Review: Zach's The Rocky Horror Show Still Tasteless, Plotless, Pointless, and Perfect

Cult classic is a welcome jump to the left, step to the right

"...When The Rocky Horror Show opened on Broadway in 1975, Newsweek found..."

April 18, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Rocky Horror Reissue – A Wild & Untamed Thing

A red vinyl adios to summer in Tim Curry’s lipstick

"...The Rocky Horror Picture Show defines midnight movie madness even in..."

Sept. 1, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Rocky Horror Show

Doctuh Mistuh's visit to the Frankenstein place is delightfully inclusive for die-hard fans and virgins alike

"...what she's doing. But virgins, have no fear – Rocky Horror virgins, I mean – Doctuh Mistuh Productions' staging..."

July 3, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Luv Doc Recommends: The Rocky Horror Show

Topfer Theatre at Zach, Thursday, October 26, 2006

"...and that something was the 1975 cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. To date the RHPS has spawned..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' of Wrestling?

or dammit Janet – I love lucha libre!

"...“We like to say it’s like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where you’re a part of the..."

May 12, 2012 Sports Post by Kenny Pailes

Review: ZACH’s The Rocky Horror Show Still Tasteless, Plotless, Pointless, and Perfect

Cult classic is a welcome jump to the left, step to the right

April 22, 2022 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

DVDanger: All This Horror Business

Catching up with the major terror releases

"...legendary 75-year-old Italian director last year during the Housecore Horror Film Festival, and he insisted on taking iPhone pictures..."

July 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Horror! The Horror!

The Woodlawn Theatre has cooked up a doozy. Another slice, anyone?

"...presenting a very special live theatrical run of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. But more importantly, dear hot patooties,..."

Oct. 30, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Not Going to Use 'Time Warp' in the Headline ... Oops, Too Late

Austin Rocky Horror group celebrates birthday

"...anniversary of the first Austin cast performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In 1976, Austin became the second..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Feature by John H. Razook

Five Faces of Frankenstein

This Halloween, Austin serves up five freaky takes on Mary Shelley's mad doctor and his monster

"... 810 S. Austin Ave., Georgetown, 512-869-7469. www.georgetownpalace.com 5. The Rocky Horror Show..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Repo! The Genetic Opera

This cyber-gothic opera set in an unsavory world of the near-future stars Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton, among others.

"...checking out if you're in the mood for some pseudo-Rocky Horror theatrics. And Repo! is nada if not theatrical..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

"...song-and-dance camp who might be ready to give The Rocky Horror Picture Show another inch -- or mile. Hedwig..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indoor Queers Club: LGBT-Boo!

Queer horror picks from your trusty Chronicle crypt keepers

"...Horror holds a special place in the queer community and..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

DVDanger: 'The Lords of Salem'

Or, in defense of Rob Zombie as a filmmaker

"...is it about the fact that Rob Zombie makes horror movies that drives so many people crazy?..."

Sept. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Darren, the Devil and the Drowned Souls

Saw' director Bousman opens the tent of 'The Devil's Carnival'

"...There were no musicals to make, so he made horror films. Then, one day, he decided to make his..."

April 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Don't Gleek on My Parade

For all its inclusiveness, 'Glee' falls short in the 'T' department

"...and died when they heard Glee would be doing Rocky Horror for Halloween, but I was among them, along..."

Oct. 28, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Jimmie D

Austin Theatre Critics' Table 1999-2000 Nominations

"...The Rocky Horror Show, Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Let's Do the Time Warp Again!

"...too did the theatrical Powers That Be withhold The Rocky Horror Show from Austin. A couple of months ago,..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Theatre Critics Table 1999-2000 Winners

The Austin Theatre Critics Table presented its eighth annual awards for achievement in the Austin arts in a lively ceremony at the Continental Club

"...Musical The Rocky Horror Show, Zachary Scott Theatre..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Rocky Horror Show: Spaced Out on Sensation

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

"...The Rocky Horror Show: Spaced Out on Sensation..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Rocky Horror Show

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center revival of 'The Rocky Horror Show' provides Austin, and especially fans of all that is Rocky, with an experience worthy of the word classic

"...The Rocky Horror Show..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

2007 B. Iden Payne Awards: Prize night

Running down the winners at this year's awards from the Austin Circle of Theaters

"...beloved actress, singer, and arts patron, who's had a rocky year healthwise, was visibly frail but still spirited, wisecracking..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pleasure of the Paynes 2015

Big wins for Am I White?, Heathers at the 2015 theatre awards

"...for its musical partner in rep this summer, The Rocky Horror Show; and Proyecto Teatro, which was honored with..."

Oct. 28, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Age of Aquarius

With a new production of the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, director Dave Steakley caps 10 years of making the Zachary Scott Theatre Center rock -- and so much more.

"...Holly Story and Tapestry: The Music of Carole King. Rocky Horror and Rockin' Christmas. Hedwig. Jouét. Dreamgirls. And on..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

B. Iden Payne Award Nominations, 1999-2000

"...The Rocky Horror Show, Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

"...pesky ol' time warp. Believe it or not, The Rocky Horror Picture Show marks its 23rd continuous year of..."

May 14, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

"...March is Robert Rodriguez on an as-yet untitled science fiction/horror project for Dimension Films, the genre arm of indie..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

And Then a Step to the Right

TV Eye

"...The Rocky Horror Picture Show on VH-1 all Hallowe'en night. Ken..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Gay Place: Big Top

See you at the Circus – in your red tutu, we hope

"...FREE & QUEER: 'ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW' This event carries the Charles Atlas..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

The Lords of Salem

With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.

"...American auteur run creepy-ass riot over what passes for horror movies in contemporary Hollywood...."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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