Days of Future Past

The history of Salvage Vanguard Theater's unlikely sci-fi success, The Intergalactic Nemesis

"...in bars flirts with old-fashioned radio serials in a coffee shop. Nobody involved had any high expectations for this..."

July 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas to Officially Adopt QT

2010 Texas Film Hall of Fame inductees to include one glorious bastard

"...Well, close enough: The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards will make Quentin Tarantino..."

Dec. 21, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2018

Actor/director Norman Blumensaadt, dance artists Kathy Dunn Hamrick and Anuradha Naimpally, and philanthropists Jeanne and Michael Klein join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...When you look at the vitality of the arts and culture in Austin, it isn't just..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Actors' Inequity

The Cost of Art IV: The artists onstage in Austin aren't just not paid what they're worth, many aren't paid at all

"...this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged."..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2015

Wild theatrical energy and masterful performances were the hallmarks of outstanding theatre in 2015

"...became the Waiting Dead, disinterred for one more replay of their sad tale. But they were never more lively..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...Funky, renovated barn where VORTEX Repertory Company artistic director Bonnie Cullum recently crowed that this..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Actors From the London Stage

Who needs more than five actors to do a Shakespeare play? Not this troupe.

"...Austin suffers from no shortage of Shakespeare. Summer brought us the Winedale repertory, Young Shakespeare's..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 16th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics have joined to recognize the year's..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2011

Remembering a theatrical year with superheroes, The Tempest, and a mash-up of the two

"...1) 'BLACK WATCH' (Texas Performing Arts) The National Theatre of Scotland used every..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Murdered Women of Juárez Find a Voice Onstage

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

"...collaborators, having become close as undergraduates in the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Texas at..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Change of Venue

This year, FronteraFest is takin' it to the streets – and a chapel, a bookstore, a home ...

"...Theatre and Salvage Vanguard Theater with the instinctive surety of swallows winging their way back to Capistrano. And why..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2016

Works that struck a nerve with the political state of our city and our nation stood out in this year's outstanding theatre productions

"...local theatre artist took to the front lines as often or urgently as Zell Miller III. In show after..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pleasure of the Paynes 2014

The 'Fix' was in at the 40th theatre awards ceremony

"...The "bitin' pains" – that's now how I'll think of our local theatre awards after hearing their title mangled..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Top 10 Spontaneous Catharses and Other Performance Effects of 2005

'Chronicle' theatre writer Heather Barfield Cole names her 10 favorite performing arts experiences of 2005

"...Performing Arts Center) A sensual and majestic listening experience of a lifetime culminated in a sophisticated and harmonious poem..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays

Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.

"...Heading into the forest of Oz, Dorothy Gale and her companions on the yellow..."

July 5, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019

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

"...1) HAMILTON/JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Broadway in Austin/Texas Performing Arts) The 4-year-old phenom of musicals arrived like..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Notable Theatrics of 2011

Recalling how scoundrels, amphibians, and grace brightened Austin stages in 2011

"...1) 'BIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICAL SENSATION' (Rubber Repertory) Admittedly, I wasn't able to..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

Points of Departure

The Viewpoints Invade Austin

"...The Viewpoints are a theatrical tool. And a philosophy of movement. And an aesthetic vehicle. And a series of..."

May 8, 1998 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Programs That Let Austin Youth Speak Out A Stage of Their Own

"...something to say that will impact somebody somewhere. Many of them know that theatre will always be their passion,..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

2016 Texas Film Awards

"...Mike Judge returned to emcee the Austin Film Society’s Texas Film Awards on Thursday, March 10. It was the..."

March 11, 2016 Photo Gallery

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 19th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year's most exceptional..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art of the State

Dance:

"...DALLAS MORNING NEWS DANCE FESTIVAL features some of North Texas' finest dance artists, performing outdoors for free...."

Aug. 23, 1996 Arts Feature

Top 9 Theatre Productions of 2009 That Did Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention

A year of failed romances, Greek myths, and more that were staged so ingeniously

"...1) 'BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA' (MARY MOODY NORTHEN THEATRE) Modern art's master of collage celebrated in a theatrical mash-up of chicken jokes,..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Bess, Abundance, Zachary Scott Theatre, 2000; Miss Metcalfe, Dark of the Moon, State, 2000; Aunt Lila, Spring Storm, Actors..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Subterranean Theatre Co./State Theater Co., 2000; various, Spring Storm, Actors Repertory of Texas, 1999; Alfred Doolittle, My Fair Lady,..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...2000; Bleacher Bums, STC, 2000; Mrs. Adams, Spring Storm, Actors Repertory of Texas, 1999...."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

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.

"...B. Iden Payne Theatre, an opening-night crowd watches student actors from the UT Department of Theatre & Dance, and..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Let Him Entertain You

Why producer Charles Duggan is staging the biggest holiday spectacular Austin's ever seen

"...That's the kind of audacious theatrical effect that you wouldn't expect outside of..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Oklahoma!, A Macbeth, and Art were the big winners at the 27th Annual B. Iden Payne Awards.

"...On Monday, Sept. 24, the Austin Circle of Theatres (ACoT) hosted the 27th annual B. Iden Payne..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

A Northern California theatre director is combing through the massive Tennessee Williams archive in UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for another as-of-yet unstaged drama by the great playwright that he can bring into the spotlight á la Spring Storm.

"...'T' for Texas, 'T' for Tennessee..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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