Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...Thursday 1, AFS Cinema..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Review: Austin Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Less-than-magical production salvaged by a night of unexpected spontaneity

"...wrote many of his greatest and most tragic plays in quarantine in late 16th- and early 17th-century London, as..."

May 13, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

What Is the Livestreamed, Interactive, Cross-Country, Music-Fueled, Comedy of Natatorium?

American Berserk Theatre + Density512 really pools the talent

"...steal yourself a few magnitudes higher than where you’re languishing right now?..."

April 7, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hunting Down the Clickbait Beast in The VICE Guide to Bigfoot

Zach Lamplugh and Brian Emond are on the case at the Austin Film Festival

"...There are many things that can be said about Bigfoot. Whether it exists..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd

Local filmmakers make their own Netflix movie

"...Like many artists, Austin's creative community is increasingly turning to crowdfunding platforms to..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: Master Class

Tax-deductible way to back new local web comedy

"...Do you want to learn to act like Tom Perkins, star of Skinemax's Born to Win, Nothin' to Lose?..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...On page 69 of Emily Wortis Leider's biography Becoming Mae West (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 hard), a..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

Ovid's Myths: the Roman Nose in Exile: Merry Metamorphosis

Exhibitionism

"...When the poet Ovid was banned from Rome in 8 A.D., he set a rather unfortunate vocational precedent...."

Nov. 7, 1997 Arts Review

Qmmunity: Fangirling Over Austin’s Queer Film Fest

Plus make marriage with p1nkstar and Y2K, and Erica Nix promises no cults

"...There's lots to fangirl over during this year's All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival,..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

One in a Crowd: "Dancers"

Short film needs your help to get en pointe

"...Like many artists, Austin's creative community is increasingly turning to crowdfunding platforms to..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Young Austin Artists

Local, state, and national awards for a host of the city's student artists

"...• The winners of the first KMFA Young Musicians Competition were announced..."

May 14, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Air Sex Championships

Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, Saturday, January 26, 2008

"...be tempted to question the wisdom of Alamo Drafthouse in preceding their Air Sex Championships this Saturday night with..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

10 in Focus

Alma

"...In works of documentary cinema, the proximity between subject and..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Five Hyperlocal Feats of Austin Artistry

They're created here, they're staged here, they're about here

"...sure, but sometimes we want to stand (or sit) in the place where we are and revel in what..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Qmmunity: Austin’s Queer Community Feels Effects of SXSW Cancellation

Now's the time show local support however you can

"...Whew, y'all. What a week it's been since SXSW's cancellation. The shutdown is a devastating financial loss..."

March 13, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Can't-Miss Austin Bands at SXSW

Local punk supergroup gets all Dickies

"...Something funny happened on the way to this side project...."

March 8, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Other Worlds Austin: Embers

Award-winner examines the terror and liberation of forgetting

"...What defines who you are? For many, it's their memories, their..."

Dec. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: Tear Me Apart

A very British post-apocalypse film

"...It begins with what seems to be an everyday brutal crime:..."

Nov. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The 22nd Annual Austin Film Festival

Here's three more recos for the fest

"...family gone, his career deflated, he spends his time doing endless lines of cocaine and picking up girls on..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Austin's Dot on That Great Golden Globe

'Before Midnight' and 'Dallas Buyers Club' get some HFPA lovin'

"...The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominees for the 71st Annual Golden Globes yesterday morning. Although..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

To 'Hell' in a Hand Device

iPad trailblazer 'Holy Hell' available for two-day-only free download

"...A lot of filmmakers view super-small-screen exhibition – think smartphones and tablets – as an unholy way to..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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

"...than practically any theatrical production I've ever seen. Simply recalling it moves me to tears. Directed by Christina J...."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Ryan Gosling Is a Lot More Than Just Ken in SXSW Headliner The Fall Guy

The year’s best rom-com is also the year’s best action comedy

"...“Hi, I’m Ryan Gosling, and I did almost none of my own stunts.”..."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Comedy: Henry Winkler Acting Workshop

The storied actor schools an audience on authenticity

"...Henry Winkler opened with a disclaimer: “I’m not a professional teacher;..."

March 11, 2019 SXSW Post by Rosalind Faires

Austin Playhouse's The Mystery of Edwin Drood

This musical production makes for an effervescent alternative to that other Dickens holiday show

"...art – Jimi Hendrix's First Rays of the New Rising Sun album or Orson Welles' film The Other Side..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

Austin Spotlight Film Festival Shines on Locals

Monthly fest for underdogs and up-and-comers

"...cast? What did you shoot on? At the monthly Austin Spotlight Film Festival, the questions are more practical, like..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Austin Premieres Nathaniel Atcheson’s Domain

Social media meets the apocalypse

"...On the internet, no one can hear you scream. When writer/director Nathaniel..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Pitts in Pursuit of 'the Big Lies'

Leonard Pitts Jr. speaks at Texas Freedom Network lobby day

"...a Leonard Pitts Jr. column on the futility of writing columns – "Facts might be stupid things, but they..."

March 25, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Austin Chamber Music Center: Is that a bow in your pocket, or ... ?

For ACMC's next concert, Hot Enough for Ya, the aim is clear: Let's talk about sex

"...For its most recent series, the Austin Chamber Music Center invited audiences into a raucous concert..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

In Space

ON Networks' Proper Ollie

"...It seems paradoxical: Find out everything you're doing wrong with your cell phone..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

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