Search Through the Skies

The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.

"...thesis when he was getting his masters in children's theatre at UT -- that is titled The Journey. And..."

April 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Snoopy!!!: See You in the Funny Papers

Watching this neat and happy Second Youth Family Theatre production of Snoopy!!! is like paging through a random helping of funnies from the philosophically comic genius of Charles Schulz. And with songs at least as clever as the comic shtick, it's an easygoing, good-natured musical that, as advertised, is theatre fun for the whole family.

"...famous dog than Snoopy? Watching this neat and happy Second Youth Family Theatre production of Snoopy!!! is like paging..."

March 23, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Storyteller

Talking turkey with X-Ray

"...Yeah, I read something about that. For the National Theatre in London?..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

Sister in the Spirit

Praising the Lord with one of Austin's most talented sisters

"...in 1974, as a young alto in Austin's City-Wide Youth Choir, and it was during a performance in Dallas..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Lost at Sea and Back Again

Bill Broyles' Extraordinary Adventure Story

"...At a Christmas Eve dinner with family in Memphis, business calls him unexpectedly to an overseas..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Snow Queen

In Second Youth's 10th anniversary production of The Snow Queen, the ending can be sensed from the beginning, but it's the journey that counts, and this journey is full of wonderful surprises and theatrical magic.

"...certainly the case with this utterly charming production from Second Youth Repertory Family Theatre. For while the ending can..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Ask Questions First, Shoot Later

In 1967, Hobart Ison shot and killed Hugh O'Connor, who was filming a documentary on Ison's property. In her documentary Stranger With a Camera (showing at the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday, November 1), Elizabeth Barret examines the context that brought these two men together -- one with a gun and one with a camera.

"...culture, Barret felt an inexorable need to take a second look at how a well-meaning stranger with a camera..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

Theatre reviews! Film reviews! The Summer Smut Issue! Get your snipes here!

"...Austin Theatre Professional..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Column

B. Iden Payne Award Nominations, 1999-2000

"...On Monday, August 14, the Austin Circle of Theatres released its nominations for the 1999-2000 B. Iden Payne..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Public Notice

"Public Notice" gets devout all over the sisters. Check it out: Two nun-related items in one week!

"...While Second Ecumenical liberalism was quickly changing the role of our..."

July 7, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...the alley across from what's now the Alamo [Drafthouse] Theatre and sat down. And I vividly remember -- like..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...real. I can't afford to live here with a family, so I moved them away where we live in..."

May 19, 2000 Column

Dancing About Architecture

A bitch session about the plight of the Austin music scene is scheduled at Threadgill's; here's hoping Negativland's long-anticpated Austin appearance doesn't dissapoint a la SRL.

"...as the heirs to the throne of the Firesign Theatre? According to the band's Web site, expect a performance..."

May 12, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dance of the Prodigal Son

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

"...A youth leaves home to seek fulfillment in the wide, wide..."

April 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Making History Personal

History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.

"...perfect complement to the fascinating and poetic Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play, a..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Articulations

Robert Faires reports his recent binge of arts festivals programming.

"...of Playfest 2000: Liu, the Dragon King, from the Second Youth Family Repertory Theater. I can't recall ever having..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?

"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.

"...the names of some of his other friends and family that you contact. What you learn is reassuringly what..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...between Kennedy and Kruschev. Such was the escapist and youthful appeal of early Sixties pop music, and happily, it..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Under-Stated

"...Texas I saw in the darkened rooms of my youth was, without question, a magnificent place. Great expanses of..."

July 2, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hollywood Swingin'

"...little tales of eager-beaver teens scheming to save the family farm by putting on a show; sweet little bonbons..."

June 4, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art Fun in the Summertime

May

"...May 30, Tue-Sat, 8pm, Sat-Sun, 2pm, Sun, 7:30pm. Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress. $17-35. http://www.greatertuna.org. 472-5470...."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...prequel is carefully calibrated? Will the hordes outside the theatres in the makeshift Tentooine villages return to the end..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Barrientos Misrepresented

"...Gosh, after reading the second paragraph of "Urban on the Rocks" [Vol. 18, No...."

May 7, 1999 Column

Exhibitionism

Blood Wedding: Folk Tale Under a Glitter Moon

"...woman who ran off with the son of her family's enemy, Blood Wedding warns of the tragic results of..."

April 30, 1999 Arts Review

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...rancheras and mariachi classics he recalled hearing in his youth. He may not do Tejano, but for Treviño, who..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

The SXSW Wind Blows In

"...you read this, this week's paper is actually the second of threeSXSW issues; Interactive was last week, the Film..."

March 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Family Man

"...of the playwriting program in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance, as a founding member of the playwright..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

"...the home of her grandmother, rekindling memories of her youth, her family, and the difficulties of growing up American-born..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Review

Writes of Winter

"...a job as volunteer literary events coordinator for a second-floor bar in Manhattan known as the KGB Bar. Foster,..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Books Review

Readings From the Fringe

"...set a story in a World War II Zurich theatre and inhabit it with Shemp Howard and Peter Lorre?..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Books Review by Mike Shea

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