Review: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

National Theatre of Scotland serves up one helluva grand show

"...finds herself held captive by the lord of the underworld on a midwinter's night, when the veil between our..."

Feb. 15, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

'The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart'

The National Theatre of Scotland is back with this devilish mix of music and the supernatural

"...blizzard, finds the veils between our world and the underworld opening and the Devil leading his own ceilidh. Writer..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tosca

Austin Lyric Opera brought all the power in Puccini's opera to bear in a staging that pitted heaven against hell

"...from the pit like a volcanic blast from the underworld – we were thrust into a world of high..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Brian Beattie

Audio File

"...Finally, Okkervil River's Will Sheff turns up as an underworld bureaucrat whose officiousness belies his three-headed appearance. Beattie's music..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Music Review by Greg Beets

Letters at 3AM: February 1914

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought

"...human race I prefer to think of as the underworld of the gods. When the gods go slumming they..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Unknown Territory

Writer-director John Sayles on why he returned to the border for his latest film, 'Go for Sisters'

"..."go for sisters" – to help her hunt the underworld for him. Indie film icon John Sayles (Honeydripper, Limbo,..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...small town Texas man's life unravels into a dark underworld of corruption and violence. Cast: Michael C. Hall, Don..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Meme Weaver

Local distributor Indie Meme brings independent film from India to the U.S.

"...themes of rags to riches, escapist, aspirational cinema. The underworld drug/crime scene was the theme of a lot of..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Matthew Irwin

Lord Dying

"...massive astral riffs over the top of a rhythmic, underworld sludge. Compositionally primitive but preternaturally confident, the rise of..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Fantastic Arcade Day 2

More lessons I learned from a bunch of indie devs in a dark theatre

"...and part Dance Dance Revolution. Defeat creatures of the underworld by controlling your movements and attacks with a dance..."

Sept. 21, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Their Satanic Majesties

Dark knowledge and Jäger shots with Austin’s Ancient VVisdom

"...suffer no longer/ Hail to thee God of the Underworld.” They might hear that message and say “Fuck these..."

July 25, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Drafthouse Films at … Not the Drafthouse

Austin Film Society hosts four favorites from the collection

"...kicks off with Bullhead (7:30pm), Michael R. Roskam's beef-market underworld feature that got picked up by the then-fledgling distribution..."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Don DeLillo Is Coming to Austin

Esteemed author reads at UT's Homer Rainey Hall

"...authored 16 novels in his four-decade career – including Underworld, White Noise, Cosmopolis, and End Zone – and tomorrow..."

July 24, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Fantastic Fest Announces Keanu Reeves as 'Man of Tai Chi'

Plus 'Big Bad Wolves' and 'Nightbreed - The Cabal Cut' and more

"...teen hoodlum in Copenhagen becomes entangled in the criminal underworld..."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

To Forgive, Divine

Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reunite in 'Only God Forgives'

"...Set in the criminal underworld surrounding Bangkok's Thai boxing rings, Only God Forgives charts..."

July 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Enjoy the Experience

Homemade records make a thrilling soundtrack to your summer reading

"...Mountain, it’s worth noting that their first producer was underworld pornography magnate Michael Thevis...."

June 21, 2013 Music Post by Greg Beets

Double Step

In this program of work by Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Kate Warren, the seriousness of the dancers was never in doubt

"...a serious piece that seemed to reveal a swampy underworld, where the dancers' eyes occasionally met and their limbs..."

June 14, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Return of Lila Downs

‘La Reyna’ makes another rare stop in Austin – tonight

"...the dangers in Mexico right now, and with this underworld story, I wonder if you’ve been drawn to narcocorridos..."

April 9, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film Reviews: 'Go For Sisters'

A border drama from John Sayles

"...officer and an ex-con – deep into the Mexican underworld on a desperate search for the former's missing son...."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Continental'

Malcolm Ingram has a nose for missing gay-history puzzle pieces

"...Continental a year before the Stonewall riots, colliding the homo-underworld with the legitimizing glam of New York's emergent disco..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

FF2012: Tim League Speaks!

What not to miss, why not to miss it

"...St. Elsewhere filtered through the corruption of the Serbian underworld...."

Sept. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Adds 'Pusher', 'Antiviral' to Lineup

Final additions include docs, sequels, remakes and world firsts

"...family reunion after years of living in the criminal underworld. Unbeknownst to him, his ruthless enemies follow close behind...."

Sept. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Boozethugs Ain't Harmin' Me

Fusebox goes all noir with th' drank

"...for the death of fears. Those, and the wacky underworld drama, served up amid a genre-appropriate music track compiled..."

April 26, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Adam and Joe go to 'Holliston'

FEARnet launches first original sitcom tonight

"...Fincher shooting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Underworld movie was shooting pickups, and we were literally in..."

April 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Wednesday International Bands

Wednesday's just the beginning!

"...We'd move to the underworld if it had this Cincinnati hipster-bop as the soundtrack...."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Lila Downs

"...person of "La Reyna del Inframundo" (Queen of the Underworld), a donkey hop of accordion and mariachi detailing. Third..."

March 16, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Many Lives of an Incorporeal Icon

A new 'Beetlejuice' sequel may be in development, but Warren Skaaren already pondered 'Beetlejuice in Love' two decades ago

"...Lionel Richie, synthesizers, Fiesta Ware), Skaaren's vision of the underworld is impressively fresh. He scraps the retro-DMV style of..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

Late-night fare and short film lineup announced

"...help others leads to her involvement in a sinister underworld...."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Gay Place

Take your typewriter, pencil, or pen, and if you make a mistake, you gotta do it again!

"...book about the rrrrawring Twenties and the legendarily naughty underworld and queer cafes of post-World War I Germany, featuring..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

'The Red Shoes': The High-Flying Sweetness of Sky Candy

The aerial arts troupe's circus adaptation of the fairy tale flies again

"...the action and keeping the audience engaged in the underworld during the periodic rigmarole of rigging. They were at..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Arts Feature by Raven Hinojosa

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