More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"...Tilt Angel, Dan DietzProduction, DramaThe Dinosaur Within, State Theater Company..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playwright as Architect

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

"...scarily polite playwright is premiering his tragic and lyrical Tilt Angel: A Deadpan Tennessee Fairy Tale, which, from all..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The 2002 Austin Critics Table Awards

On Monday, June 3, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the Austin arts in a ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

"...Love by the Rude Mechs and Fugitive Pieces and Tilt Angel by Salvage Vanguard Theater, and Hedwig and the..."

June 7, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heart Attack & Fine

Actor Douglas Taylor is alive (again) and well in Austin, Texas

"...I'm in rehearsal -- I was doing Dan Dietz's Tilt Angel with Salvage Vanguard at the time -- but..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

Austin Playwrights Dan Dietz and Tom White get produced in L.A., playwright Colin Swanson gets two shows mounted in NYC, and set designer Christopher McCollum and painter Michael Ray Charles show up on PBS.

"...Playwright Dan Dietz has a new play, Tilt Angel, opening at the Off Center this week, but..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Ailing actor Douglas Taylor is on the mend, actors Babs George and Lowell Bartholomee get the recognition they deserve (from the Payne Awards), and choreographer Deborah Hay wants you to spend the weekend with her.

"...in rehearsal for the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of Tilt Angel, a new play by Dan Dietz, at the..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

I, Frankenstein

Aaron Eckhart stars as a modern-day Frankenstein, who faces off against supernatural creatures in this film based on the graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux.

"...accused of Karloffian lumbering; it has the topsy turvy Tilt-a-Whirl pace of a misfiring rocket. Director and writer Beattie..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Drive, He Said

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

"...then went down the West Coast, to Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, and then back to Austin."..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playwright Update

Playwrights Dan Dietz and Colin Denby Swanson are among the 18 semi-finalists for the 2004-5 P73 Playwriting Fellowship , and Dietz’s Tilt Angel has been selected for full production at New Jersey Repertory Theater next season

"...or her playwriting career. And that reading of Dietz’s Tilt Angel by New Jersey Repertory Company went well enough..."

May 28, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Changing of the Bard

Austin Script Works director Dan Dietz passes the pen to Colin Denby Swanson

"...them winning the Heideman Award; a staged reading of Tilt Angel at New Jersey Rep earlier this week –..."

May 21, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

A bright design firm on the Austin theatre and film scene, Star Costume & Clothiers, falls to earth, and folk artist Brother Jeremias Mysliwiec passes away.

"...40 stage productions as diverse as Salvage Vanguard Theater's Tilt Angel and Second Youth Family Theatre's adaptation of The..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

The final exit for actress Patsy Goldwater, a home run for playwright Dan Dietz, a fair for your inner Frankenstein, and a training ground for aspiring critics

"...Louisville. This means that the author of Dirigible and Tilt Angel (and brand-spanking-new artistic director of Austin Script Works)..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Austin Script Works has a changing of the bard, Austin officially becomes a capital of culture, and the Texas Fine Arts Association is renamed Arthouse.

"...As of Jan. 1, 2003, Dan Dietz, author of Tilt Angel and Dirigible, will serve as the organization's executive..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

The photography gallery Lake Austin Fine Arts closes its doors, and local playwrights Dan Dietz and C. Denby Swanson see new productions of their work.

"...produced outside the city. The Critics Table nominee for Tilt Angel is enjoying a new run of his meditation..."

June 21, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Salvage Vanguard Theater loses Dan Dietz as co-Artistic Director, the National Endowments for the Arts loses its new director, and the Rude Mechanicals sell out their Mid-America tour of Lipstick Traces.

"...the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis to develop his play Tilt Angel, had that script presented at the 2001 National..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

A weekly rundown of the latest news in Austin's visual and performing arts scene.

"...Firefighters 9-11 Disaster Relief Fund. During its production of Tilt Angel, Salvage Vanguard Theater collected 228 pounds of canned..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Serious health problems have beset Austin theatre artists Douglas Taylor and Brian Gaston as they are working on upcoming projects.

"...rehearsal for the Salvage Vanguard Theater's world premiere of Tilt Angel, a new play by Dan Dietz , which..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Live Feed

Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart

"...by other companies, too – Pterodactyls for Subterranean Theatre, Tilt Angel for Salvage, the touring version of Lipstick Traces..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.

"...David Hamburger and Eddy Hobizal. And we've checked with Angela Davis and other historical music folks, made sure that..."

June 14, 2002 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

The Blanton Museum of Art gets a cool million for its new building, Austin Museum of Art gets a new director of development to raise money for its new building, and a whole lotta Austin Artists get nominations for the 2001-02 Critics Table Awards.

"...(10 and 8 nominations, respectively), Salvage Vanguard Theater's dramas Tilt Angel (9) and Fugitive Pieces (8), and Austin Lyric..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Arts companies are pulling in the green, playwright Dan Dietz is on the road again, and the stork delivers a couple of new artists.

"...director, Jason Neulander -- to finish his script for Tilt Angel, his self-described "deadpan Tennessee fairy tale" about a..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

17 Texas Artists to See at ACL Fest

Lone Star acts to catch at Zilker, from Houston breakout d4vd to Austin’s Die Spitz

"...our picks for national acts playing Zilker Park here. Angel WhiteSaturday, 1:45pm, Tito’s stage..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...not have his next film, manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel, quite ready to unleash yet, but he's giving SXSW..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...fair, with music and giants and cotton candy and Tilt-O-Whirls and common carnival trash and too many cherry Slushees..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

This Wonderful Life

Martin Burke's solo performance of 'It's a Wonderful Life' is a tour de force, but also an act of faith

"...mortals in crisis questions the intelligence of Clarence Odbody, Angel Second Class, for a mission in Bedford Falls, his..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...the foundation would not have its namesake, its tragic angel, its raison d'être. The story of Sims Ellison's death,..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Flamingo Road

"...John Grant of Florida (the state that made Boiled Angel's Mike Diana famous) has a problem. He has a..."

May 23, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck