Austin's Cultural Makeover: The Next Stage

How much closer we are to getting the cultural wonderland we imagined 10 years ago

"...museums, two new performing arts organization headquarters, one new theatre and one renovated theatre, a new cultural center, and..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

... And the 'West' is History

How Big State Productions' little monologue show changed Austin theatre

"...The Chronicle theatre listings for Nov. 1, 1985, give no real indication..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Payne the Town Red

What might be considered the theatrical fringe in other cities is more and more the theatrical mainstream in Austin, an idea that was reinforced with the announcement of the nominations for the 2001-02 B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards.

"...who built his reputation on the phrase "I hate theatre." At least, that's the feeling on first hearing that..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

New Direction at the State

"...has yet to come from 719 Congress, but the State Theater Company is in the midst of its biggest..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

In Memoriam

"...at press time. Likan was 88 years old. Simply Stated..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The Austin Critics Table has named the fifth group of individuals to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...Robert DeSimone, director, educator, administrator (UT Opera Theatre)..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Payne Pleasures 2004

Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals

"...the B. Iden Payne Awards. The Austin Circle of Theatres' annual honors for excellence in local stage work are..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...Terry Galloway and her "sisters" in the Rude Mechanicals theatre company is purely coincidental. After all, these women are..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What in Our House?

Theatrical perversity in Chicago: the Austin connection

"...was a young actor in training at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Among his classmates was a..."

July 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Shanon Weaver

Spaced Out

Salvage Vanguard, Tapestry Dance lose their home spaces

"...can now add Salvage Vanguard Theater and Tapestry Dance Company...."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Energy Abounding

Few words better encompass what the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Company is all about

"...Dunn Hamrick, who has been creating dances with the company that bears her name for the last eight years..."

July 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

"..."Theatre gets to create a topic of conversation for a..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Kids in Black

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

"...less opens -- in their studios or the empty theatre. This silent, hidden army is creepily all-powerful. Without the..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

"We'll Always Have 807 Congress"

The Raging of the Elements, or Indoor Theatre in Austin -- Al Fresco

"...and howling gusts of rain-laced wind roared into the theatre. Closing the doors by hand secured the closer a..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

These Are the Days

Extolling an Exciting New Era of Austin Theatre

"...just been sunk in the minutiae of the local theatre scene for so long that I've come to see..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Road to Urinetown

Composer Mark Hollmann on the show's creation and success

"...Urinetown: The Musical couldn't keep audiences away or keep theatres all across the land – like Austin's City Theatre..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Horton Foote Prize

Honoring one writer by taking care of others

"...she had an opportunity a decade ago when the State Theatre Company, then led by Don Toner, was planning..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On His Mark

Richard Linklater explores the rich contradictions of artifice and reality, theatre and film, love and desire in Me and Orson Welles

"...When entering a theatre to see any film by director Richard Linklater for..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Plays in Our Stocking

A Few Dramas We Want St. Nick to Give Austin Theatre

"...as 1996 has been pretty good to the Austin theatre scene, gift-wise. What with getting a new theatre downtown..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'

The Georgetown Palace Theatre tours its hit musical to the State Theatre

"...Austin, since you've yet to visit the Georgetown Palace Theatre, the Georgetown Palace Theatre is coming to you. Not..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Electric Exchange

Theatre, dance, music, and film meld and get supercharged in the Fuse Box Festival

"...arts apart from dance and classical music apart from theatre and everyone apart from everyone else in their nice,..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.

"...Davy Crockett in Texas at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, the register spits out a little paper..."

June 14, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Barefoot in the Park: In the Pleasure of Their Company

The Mary Moody Northen Theatre revival of Barefoot in the Park, Neil Simon's early comedy about newlyweds in a nosebleed-high love nest, can't disguise the shortcomings of Simon's script, but with the vitality that Director Melba Martinez and an expressive, animated cast bring to the production it's always pleasant just being in the characters' company.

"...Barefoot in the Park:In the Pleasure of Their Company..."

July 7, 2000 Arts Review by Robert Faires

ZM3 Live Productions' Echo of a Refugee ... Me?

Zell Miller III's latest was a state of the city address that called out Austin for gentrification and policies harmful to its black citizens

"...this native son let you know that, delivering a state-of-the-city address from the perspective of the Eastside, from the..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Twelfth Night

What the State Theatre Company's handsome but curiously reserved production of Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' lacks is that liberating light-headedness of intoxication

"...State Theatre, through March 5..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A Double Life

Napoleon Beazley was executed by the state of Texas, but he lives again in a new play

"...even necessary? Certainly not in the eyes of the state of Texas. Because he kills another human being in..."

July 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Shout!

Annie Weisman's satiric drama Be Aggressive, receiving its area premiere from the State Theater Company, gives a shout out to cheerleading as an outlet for teenagers to make themselves heard.

"...in 2001, the show has been popping up in theatres across the country, from Dallas Theater Center to Chicago's..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Man of Character

State and Main star William H. Macy talks about his iconic position as America's indie darling, the state of indie filmmaking today, and what on earth Gus Van Sant was thinking.

"...is becoming a pop-culture staple. His starring turn in State and Main, David Mamet's new acid-barbed take on Hollywood..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones' Theatrical Jazz

The accomplished stage artist, scholar, and UT professor pens the first study of artists translating jazz aesthetics into theatre

"...This isn't theatre that moves in a straight line, that follows classical..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Showing the Way

The 2006 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

June 2, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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