The Chaperone

The fascinating true story of Louise Brooks falls out of focus in this anachronistic fiction

"...by: Michael Engler. Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Haley Lu Richardson, Blythe Danner, Campbell Scott, Géza Röhrig, Miranda Otto and Robert..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sailor Scout and the Chaperone

A father prepares for Ushicon 3, the Austin animé convention

"...blond and has a predilection for Sailor Moon and the works of Hayao Miyazaki and has just turned 13...."

Jan. 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 19th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All the Vermeers in New York

"...Lack, Grace Phillips, Gracie Mansion, Gordon Joseph Weiss and Katherine Bean. This newest work from steadfast American independent filmmaker,..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lizzie McGuire Movie

"...Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd, Jake Thomas and Yani Gellman. The title says it all, really. The adorably klutzy heroine..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of stage..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

South by Southwest Film Wrapping Up With The Idea of You

Michael Showalter’s new romance stars Anne Hathaway

"...Valentine’s Day quite yet, but love is definitely in the air courtesy of South by Southwest with the announcement..."

Jan. 30, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Critics Table's Crème de la Crème

The winners of the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The crowd could hardly compete with the one packed into..."

June 5, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Summer Stock Austin's The Addams Family

The company's young artists infuse the musical incarnation of those spooky, ooky Addamses with fresh blood by the buckets

"...We knew that they were creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky – their..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

City Hall Hustle: The City Council Blues ... Again

The price of all these things, twice

"...regularly scheduled work sessions – called in response to the Crisis of Austin's Democracy – actually have the effect..."

Feb. 18, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Friday

Seventies funk GOATs, queer nu metal, and so much more

"...very, very tired) music team, Friday was filled with the Chronicle’s wild day party at Hotel Vegas and witnessing..."

March 19, 2022 SXSW Post by Thomas Fawcett

Long Center: Playing Without a 'Chaperone'

The national tour of The Drowsy Chaperone won't stop in Austin after all

"...Musical theatre fans eager for an intoxicating taste of the effervescent..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Guide to the Brewpubs & Their Brews

"...While the judges sipped and sniffed each glass of beer, I..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Food Feature

Van Boven vs. the Texas Medical Board

TMB delays exoneration of Lakeway doctor

"...The Dr. Robert Van Boven story took another discouraging turn..."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Long Center for the Performing Arts: Light that first candle!

As the performing arts venue turns one, Marvin Hamlisch sings "happy birthday" to it

"...If you needed a word to describe the Long Center for the Performing Arts' first 12 months,..."

March 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In the Name of Ann Richards

AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?

"...was no saint. Talk to any veteran reporter and they'll pull out a story about the hard-drinking, hard-talking, silver-haired..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...It was the height of spring, mid-May, and already hot. The old..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Ever the Spoils

Two University Dramas Tackle Women After War

"...The Love of the Nightingale In stature she was very..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Fantastic Fest Awards Announced

Studio Ghibli’s latest wins audience favor

"...There are still a few days left in this 10th..."

Sept. 23, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

That Obscure Object of Delight

Zach's dreamy Chaperone speaks to the enthusiast in us all

"...something important. People whose cell phones go off in the theatre. People who answer their cell phones when they..."

July 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art To Enchant

The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...On Monday, June 6, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2018 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Top honors go to Drowsy Chaperone and Fixing Troilus

"...In all the drama of Election Day, some of the drama of..."

Nov. 7, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Slow West

A whimsical and wistful fable follows a young romantic and a hard-nosed realist out West

"...whimsy and wistfulness, John Maclean’s Slow West unfolds in the wake of the American Civil War as a collection..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Seen / Soon: Dec. 15

A grand send-off to musical theatre at UT with The Drowsy Chaperone and feeding off the solstice darkness with Carla McElhaney and invoke

"...The Drowsy Chaperone bid adieu to the UT Department of..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Arts Column

Anton Nel

The star pianist and actor Martin Burke welcome the elephant king

"...If the legend is to be believed – and really, it's..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

See No Evil

Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.

"...as Tracy Lords' singing career. New Wave Hookers, on the other hand, surprised everyone in a very federal way..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

No medals will be awarded for this Sandra Bullock follow-up, although the actress proves herself an ever-game comic actress.

"...Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, Heather Burns, Diedrich Bader and Treat Williams. Sandra Bullock is..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: Miss Stevens

Lily Rabe shines in Julia Hart's directorial debut

"...Julia Hart, the screenwriter of The Keeping Room, last year’s revisionist feminist..."

March 12, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Local Heroes

The 2015 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"..."Go make music." Long before that simple directive became the sign-off to every Biscuit Brothers program, Allen Robertson was..."

May 29, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Fun: You Might Wanna Schlitt Down for This

Our Summer Fun extras begin with 'the hottest, coolest time in Texas'

"...Vacations weren't really a thing in my family. Other clans took off for Canada posing like wet dogs..."

May 13, 2013 Chronolog Post by Andy Campbell

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