All the Hill Country's a Stage

No matter where you are in the Hill Country, you're never too far from a theatre. From Boerne to Kerrville, Marble Falls to Uvalde, community theatres are enthusiastically serving up choruses of "76 Trombones" and Odd Couples with a Lone Star twang, as well as some theatrical surprises.

"...the theatre as a space for the high school's "Shakespeare Under the Stars" program...."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Crank Up the Machine!

When Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay leads the UT New Music Ensemble in a performance of George Antheil's Ballet mécanique, he'll not only be giving the 1920s work its Austin premiere, he'll be reviving the notorious masterpiece of one of the true bad boys of music.

"...1923 he lived above Sylvia Beach's legendary Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company, became a regular at all the salons,..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Articulations

Naughty Austin makes a new home for itself on the Eastside, and Katie Pearl and Lisa D'Amour return to the Grove on Lamar.

April 4, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Twelve more friends of the arts have been named to the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, and Austin Lyric Opera loses Managing Director Michael Murphy to a performing arts organization in San Diego, from whence he came.

"...for the arts. The 2003 class of inductees includes: Shakespeare at Winedale founder James Ayres; theatre historian and educator..."

March 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Live From SXSW's Screening Room

"...supporting players, particularly a histrionic Mummy ji (Chatterjee) and Shakespeare-quoting Grandma ji (Pathak). Best of all, though, is Mehta's..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

The Bedlam Faction is as smart a bunch of actors as you'll find, and they take the Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and make its extra-dense language crystal clear and its characters comprehensible, and the story relatively easy to follow, but the production suffers from a flatness born of a lack of specificity.

"...I of England, which includes the latter part of Shakespeare's career -- is a theatrical dream: rich language, bold..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Articulations

Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.

"...Hear Shakespeare..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

How do you take Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and, in less than a month, condense it into a 100-minute one-man play, with the actor playing 20 characters from the novel plus a New York City drag queen? Everett Quinton and Eureka, veterans of the fabled Ridiculous Theatre Company and creators of Twisted Olivia, explain how they did it.

"...And you want to say that, there's almost a Shakespearean side of you that wants to say that, but..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Strange Days: Bruce Sterling

"...Sterling organizes the book-length essay according to the famous Shakespeare soliloquy delivered by Jacques in As You Like It..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May

Kentucky by Way of Austin

A decade after The Kentucky Cycle's premiere, the hometown of playwright Robert Schenkkan has the opportunity to experience the work's power in with a homegrown production at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre.

"...Angels in America, The Kentucky Cycle, marathon presentations of Shakespeare's histories -- to be mounted in Austin (Angels was..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

In blaming the anti-war movement for all possible future scenarios connected to terrorism or the war in Iraq, the hysterical right has poised itself to lead a devastating assault on the Constitution and its protections.

"...Nights Rave -- how can you go wrong combining Shakespeare and rave culture?..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column by Louis Black

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Stuffed to bursting with outrageous characters, broad reactions, and slapstick, The Merry Wives of Windsor as mounted by the Austin Shakespeare Festival and Austin Playhouse is big on big comedy, and the crisp comic work of the cast makes it a sizable pleasure.

"...Windsor, as mounted by Austin Playhouse and the Austin Shakespeare Festival, is big on comedy -- and big comedy..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Shame the Devil

The celebrated 19th-century actress Fanny Kemble possessed the courage both to stand on a stage and speak as someone else and to stand on principle and speak up for someone else, as we learn with admiration and delight in the Pollyanna Theatre Company's production of Shame the Devil.

"...to the floor to demonstrate her first shot at Shakespeare (a comically inept Juliet); storms through recollections of the..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens' picaresque teems with wonderful performances and bright direction by McGrath (who also did the same for Jane Austen in Emma).

"...to film at least twice before, and the Royal Shakespeare Company also staged a much-celebrated nine-and-a-half hour stage production..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...sense of character that was equal parts jukebox and Shakespeare. On radio, Jean Shepherd nightly broadcast the most adventurous..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Coming Soon

Trend Watch

"...a look into the life and work of William Shakespeare and exploration of the ongoing question: Were some of..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Empire

"...improbable, whiplash smile, Leguizamo fairly smoldered his way through Shakespeare and left Leonardo DiCaprio's lovesick Montague in the poison..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Grey Zone

"...and his follow-up, O, is a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's Othello. The Grey Zone details in often harrowing detail..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Articulations

The threat to Austin Musical Theatre and the passing of Austin storyteller and artist Helen Handley

"...Her father, lawyer Sigismund Engelking, was so passionate about Shakespeare that he would deliver the Bard's words standing on..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Beyond Himself

Roger Gathman talks to Jonathan Safran Foer about the author's unconscious grasp of the Jewish literary tradition.

"...bigger than his story. This happens. It happened to Shakespeare with Falstaff in Henry IV, part whatever. It happened..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Mr. Smarty Pants

"...Juliet (from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) was 13 years old...."

Nov. 8, 2002 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Articulations

Ballet Austin buys itself a new home downtown, and Shakespeare at Winedale founder James Ayres receives UT's prestigious Civitatis Award.

"...Ayres, UT-Austin English Department professor and founder of the Shakespeare at Winedale program, on receiving the university's Civitatis Award,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

"Talk about your big party weekends," writes Virginia B. Wood in this week's "Food-o-File." "If you don't find some great food and wine to enjoy with this lineup available, you're just not trying hard enough!"

"...pairings, and indoor and outdoor performances of Poe and Shakespeare. There's dinner and live musical entertainment under the stars..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Johnny Dowd

Texas Platters

"...his debut, but also shows musical refinement with a Shakespeare-on-the-rocks story of cracked love. The simple relational bliss of..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Music Review by David Lynch

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Pineo applied to be the artistic director of Austin Shakespeare Festival, a position for which he was passed over..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

The Long Incubation of the Incubus

Playwright David Hancock and director Vicky Boone reveal how they developed the play The Incubus Archives over six years, through 11 sometimes radically different versions.

"...that seemingly get minor stage time. I mean, with Shakespeare the main characters are really great, so I don't..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Twelfth Night

The latest production of Twelfth Night from the Austin Shakespeare Festival is full of such strange staging, acting, set, costumes, and sound that viewers end up with less a romantic comedy and more a mass of whirling, flailing confusion.

"...I know. This latest Equity production from the Austin Shakespeare Festival is that type of show. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

West Side Horns

Texas Platters

"...and the reggae rhythms of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. They're that good, and that distinctive; worthy of the..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Review by Joe Nick Patoski

TV Eye

After a 16-month hiatus, The Sopranos' fourth season finally arrives, accompanied by a slew of related books.

"...psychoanalytic theory with examples from contemporary film, mythology, and Shakespeare makes Gabbard's book an illuminating discussion of the series...."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Deep in the Mozart of Texas

This summer, the Austrian American Mozart Academy, an international program that provides aspiring professional singers with training and performance experience in Mozartian opera, relocates to, of all places, Austin, Texas.

"...in the land of the armadillo, but hey, if Shakespeare can have his Winedale -- and the Bard winds..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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