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Feb. 7, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe
Faster Than Sound: Spider House Ballroom Will Cease Live Entertainment
Longtime local venue converts to arcade bar following co-owner misconduct allegations, code violations, and artist payment delays
"...and Garcia says only Austin Poetry Slam and Shit-faced Shakespeare will continue their weekly residencies. After that, the unofficial..."
Feb. 8, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe
The Devil and William Friedkin
The director's journey from The Exorcist to a real exorcism
"...to the rise of Hitler, to the reconstruction of Shakespeare's plays for the first folios by John Heminges and..."
Jan. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Wayne Alan Brenner’s Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2018
Representational and digital art, plus theatre rooted in history proved especially mind-blowing this year
"...collaborated to bring John Wilkes Booth's old-school version of Shakespeare's villain to (despicable, despicable!) life – and, with the..."
Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Vice
Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve
"...at least in the film’s imagining, isn’t one of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes. It’s “honest Iago,” Othello’s backstabbing right-hand man,..."
Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Tea With the Dames
Share a cuppa with the great British ladies of the screen
"...the most beautiful woman of the ancient world in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra reveals much about their artistic sense..."
Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
A #MeToo Measure for Measure?
Austin Shakespeare gives a peek at a modern Measure Saturday
"...for Measure and yet is Measure for Measure? Austin Shakespeare has the answer, and it's sharing it publicly on..."
Dec. 6, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Review: Revel's Existential Solstice
In a concert evoking winter's cold and darkness, warmth
"...setting of “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind,” in which Shakespeare argues that even the biting air isn’t as harsh..."
Dec. 5, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Austin Shakespeare’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
This production is everything but sultry, which is the very thing the Tennessee Williams drama needs most
"...Tin Roof, which is currently in production by Austin Shakespeare...."
Nov. 23, 2018 Arts Review by Bob Abelman
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen brothers head West, but it's a bumpy ride
"...limbless orator (Melling) reciting random bits from the Bible, Shakespeare, the Declaration of Independence, and other high-minded literature. Tom..."
Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
2018 B. Iden Payne Award Winners
Top honors go to Drowsy Chaperone and Fixing Troilus
"...The Rude Mechs' third entry in its Fixing Shakespeare series, Fixing Troilus and Cressida was rewarded with the..."
Nov. 7, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Macbeth's Myriad of Misfortunes
The Scottish Play – still cursed after all these years
"...Having two separate productions of Macbeth running in Austin..."
Nov. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
A Drinker's Guide to Literary Austin
Local authors dish on their favorite bars for reading and writing
"...local winery Infinite Monkey Theorem, which periodically hosts a Shakespeare reading night and is named after the axiom that..."
Oct. 26, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda
Liz Fisher Wins Princess Grace Award
Austin theatre artist receives national arts scholarship
"...forget that she's the longtime program coordinator for UT's Shakespeare at Winedale program...."
Oct. 16, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
City Arts Funding: The Resolution
Council approves FY 19 arts funding, ponders its next move
"...levels – that was the pitch made by Austin Shakespeare board member Shanee Woodbridge before discussion on the FY..."
Oct. 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
What'cha Watchin'?
Editor Kim Jones programs hifalutin Shakespeare and the highly gross mortifications of the pubescent body
"...not the Bard's original, strictly speaking. Richard Eyre trims Shakespeare's tragedy about a vain and increasingly unhinged king carving..."
Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
A madcap animated ramble through Kyoto's drinking district
"...love and cross-dressing you'll find this side of a Shakespeare problem play. Night Is Short doesn't make a lot..."
Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Paper Chairs' The Audience
Elizabeth Doss' adaptation of García Lorca's unfinished play is less a drama than a dream, unbound by logic, reason, or convention
"...about the tiresome resurrections she must endure every time Shakespeare's tragedy is produced (a grievance shared by the Olga,..."
Aug. 10, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Day Trips & Beyond: August Events Roundup
Texas fun is heating up with grape stomps, outlaw festivals, and rodeos
"...Shakespeare at Winedale Aug. 2-5, 9-12, Round Top, www.shakespeare-winedale.org..."
Aug. 3, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
Review: 2018 Austin Chamber Music Festival
How the Attacca Quartet, Emerson Quartet, and invoke played
"...collaboration between the Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Shakespeare, featuring actors performing scenes from Shakespeare's play and festival..."
July 17, 2018 Arts Post by Robi Polgar
Playback: Love Us or Hiatus
Rare gigs and soft breakups from Iron Age and US Weekly
"...It's more moving, devastating, and gratifying too. Even Homer, Shakespeare, Vonnegut might not have come up with this scenario:..."
July 13, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin
Steven Saylor's The Throne of Caesar
Caesar's murder gets a fresh coat of paint in this mystery of ancient Rome
"...The Throne of Caesar. Whether you're fresh from a Shakespeare at Winedale summer performance of Julius Caesar or cruising..."
July 13, 2018 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires
Day Trips & Beyond: July Events Roundup
Get hip to these timely travel tips
"...Texas Shakespeare Festival July 1-29, Kilgore, www.texasshakespeare.com..."
July 3, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend
Because you don’t want to miss a good Austin thing
"...4) “First thing we do,” said some Shakespeare character or other, “let’s kill all the lawyers.” And..."
June 29, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Fair Youth Make Fairer Shakespeare
Two fine chances to see young people make the Bard come alive
"...saying people over the age of 18 can't do Shakespeare well – that Judy Dench sure speaks his speech..."
June 21, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Booth's Richard III by the Hidden Room Theatre
Beth Burns and company unearths a fascinating theatrical time capsule with this version of Shakespeare's tragedy
"...as Conor McPherson's Shining City. Roughly 13% of William Shakespeare's plays feature spectral apparitions – appearing earliest in Richard..."
June 22, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver
The Luv Doc: Mostly Happy
Not only is the glass half empty, it's got a hole in the bottom and it's leaking poison
"...countless scenarios on how that situation could go wrong. Shakespeare (or maybe Christopher Marlowe?) carved out a sizable niche..."
June 22, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc
Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend
We’ll shield you against that mofo of a FOMO, citizen!
"...2) The acclaimed Hidden Room company presents Shakespeare’s Richard III, according to the personal 1860s promptbook of..."
June 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Pom Poko
"Lost" Studio Ghibli tale of raccoons in peril gets long-delayed release
"...Shakespeare had his comedies, his tragedies, and his historical works...."
June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Hidden Room Theatre Is Working With a Presidential Assassin
Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, we reckon you’ll really enjoy the show
"...because what’s actually happening is a period-specific presentation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, based on Booth’s promptbook from the 1860s,..."
