have created..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Hideout Theatre's Grand Misery

This improvised send-up of the musical Les Miz is as much fun as the real show is serious

"...10 chorus boys in my high school's production of Les Misérables (no more than that signed up). Expected at..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Pleasure of the Paynes 2014

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

"...scored a two awards each, and so did Zach's Les Miz and the improv production Hurlyburly...."

Nov. 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Nicholas Rodriguez, Les Misérables..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Kimberley Jones' Top 10 list

Kimberley Jones' Top 10s

"...complicated drama about the hunt for bin Laden any less suspenseful, or stressful...."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

New French Shorts

Queer and immigrant stories, satire and romance give new perspectives on French culture

"...has too many people to look after - the homeless people who depend on the showers, his drunk neighbor..."

May 15, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Consummate Artistry

The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Department of Theatre and Dance's Anything Goes; Zach Theatre's Les Misérables; Breaking String Theater's Three, or The Sound of..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Les Misérables

It's the small, personal moments in Zach Theatre's staging that make this epic musical sing

"...Les MisérablesTopfer Theatre, 202 S. Lamar, 512/476-0541 www.zachtheatre.org Through Nov...."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Cats

You can’t teach old Cats new tricks

"...Tom Hooper’s Cats adaptation – and second musical, following Les Misérables – doesn’t try to change that perception...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Beth Sullivan

The Danish Girl

Biopic about the first person to undergo sexual reassignment surgery

"...into public consciousness. However, this film directed by Hooper (Les Misérables and Oscar-winner The King’s Speech) and written by..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"It Was a Difficult Choice, But..."

The Austin Critics Table named its tops in the arts for 2014

"...Andrew Cannata, Les Misérables/Assassins..."

June 3, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Review: Notes on the Classification of Spectral Lines ...

Aided by science, this theatrical essay covers vast distances

"...best Inspector Javert from among assorted professional versions of Les Miz)...."

May 26, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Set Your DVR for These Summer TV Premieres

6 newcomers worth checking out on the small screen

"...the King, there are plenty of nice hair swoops: Les Misérables' Aaron Tveit stars as the newbie tasked with..."

May 25, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

DVD Watch: ‘The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp’

Criterion revives an essential British wartime picture

"...through his hair-trigger temper and buffoonery to make a flesh-and-blood, aching human out of so much cartoonishness. Now meet..."

March 19, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Critics Association Announces Year-End Awards

'Zero Dark Thirty' named Best Film of 2012

"...Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature

The Greater Austin High School Musical Theatre Awards Goes Digital

The Long Center’s annual celebration of excellence in high school musical theatre moves center stage to center screen

"...schoolers. Throughout the year, their efforts in musicals from Les Misérables to Freaky Friday have been reviewed by volunteer..."

May 29, 2020 Arts Feature by Nataleah Small

Strike Up the Band!

If it's patriotic tuneage you want for your Fourth, here it is

"...American Civil War Fantasy, a medley of music from Les Misérables, and George Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band."..."

July 1, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Local Heroes

The 2015 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...Inch to acclaimed shows such as Dreamgirls, Avenue X, Ruthless!, The Gospel at Colonus, and Robertson's own Jouét, which..."

May 29, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Perfect Profile's Perfect Match

With Perfect Profile, old friends Jarrett King and Andrew Cannata try their hand at making a musical

"...Cannata in a host of musicals, from Zach Theatre's Les Misérables to Zilker Productions' Little Shop of Horrors to..."

May 15, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Urinetown: The Musical

City Theatre's Urinetown milks drought conditions for a flood of fun

"...audience are missed throughout. The songs and choreography (Sheridan doubles as music director, and Andy Berkovsky provides choreography) also..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Great Artdoors

Summer's here, and the time is right for outdoor performances all over Central Texas

"...and pops to jazz and film scores, with four ensembles in rotation: strings (first Sundays), brass (second Sundays), woodwinds..."

May 17, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 list

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10s

"...4) Lincoln It's as if John Ford were directing Profiles in Courage – crafting cinema in the service of..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chicago

Teen actors show a good grasp of Kander & Ebb's jaded Jazz Age satire

"...age in which it was created. Its vision of loveless marriages, corrupt courts and prisons, human life as a..."

March 4, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

A new theatre company gets Broadway vets to teach teens in Austin, and an older one gets a new artistic director and a new name

"...repertoire, and more. Instructors may include Jodi Langel (Broadway: Les Misérables, Cats), Jose Llana (Broadway: Rent, The 25th Annual..."

May 30, 2008 Arts Column by Robert Faires

AISD All-City Musical: 'Rent' control

A Pulitzer can't save Rent from being axed by AISD as this year's districtwide summer musical

"...another show this summer, May offered a few alternatives: Les Misérables, Gypsy, and Sweeney Todd. So AISD was cool..."

May 23, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin: Frederic blows out 38 candles (or should that be 152?)

The city's G&S devotees throw the duty-bound hero of The Pirates of Penzance a Leap Day birthday bash

"...Camelot, My Fair Lady, Annie Get Your Gun, and Les Misérables. The Society's musical director, Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, will assay..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Chef, played Jean Valjean in a 1994 production of Les Misérables. He was also the first Japanese Tony in..."

May 30, 2003 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

'El Aguacatero' (The Avocado Grower)

"...We first heard "El Aguacatero" by Los Originales de San Juan on KFON 1490AM ("La Estación de..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Food Feature by MM Pack

New French Cinema Week Displays a Nation’s Artistic Resilience

Vive la nouvelle France at AFS Cinema

"...Competition, co-presented by Alliance Francaise Austin Ciné-Club, is an endlessly fascinating observational documentary following the admissions process for students..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

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