Loading Up The Method Gun

The Rudes' latest run at UT caps eight-year odyssey with the play

"...The Rude Mechs are calling the version of The Method Gun that they're performing at the University..."

Sept. 10, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Top 10 Shows in 2003 That Shed Light in a Dark Year

"...Jacques Productions) In a year shadowed by war, loss, and grief, Sally Jacques took us to heaven. The choreographer..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Heartbreak House

Should you attend the UT Department of Theatre and Dance production of Heartbreak House, you'll have to work to keep up with the student cast, which blasts through the wordy script, but your labors will be rewarded by some fine design work and acting, and G.B. Shaw's timely critique of the leisure classes awakening to a world at war.

"...House: Chatting in a Garden as Bombs Rain DownLab Theatre, UT campus, through March 8..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Crystal City 1969 Brings Mexican American History to Life

Celebrating 50 years of UT's CMAS with a live reading

"...Seated on hay bales in the back of a rusty pickup truck, glowing stage lights in place..."

March 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Sage Dunlap

Ground Plan

Lisa Scheps' Christmas gift to the local stage scene is a new performance venue, Ground Floor Theatre

"...For most people who have run a theatre of their own, once is enough. The unrelenting pressures..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Voice for the Missing Women

Cohen New Works Festival: 'The Women of Juárez' reviewed

"...Juárez: Once it made me think of drug cartels and illegal immigrants. Now I think of..."

March 26, 2013 Arts Post by Jillian Owens

Classics Comeback

Are the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place on Austin's stages?

"...been away so long, I almost didn't recognize you. And who's that behind you? Mikhail Bulgakov? Never thought to..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Spruced-Up Nutcracker

"...The quest for a new, improved Nutcracker for Ballet Austin began in earnest this past Sunday,..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Arts Column

Keene Prize, Kudos to George Brant

"...Since those halcyon days of deep-pocketed patrons are long gone, struggling writers typically have..."

July 1, 2008 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Requiem for Tesla

Genius and madness are the ac and dc of inventor Nikola Tesla's life, as portrayed in the Rude Mechanicals' biographical tribute Requiem for Tesla, and this new version provides the atmosphere and quickening charge of an old Universal horror film.

"...This week's Exhibitionism features reviews of productions from the Fresh Terrain performance festival and symposium..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Playhouse’s The Immigrant

The company delivers a powerful and timely account of foreigners making a new home in the U.S.

"..."You picked a great night to come," box office attendant Leigh Fisher mentioned as I arrived at Austin..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Dreaming ART

This year in Austin, autumn brings a Spring Storm, and with it Actors Repertory of Texas, the realization of the city's long-cherished dream of a locally based professional theatre company.

"...premiere production in Austin. Inside the B. Iden Payne Theatre, an opening-night crowd watches student actors from the UT..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Give 'Em a Hand

The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 17th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year's most exceptional..."

May 15, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

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

"...Time flies when you're recognizing excellence. One minute, you and a half-dozen arts writers are handing out..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Best in Show

The 2012-13 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Hidden Room Theatre production of Rose Rage was the runaway winner at..."

June 7, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Year's Cheers

The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 18th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year's most exceptional..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Canción del Cuerpo'

Five dancers from UT cross cultures to partner with five dancers from Colombia

"...Dance may be a universal language, but dancers can still..."

March 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

60 Candles,Hundreds of Dancers

"...flies, it seems, not only when you're having fun but when you're educating dancers. How else to explain the..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...to Pieces, The Gospel at Colonus (Hopeful Monsters/Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre, Zachary Scott Theatre Center): What are the odds? In..."

Jan. 10, 1997 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 the day..."

Nov. 7, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Canción del Cuerpo

The UT-Colombian dance collaboration proved more about process than product

"...Canción del Cuerpo..."

March 12, 2010 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The 2013 Cohen New Works Festival

If you can count on one thing in this biennial binge of student-generated works, it's that you'll be surprised

"...Library lawn. Or maybe the daughter playing actual tapes of her father deejaying on country radio years ago. It..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

David Mark Cohen New Works Festival

Comedy and collaboration were distinguishing elements in the 2009 New Works Festival

"...The last "course" of the theatrical meal Foodstuff – one of the 30-plus..."

April 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Honor Roll

The 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...On Monday, June 2, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the..."

June 6, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?

The Artists' Recent and Upcoming Projects

"...This summer, with support from the Performing Arts Center and the UT College of Fine Arts, Maness returned to..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Feature

Lucky Seven

For seven years, Pro Arts Collective has consistently drawn an impressive and intriguing lineup of dancers, choreographers, and companies from across the nation for its annual African American Festival of Dance, and the 2003 edition continues that tradition.

"...Pro Arts Collective inaugurated its annual African American Festival of Dance and given the festival is still going strong,..."

July 18, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Life Again in Oz

On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.

"...first royalty check," she grins, from her play Ozma of Oz, an adaptation of the Frank Baum book. "Twice..."

April 21, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Top Ten Stage

Top Ten Theatrical Experiences of 1997

"...1. Ruthless! The Musical (Zachary Scott Theatre Center) This bastard love..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Consummate Artistry

The 2013-14 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Zach Theatre's production of In the Next Room, or The Vibrator..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Roots and Wings

The works in Dance Repertory Theatre's spring program proved unexpectedly timely in a week of unrest and anxiety

"...Roots and WingsB. Iden Payne Theatre, UT campus April 20..."

April 26, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

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