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,..."

June 12, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

One in a Crowd

Austin filmmakers need your crowdfunding help

"...Shakespeare at Winedale: A Feature Documentary will chronicle UT's famous..."

June 8, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

The Critics Table's Crème de la Crème

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Costume Buffy Manners, Shakespeare in Love..."

June 5, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...ENRON E. L. Hohn, Catalina de Erauso Buffy Manners, Shakespeare in Love Cheryl Painter, The Moors Barbara Pope, The..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend

Oh, the places you’ll go! The people you’ll see!

"...2) What the acclaimed Hidden Room does for original-practices Shakespeare, that’s what the Texas Early Music Project is doing..."

May 11, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hill Country Film Festival Brings Movie Magic to Small-Town Texas

Hollywood meets Fredericksburg

"...the sci-fi adventure Time Trap and a reimagining of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, set in a preparatory high school...."

April 27, 2018 Screens Feature by Mae Hamilton

Texas Early Music Project's Complaints Through the Ages

This TEMP concert collected brief melodic grievances from across the centuries, half heartfelt, half silly

"...collage of complaints written by the chorus, aided by Shakespeare and set to music by Pachelbel and Vivaldi. Put..."

April 27, 2018 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Aeroponics Are the Future for One Austin Urban Farm

Farmhouse Delivery is all grown up

"...growing it. Rain Lily regularly hosts community events like Shakespeare performances to help get people interested in farming...."

April 20, 2018 Food Feature by Mae Hamilton

The Many Projects of Lawrence Wright

From TV to the stage the local writer has been busy

"...seem to get tired of: Cleopatra and Marc Antony. Shakespeare did okay by it and so did G.B. Shaw,..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

Sherlock Gnomes

Gnomeo and Juliet sequel heads to London. For reasons.

"...can move when people are not looking. But since Shakespeare didn’t write a sequel for his star-crossed lovers, this..."

March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Five Recommended Austin Arts Events this Weekend

Instead of just staring dully at that Roseanne reboot, right?

"...a show, insists that the Austin Playhouse production of Shakespeare in Love – a staging of that popular thespian-forward..."

March 29, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Spring Things to Do in (or Around) Austin

How and where to take the most advantage of this weather.

"...Shakespeare in the Park..."

March 29, 2018 Events Post by Sarah Marloff

Austin Playhouse's Shakespeare in Love

The Oscar-winning film makes a successful transition to the stage through Don Toner's marvelous production

"...no exception. The source material for its current production, Shakespeare in Love, is, obviously, the screenplay of the same..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

SXSW Panel Recap: Immerse Yourself: AR & VR in Museums and the Arts

An odd juxtaposition of VR experience and expert panel

"...we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” wrote William Shakespeare hundreds of years before Pikachu could Thundershock a Charizard..."

March 16, 2018 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Rude Mechs' Fixing Troilus and Cressida

The third show in the Fixing Shakespeare series makes his mess of a play about the Trojan War hilarious and even engrossing

"...It's easy to forget that Shakespeare wrote a play about the Trojan War, because it..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Meow Wolf Pounces Into the SXSW Fray

The Santa Fe-based art collective debuts newest creation and new film

"...in the documentary field for 30 years: The acclaimed Shakespeare Behind Bars is one of her features; Still Dreaming,..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

LOLA's La Clemenza di Tito: A Retelling

The quality of mercy is never not strained in this new adaptation of Mozart's late opera

"...Alas, Shakespeare's cross-dressing legal eagle might not have made those claims..."

March 9, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Shakespeare's The Seagull

This new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's beloved classic takes wing well enough but doesn't quite soar

"...Austin Shakespeare Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella's adaptation, which she directs, struggles..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Comedy, This Month!

Who brings laughs to Austin stages in the next few weeks?

"...SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO & JULIET: Fri., Feb. 2 & 23 These..."

Jan. 29, 2018 Arts Post

Robert Faires' Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2017

From monsters to mountains, wolves to wild horses, the year came alive with figures boldly created onstage

"...Room Theatre) Another of director Beth Burns' jaunts into Shakespearean history, this time with all the young dudes decked..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2017

Bold takes on history and art that moved around the city spoke to a growing, changing Austin this year

"...Room Theatre) Beth Burns and her hardworking company turned Shakespeare's drama of political and military maneuverings into a glam-costumed..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Theatre Synesthesia's The Brutes

Casey Wimpee’s original drama is about a Civil War-era family, but it’s deeply relevant to our own fractured time

"...linguistic anachronism ranging from ye olde Civil War-speak to Shakespeare to modern-day expletives, and no matter what the era,..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...London to see the Globe Theatre associated with William Shakespeare, because the original was destroyed in 1613. The current..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Austin Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare’s rom-com gets a light staging with fine performances and lots of genuine laughs

"...Of all of Shakespeare's comedies, Much Ado About Nothing may be the one..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Murder on the Orient Express

You may want to cancel your ticket to this latest Christie adaptation

"...toward a wailing self-seriousness more befitting one of Branagh’s Shakespeare adaptations. Yes, liberties will be taken, and some of..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Until Shakespeare's day, ache was pronounced "aitch" as a noun, "ake"..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Texas Book Festival 2017: Tom Hanks
in Conversation With Lawrence Wright

When writing, the Oscar winner seeks moments of serendipity

"...session, he acted out at least four scenes, recited Shakespeare in iambic pentameter, led the audience in singing "Happy..."

Nov. 6, 2017 Arts Post by Elizabeth Banicki

Una

A woman confronts an older ex-lover with devastating results

"...late. Aussie director Andrews, who made his name directing Shakespeare, Genet, and Chekhov on the stage, proves himself behind..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gay Place

Lots of worthy FUNdraisers this week

"...(Chron writer) Rosalind Faires put a lady-lovin' spin on Shakespeare's Much Ado comedy. It's a play in the park,..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Gay Place

Seriously, who doesn't love Halloween?

"...(Chron writer) Rosalind Faires put a lady-lovin' spin on Shakespeare's Much Ado comedy. It's a play in the park,..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

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