Postmarks

Barrientos Misrepresented

"...skyrocket because demand for core city locations will stay high, even if zoning stays the same. Housing prices in..."

May 7, 1999 Column

Summer Stock Austin Gets Fired Up to Go Back Onstage

Cheer up with Bring It On: The Musical

"...Everyone who loves theatre may feel like cheering the return of live performance,..."

July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...to 8pm) and will be available until the virtual theatre "fills up." One bonus of going virtual: no waiting..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

All Over Creation: The Persistence of Penguins

And Then Came Tango stirs up a fuss, but its birds fly after all

"...Well, for the past few months, theatre and making a number of Central Texans uncomfortable...."

Nov. 30, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Day Trips

The Last Drive-In Picture Show in Gatesville retains the glory of the double-feature drive-in movie experience

"...He should know. Palmer started working there as a high school student when the theatre opened in 1950. In..."

April 15, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...Zell Miller III has been making poetry and theatre for more than 20 years, to the rhythm of..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

What It Is to Be Human

Actor Martin Burke, now in the midst of his fifth sell-out run as David Sedaris' Little Elf in The Santaland Diaries, talks about that show's success and his career as an actor.

"...Austin Chronicle: How did you get into theatre?..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Smooth Ride

When Lana Dieterich is acting, nothing seems calculated or forced, no step is false. Her performances are smooth as glass, as silk, as a ride on the bike that she pedals regularly around her Hyde Park neighborhood.

"...the Night. Dieterich's drunk was dazzlingly rich in variety: high to loaded, light to wrecked, flighty, weepy, solicitous, pushy,..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

"...things have been a little quiet where the State Theatre is concerned. After all, wasn't the renovation of the..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Bringers of Joy

20,000 Austin kids are happily learning to make positive change in their lives through Creative Action

"...Or maybe you have heard of Creative Action, formerly Theatre Action Project, most likely from its afterschool programs, which..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Learning Desire

MindPop thinks about arts education in whole new ways, and what a difference it makes

"...hard to address. This Austin educator knows that our schools are full of children and youth who struggle and..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...of plays, concerts, and musicals, which hooked me on theatre for life, and I discovered a love of fashion..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Risk Immersion

Time again to sink deeply into FronteraFest's exhilarating experiments in performance

"...less – runs Tuesdays through Saturdays, at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd. As always, the Saturday program offers..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...different, with some of the best known and most highly regarded writers boasting few onscreen credits. There are writers..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Postmarks

Theatre reviews! Film reviews! The Summer Smut Issue! Get your snipes here!

"...two movies (I am surprised it was not rated higher). This presents a problem. I do not like to..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Column

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...tux and two besequined babes had a cheese factor high enough to feed Wisconsin, but adding his trademark warble..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Say Anything

Eric Bogosian Comes Clean

"...My Forehead, blew me out the back of the theatre. A year ago, I saw his play subUrbia, about..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Feature

Beast Beast

Lyrical look at Gen-Z life trips on its own good intentions

"...Danny Madden had a laserlike focus on the titular theatre school kid, but the expansion into Beast Beast brings..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Summer Stock Austin's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

This musical succeeds on the infectious energy of every member of its enthusiastic cast

"...My high school drama teacher had a unique approach to watching..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

The World Is Watching J. Quinton Johnson

The UT alumnus left Austin to be in "the room where it happens": in Hamilton on Broadway

"...No matter how many high school drama students hit him up for selfies at..."

April 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Is a Blogpost About Austin's Jennymarie Jemison

Partly because her movie's in the Seattle International Film Festival

"...And we can further hope that some major acting-career..."

May 20, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Teaching Themselves

The filmmakers, cast, and crew of Chalk learned valuable lessons with little in the way of a plan or a budget

"...Travis High School, August 2004..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Top 10 Onstage Works of Wonder in 2002

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

"...1. The Laramie Project (Zachary Scott Theatre Center): This theatrical mosaic, crafted by New York's Tectonic..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...her trepidatiously in the aisle of the Texas Union Theatre when I ran across her at some screening or..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Articulations

The "first lady of Austin theatre" -- actress and educator Nan Cameron Elkins, whose credits included more than 300 Austin theatre productions and teaching speech and stage skills to thousands of Central Texas students -- has taken her final bow.

"...The "first lady of Austin theatre" has taken her final bow. Actress and educator Nan..."

April 6, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Great Scott!

"Why Not?"

"...if our paths hadn't crossed. I wandered into his theatre in the summer of 1985 and explained that my..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Feature

Heart of The Beast

Can Donald Byrd Make Art of True-Life Violence?

"...and lyrics by Tim Rice. Everyone will leave the theatre feeling vaguely superior, as well as a little voyeuristic...."

May 9, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Art Transplant

The Move Toward a Cultural Center in Downtown

"...area can serve as a cultural meeting ground, where theatre, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, in short, everything that stimulates..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Black and Tan Fantasy

Duke Ellington in the Classroom

"...Ray Charles gig and a stint at the Apollo Theatre). As a result, Banks says he never really got..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Feature

Black and Tan Fantasy

Duke Ellington in the Classroom

"...Ray Charles gig and a stint at the Apollo Theatre). As a result, Banks says he never really got..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Feature

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