End of an Arts Era

The most prosperous period in Austin's cultural history came to a painful close in 2003.

"...and eliminated its Young Artist Program. The State Theater Company axed most of its staff and half its season,..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tale of a Tale Spinner

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

"...way that people there made a stand against the ever-present, ever-oppressive horizon encircling them and always threatening to flatten..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

"...community safety, quality of life, and yes, taxation without representation...."

July 19, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...all manner of dubious enterprises for many years. The company operates some of our U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service..."

July 12, 2002 Column

Articulations

The former bakery turned arts center on Tillery gets another tenant, Austin Musical Theatre gets an executive director, and Zachary Scott Theatre Center alums get plum acting gigs on opposite coasts.

"...this column, we reported on the Austin Circle of Theatres moving to the Eastside building, where Second Youth Family..."

July 5, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Fish

Here's Cyndi Williams' new play, Fish: an evocation of people and situations like the psychic furniture of a darker David Lynch film.

"...Blue Theatre,..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Welcome to Texasland

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

"...Bullock wanted to create an educational institution, aimed at presenting the story of Texas history to the people of..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Bright Lights, Little City

"...New York and Los Angeles launches months later). The company has 50 years of combined experience between co-presidents Mark..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Reflections

SXSW Film Festival and Conference

"...him. Johnson, a member of director John Ford's "stock company" of characters and a fixture of the Hollywood Western..."

March 14, 1997 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Otto, is its narrative structure. Each of the characters represents a quilt panel and the story of each panel..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

In Heartland, Playwright Gabriel Jason Dean Makes the War in Afghanistan Personal

Michener Center alumnus' latest drama turns down the volume of war

"...Dean. He and his wife Jessie were busy making theatre in Atlanta, Ga...."

Jan. 18, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hedda Games

Two productions take a new look at Ibsen's troubled and troubling heroine

"...we have spent a couple of hours in her company and been witness to much willful, malicious, and self-destructive..."

March 4, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Metamorphoses

Aerialists add theatrical magic to the myths here, but a Texas twang sounds off

"...Zach Theatre Whisenhunt Stage 1510 Toomey, 476-0541 www.zachtheatre.org..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

A strong acting ensemble plays this Neil Simon comedy like there's no tomorrow

"...City Theatre, through Dec. 20..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

2007 B. Iden Payne Awards

More than 60 shows scored nominations for ACoT's annual theatre honors

"...a star slugger abruptly coming out of the closet; Present Laughter, the vintage Noël Coward comedy about the daily..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

OoBer Alles

A guide to the troupes in the 2007 Out of Bounds Improv Festival

"...in the US of A? Perhaps. Definitely IN UR THEATRE, IMPROVISING UR STORIES. www.theleadingbrands.com..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Culture Flash!

Pay your respects to the late Boyd Vance, June means green for the Paramount and State, and six Austinites are officially 'New American Talent'

"...respects to the late Boyd Vance. ProArts Collective, the company he founded and ran until his untimely death in..."

June 17, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Two theatre companies may have to cancel shows if they don't raise funds by a certain date; ACoT gets down to business; and Hogg Auditorium is headed for a makeover.

"...Theatres Race the Clock..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

The Great State

"...you; the space's narrowness preserves its intimacy. Watching the company's staging of Hay Fever was as cozy an experience..."

June 18, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A Commitment to Playwrights

The Life and Legacy of David Mark Cohen

"...that I would see David Cohen at the next theatre opening or Critics' Table meeting. I wish there were..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Arts Feature

Exhibitionism

Tlamatcanemilitzli Trilogy: Brutal Search for Peace

"...John Henry Faulk Theatre, through October 18 Running Time: 2 hrs..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Arts Review

Festival Flood

A brief guide to the 13 – count 'em, 13 – arts fests coming your way in April and May

"...when the Music, Film, and Interactive juggernauts are going. Theatres have taken to closing shows before the hordes descend..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

State of Love and Trust

Have a little faith for the new millennial music paradigm and trust in the 2011-12 Austin Music Awards.

"...is believing in something in lieu of evidence," Quiet Company front man Taylor Muse told the Chronicle last month...."

March 9, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Try To Remember

How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical

"...bare stage. With its comfortable universality and simplicity of presentation, Jones and Schmidt's little musical felt anything but radical,..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Blackbird

Capital T and Hyde Park Theatre deserve better than this David Harrower script

"...Hyde Park Theatre, through Oct. 11..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobb

Articulations

The Harry Ransom Center has acquired all the professional and personal materials of profoundly influential acting teacher Stella Adler

"...Warren Beatty, among others. From membership in the Group Theatre in the early 1930s and studying with the Moscow..."

April 30, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Renee Davis' 25 Years as Harriet Tubman in Sister Moses

The dancer talks about her quarter-century of walking in the footsteps of this legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad

"...Moses – and has been since Arizona-based Desert Dance Theatre premiered it in 1993. Every year the work has..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zeus in Therapy

Tutto Theatre's stage adaptation of Douglass Stott Parker's poetry is less a play than a cool presentation of poems

"...Zeus in TherapyRollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside, 474-5664 www.tuttotheatre.org..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Shakespeare at Winedale

The UT program offers a marathon run of the Bard's early trilogy

"...with whom no one wants to be seen. Keeping company with this neglected lot is Henry VI, about the..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Bacchae' to the Future

How in (a Greek) god's name can the Rude Mechs re-create Dionysus in 69 in '09?

"...crowd in the lobby of the B. Iden Payne Theatre last week, Richard Schechner could well have been referring..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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