Zach Theatre's In the Heights

This production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical brings us the life and pride of an immigrant neighborhood at an important time

"...Maybe it shouldn't be so unique, this musical In the Heights. There should be probably lots of other artistically..."

June 16, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

A Film Critic Re-Emerges to Watch In the Heights the Way It Was Meant to Be Seen

After 424 days away from the movie theatre it's time to be alone in the dark again

"...moment – or, as I stepped back into a theatre for the first time in 424 days, a place..."

May 28, 2021 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker

In the Heights

An explosion of dance and song in this vibrant stage-to-screen adaptation

"...What is a neighborhood? It's not the place, or the people. It's the place and the..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hit the Heights

Brad Williams will beat you to the punch (line) with jokes about being a dwarf, and his will be funny

"...a fiery group of about two dozen little people gathered to protest the performance of Brad Williams, a comedian..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Austin Musical Theatre Hits the Heights

That's Show Biz!

"..."The Farmboys" in Austin Musical Theatre's Gypsy. photograph by Kenny..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Feature

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's latest film bursts with unbridled ambition and vision, and while it doesn't always reach the heights for which it aims, it soars boldly and fearlessly.

"...and Tye Sheridan. Terrence Malick’s hotly awaited new movie, The Tree of Life, bursts with such unbridled ambition, vision,..."

June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica.

"...for kids of all ages!. It's called Where in the World Is Werner Herzog? Players will roll spherical dice..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...season starts in dramatic fashion on Monday night with the ceremony for the B. Iden Payne Awards, Austin's opportunity..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Syrian Bride

This story about an arranged marriage taking place in a remote outpost of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be familiar to anyone ever caught in an avalanche of red tape.

"...Adnan Tarabshi. AFS@Dobie Matrimonial comedies are a staple of the cinema, bringing, as they do, divergent family members into..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Horror sets sail with the scariest section of Dracula

"...Bram Stoker never visited Transylvania. His vision of the shadow-shrouded realm of Dracula was born in the British..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Different Stages Theatre's Water by the Spoonful

A teaspoon of gravitas, tablespoon of heart is the perfect recipe for this Pulitzer winner

"...The thing that immediately grabs your attention during Different Stages'..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland

Back in September 2005, Vaughn decided to try his hand at the impresario game and Gathered together four young stand-up comedians for a 30-day bus tour of the heartland.

"...money faster than studio heads could count it, Vaughn, the new king of Hollywood comedy, decided to put aside..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Eight Mountains

Touching depiction of male friendship in the Italian Alps

"...platonic male friendship have to be mired in trauma? Whether it's Mean Streets, Lukas Dhont's Close or Guardians of..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

ACL Review: Durand Jones & the Indications

Indiana soul throwbacks hit their marks despite no hits

"...never happened. Borderline racist cartoons like St. Paul & the Broken Bones can’t fill the footwear of the late..."

Oct. 14, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Oscars Love Austin ... They Really Love Us

Alamo, McConaughey headline #TheBigScreenIsBack campaign

"...Well, the Oscars may have ended on a weird note, what..."

April 26, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Stock Goes to the Movies With How to Musical Theatre

The youth theatre troupe's new film How to Musical Theatre brings back that MGM song-and-dance style

"...Say the word "musical" and you automatically think either "Broadway" or..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fin, Fur, Feather, and Wonder in Deep in the Heart

New nature documentary explores the diversity and fragility of Texas wildlife

"...Ben Masters knows his way around the animals of Texas. A graduate in wildlife biology from..."

June 3, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Unleashes The Same Storm

The French Dispatch, C’Mon C'Mon headed to fest

"...Two instant Oscar hopefuls have been added to the Austin Film Festival, with the addition today of Wes..."

Sept. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Checking In (Again): Kevin Russell Hasn’t Wavered Amidst the Great Wall of Empty Time

Shinyribs Santa closes the questionnaire circle on No. 100

"...Austin’s real working class: performing musicians. Nine months later, the capital’s Musician of the Year several times over answered..."

Dec. 22, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Artificial Eye: Oren Soffer on Filming The Creator

Behind the camera of Gareth Edward's revolutionary sci fi blockbuster

"...One of the closest relationships on a film set is between the..."

Dec. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Beto O'Rourke's Long, Hot Road to the Texas Primary

We report from the 2020 Democratic campaign trail on whether all the blue, sweat, and beers are worth it

"...They're out early, long before lunchtime, in the off-and-on rain,..."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

The World Is Watching J. Quinton Johnson

The UT alumnus left Austin to be in "the room where it happens": in Hamilton on Broadway

"...school drama students hit him up for selfies at the Long Center on March 7 (and as the kids..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Better All the Time

Cabaret and musical legend Barbara Cook is still learning

"...You may think Barbara Cook hit the heights musically on Broadway in the Golden Age of..."

Sept. 19, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Hard Luck in Heritage Heights

Renters in Eastside housing project feel misled, misused by the city.

"...Deborah Thompson moved into East Austin's Heritage Heights subdivision in March 1994 with a vision of home..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature by Jessica Chapman

Heights on Congress Residents Start Organizing

City, developer discussing relocation plan

"...Time has often not been on the side of low-income tenants facing displacement in the whirlwind..."

June 10, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Southern Heights Brewing Co. Ascends Into the Austin Beer Scene

Local brewpub reaches for the highest heights

"...If you asked a few years ago, the first law of small beer was that the best..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Crown Heights

Another reminder of racial inequality in the American prison system

"...Coincidentally or not, the current surge in true-crime stories as the underpinnings for..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Another Side of Travis Heights

In a South Austin apartment complex, residents organize for change

"...By more than one account, the Travis Park Apartments, just inside I-35 on East Oltorf,..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Heights

This intersecting story that follows a half-dozen New Yorkers over the course of one long day and night is intellectually engaging and genuinely surprising, although not terribly risky.

"...Eric Bogosian, Andrew Howard, George Segal and Rufus Wainwright. Heights opens with Diana (Close), a venerable stage and screen..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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