Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...pianists and rock-influenced guitarist John McLaughlin. This set the stage for the Bitches Brew sessions '69-'70. The collective personnel..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

What Food Goes Well With Comedy?

Jim Gaffigan can tell you – and does in this Q&A

"...I’m not necessarily somebody who’s gonna feel comfortable going onstage and being ridiculously filthy. So it’s kind of like,..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

2013 Jam Fest Winners: Circus

Identity Crisis takes first place and a new name

"...“I was standing by the side of the stage at Antone’s after they announced the second and third..."

Jan. 28, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

There Will Be Blood

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

"...terror in that, my friends. They don't call it stage fright for nothing...."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Anton in Show Business

Jane Martin's Anton in Show Business satirically skewers everything in modern theatre, and the Vestige Group's production will have your cheeks sore from laughing

"...get interpretations." But when she is asked to go onstage, the critic chickens out. Who does she think she..."

April 27, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Lone Star

Another man in black: Kris Kristofferson

"...AC: You've come to like being up onstage alone?..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Ten Minutes Till Heartaches

Martí Brom's 'Heartache Numbers' comes together just in time for her departure from Austin

"..."I had a lot of stage fright when I started," she recalls. "Now I never..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Qmmunity: Ch-ch-changes

Austin's queer scene turns to face the strange as it goes through big but good changes

"...Die Felicia! Louisianna Purchase and Gothess Jasmine give stage fright along with a terrifyingly talented cast at the..."

July 28, 2023 Column by James Scott

Willie's Reserve

Lukas Nelson parlays his DNA into Something Real

"...to the public for the first time. Across three stages and amidst food trucks and concessions selling all manner..."

June 26, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Where Does It Hurt?

With The Inside Story, Scott Rice gets people talking about mental health

"...Whether it's performers facing stage fright, artists dealing with depression, or students facing down..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dum Dum Girls

Auditorium Shores, Nov. 2

"...mean that the bicoastal quartet has tacked down its stage presence just yet. All garbed in black, they could..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

ACL Music Fest Sunday Interviews

Greetings from Austin, circa 2008

"...Manu Chao 6:30pm, AMD stage..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

FronteraFest Short Fringe: Best of Week One

Improv, Butoh, cabaret, and one of those commanding performance moments that make FronteraFest made up the Short Fringe 2006 Best of Week One

"...absent George Bush while Capoeira da Rua combats nimbly onstage with bamboo sticks...."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Black Sheep Boys

Okkervil River navigates the headwaters of its career

"...the spotlight hits me," he muses. "I don't get stage fright, but I get this sort of recursive self-consciousness,..."

April 1, 2005 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Organ Great James Polk Works Wonders Outside the Limelight

We speak with Austin’s esteemed multi-instrumentalist and former arranger for Ray Charles

"...sat in, to an adverse effect. The thumper suffered stage fright to the extent he couldn't pull strings, which..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Hot Luck Review: The Texas Gentlemen

Lone Star wrecking crew hits the dancehall

"...Creamer largely led the sextet’s double keys onslaught from centerstage alongside Nik Lee on guitar, the latter delivering a..."

May 25, 2018 Music Post by Doug Freeman

A Good Time to Be Lawrence Wright

With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment

"...After a silence, he added, "Now I have no stage fright at all. I get a buzz from it,..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Banicki

12 Breakthrough Austin Bands at SXSW Music

Singer-songwriter had a calling

"...the corner of Thai Fresh, hoping to conquer her stage fright. It worked...."

March 9, 2018 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Match Game

AFS programmer exposes his [BLANK] for the classic game show

"...in the recently aired case of a woman whose stage fright, combined with an entirely transparent face, made her..."

April 28, 2017 Screens Column by Lars Nilsen

Why I Left Austin

Alejandro Escovedo's first-person account of leaving Austin last year after 35 years

"...room as Peter's band was killing it. I got stage fright to such a degree that I couldn't play...."

Oct. 28, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Have Love Will Travel with the Sonics

Guitarist Larry Parypa woke up 50 years later a punk godfather

"...recently read that singer Jerry Roslie has almost crippling stage fright, yet he writes these insanely aggressive lyrics and..."

June 12, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

'This Is Where I Belong'

How smarts and gumption took Noël Wells from Esther's to 'SNL'

"...my way except myself. I had a lot of stage fright, a lot of insecurities that I had to..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Chronicle' Adult Spelling Bee Takes Place Tonight

Calling all wordsmiths! Or just people who like to watch! And drink!

"...Worried about stage fright? That’s what $3 ZiegenBock drafts are for. Not..."

May 9, 2013 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: Notes on a Long, Long Journey

Artists are but translators of that which flows through them

"...goes away. Actors, the real ones, say the same: stage fright every time...."

Jan. 11, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Mowing Lawns With Mike Cooley

Drive-By Truckers’ co-frontman goes solo at the Hole

"...his own mostly, believe it or not, out of stage fright...."

Dec. 6, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW 09 Picks 2 Click

Chameleon singer-songwriter's aim is true

"...in London. I still have a certain amount of stage fright, but in the beginning, it was paralyzing. Let's..."

March 13, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

In Her Own Time

Haunting the dark corners of Karen Dalton

"...A combination of stage fright, drug and alcohol problems, and the fact that..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

The Dropout Problem

Not students, but teachers – AISD struggles to retain qualified educators

"..."My mind went blank," he said. Stage fright wasn't the only problem. Two of his students..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Linda Thompson

Record Review

"...rare anxiety-based syndrome, hysterical dysphonia, a severe type of stage fright. Time has apparently healed her. Thompson's welcome return..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Curtain Call

SXSW Film saves the (next to) last dance for Robbie Robertson, with the Friday night Paramount screening of The Last Waltz; also, more SXSW film reviews.

"...who weren't. The garage rock reverb during Rick Danko's "Stage Fright" now shakes the skull as forcefully as the..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

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