The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...the most talked-about screenings because they're in the biggest theatres. Consequently, along with the film industry and media mobs..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...Walser and Sixteen Deluxe to logos for Ariel Dance Theatre, Maverick Media, and the Rude Mechanicals, to designs for..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Exhibitionism

Waiting for Godot: Man's Sad Lot Made Funny

"...version of perhaps the most influential play of post-war theatre. Written in 1953, Waiting for Godot is the anti-story..."

April 16, 1999 Arts Review

Let's Fix That

How New Plays Are Developed in Austin

"...Rod Caspers wears a crew-cut and projects a bossy demeanor that makes him seem as much..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

SXSW Creates XR Austin for Online Festival

Digital environment will be virtually like being there

"...city's recognizable landmarks and favorite venues, including the Paramount Theatre, the Contemporary Austin, Mohawk, Empire Control Room & Garage,..."

March 2, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Faces of Frankenstein

This Halloween, Austin serves up five freaky takes on Mary Shelley's mad doctor and his monster

"...Trouble Puppet Theatre Artistic Director Connor Hopkins thought Frankenstein would make a..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Then There's This: Fight or Flight

Council tries to find balance between developers, enviros, and the Lege

"...one thing we now know about the proposed "emergency" action to abolish parts of the city's development code is..."

March 29, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

'Bacchae' to the Future

How in (a Greek) god's name can the Rude Mechs re-create Dionysus in 69 in '09?

"...crowd in the lobby of the B. Iden Payne Theatre last week, Richard Schechner could well have been referring..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

October is Art in Public Places Month, and the Austin Shakespeare Festival invites you onstage

"...Penn and Steve Wiman discuss the Community Core Sample Project and the Threshold Project that they incorporated into the..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...curtain finally coming down on the Cinema West Adult Theatre saga? Well, the red-and-white Cinema West marquee is (comingdown,..."

June 25, 1999 News Feature

Further Reflections

"...Elizabeth Hurley at the EDtv premiere at the Paramount Theatre. photograph by John Anderson Included here are reviews of..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

On the Stage, On the Screen: Austin's Theatres Embrace a Virtual Future

Ahead of Austin Playfest and the All Together Now! Revue, directors and producers discuss the challenges and potential they've found online

"...The rumors of the death of virtual theatre have been greatly exaggerated...."

Nov. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Godspell

The Austin Theatre Project cast is exuberantly energetic, but it's in the still moments that they're most true to this musical

"...GodspellDougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. www.austintheatreproject.org Through Aug. 31 Running time: 2 hr...."

Aug. 29, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Drive, He Said

A conversation with 'Locke'-smith Steven Knight

"...builds a taut dramatic thriller in which the only action we see is a man in a car driving..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...sides, when you see the numbers in the upper-class theatres and you compare them to the number in the..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

How do you take Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and, in less than a month, condense it into a 100-minute one-man play, with the actor playing 20 characters from the novel plus a New York City drag queen? Everett Quinton and Eureka, veterans of the fabled Ridiculous Theatre Company and creators of Twisted Olivia, explain how they did it.

"...an opportunity to return to Dickens when Zachary Scott Theatre Center Artistic Director Dave Steakley invited Quinton to Austin..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...and pumped full of chemicals that will arrest the action of his lungs and heart. It's an unlikely setting..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Day at The Races.... One Hour at the Mixed Arts Panel Review Session

"...players in the funding game, so he knows the action from both sides of the board. In fact, not..."

May 28, 1999 Arts Feature

Postmarks

VanScoy's Agenda Part 2

"...he had not gotten staffing for one of his projects, was acting out, and Ginger had too much loyalty..."

March 12, 1999 Column

Thinking Outside the Box

"...intense, interconnected storylines or for the fact that the action was loosely based on semi-specific historical events that took..."

March 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Downtown Austin Is Getting a Fresh Coat of Museums

"...city and the museum itself. At its demise, the project with Venturi proved to have been a struggle from..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Naked City

Off the Desk

"...Stakeholders in the proposed Triangle Square project have settled on Calthorpe Associates - a "new urban"..."

July 31, 1998 News Feature

Naked City

"...ad business, Austin's GSD&M. The firm worked on the project for months, and finally came up with... "We're Texas."..."

Nov. 14, 1997 News Feature

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...it was as though her words flicked on a projector in your head. But most significantly, these reviews were..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rude Mechs

Grrl Action is getting its very own space next to the Off Center: The Off Shoot

"...giving young women the gift of self-expression through Grrl Action, a program that, through creative writing and performance, helps..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film News

While major productions play tax-incentive hopscotch across the South and Southwest, Austin tries to figure out how to reignite its winning streak

"...What's Wrong With This Picture?: The major Texas film project of the moment, Tommy Lee Jones-directed The Three Burials..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Postmarks

"...This is a mischaracterization of the type of transportation projects that can improve air quality and will [be] considered..."

June 20, 2003 Column

Scavenging for Home

The NATObombing of Belgrade provoked playwright Lisa D'Amour to examine the intention behind her art and reasons for being an artist.

"...previous fall, studying with Dah Teatar, the powerhouse collaborative theatre company that wowed audiences in Austin during the 1996..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Lisa D'Amour

Exhibitionism

"...was simply photographing the chairs to use in a stop-action animation project for a class at the University of..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Arts Review

Young Guns and Typewriters

"...in on the act every other year. The local theatre scene boasts strong, unique writers of its own: Steve..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

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