A Question of Equity

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

"...actor Paul Norton. Norton, artistic director of the Austin Shakespeare Festival, is a longtime member of both American and..."

June 9, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...seed. A necessary ingredient in the fashionable recipes of Shakespeare's day, the nutmeg seed was also an indispensable medicinal..."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...returns to the South, where she's from, to teach Shakespeare and poetry to college students in Jackson, Mississippi. "I'll..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Third World Cop (Palm Pictures)
Monty Alexander Monty Meets Sly and Robbie (Telarc Jazz)
Horace Andy Living In the Flood (Melankolic/Astralwerks)

"...to Jamaican riddem twins Sly Dunbar (drums) and Robbie Shakespeare (bass), who supply an up-to-the-minute turbo-groove that propels this..."

June 2, 2000 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Cool Jerks

It takes a cool character to weather the hot lights of a comedy club stage, so who better to share tips for beating the summer heat than stand-up comics from Austin, the hot-spot in Texas?

"...J.C. Shakespeare: Though I've retired from the stage to become a..."

May 26, 2000 Arts Feature

Fractured Greeks: Great Deeds, Human Follies Fractured Greeks

If any company in Austin is equipped to handle the mythological heft of the Greek tragedies, it's VORTEX Repertory Company, and under the direction of Bonnie Cullum, Fractured Greeks, a collection of scenes taken from and inspired by the Trojan War plays of Euripides and Sophocles, holds together pretty well.

"...people the Trojan War plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Shakespeare (okay, so he's not Greek, but included in the..."

May 26, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Confessions of a Cowboy

Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.

"...he added in a loud voice: "And yet, if Shakespeare had asked me I would have had to submit."..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...In Love's Labour's Lost, Kenneth Branagh asks: What if Shakespeare wrote for the glamorous films of Thirties Hollywood (and..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...hearing a generation raised by bubblegum pop spout out Shakespeare? A host of vintage rereleases take the anxiety out..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Austin Theatre Critics' Table 1999-2000 Nominations

"...Shakespeare's R&J, Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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