All the Way With LBJ's Play

Bill Rauch talks staging 'All the Way' and 'The Great Society'

"...In two years, Robert Schenkkan's LBJ drama All the Way premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; moved to Broadway..."

Oct. 9, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

My Cousin Rachel

Love and murder on the English Highlands

"...change of perspective on that film and its numerous productions in other media formats, that inspiration has been lost..."

June 16, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Weetzah Days

A case study of one post-Winedale company, the Weetzah Players

"...Tormé rendition, so it's with his undulating voice in my head – when the lonely protagonist, after cheering on..."

July 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Clayton Stromberger

Something Wicked This Way Comes ... Again!

Dueling Macbeths on the stages of Austin prove once again this Shakespearean killer's undying popularity.

"...gore-splattered bodies in his wake. And though he is always dispatched at the end of his story, his popularity..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jarrott Productions' Seminar

Theresa Rebeck's play abounds in contradictions and irony, and this staging embraces them all – for the good and bad

"...at first. If it does later, however, I've done my job of conveying my personal experience...."

May 18, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

All the Way to State

A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.

"...Matt tell you: "This has had more impact on my life than anything else so far."..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

All Over Creation: My Kind of Town

A trip to see theatre in Chicago brings one writer closer to home

"...In my five days in Chicago last week, I managed to..."

June 22, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Giant Steps Productions: Togetherness

D.I.T. concert promotion with James Taylor

"...music into a booking company in 2006. Giant Steps Productions was born with “Sweatfest 2006,” a small festival at..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

"My Uncle Has a Barn...."

Theatre Is Thriving in Some Surprising Places Outside Austin

"...years ago, was a still, silent landmark on the highway through town until Charles Trois, an enterprising and whimsical..."

June 20, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

En Route Productions' *some humans were harmed in the making of this show

CB Goodman's play is memorable for its exuberant satire, but an abrupt hairpin turn toward the serious makes the show even more memorable

"...has never really had much relationship to reality, in my experience. (If it did, the streets would be full..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

'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

"...However, as stormy as the run was at times (and blessedly, the..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kickstart My Heart

Austin is one of 10 cities featured prominently on online fundraising platform Kickstarter

"...game prospectus from firms Double Fine and 2 Player Productions, which finishes its funding cycle on March 13. By..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

God Is My Co-Producer

AFS Documentary Tour presents Audience of One

"...happens when bad things happen to the best-of-intentioned film productions. You know, films of the you-couldn't-make-this-up ilk, like Lost..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The FronteraFest Way

Christi Moore's top rule for producing the annual festival: Just say 'yes'

"...the festival in 1993 while artistic director of Frontera Productions. Boone and the original FronteraFest teams had worked out..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kentucky by Way of Austin

A decade after The Kentucky Cycle's premiere, the hometown of playwright Robert Schenkkan has the opportunity to experience the work's power in with a homegrown production at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre.

"...was privileged to witness one of the Cycle's first productions at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. It remains a..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'La Pastorela': A funny thing happened on the way to 'La Pastorela'

Half a millennium after Franciscan missionaries brought the nativity story to Mexico, the Austin Latino Theater Alliance continues the tradition of La Pastorela but also creates something totally new

"...to the cultural aspect," says J. Jimenez-Smith of SONAV Productions. He's the latest to serve as director for ALTA's..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

Bedside Manner: The Never-Ending Battle

Fighting for truth, justice, and fewer books beside the bed

"...A grinning Superman statue stands watch on my bedside table, and I figure that grin across his..."

Jan. 23, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

Risk: It's What They Do

What's at stake for the frontier-crossing artists in Long Fringe 2005

"...mount them put themselves on the line in some way. As this year's Long Fringe gets under way at..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Gotta Dance!

Kevin Archambault came late to dance, but his love of it and commitment to it have brought the young dancer and choreographer a long way in a short time.

"...Theatre, where he now works full time as an academy associate. Most recently, Kevin choreographed A Funny Thing Happened..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature by Lindsey Schwartz

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...squinting eye of the original man in the moon way back in 1914. That pioneering hole-in-one, from Melies' silent..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mr. Show Busy

Michael McKelvey's just a guy who cain't say no (to musicals)

"...musical responsibilities, nor has Dr. McKelvey figured out a way to clone himself. He's doing all this all by..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1,..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

Live Feed

Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart

"...this versatile and accomplished performer to create Feast of My Heart, the ambitious multidisciplinary project opening Dec. 11 at..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beyond the Picket Lines: SAG, WGA, and the Austin Industry

Local film professionals explain how they're navigating the strike

"...commercials. First there was March 13, 2020, when all productions shut down due to Covid. Now there's July 14,..."

Aug. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Broadway in Austin Announces 2024-25 Season

Corn, kindness, and the boy who never grew up come to the Bass

"...The best of Broadway keeps making its way to Austin, with Texas Performing..."

March 5, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Last Five Years at the Institution Theater

Sherrod Curry Productions' staging of the Jason Robert Brown musical is gracefully performed and wildly cathartic

"...to heart-wrenching terminus, but does so in a novel way: One character moves forward in time, and the other..."

April 1, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The Long Incubation of the Incubus

Playwright David Hancock and director Vicky Boone reveal how they developed the play The Incubus Archives over six years, through 11 sometimes radically different versions.

"...through many preliminary stages, so to speak, on its way to the one under the mainstage marquee: stages of..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Little Big League

"...than the average spitball: It connects, in a big way, with America's love affair with the game, and brings..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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