Articulations

The first weeks of 2002 show that Austin artists are still busy taking their art to other parts of the country, and Physical Plant Theater needs your leaves.

"...Christian, Lana Lesley, Jason Liebrecht, Michael T. Mergen, and Robert Pierson, with Jason Phelps joining the company to play..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Burn Hollywood Burn

Anti-American protestors in Pakistan set fire to a movie theatre that was, strangely, still showing Robert Rodriguez's Desperado.

"...said that Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek smoldered in Robert Rodriguez's Desperado, we didn't mean it literally. But tell..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Articulations

Ailing actor Douglas Taylor is on the mend, actors Babs George and Lowell Bartholomee get the recognition they deserve (from the Payne Awards), and choreographer Deborah Hay wants you to spend the weekend with her.

"...was unable to continue with the show, but actor Robert Pierson, one of the shining lights in the Rude..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...that she is good friends with indie-film legend John Pierson because he reads the Chronicle almost obsesssively and will..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Mr. Smith Goes to Austin

Writer / director Kevin Smith discusses his new film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

"...Clerks placed its writer/director on the short list with Robert Rodriguez as an early-Nineties poster boy for Making Movies..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Will Pay Cash for Film

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund underwrites independent film and video

"...exhibitions by transgressive artists such as Karen Finley and Robert Mapplethorpe, the NEA curtailed its longtime habit of issuing..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste

It might be hard to imagine that a story about a man who breaks wind for fame and fortune could be called "sweet," but Tongue and Groove Theatre's original musical Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste, about the extraordinary French vaudevillian Joseph Pujol, combines good humor, fun song, bawdy dance, and just enough ribaldry to make for an engaging theatrical show.

"...musical combo linger onstage to maintain the pleasant mood. Robert Pierson plays Pujol, striking that famous, slightly bent pose..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

PEXO

In PEXO, musicians with the Walter Thompson Orchestra, dancers from Ariel Dance Theatre, and several guest artists coax music from instruments, intentionally mangle lines of speech, and draw from a palette of physical movement at the command of conductor Thompson, creating an improvised yet shaped performance that is a complex, scattered spectacle for the ear and eye.

"...from the mouths of Allison DeFrees, Elizabeth Doss, and Robert Pierson. Or he'll have several of those things going..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crafting the Song

Austin theatre actor Robert Fisher has the heart of a rock & roller, the work ethic of a medieval craftsman, and the style of a Bob Fosse. Either he's in the wrong business or he is, as playwright Kirk Lynn calls him, "a wonder."

"...Shawn Sides has one word to say about actor Robert Fisher: "Fosse."..."

March 16, 2001 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Page Two

SXSW: The glorious onslaught begins with film.

"...the SXSW Film Conference: directors Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Penelope Spheeris, Chris Smith, Ron Mann, Jacob Young,..."

March 9, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

There are 40 blocks closed in downtown Austin due to various construction and cable-laying projects. When the Empire State Building was built in New York City, the city closed no blocks. Also, news on the upcoming SXSW festival and the Texas Film Hall of Fame.

"...days. Panelists include Jim Jarmusch, Allison Anders, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, producer Amy Robinson, Penelope Spheeris, Chris Smith, Ron..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Slacker, the Map

It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.

"...Special thanks to Clark Walker, Lee Daniel, Robert Pierson, Kathy Crane, and Detour FilmProduction..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Lipstick Traces: Rock On!

With Lipstick Traces, the Rude Mechanicals have adeptly created a theatrical adaptation of Greil Marcus' legendary book that is loud, defiant, intelligent, funny, absurd, literate, physical, and fun, a rock concert for your head.

"...at once subtle and outlandish. Michael T. Mergen and Robert Pierson round out the cast with solid performances, notably..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Everything Is Possible ... Again

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

"...a story on the show by Chronicle Arts editor Robert Faires. Lynn is up for the coveted M. Elizabeth..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

A Star Is Born

"...D: Frank Pierson (1976); with Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Mercury Rising The Sixth Sense

"...Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens, Robert Stanton, Bodhi Pine Elfman.The Sixth SenseD: M. Night Shyamalan..."

April 28, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...own state-of-the-art multimedia sound stages out at the old Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. The motion, which went before Mayor..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Small Screen, Big Ideas

The Territory Begins A New Season

"...The Brook (Etienne Robert de Massy, Canada, 27 min, 1998)..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Lipstick Traces: It's Only Rock & Roll ...

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...member -- Ehren Christian, Michael T. Mergen, Gavin Mundy, Robert Pierson, Liebrecht, and Lesley -- grips us with a..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

News from the Austin film world.

"...may wonder what producer Elizabeth Avellán and her partner Robert Rodriguez did to earn special thanks from the makers..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Working Worked Out

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...The Lab participants, and especially Lab Artistic Director Robert Blacker, recognized that in what Hancock was doing and..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

"...Donald Sneed and Robert Pierson in Americana Arcana The Ghost..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Short Cuts

"...Independent Film Channel show Split Screen hosted by John Pierson features a segment produced and directed by Austin filmmaker..."

May 7, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Great Scott!

"Why Not?"

"...films featuring Andy Warhol's two-projector wonder, Chelsea Girls and Robert Bresson's L'Argent ..."..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Feature

Exhibitionism

"...for food, growing agonizingly large during her rapid pregnancy. Robert Pierson, as her husband Paul, is as clumsy as..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Arts Review

Short Cuts

"...class will be profiled on this week'sepisode of John Pierson's Split Screen TV show. All the students in this..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shortcuts

"...Kelly that documents life on the set of the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino vampire romp From Dusk Till..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Theatre Critics' Table Nominations 1998

"...Hanks, Austin American-Statesman; Jerry Conn, West Austin News; and Robert Faires, Adrienne Martini, and Sarah Hepola, The Austin Chronicle..."

May 15, 1998 Arts Feature

Short Cuts

"...hits the streets) there will be two screenings of Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer to benefit the Save Our..."

May 15, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

"...we learn that the segment Henry created for John Pierson's Independent Film Channel television show Split Screen also airs..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

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