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May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
After a Fashion
It's all about the give and take. And the swag.
"...the VIP room at the Maxim/Paul premiere party at Shakespeare's Pub and spent time with the two lead actors..."
March 18, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
sxswi: Arm Candy
Talking with tote bag designer Molly Crabapple
"...become this colorless slop,” she said. “It could be Shakespeare, it could the New York Post, it could be..."
March 14, 2011 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
Spirits to Enforce
Twelve superheroes plus The Tempest equals FronteraFest at its finest
"...Twelve superheroes have decided to mount a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. For that, they need to raise money,..."
Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe
Swanning Into 2011
But first, a look back at the films of 2010
"...Green Lantern, Thor (which is directed by that noted Shakespeare interpreter, Kenneth Branagh), The First Avenger: Captain America, Cowboys..."
Jan. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Ian McLagan: Paint From Pain
What may seem initially to be dark images of pain are also a wild revel of color
"...has made his migraines undergo that sea change of Shakespeare, into something rich and strange...."
Dec. 31, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Her Fair Ladies
Cristina García's antidote to the so-called 'spicy señorita'
"...ones that use ghosts or the fantastic," she said. "Shakespeare used ghosts. Look at Kafka's The Metamorphosis."..."
Nov. 26, 2010 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta
The 'It' Program
Musical theatre struts back onstage at Texas State to rave reviews
"...the songs of Elvis Presley with the plot of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The new musical theatre program head admits..."
Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Where 'Friend' Is a Four-Letter Word
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explores the fractious founding of Facebook in The Social Network
"...is what Aeschylus would have written about. It's what Shakespeare would have written about. A couple of decades ago,..."
Oct. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Great Are the Myths
Edward Norton introduces Leaves of Grass to Austin
"...scene at Harvard. And then there's a reference to Shakespeare, the Shylock line –..."
Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner
Blue Theatre
Despite fire damage, the Eastside venue's managers say the show will go on
"...laid waste to too many stages throughout history, from Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre to Esther's Follies' original Pool. So..."
Aug. 6, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Culture Flash
Honors for Conspirare, two artists who teach at UT, and a student playwright
"...selects nine to receive cash awards. Meyer, nominated by Shakespeare at Winedale Director James Loehlin, was cited for his..."
May 7, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires
The Shape of Jazz to Come
The Ornette Coleman Quartet is coming to the Bass Concert Hall
"...guest Glenn Kotche January 26, Bass Concert Hall Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Complete World of Sports (abridged) January 29,..."
April 14, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell
Peer Gynt
An unrelentingly fast tempo flattens out the St. Ed's staging of Ibsen's epic
"...which mostly falls somewhere around the rhymed couplet, which Shakespeare used to such great effect in many of his..."
Feb. 19, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo
TV Eye
ABC's new show The Deep End lawyers up
"...Shakespeare's oft-quoted line from Henry VI is usually interpreted as..."
Jan. 15, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Top 9 Most Memorable Locally Produced Live Performance Offerings That I Chanced to See in 2009
A theatre year of crazy families, love lost and found, and lots of dancing
"...'AS YOU LIKE IT' (SCOTTISH RITE THEATRE) Lovers. Clowns. Shakespeare! What more could you require? Well, how about the..."
Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo
First Night Austin
This New Year's Eve, why not join the throngs at this free arty party on the streets?
"...First Night participants such as Austin Bike Zoo, Austin Shakespeare, Austin Taiko, and Texas Juggling Society...."
Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
DVDnds
"...Stevie Nicks slaying "Landslide" as Lindsey Buckingham picks some Shakespeare, chased by Mick Fleetwood's acceptance speech – with Mac..."
Dec. 25, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
On His Mark
Richard Linklater explores the rich contradictions of artifice and reality, theatre and film, love and desire in Me and Orson Welles
"...starring Orson Welles (Christian McKay). In Welles' hands, the Shakespeare play has become a work of innovative, groundbreaking theatre,..."
Dec. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black
The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History
What once was old – very old – is new again
"...Phil) and provided the lowdown on history's famous figures (Shakespeare was a "pussycat" who actually wrote a 38th play,..."
Nov. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Singers
Area high school poets get to share the concert stage with old-school masters of verse
"...Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and, of course, old Will Shakespeare all had texts set to music they were happy..."
Nov. 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Belle de Jour
Rufus Wainwright's wardrobe change
"...the opera and the Judy Garland show and the Shakespeare's sonnets thing I did in Berlin I've been dealing..."
Nov. 13, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez
Fun for the Whole Family
Traversing the Texas Book Festival
"...talk, with an inevitable tip of the hat to Shakespeare, whose plays were an inspiration for the first-time novelist,..."
Nov. 6, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones
Plan, Be
The citizens who spent years dreaming up CreateAustin are now working to make it real
"...Frost Media Relations; Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare; Cliff Redd, executive director of the Long Center for..."
Sept. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir
Galloway was born a storyteller, and her narrative gifts are in full force throughout her new memoir
"...the pratfall and pun, too much the fool (in Shakespeare's sense of the word) to rouge herself up as..."
Sept. 11, 2009 Books Review by Robert Faires
Off the Cuff and in Your City
A roundup of Austin improv schools
"...This school is presided over by Andy Crouch, Improvised Shakespeare star and founder of the all-encompassing Austin Improv Collective...."
Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Playing Through
The reason we need to explore the heavens is the same reason we need to sing arias and write poetry and hit baseballs – to transcend our lesser selves
"...negligible about play – unless, that is, you think Shakespeare and Mozart are negligible. That all play is pointless,..."
July 24, 2009 Column by Thomas Hackett
'The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art'
This thought-provoking exhibition plays off memory's elusive, fluid nature
"...drama geek, I was mightily amused by Emma Kay's Shakespeare From Memory, in which she attempted to pen synopses..."
July 3, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Save Me From What I Want
Annie Clark births slow jams, a tin man, and a baby pony
"...pretty romantic if you think about it. If only Shakespeare could have had a MacBook...."
June 19, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder
A Taste of Honey
How we get honey now, and what might happen to the industry in the future
"...Europe and beyond, after being celebrated by Chaucer and Shakespeare and untold numbers of starry-eyed scribblers, honey made its..."
