Alice Through the Looking Glass

Although it has visual panache, this new story is lifeless

"...to Tim Burton’s 2010 film rendition of the timeless Lewis Carroll story installs a new director at the helm..."

May 27, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Underbelly's Alice in Wonderland

This new adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic sends its audience down the rabbit hole – and all over the Zach Theatre campus

"...easily when Underbelly is running the show. In adapting Lewis Carroll's tale for Zach Theatre, this award-winning Austin theatre..."

April 8, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Alice in Wonderland

Sadly, the mirth-to-muck ratio in Tim Burton's new film is deeply imbalanced.

"...Carter, Anne Hathaway and Crispin Glover. Long gone is Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical idyll: In this topsy-turvy take, Alice (Wasikowska)..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Faust

"...House of Usher, followed by Alice, his adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and, more recently, several MTV..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Loved Little Girls

"......"

Oct. 9, 1998 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...and photography better known to the living world as Lewis Carroll. Over the past 150 years, the book's narrative..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Basketball Diaries

"...not a pretty sight. This movie made from Jim Carroll's autobiographical book about growing up addicted in 1960s Manhattan..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Alice in Wonderland': Drawn down the rabbit hole again

The universal appeal of Lewis Carroll's story inspires 45 local artists in a new group show

"...long time," says Tornatore, "and thus my obsession with Lewis Carroll. People who are Lewis Carroll fans tend to..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

To Preserve and Protect

The HRC's Texas Dante and India Alice

"...repairing a copy of the suppressed first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was to change as..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Connected Events

"...Thu, Oct 8, 5pm: "Reflections on Lewis Carroll's Life" Morton Cohen, Carroll scholar and Professor Emeritus..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Arts Feature

Ballet Austin’s Alice (In Wonderland)

In which the young heroine grabs those wild wonderland reins

"...colorful and thrilling, but in truth, this adaptation of Lewis Carroll's 1865 book is all about Alice. Early on,..."

May 19, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Alice in Sunderland

In this epic tale, writer/artist Bryan Talbot draws on centuries of European history and graphic storytelling

"...complex, interlocking story of the Sunderland area of England, Lewis Carroll, and Alice, both fictional and real. Talbot, a..."

June 1, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

'Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument'

A work that takes Lewis Carroll's text undersea and lets us drown in words

"...and, as it turns out, remorselessly hungry carpenter in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, resurface in The Daisy..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Libertarians Say No to Doggett

"...Loved Little Girls" [Vol.18, No.6] perpetuates the notion that Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) might have been a pedophile, even..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column

Come Away

Maudlin melding of Peter Pan and Alice is a misreading of both

"...with the same issue: the impossibility of growing up. Lewis Carroll looked through a child's eyes at how absurd..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Penguin Highway

A wonderful anime adventure into childhood ... with lots of adorable penguins

"...classic children's adventure page turner, of the kind that Lewis Carroll and the lesser-known (at least to American audiences)..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Alice in Wonderland

A straight-up, well-executed adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book from City Theatre

"...pops on stage, it feels like an aspect of Lewis Carroll's imagination has come to life. The play follows..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

In Person

The first book Jasper Fforde remembers reading, he told the smiling crowd at BookPeople, is Alice in Wonderland. Which explains an awful lot.

"...series of novels starring literary detective Thursday Next, recalls Lewis Carroll's cockeyed classic – and not just because of..."

March 12, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...film: a life-size Alice, straight from the pages of Lewis Carroll's book; a sequence of Eadweard Muybridge photographs depicting..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays

Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.

"...Wonderland Southwestern University's Summer Stage Repertory Theatre serves up Lewis Carroll's Caterpillar, Humpty Dumpty, and all the rest via..."

July 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Revealing Poses

How the Victorians presented themselves to the camera explains a lot about them – and us

"...Victorians also dressed up their offspring. One sequence by Lewis Carroll stands out: Xie Kitchin in Greek Dress, Xie..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Winston Churchill lived in the same house that Lewis Carroll lived in when he wrote Alice in Wonderland..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Exhibitionism

"...be said for Alice, En Route Productions' modernization of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland, in which our heroine..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Arts Review

Musical Youth! Summer Stock Austin Previews Its 2022 Shows

New music, In the Heights, and a love letter to MGM

"...with a much more contemporary vibe. The show reimagines Lewis Carroll's young dreamer as a gamer who falls into..."

July 19, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Sushi Bar Stays, the Field Guide Festival’s Foretold, Meanwhile Gets Dough Boys, and Who’s Gonna Win Free Breakfast For a Year?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...designed along the lines of those still-popular fantasies from Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel, a pop-up shindig that’s been..."

July 14, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 29 - June 4

"...CANCER (June 21-July 22): When Lewis Carroll's fictional heroine Alice visits the exotic underground realm..."

May 29, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 17-23

"...standing desks, poet Rainer Maria Rilke and children's author Lewis Carroll wrote their books while standing up. Novelist Henry..."

April 17, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

"Interwoven" at MASS Gallery

In this group show of fiber artists, a stitch in time saves, nein?

"...weed-smoking version of someone who might, after all, be Lewis Carroll's classic heroine centered in a series of erotic..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Performance Park Takes Over the Vortex

Bonnie Cullum’s dream wakes the Tarot into life in her company’s immersive theatrical experience

"...in which a three-story hospital becomes a dreamscape for Lewis Carroll's tales of Alice in Wonderland. "I wanted to..."

March 23, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

“Robert Collier Beam: Scry” at Pump Project

The artist uses photographs and other media to catch the invisible and intangible but in a remarkably peaceful way

"...questionable veracity. Even 19th century photographer Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, an avid portraitist, was compelled to paint color..."

May 26, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

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