Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2023 Award Nominees

Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer lead field

"...Jr., Oppenheimer Ryan Gosling, Barbie Charles Melton, May December Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things Best Supporting Actress..."

Jan. 3, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Austin Playhouse’s Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie’s 1923 mystery gets a surprising remake as a farce

"...technical work throughout is competent, effective, and engaging, from Mark Novick's dynamic lighting design to Robertson Witmer and Robert..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Jasmine Lane

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...only member without a criminal justice background is Ed Robertson, a career bureaucrat who has worked alongside Abbott for..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...J. Quinton Johnson, Alice’s Wonderland, Summer Stock Austin Allen Robertson, Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, ZACH Theatre Indiia Wilmott,..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Scenes From Day 5 of SXSW 2022

"...Kathleen Robertson, Swimming With Sharks premiere at the State Theatre..."

March 15, 2022 Photo Gallery

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...Billy Miossi, Producers: Alissa Shapiro, Matt Reynolds In an unremarkable office space, a select group of aging engineers find..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Joy-filled animated family SF comedy is an explosion of fun

"...André as Silicon Valley knucklehead and accidental Armageddon invoker Mark Bowman), and that just makes Rick’s technophobia just a..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

PrintAustin 2021 Reproduces Community Online and Off

At this celebration of printmaking it's gather, prints, repeat

"...an artist can be very inventive with both the mark-making in or on the matrix and in how they..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Dangerous Man

At 18, Billy Joe Wardlow took a man’s life. Nearly 30 years later, the state still wants his.

"...Mark Robertson remembers when Wardlow was the new guy on..."

June 26, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup

Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days

"...du Futur and technocomedy Selfie): Three documentaries, including a remarkable story of transition in I'm Gonna Make You Love..."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

aGLIFF 2019 Announces Full Lineup, Including Trixie Mattel Documentary

Gay Chorus Deep South to open jampacked fest schedule

"...of rejection and validation, tragedy and triumph include Ryan Robertson, who was encouraged by his Christian family to attend..."

July 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Critics Table's Grand Tales

The winners of the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...David Mark Cohen New Play Award Heartland, Gabriel Jason Dean..."

June 4, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...David Mark Cohen New Play Award The Afterparty, Reina Hardy The..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Death Watch: King Set to Die for James Byrd Lynching

Last-minute appeal seeks new trial as King maintains his innocence

"...taken place; the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Mark Robertson a stay on April 8 – three days..."

April 19, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: One Man Spared, Another Set to Die

Mark Robertson seeks stay due to racist lawyer

"...TDCJ refreshes its memory of the Bill of Rights, Mark Robertson is now in line to be the third..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...David Mark Cohen New Play Award Catalina de Erauso, Elizabeth Doss..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Zach Theatre's A Christmas Carol

This slick and polished musical adaptation of the Dickens classic serves up holiday cheer in abundance

"...stunning arrangements of modern tunes by musical director Allen Robertson – more than a few of which stand out...."

Dec. 22, 2017 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...Judy Matetzschk-Campbell, All Aboard! Nat Miller, Charlotte's Web Allen Robertson, A Shoe Story..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A CodeNEXT Questionnaire

"...code itself cannot produce deeply affordable housing, given Austin's market pressures and land prices. The new "missing middle" housing..."

June 9, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The awards mark their 25th anniversary with an influx of new members..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

T2 Trainspotting

The sequel to the 1996 classic

"...McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Steven Robertson, Shirley Henderson, Kelly Macdonald and Anjela Nedyalkova...."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Memoriam: Gary Cartwright

Time to "Turn Out the Lights" for the Texas Mad Dog writer

"...ex-con rodeo rider drama J.W. Coop (1971), starring Dale Robertson; the considerably more lighthearted TV movie with Willie Nelson..."

March 2, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...a tiny hill town in Tuscany that found a remarkable way to confront their issues - they turned their..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Robert Faires' Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2016

Works that struck a nerve with the political state of our city and our nation stood out in this year's outstanding theatre productions

"...adults. And a major force for that is Allen Robertson. HONORABLE MENTIONS..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...Karen Hurley, Cindy Widner, Brent Grulke, Jody Denberg, and Mark McKinnon, among others...."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Yuppie Pricks Stage RNC Watch Party

Because viewing it alone on C-Span is so depressing

"...first lady candidate Melania Trump, and Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson. For locals who couldn’t make the 1,400-mile sojourn to..."

July 18, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Loves Me Zell Miller III, Hunger/Hands Up Hoodies Down Mark Pickell, The Strangerer/Year of the Rooster Andrea Skola Summers,..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Daveigh Chase, Natasha Lyonne, Louis Hunter, Nikki Reed, Britt Robertson (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Vatican Tapes

Pray for us; it's exorcism time again

"...Directed by: Mark Neveldine. Starring: Michael Peña, Olivia Dudley, Dougray Scott, John..."

July 24, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

Top honors to Salvage Vanguard's Thr3e Zisters, LOLA Austin's Femme Bohème, and Texas State's Kiss Me, Kate

"...local creatives – Fidencio Duran, Heloise Gold, and Allen Robertson – into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame...."

June 5, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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