'The Magic Flute'

Mozart's opera gets a techno remix at UT's Butler Opera Center

"...life, but are you ready for a Queen of the Night with a head the size of an Olympic..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

These Are the Days

Extolling an Exciting New Era of Austin Theatre

"...It's the end of an era. The phrase is uttered so..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On the Funding Front

Eleven area artists and cultural organizations earn support for 2011 projects

"...Two Austin visual-arts projects won grants this year from the Idea Fund, a program in which Houston arts organizations..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...journalistic eye remains trained upon his hometown of Houston. The rapper's half-decade of granular, street-life storytelling (with Kream's immediate..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

SXSW Film Review: The Strange Ones

High-caliber thriller achieves the perfect balance of story and mood

"...A long-awaited adaptation of the remarkable 2011 short film of the same name, The..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Sean L. Malin

Crucial Concerts for the Week Ahead

The Point, Wild Heaven, Chris Acker, and more

"...Under new management – the teams behind Resound Presents, Tweedy’s, Hotel Vegas, the Little..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Tuesday

A Zamrock fruit plate, apathetic Irish drone-poetics, and so much more

"...that this is a perfectly sized South by Southwest. The streets are strollable, long lines are scarce – though..."

March 16, 2022 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Free Week 2019 Is in the Rearview Mirror, but These Homegrown Standouts Aren't

10 local showcases that got us excited for what’s to come this year

"...Abhi the Nomad, the Bishops, Magna CardaStubb’s, Jan. 3..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...The kingdom of Morocco achieved independence from French and Spanish..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...The phrase "shit-hot," cribbed from some international band's bio, comes..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Florence Foster Jenkins

Meryl Streep plays the doyenne called “the worst singer in the world”

"...By the time Meryl Streep finally opens her mouth to caterwaul..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...half-dozen arts writers are handing out honors to local theatre artists in the Continental Club, and the next, a..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Territories

Austin Lyric Opera Ventures Into the Frontier Once More

"...a mighty expanse of largely unsettled land sprawling beyond the horizon to the west. The feverish desire to push..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jonelle Seitz's Top 10 Brave Dance Artists of 2016

The year revealed how much courage and inspiration can be found in Austin's masters of movement

"...2) JENNIFER HART Ballet's not dead, and neither is romance...."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Your Weekend in Film

More than mere faces in the crowd

"...people you remember, most you don't. Those featured in the films this weekend are both worth remembering and exploring..."

Oct. 12, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

A Different Beast

For Belle Redux, Stephen Mills takes an innovative approach to Beauty and the Beast

"...You know the Disney version, no doubt. Perhaps you know the Cocteau..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

On the Funding Front

"...Austin Theatre for Youth received an enormous show of support in..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Arts Column

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...They are Austin's cultural heroes. They are individuals who have..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...In January of 1999, when the Senate was gearing up to try to unseat President..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

The Magic Flute

This new balletic adaptation boasted fantastic visuals but stodgy choreography

"...The Magic Flute..."

May 13, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Magic Flute

ALO opens its 25th season with a magical revival of Mozart's opera

"...The Magic Flute Dell Hall at the Long Center, 701..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

The Magic Flute

Twenty-first century tech doesn't serve Mozart's 18th century opera, but the human artists make magic

"...The Magic Flute..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Putting It Together

The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music

"...watch Austin Symphony maestro Peter Bay at work on the podium is to see a conductor leading musicians as..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"......"

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Exhibitionism

Phantom of the Opera: Window Display

"...Phantom of the Opera In the Christmases of my childhood, I recall..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Arts Review

Top 10 Notable Theatrics of 2011

Recalling how scoundrels, amphibians, and grace brightened Austin stages in 2011

"...SENSATION' (Rubber Repertory) Admittedly, I wasn't able to catch the 2011 remount of this wild, boundary-breaking circus of sensations...."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Austin Lyric Opera

Despite its seven-figure debt, the opera lives to sing another day

"...On the eve of its big 25th anniversary season, the Austin..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

Giving a lot of sweet bouquets (and taking their sweet time doing it)

"...The idea that you get slower as you get older..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lucia di Lammermoor

Lyubov Petrova powers this Lucia with vocal fireworks and nuanced acting

"...Lucia di LammermoorDell Hall at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside www.austinlyricopera.org Through Feb. 5..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

All Over Creation: Classical Alchemy

How Austin is transmuting the music of old into dance, art, and comedy

"...like lead. Once one of those bewigged-slash-lion-maned composers of the 18th or 19th century arranged all the notes and..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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