The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...country. Just as Fuentes cannot imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, it is impossible to imagine a Mexico..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...eminent wit Tom Stoppard (who won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love). Gerard Depardieu plays the title character, a..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death

A vague performance at the center of the Public Domain Theatre Company's production of Edward Bond's Bingo diminishes the impact of Bond's play, but does not eclipse it. It feels relevant right here, right now.

"...progress. The plot revolves around none other than William Shakespeare, who has retired to his estate in Stratford only..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Macbeth

Director Marshall Ryan Maresca may lose the audience at times in the female-dominated world of his Macbeth, but he keeps hearts pounding on a trip through the supernatural world of Dunsinane and the many worlds of human psychosis.

"...Females dominate the Disciples of Melpomene production of Shakespeare's Scottish Play, the second tragedy in the company's maiden..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Review by Rob Curran

A Macbeth

In the State Theater Company production A Macbeth, director Guy Chandler Roberts strips the Scottish Play of its dramatic spectacle and boils it down into a compelling ritual of human evil, a Black Mass.

"...The hour is come again for Shakespeare's murderous Scots to set about their deadly work, to..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Something Wicked This Way Comes ... Again!

Dueling Macbeths on the stages of Austin prove once again this Shakespearean killer's undying popularity.

"...who stabs his way to the top in William Shakespeare's shortest and most brutal tragedy, and despite this rather..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Curse of the Play

"...with the play's creation in 1606. According to some, Shakespeare wrote the tragedy to ingratiate himself to King James..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...Catmull's grandfather was a gifted Shakespearean actor. He was renowned for his interpretation of King..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Julius Caesar

Though it shows evidence of higher aspirations, the Austin Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, directed by Ev Lunning Jr. is a one-dimensional melodrama, lacking the rhetorical firepower and guiding vision that gives this drama its political punch.

"...Just as it did last year, the Austin Shakespeare Festival is running two productions in repertory, with similarly..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Holy conceptual contortions, Batman!

In his Austin Shakespeare Festival staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, director Robert Tolaro creates a fantasy world of superheroes with a strong hint of modern Chicago 'burb, that pulls up a bit short conceptually, but is still a fun, rambunctious evening.

"...The Austin Shakespeare Festival continues its clever approach to the romantic comedies..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

How to Read and Why

"...Turgenev begat Chekhov, who begat Hemingway and Flannery O'Connor; Shakespeare begat (and then obliterated) himself. Bloom imagines Shakespeare reading..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Books Review by Craig Arnold

Articulations

The winners of the 26th annual B. Iden Payne awards for local theatre..

"...Martin Burke/Chris Hatcher/Aaron Johnson /Jon Watson, Shakespeare's R & J..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Animation Station

Through ADVision, Austin has become a hotspot for producing English-dubbed anime. Who knew?

"...can currently be found playing Oberon in the Austin Shakespeare Festival's Midsummer Night's Dream...."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Strictly Ballroom

"...irreverent spirit as his second film, the much-maligned William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. That sensibility didn't always work in..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

B. Iden Payne Award Nominations, 1999-2000

"...Iden Payne Awards, the annual theatre honors named for Shakespearean scholar and director B. Iden Payne, who spent his..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Artistic director resignations, more traveling Austin artists, and the missing BS.

"...their positions. Paul Norton, artistic director for the Austin Shakespeare Festival for the past three seasons, has left that..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Second Austin Latino Comedy Fiesta: A Long Way

Local Arts Reviews

"...Confidential to J.C. Shakespeare: At the fiesta, LCP member Nick Walker played the..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Review by Mary Jane Garza

From Hollywood to Sporting Wood

"...The Sex Family Robinson, The Sex Files, The Sexorcist, Shakespeare in Lust, Sinderella, Single White Nympho, The 69 Olympics..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

Love's Labour's Lost

"...The versatile Branagh, whose stage and film interpretations of Shakespeare are renowned, has recast one of the Bard's least..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

The restored J.M. Koch Hotel Bed and Breakfast in D'Hannis is part of a vanishing breed of Texas frontier buildings.

"...Shakespeare Under the Stars at the Emily Ann Outdoor Theater..."

July 28, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

By the Book

Reviews

"...William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Geniusby Anthony Holden..."

July 21, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Smaller Than Life

Chronicle critic Ada Calhoun finds The Off Center's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead gasping for air..

"...1990, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is a clever inversion of Shakespeare's Hamlet wherein two minor characters, hapless courtiers, friends of..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...last happened upon some ridiculously unentertaining Richard Lewis debacle. J.C.Shakespeare's article about the sad state of comedy in this..."

July 14, 2000 Column

Crossing Swords

This is the second time that the National Fencing Tournament has slashed it's way through Austin. Wayne Alan Brenner is en garde.

"...score points off each other through bodily contact. J.C. Shakespeare, stand-up comedian and Chronicle contributor, is taking a brief..."

July 7, 2000 Sports Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Through the Glass Darkly

"...a onetime Presbyterian minister who could wax rhapsodic on Shakespeare and translate Old English, was selling make-up...."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Public Notice

"Public Notice" notes a few great ways to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend by helping a good cause.

"...doing to her simple piece about the wonder of Shakespeare and falling in love. After all, she's just a..."

June 30, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

TV Eye

A tribute to Nancy Marchand, matriarch of The Sopranos, who died of lung cancer on June 18.

"...and in repertory theatre, moving with ease from William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and Anton Chekhov to the contemporary..."

June 30, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Hamlet

You have to admire Michael Almereyda's contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet if for no other reason than its audacity in staging one of the passive prince's timeless soliloquies in the Action aisle of his local Blockbuster. “Go Home Happy,” chirps the store banner in the background.

"...You have to admire Michael Almereyda's contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet if for no other reason than its audacity..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History

"...a scientific one, as evidenced by his references to Shakespeare, St. Augustine, Bertrand Russell, Buddha, and William Blake, as..."

June 23, 2000 Books Review by Ann Guidry

A Mid-Indian Summer Night's Dream: Missing the Bluebonnets

Second Stone Theatre's A Mid-Indian Summer Night's Dream takes the play out of Athens and sets it in Austin (kind of), but while the idea is striking, the production doesn't make the transition as completely as it could.

"...Of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is particularly well-suited to..."

June 16, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

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