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A Guide to the Works
"...Play/prequel based on Shakespeare's The Tempest performed in ritualistic, sensational, and poetic style...."
April 6, 2007 Arts Feature
'La Víctima': An old message still needing to be heard
As Teatro Vivo stages La Víctima, a groundbreaking look at Mexican-U.S. immigration, Rupert Reyes and Jorge Huerta discuss the play's origins and relevance
"...never been afraid of politics. But Aristophanes was political. Shakespeare was political. Being political is not just left-wing. Ann..."
March 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta
Danava
"...Just as Shakespeare invented every good plot, so too did the "Spiral..."
March 16, 2007 Music Review by Austin Powell
Ten Days in the Hills
In this a talky, bawdy book, Jane Smiley says a lot about the vapidity of Hollywood and even more about the humanness of the 21st century American
"...has previously looked for inspiration from academia (Moo) and Shakespeare (A Thousand Acres: A Novel). Her model here is..."
March 9, 2007 Books Review by Joe O'Connell
Man and Myth
Comic-book artist Dean Haspiel set to attend Staple! Independent Media Expo
"...romance comics. They're kind of hyperbolic and surreal, like Shakespeare on a bad day. You're told, in writing class,..."
March 2, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Austin's Barbarian Blogger
Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon recounts her two weeks in the presidential crosshairs
"...Bob and David). McEwan wrote this on her blog, Shakespeare's Sister. Why it might be evidence of some deep-seated..."
March 2, 2007 News Feature by Amanda Marcotte
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
O, verily, thou needest not a dictionary
"...Dictionaries did not exist in Shakespeare's time...."
Feb. 9, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants
A Beautiful View
For much of Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View, its two characters keep finding and losing each another, but in the end, though something is lost, something beautiful is found again
"...we have of those we love, the view that Shakespeare wrote of when he said that journeys end in..."
Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Review by Barry Pineo
Eleni Karaindrou
"...What if Shakespeare had combined his best – a poem here, a..."
Jan. 19, 2007 Music Review by David Lynch
Top 10 Pratfalls of 2006, Plus Some Shining Examples of Physical Comedy
"...Night (State Theatre Company) The late State's production of Shakespeare's comedy provided some lovely clowns, especially Blake DeLong's Sir..."
Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...studies – plus elective courses in subjects such as Shakespeare and multivariable calculus. The school is looking for students..."
Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature
Letters @ 3AM
One of the great lessons of civilizations is that smarts don't count for much in the long run
"...it's hard to see how writers have evolved since Shakespeare). Some believe we'd all be better off if we..."
Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura
Review: UT Department of Theatre & Dance's The Way of the World
Despite the script's dizzying mishmash of complications, student production transports you to another time and place
"...Restoration comedy as the style that became popular after Shakespeare's death, a comedy of manners satirizing all things courtly..."
Dec. 1, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo
Holy Shit! Rumsfeld Quits!
"...bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said." "Secretary Powell and I agree on every single..."
Nov. 8, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar
Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney
"...in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her." Shakespeare got the locale wrong (see scene one, Heaven Can..."
Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Payne Pleasures 2006: The nominees
Your play didn't have to tackle a political theme to earn a nomination for ACoT's 2005-2006 B. Iden Payne Awards, but the top nominees reveal that it sure didn't hurt
"...area arts companies. Also earning six nominations was the Shakespearean authorship farce The Beard of Avon, by Different Stages,..."
Sept. 29, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Mission: Improvable
Austin's improv community gathers intelligence
"...McCormick: Well, in theatre, in Shakespeare's tragedies, everything falls apart. And in the comedies, things..."
Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
An Arabian Midsummer Night's Dream
Tongue and Groove Theatre and Ararat Restaurant launch a new outdoor theatre space with some belly-dancing, scimitar-wielding Shakespeare:'An Arabian Midsummer Night's Dream'
"...to rehearse a play – a familiar scene from Shakespeare, but this month it's being played out in a..."
July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah
TV Eye
Instant classic?
"..."I always say that the English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, and the Russians have Chekhov,..."
June 23, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Luv Doc Recommends: Viva Las Vegas
Austin Music Hall, Saturday, June 24, 2006
"...sword. Sometimes it's a pink sword that's sored. As Shakespeare would say, "There's the rub" - and he didn't..."
June 23, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc
In Memoriam
Bil Pfuderer, an actor, director, and designer in Austin theatre for 20 years and producer of the Zilker Summer Musical from 1980-1995, died in Canton, Ohio, on June 4
"...and Chicago. Ill.; toured his one-man show, Contrasts in Shakespeare; and began his teaching career at Western Illinois and..."
June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Cream of the Crop
Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards
"...Hamlet, Austin Shakespeare Festival..."
May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Zachary Scott Theatre Center
The National Endowment for the Arts is giving the Zachary Scott Theatre Center $40,000 toward a production of 'Porgy and Bess' to be staged in 2007
"...follow-up to a similar initiative regarding 10 productions of Shakespeare last year)...."
April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Elvis Costello & the Austin Symphony Orchestra
Live Shot
"...main Attraction. So was Il Sogno, Costello's "ballet after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" from 2004. Conductor Alan Broadbent..."
April 14, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Wondrous Journey
At Conspirare's concert Wondrous Journey, the sheer pleasure that this choral ensemble's members take in singing shone through even more resplendently than usual
"...In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the clown Feste sings a ballad for..."
March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Lone Star
Another man in black: Kris Kristofferson
"...around for laughs. It's strange. It's like finding out Shakespeare was as funny as Richard Pryor. Willie's truly funny...."
Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Andy Langer
State Theatre Company
It's a new year, and the State Theater has a new artistic director, who has announced some new additions to the theatre's season
"...old Will in the world: The scheduled production of Shakespeare's beloved comedy Twelfth Night, produced in partnership with the..."
Feb. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Point Austin: Beside the Point
Council ponders limiting McMansions
"...so large cost, having so short a lease," asked Shakespeare, "does thou upon your fading mansion spend?" (Sonnet 146)...."
Feb. 17, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar
Playing 'House' (and 'Garden')
At Austin Playhouse, running Alan Ayckbourn's paired
comedies side-by-side is double the pleasure, double
the fun
"...plays – more dramas than Neil Simon and Bill Shakespeare combined, the director jokes – but when surveys of..."
