Blue Lapis Light's Beyond the Clouds

This aerial dance company's production brought its dancers down to earth but still lifted us up

"...strangely off for one of Sally Jacques' Blue Lapis Light productions. No 20-story buildings with dancers racing across its..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

"...1) where nothing falls (Sally Jacques Productions) In a year shadowed by war, loss, and grief,..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: Jarrott Productions' The Sound Inside

An understated, intriguing page-turner

"...brother of original Rent actor Anthony Rapp? Not in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. More..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Blue Lapis Light's Edge of Grace

Blue Lapis Light leaves its epic aerial work for an intimate and uniquely compelling dance on scaffolding

"...Which feels a bit strange for a Blue Lapis Light production, since so much of this aerial performance company's..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Power and Light

A guide to 10 new companies that are charging up Austin's theatre scene

"...The early and mid-Nineties saw the arrival of Frontera Productions, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Physical Plant, the Public Domain, root..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

ZM3 Live Productions' Echo of a Refugee ... Me?

Zell Miller III's latest was a state of the city address that called out Austin for gentrification and policies harmful to its black citizens

"...audiences, where they blaze and dazzle, casting heat and light. He is a poet of the first order, molding..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Jesus Christ Superstar 50 Years On

New North American tour of JCSS launches in Austin Oct. 9

"...The work debuted in late 1970 in the form of a..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Arts Post by Paul Beutel

Art Par Excellence

The nominees for the 2014-15 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1,..."

May 20, 2015 Arts Post

A Guide to Austin's Musical Theatre Scene

"...of the classics of the American musical theatre and productions of newer shows that serve up the form's classic..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted locally between May 1,..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...A lot of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions were mounted around town between..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Revenge, Deferred in Stephen Mills' Hamlet

Post-pandemic, Stephen Mills brings his career-defining Hamlet back to Ballet Austin

"..."Easy" is not a word often applied to Glass' work. While Mills has repeatedly drawn on his catalog for..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Love, Gilda

The SNL original in all her shining joy

"...life and precise comic timing. There are beings that light this planet, shining brightly. And Radner shined. It is..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin shines a light on human rights and the Holocaust in reviving its 2005 work

"...Ballet Austin has once again turned on the Light, but this time it's even brighter – 50 times..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Productions and performances, from the fantastic to the unfortunate

"...are similarly memorable, for awe can be found in work both awesome and awful. Here are 10 of this..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Manufacturing Fizz

What makes L'Étoile a light, bubbly Champagne of operas

"...Oenologically speaking, opera is a red wine world. The works for which the art form is best known and..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Zach Theatre's The Great Society

Robert Schenkkan's smart script and remarkable ensemble work make this a powerful look at LBJ's White House years

"...conflict will fall into obscurity. LBJ follows the advice, lighting a long, long fuse that he can never bring..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Review: Austin Playhouse’s The (One-Act) Play That Goes Wrong

An evening of side-splitting schadenfreude

"...occasional missed lines that take place during most theatrical productions and pumping them with steroids...."

Nov. 23, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Drawn to Batman at Wizard World

Kevin Conroy and Loren Lester on voicing the dynamic duo

"...Forty years ago, he performed at UT in touring productions of King Lear and Mother Courage. "It was a..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Notes on the Classification of Spectral Lines ...

Aided by science, this theatrical essay covers vast distances

"...West Texas. The edges of our solar system. The light years to Earth's neighboring stars. Based on the trip..."

May 26, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...certainly are, pirouetting, lunging, stomping, leaping in scores of works annually, the eclectic mix of styles typical of our..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...(especially their parents) in dry, mind-numbing monotones while colored lights flicker on and off over two people in beige..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Austin Musical Theatre Hits the Heights

That's Show Biz!

"...their company Austin Musical Theatre (AMT) deliver with their productions. While the company isn't yet three years old and..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Arts Feature

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...slated to helm), other current or forthcoming Austin horror productions include Lindsey Alloway's Postmodern Undead, now in preproduction; Ain't..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...this year's VORTEX season was composed entirely of new works. It's indicative of Cullum's fervor for material on the..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

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

"...Table is marking its 20th year of commending outstanding work on the local arts scene. The list of nominations..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...of the minds (i.e., happy hour) to reviewing the work we'd seen between May 1, 2012, and April 30,..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Classics Comeback

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

"...record heights, so too is the number of local productions of plays that, for lack of a better term,..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Off-Off-Broadway Bound

An Austinite's account of taking the stage in New York City

"...the 200-plus show lineup will include three Austin theatre productions: HIT., from a chick & a dude productions; The..."

July 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

FronteraFest 2007: The lowdown

"...will be the Best of the Week, culled from works presented that Tuesday through Friday, and the fifth week..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature

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