30 Rock

Thirty recordings for 30 years of music Chronicling

"...C&W, defined not by instrumentation/arrangement, and as produced by Stephen Bruton, but by high plains existentialism. Jump-starting the 1990s..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Alt.Country Upgrade

Detailing the still-wet merger of Doolittle and New West Records

"...huge fan of Billy Joe and Eddie, I met Stephen Bruton one day at the Iron Works Barbecue and..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...D: Stephen Frears; with John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Lisa..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...Dir/Scr: Stephen Winter; Prod: Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente; Co-Prod: Samuel-Moses Jones,..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

To Make a Long Story Short

"...photograph by John Carrico..."

April 2, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

'Mojo' Recommends

Blur guitarist returns to SXSW for some BBQ.

"...Graham Coxon..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer have previously criticized the stifling sentencing guidelines, yet..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Off the Record

Mourning the loss of two Austin music giants, Stephen Bruton and Randall 'Poodie' Locke

"...Stephen Bruton (1948-2009)..."

May 15, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Review: TexARTS' The Full Monty

Exuberant musical about stripping steelworkers gets a less-than-cocksure production

"...around Buffalo, N.Y., lifers Jerry (Patrick Darab Hartigan), Dave (Stephen Mercantel), Harold (Huck Huckaby), Malcolm (Nathan Daniel Ford), Ethan..."

July 22, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: TexARTS Theater's Sweeney Todd

Despite fruitless tweaks to the storytelling, this is a tale worth attending

"...Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's angry, savage, and deeply cynical..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Echo in the Canyon

History of the Laurel Canyon folk-rock scene gets lost in its own winding paths

"...do most of the talking. Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn, and Stephen Stills are forthcoming about..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Forklift Danceworks' Dove Springs Swims

The company's latest community production showed why Dove Springs' pool matters to that neighborhood and to all of us as well

"...celebration in that place and time, a party, with Graham Reynolds' rocking score making every sequence festive, especially when..."

July 20, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 Dance and Classical Treasures of 2017

Much outstanding new dance and music this year took its cue from the world around us and pressing social issues

"...In a world of midnight intensity and unease, choreographer Stephen Mills revealed the light and shadow inside both beauty..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Forklift Danceworks' My Parks, My Pools, My City

With Bartholomew Swims, Allison Orr's dance company plunges into Austin's pool problem

"...– you know her and her A-team, Krissie Marty, Graham Reynolds, and Stephen Pruitt from The Trash Project, PowerUP,..."

July 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Rude Mechs' Requiem for Tesla

The Austin theatre collective's biography of inventor Nikola Tesla literally makes sparks fly

"...entering the Off Center, the audience is immersed in Stephen Pruitt's dynamic set – a charged combination of wires,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

The Trees of Govalle

Forklift Danceworks' latest connected care for urban trees, a neighborhood's life, and all of us to nature

"...heritage pecan, which stood regally in the beams of Stephen Pruitt's lights as workers from the city's Urban Forestry..."

April 17, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Solo Symphony

When maestro Peter Bay was truly conducting, electricity charged this dance he inspired

"...Following an introduction by composer Graham Reynolds' atmospheric piano, which said very clearly, "Here comes..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

'The Mozart Project'

Via innovation and homage, Ballet Austin makes new dances from old tunes

"...lineup boasts three new works choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills, all danced to live music. For "Wolftanzt" (the..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

'Trash,' Take Two

Allison Orr takes out the Trash a second – and final – time

"...rest of the SWS crew, the city, Orr, composer Graham Reynolds and his musicians, lighting director Stephen Pruitt, and..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Truth & Beauty: The Bach Project

This triple bill wasn't all truth or beauty, but it was a good night at the ballet

"...Ballet Austin Artistic Director Stephen Mills has nerve. You'd have to in order to..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Trash Project

In turning sanitation workers into dancers and machines into giant birds, this work thrilled

"...the tarmac at Austin Studios as the piano in Graham Reynolds' score began trilling. The many little boys in..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Call to Color: Cult of Color

The ballet based on Trenton Doyle Hancock's art may be problematic thematically, but it's still an enthralling experience

"...Color: Call to Color, genial Ballet Austin Artistic Director Stephen Mills and talented Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds...."

April 11, 2008 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Culture Flash!

Clowns picket Physical Plant, Mills takes the prize in Montreal, Steakley mixes up some 'Tuna' in Louisville, and Salvage Vanguard wants you to join their party

"...Congratulations to Ballet Austin Artistic Director Stephen Mills on winning the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

TCB

What a sampling of the Austin music scene wants for Christmas.

"...STEPHEN DOSTER..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Serve Chilled

The Summer Reading Menu

"...by Stephen Brook, Patricia Gastaud-Gallagher, Peter Howard, Graham Latham, Wink Lorch,..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Requiem for Tesla

Local mavericks Rude Mechanicals have plundered biographies and scientific history to give us the whole story of maverick inventor Nikola Tesla, and their production Requiem for Tesla, with its unnervingly choreographed lights, arresting video, beautiful period costumes, original score on theremin, strange dance numbers, and working Tesla coil, literally crackles with current.

"...Morgan, and that adversarial weasel Edison. We get a Stephen Pruitt-designed set covering almost half the vast Off Center..."

March 2, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Invisible Moments: Sleepy, Dreamy, Pleasing Invisible Moments

With its sleepy, dreamy atmosphere, repetitious images, and low-key, self-referential presentation, Jason Phelps and Stephen Pruitt's installation-cum-performance piece Invisible Moments is one of those works that audiences are going to either love or hate.

"...observing this installation-cum-performance piece, created by Jason Phelps and Stephen Pruitt with the help of some of their artistic..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Further Reflections

"...Jacobs, Jennifer Amerine; Cast: Billy Burke, David Koechner, Lauren Graham, Kathy Griffin, Jason Priestley, Peter Berg, Henry Winkler, Dana..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Texas Writers Month Events

"...film Deep in the Heart of Texas, with director Stephen Purvis, Jesse Sublett, Jim Fritzler, Thomas Alcala, Aralyn Hughes,..."

April 24, 1998 Books Feature

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...Japanese acts … Can't. Miss.  – Raoul Hernandez Núria Graham..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

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