Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...a special 25th anniversary screening of raucous legal comedy My Cousin Vinny, while Sam Beam (better known in musical..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Forward Compatible

Silicon Cowboys details how Compaq took down IBM

"...does the Internet look like? And could I, on my iPhone, and the guy sitting next to me, on..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Music Man (1962)

Seventy-six trombones

"...Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady), and Jack Warner was all hot to..."

May 17, 2013 Screens 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

"...as numbers from such decidedly non-G&S fare as Camelot, My Fair Lady, Annie Get Your Gun, and Les Misérables...."

Feb. 29, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Dueling Dickens

Two productions of a seasonal classic raise the spirits, with Zach Theatre's A Christmas Carol vs. Penfold Theatre's A Christmas Carol Classic Radiocast

"...The musical My Fair Lady was based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion,..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

'Found' Affects

Scott Schirmer tells a twisted serial killer tale through the eyes of an 11-year-old

"..."My brother keeps a human head in his closet." That..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion

A look back at a 50-year career and Steven Tyler's big, fat lips

"...AMERICAN IDLE I have never enjoyed American Idol – my mom watches it, so I do drop in occasionally..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...and even the millennium. On the traditional end are my choices for the top theatrical productions in Austin during..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: Broadway in Austin’s To Kill a Mockingbird

They had me at Sorkin

"...Broadway, such as South Pacific, The King and I, My Fair Lady, and Fiddler on the Roof. His vision..."

May 10, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Review: The City Theatre's The Fantasticks

Reverential and sharp production of the classic musical

"...Sure, after watching grand and glamorous musicals like My Fair Lady, The Music Man, and Gypsy (all on..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

In Memoriam: Rhoda Winter Russell

Movement therapy pioneer who knew the greats of dance has died

"...was in elementary school, we could go to the Academy of Music for a special children's performance and hear..."

Aug. 1, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Chronicle Recommends: Back to School

Seven of the best movies about edumacation

"...liable to hum a few bars from 1964 musical My Fair Lady. But that particular elocution lesson goes as..."

Sept. 11, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Dance of the Century

Rhoda Winter Russell reflects on a historic life in dance and the Mary Wigman connection

"...was in elementary school, we could go to the Academy of Music for a special children's performance and hear..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Gift Guide: Film Criticism

New reads from two titans in film scholarship

"...Wildean wit with his estimation of Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady: "That Hepburn did not do her own..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'Monty Python's Spamalot'

The debonair leading man sheds his suavity to play the comically clueless King Arthur

"...go back that far, TV's Dr. Kildare (the original McDreamy), then you might not expect debonair leading man Richard..."

March 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rocks Off

SXSW 04 encore: Saturday showcases and more

"...rendition of "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady. Who says jazz can't be fun?..."

March 26, 2004 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Articulations

An era of Austin theatre ends as Austin Musical Theatre files for bankruptcy.

"...to fall on the Austin arts scene since the economy went south. Austin Musical Theatre was a company that..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Long Center supporters do a funding turnaround by asking the city for $25 million in bond money, and Austin Musical Theatre finds new life as Broadway Texas.

"...marquee; LuAnn Aronson radiant as she once more made My Fair Lady's "I Could Have Danced All Night" a..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Let Them Entertain You

The story of Austin Musical Theatre is itself a musical, complete with kids-with-a-dream beginnings, against-all-odds successes, and nail-chewing jams. Well, now comes the big-belting, high-kicking, pull-out-the-stops showstopper: a revue revisiting AMT's greatest song-and-dance numbers, Celebrate Austin Musical Theatre.

"...(Fiddler's Tevye); LuAnn Aronson (The Music Man's Marian and My Fair Lady's Eliza); and Leslie Stevens (Sweet Charity's Charity)..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

An Angel for AMT

The recent fiscal crisis for Austin Musical Theatre threatened to keep the company from mounting any future productions, but producer Charles Duggan has come to AMT's rescue, offering to produce a week-long retrospective of musical numbers from the company's first 15 productions.

"...AMT perennial Fred Barton, natch), area actors and AMT Academy students, and as many of the original lead performers..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

The threat to Austin Musical Theatre and the passing of Austin storyteller and artist Helen Handley

"...they transcended that, as with spectacular efforts such as My Fair Lady. Moreover, AMT enriched this city immeasurably, helping..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Trouble at AMT

"...ticket sales recession, underwhelming receipts from its production of My Fair Lady, and a "very tight fundraising environment" as..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Arts Feature

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...ticket sales since Sept. 11. The recent production of My Fair Lady reportedly lost over $250,000. -- M.C.M...."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Pete, The Young Man From Atlanta, State, 1999; Pickering, My Fair Lady, State, 1999; various, Gypsy, Austin Musical Theatre,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Articulations

Cultural Projects A-Boomin'

"...of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved musical My Fair Lady, with a musical-scale gala to commemorate the..."

April 9, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

"...seating can be constructed. In fact, theatre PR czar Amy Stinson reports that the concrete has been poured for..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Whether Saving Lives During the Freeze or Saving the City From Save Austin Now, Bob Nicks Just Helped

"I didn’t do a thing. I sat in my office and dispatched people. But I was part of it.”

"...So I sent out a message real quick to my membership about what I'd just done – 'Hey, volunteer..."

April 8, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Professor Dumpster Wanted a Dialogue – He Got One

Nora Ankrum responds to the bowtie backlash

"...I was scrolling through my Facebook feed Friday night when I spotted Dan Solomon’s..."

March 11, 2015 News Post by Nora Ankrum

Bloody Good and Scary Bloody

Being Human season 2 airs tonight, hits DVD Sept. 21

"...more popular purveyor of hot vampire action, but for my money, BBC America’s Being Human, which has its second..."

Sept. 18, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

July Is Crime Month: Raymond Chandler’s 'The Long Goodbye'

Sleuthing for a childhood relic

"...a worn paperback of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye. My mind still reels...."

July 11, 2014 Books Post by Raoul Hernandez

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