Now Streaming in Austin: "Pepito"

Award-winning comedy short takes us back to childhood

"...a pudding basin haircut, he's a twentysomething whose mother (Amparo Garcia-Crow) still sees him as her chubby little Pepito,..."

April 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bill Leissner: I Shot the Eighties

Event to fund photographer's book showing the decade in Austin

"...Productions company members Janelle Buchanan, Joy Cunningham, Gene Fowler, Amparo Garcia-Crow, and Tim Mateer, who will perform selections from..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Playback: Night Glitter Ascends

Thievery Corporation singer's Austin project picks up steam, Shakey Graves' new live look, and Terror Fest thrives

"...to being raised behind the curtain by playwright mother Amparo Garcia-Crow and set designer David Rose, with whom he..."

June 22, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

FotoATX: Pics and the City

This new arts festival celebrates Austin as seen through the lenses of local photographers

"...photos of Latino and African-American activists, curated by Alan Garcia and Rachel E. Winston...."

Jan. 19, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Song/Book: Grapes of Wrath vs. 1984

Rob Halverson and friends wrap live music around some heavy fiction

"...involved – like Thor Harris, Abra Moore, Sara Hickman, Amparo Garcia-Crow, and many others. Gretchen Phillips and Dickie Lee..."

July 18, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Out of Ink 2017: Object Lessons

This year’s crop of new 10-minute plays captures the apprehension in the air but with creativity and craft

"...a spacesuit-helmeted future leader goes chasing after Mars. In Amparo Garcia-Crow's "Sawing a Woman in Half," 45 shows up..."

May 5, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Live Feed

Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart

"...(playwright and founder of the Living Room storytelling series Amparo Garcia-Crow, Rude Mechs company member Lowell Bartholomee). Once he..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time? (Part 2)

With Tim Doyle, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Kareem Badr, and more

"...Amparo Garcia-Crow of The Living Room: One of my favorites..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

I'm Totally Inviting You Into My House This Weekend

No, for real. Hey, c'mon, wipe your goddam feet

"...popular blogmistress and marryin' minister Spike Gillespie; the playwright Amparo Garcia-Crow; author of the upcoming & highly enchanting Summer..."

May 3, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Out of Ink 2012: Sound Off

Eight playwrights wrote 10-minute plays, and the audience lived happily ever after

"...child for whom she has so tenderly cared, and Amparo Garcia-Crow's "Ocean Song from a Desert Place," a delicate..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Do Tell

The Living Room makes a space for everyone's stories

"...Her boyfriend's mom, Amparo Garcia-Crow, was running the evening's festivities, buzzing around the..."

March 2, 2012 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

Film News

Wildfire Films launches in Austin, and Austin filmmakers land Independent Spirit noms in L.A.

"...titled 16 Minutes about Latino civil rights advocate Gus Garcia (no relation to the former Austin mayor), who argued..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Happenings

May 15-22

"...METROPOLITAN BREAKFAST CLUB The Mexican American Cultural Center's Amparo Garcia-Crow discusses Discovering Culture and Diversity. 7am. Memorial Stadium,..."

May 16, 2008 News Feature

Monumental Shift

Major personnel changes across the Austin arts scene signal the start of a new era

"...Joining: program manager Amparo Garcia-Crow..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

MACC Mommy

Managing the busy new Mexican American Cultural Center is inspiring work for Amparo Garcia-Crow

"...one thought to put in a revolving door to Amparo Garcia-Crow's office. Garcia-Crow is the MACC's new project manager,..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Mexican American Cultural Center Grand-Opening Ceremony

Sept. 15, 600 River St.

"...1:45pm: Welcome to the MACC, with Amparo Garcia-Crow and "16 Historical Characters: Where Imagination Knows No..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature

'AlienNation': Making cabrito of immigration scapegoating

In its first new show in two years, Austin's Latino Comedy Project roasts the immigration debate

"..."It's actually preceding the official grand opening," says Villegas. "Amparo Garcia-Crow [the MACC's program director] is really doing a..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Austin Script Works: Swanson steps down as artistic director

After three years as artistic director of Austin Script Works, playwright Colin Denby Swanson is leaving her leadership post at the organization to focus full-time on her writing

"...directing new plays by writers such as Steven Tomlinson, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Cyndi Williams, Kirk Smith, David Gunderson, and the..."

July 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

"...• Amparo Garcia-Crow, the new manager of the Mexican American Cultural..."

June 29, 2007 News Feature

Culture Flash!

Texas has its official artists for 2007 and 2008, the soon-to-open MACC has a program manager, and Zach has a Golden Girl drop in for a visit

"...• Playwright/screenwriter/teacher Amparo Garcia-Crow, in the midst of one of her busiest..."

April 27, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...We being Austin playwrights Amparo Garcia-Crow and C. Denby Swanson and Dreaming the Americas..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Amparo Garcia-Crow: Write this way

Playwright and screenwriter Amparo Garcia-Crow appears to be on a roll, given the way her recent work has been garnering attention from coast to coast

"...roll. That seems to be the case with writer Amparo Garcia-Crow, whose recent work has been garnering attention from..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fall to Grace

Shot in Austin with a mostly local cast and buoyed by a fine, evocative score, Fall to Grace is a quiet little ensemble film that pulses with its own unique heartbeat.

"...Marchbanks. Starring: Kira Pozehl, Jessica Roque, Gabriel Luna, Bhagirit Crow, Julia Polozova, David Stokey, Bill Johnson, René Alvarado, Amparo..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The 'West' Shall Rise Again

A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre

"...playwriting class using In the West as its textbook. Amparo Garcia-Crow, another Big Stater who had graduated to a..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cesar and Ruben

Ed Begley Jr.'s 'Cesar and Ruben,' a play with music, is a respectful and warm tribute to the life and work of United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez

"...Menchaca is purely despicable as Naylor (a grower), and Amparo Garcia-Crow charms by capturing some of Dolores Huerta's recognizable..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Review by Belinda Acosta

Culture Flash!

Benefits help a playwright pay off medical bills and a dance company keep dancing

"...• Playwright/actress Amparo Garcia-Crow could use your good wishes and your support...."

June 10, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Following 'Suit'

'Zoot Suit' revival, symposium track the impact of Luis Valdez's powerful play then and now

"...In addition to Salinas, actress and playwright Amparo Garcia-Crow, Mexic-Arte Museum executive director Sylvia Orozco, poet raulrsalinas,..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Articulations

Playwright Dan Dietz gets his second play staged at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Johnson / Long Dance Company heads to Hamburg, and Zach shuffles its season

"...and Julie Marie Myatt. Congratulations to Dietz, Walch, and Amparo Garcia-Crow, whose play Cool, Still Waters will also be..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Nine current and former Austin playwrights storm the finals for the 2003 Hedieman Award, while playwright Lisa D'Amour storms New York.

"...Congratulations then to member playwrights Lowell Bartholomee, Dan Basila, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Greg Romero, Molly Rice (aka Chronicle Arts writer..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

'Pocho' Patchwork

AFS's Texas Doc Tour brings the formidable Héctor Galán and his 'Visiones' to One World Theatre.

"...Twenties and spanned more than 30 years. La Carpa Garcia, profiled in a Visiones segment with interviews from surviving..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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