Tying the Knot: A Drama

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

"...Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts and the State Theater Company is a business affair, replete with all the..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Live Feed

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

"...ambitious multidisciplinary project opening Dec. 11 at Salvage Vanguard Theater for which Phelps not only performs eight personally commissioned..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

A new tool in finding performance space in Austin.

"...Lyric Opera's Mary Armstrong Heller Opera Center, Doghouse Theatre, New Texas Music Works Studio at Flatbed World Headquarters, Dell..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Turner Is Worthy

"...as a "revolutionary." She identifies herself as a grassroots community activist. Her view of social change is too complex..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Column

Dan Dietz: The exit interview

As local playwright Dan Dietz prepares to leave Austin for a teaching gig at Florida State, he talks about his experience here and what he sees happening down the road

"...in Austin for his close relationship with Salvage Vanguard Theater and as the former director of Austin Script Works,..."

May 25, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Home for Heroes (and Others)

Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill. But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard labor, they have created one of Austin's most user-friendly theatre spaces.

"...turned up such artifacts as tin cans of beer, newspapers from the 1950s, and liver tonic bottles. An awareness..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Phil West

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...local companies, jobs just appear. Day one(ish) of a new project, everyone working on the show gets the script...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Who Wants to Be a Theatre Geek?

A quiz to find out who knows what about theatre in Austin.

"...On average, how many productions does the Austin theatre community mount or present in Austin during a year? a...."

Dec. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...tag. We wanted a term that reflected this creative community's willingness to venture out of the mainstream and insistence..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Raising the Dead

Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television

"...programming, shifting viewing patterns, and the ongoing impact of new technology on the meaning of "community" and "local."Back in..."

July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...24 Beats Per Second music thread comes in, with new documentaries about British Invasion mainstays the Zombies (Hung Up..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Culture Cash

Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.

"...ecosystem at work in the intellectual life of the community. Ideas -- about society, about the way we live,..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Qmmunity: Top Five Scene Shakers

Qmmunity counts five major queer scene shake-ups in 2023

"...change: From January to this very December, Austin's queer community weathered good, bad, and neutral shifts to the status..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Column by James Scott

All the Hill Country's a Stage

No matter where you are in the Hill Country, you're never too far from a theatre. From Boerne to Kerrville, Marble Falls to Uvalde, community theatres are enthusiastically serving up choruses of "76 Trombones" and Odd Couples with a Lone Star twang, as well as some theatrical surprises.

"...one is, it's just a stone's throw from some community chorus of "76 Trombones" or an Odd Couple with..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Creative Capital?

In the City of Ideas, the people with ideas are dancing with day jobs.

"...to keep working. She took another artist's residency in New Hampshire, even though she knew she'd have no job..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Michael Erard

A Boner Bizarre, Improvised Love Stories, and More Arts Events

Get some culture and love this week

"...transmedia festival dedicated to bold creativity within the LGBTQ community is back again. Over four days, creators like Good..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Everything Is Exemplary

The 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...celebrating the inventiveness and artistic drive that fills this community. This year, the in formal association of arts writers..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

An Asian Mom and a Jewish Mom Walk Into a Bar …

Actually, they walk into Austin's Lucky Chaos Theatre this Friday

"...We can thank them for The Asian Mom/The Jewish..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Classics Comeback

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

"...classics onstage looks to be outpacing the number of new plays being produced locally...."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heart Attack & Fine

Actor Douglas Taylor is alive (again) and well in Austin, Texas

"...group of people that I didn't recognize. But I knew that I knew them from somewhere. And the only..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

City council elections must be coming up soon...

"...without expectation of praise, I have worked in our community to give our youth a place to play and..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Column

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Canadian splattermasters Astron-6. Not only is he bringing his newest rubber suit mayhem, PG (Psycho Goreman) for its world..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cultural Coolness Around Texas This Month

"...exploded. Writers, painters, photographers, musicians, and performers were producing new and provocative works of art around the globe from..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

DIY, and So Can I

KLRU's 'Arts in Context' mirrors the the collaboration and can-do of the artists it profiles

"...circus arts company makes its debut at the State Theater – and people are practicing their craft. For the..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Wharton Dancer

The flourishing legacy of the late Lone Star dramatist Horton Foote

"...entire seasons and festivals to his work and a new national award for playwrights established in his name (with..."

March 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Club

Aaron Mace's Church of the Friendly Ghost rattles the fringes of creative and musical expressionism

"...Inside a dark room at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, a man stands behind a table alight with burning..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Off the Cuff and in Your City

A roundup of Austin improv schools

"...fast and furious yet retained its sense of we're-all-in-this-together community – a scene where more seasoned veterans, driven by..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spontaneous Convergence

Chris Cogburn's No Idea Festival risks improvisation

"...remains a learning experience, always spontaneous, and that something new is born out of the synergy, whether in a..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...and Dreaming the Americas being a theatre conference in New York City organized by fellow writer Caridad Svich with..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Wilde Life

"..."I'd like to welcome all the Walk-on-the-Wilde-Siders!" announced State Theater Company artistic director Don Toner during his curtain speech..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

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