Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019

History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year's most memorable shows

"...evil twins and played at warp speed, the exceptional company made everything real – life brimming with heartache...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Performances That Transported Me in 2004

Robert Faires lists his favorite theatre, dance, and classical productions of 2004

"...for contemporary souls. At MMNT, director Christina Moore and company presented Mary Zimmermans much-lauded setting of Ovid in a..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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.

"...The Medea Stories, J. Ed Araiza & Medea company..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Most Memorable Theatrical Offerings That I Chanced to See in 2004 (A Hierarchical List)

Barry Pineo lists his favorite stage productions of 2004

"...3) Nightswim (State Theater Company) Playwright Steve Moore's uniquely Austin rumination on friendship and..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Articulations

Austin loses a longtime artist, Mickey Joe Mayfield, and Vortex Repertory Company gains a managing director, Barry Pineo.

"...attending school there, painting sets for the Boston Opera Company -- most of his time after the STOMP years..."

May 31, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Theatre Refuses to Fade in 1995 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

The past 12 months saw some of Austin's

"...City Playhouse's artistic director; the imaginative, physically daring young company Troupe Texas, which dissolved after only a few brief..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

The Murdered Women of Juárez Find a Voice Onstage

Isaac Gomez’s one-woman show The Way She Spoke

"...Austin-based director and associate artistic director for Vortex Repertory Company Rudy Ramirez was interested from the moment..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Radio Silence: a word opera

Zell Miller III's hip-hop opera is fascinating when it isn't flying by so quickly

"...The Vortex, through Aug. 30..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Hamlet

Vortex Repertory Company's new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet has a strong contemporary feel, but ultimately it diminishes some of the power of the tragedy

"...The Vortex, through March 31..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

4:48 Psychosis

One really gets the full abysmal experience of being clinically depressed in the 48 minutes of Vortex Repertory Company and Renaissance Austin Theatre's 4:48 Psychosis

"...The Vortex, through May 28..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

First Night Austin

First Night Austin gets ready to ring out the old year in a big way, with a cultural extravaganza on a scale the city has never before seen

"...Creative Opportunity Orchestra, film artist Luke Savisky, Tapestry Dance Company, Austin Poetry Slam, Sally Jacques' Blue Lapis Light dance..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

St. Enid and the Black Hand

In Vortex Repertory Company's mesmerizing St. Enid and the Black Hand,' an archetypal family enacts a fairy tale with many-layered meanings

"...The Vortex, through Feb. 5..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Arts Review by Jacqueline May

Mail to the Chief

Vortex Repertory joins 27 other theatre companies from coast to coast in readings of 'Dear George: Letters to the President,' a theatrical presentation of actual letters from Americans across the country

"...50th Street Productions since Memorial Day of this year. Vortex Repertory Company – a group that's never been shy..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Your Father's Musical (Or Your Kid's, For That Matter)

Three local shows show breaking into song ain't what it used to be

"...department; he's employed the services of three local composers: Vortex Repertory Company regulars Chad Salvata (The X and Y..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ghost From a Perfect Place

Blending eerie reminiscence and the trappings of outright hostility, Vortex Repertory Company production of Ghost From a Perfect Place feels as if it ought to be more provocative than it is

"...The Vortex, through May 30..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Unkindest Cuts of All

A snapshot of the impact that this year's 31% cut in Cultural Contract funding had on 10 Austin arts companies that were on a strong growth track and had that growth in city funding abruptly reversed.

"...to what they were three or more years previous. Company, FY 2000, FY 2001, FY 2002, FY 2003, Amt..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

To Infinity and Beyond!

The year 2001 saw a host of local cultural types taking journeys beyond their homes, traveling to other communities to share their art and finding new venues locally in which to produce their work and expand their creative sensibilities.

"...town by storm with their adaptation of Lipstick Traces; Vortex Repertory Company won more than a few hearts with..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Deluge

In his new musical, playwright-composer Kirk Smith uses the story of Noah and his wife to look at the seeping, leaking, dripping, pouring inevitability of loss and renewed hope, and the Vortex Repertory Company production makes for a dreamy and wet world, sometimes punctuated with lightning and thunder, but mostly pleasantly adrift in an ocean of sweet, melancholic rain.

"...The Vortex, through September 16, Running Time: 1 hr, 15 min..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Uncaged

Wayne Alan Brenner's friend Sylvia has an opinion about the Vortex Repertory Company's workshop performance Uncaged: The public deserves more for its money than an end-of-the-workshop variety show unless what's onstage is well-performed and original, and except for a handful of pieces by a few participants -- most notably the emcee Ratgirl -- she thinks this isn't.

"...The Vortex,..."

June 29, 2001 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Bridge Burner

Aaron Brown can write, no doubt about that, but in his new play The Bridge Burner the Austin playwright has used his fine ear for dialogue, skills of characterization, and sense of outrage to cover familiar territory in the vein of dysfunctional family drama.

"...The Vortex,..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

"...even though I was expecting a call from the VORTEX Repertory Company artistic director and Queen of Planet Theatre..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Momfest: the Schedule

"...Pegasus 51: The Audience (Lorca's classic by a new company looking for its own audience.)..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature

Articulations

Muffitt Promoted

"...Another friend of VORTEX Repertory Company and the Austin theatre community has died...."

Dec. 26, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Played Out

After 14 Years, Capitol City Playhouse Is Evicted

"...forced out of their longtime spaces. Then, it was VORTEX Repertory Company and Live Oak Theatre getting the boot,..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bard Choices

Two Directors on Making Shakespeare Contemporary

"...far. Bonnie Cullum is directing Romeo and Juliet for VORTEX Repertory Company, and Jemma Levy is whipping together Measure..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

'Murder Ballad Murder Mystery'

Paper Chairs resurrects its hit musical as portable, hit-and-run bar entertainment

"...did in its original co-production by Tutto Theatre and Vortex Repertory Company, and it won't be the full-length, site-specific..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On the Funding Front

Eleven area artists and cultural organizations earn support for 2011 projects

"...In addition to the previously reported $20,000 for the Vortex Repertory Company to support its production of the new..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2007-2008 B. Iden Payne Award Nominations

The full list of honorees for the Austin Circle of Theatres' annual theatre honors

"...Troades: The Legend of the Women of Troy (Vortex Repertory Company)..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature

2008 Payne Awards Nominations

The full list of honorees for the Austin Circle of Theatres' annual theatre honors

"...Troades: The Legend of the Women of Troy (Vortex Repertory Company)..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature

Culture Flash!

Actors' Equity honors Dirk van Allen, and the 2005 B. Iden Payne Awards go to ...

"...an award for his performance as Iago in Othello.) Vortex Repertory Company took home six awards, including outstanding production..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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