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Can I get a suggestion for an Austin festival in which troupes from across the country gather to create instant comedy?
"...character sketch, maybe a scene, maybe an entire comic musical...."
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Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Search Through the Skies
The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.
"...with toolshed instrumentation and sound-effects commentary irreverently punctuating every musical phrase. It's goofy and fun and produced to a..."
April 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Superstar Search
Three decades after its debut, Jesus Christ Superstar may not seem a radical piece of musical theatre, but Austin Musical Theatre's new production just may return the rock opera to its revolutionary roots.
"...Musical theatre isn't exactly renowned for theological discourse. Once you..."
Nov. 26, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Barbie
The doll that changed the world faces the world she changed in this fizzy meta-comedy
"...Barbie, the movie – an exhilarating, generous, deeply handmade comedy about a mass-market product – revels in these extremes...."
July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie insists on ruining our fond memories of Snatch
"...Smoking Barrels; Snatch) gangsters up again in this crime comedy where the underworld is a literal one of subterranean..."
Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life Revealed at Austin Film Festival
Kasi Lemmons' Harriet Tubman biopic also joins lineup
"...including a trip behind the scenes of everyone's favorite musical meta-sitcom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Oh My God I Think It’s..."
Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Aladdin
Another needless Disney remake buoyed on nostalgia and a handful of charming performances
"...an environment that undermines the songs on every level. Musical numbers in cinema have always been a form of..."
May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Pitch Perfect 3
Third time really isn't the charm for the Bellas
"...The third (and final?) installment in the a ca-comedy Pitch Perfect series requires the Bellas to get the..."
Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White
Five Things to Do in Austin This Weekend
Oh, wait, is this a new list of entertainment options?
"...1) SOMETHING ROTTEN! Now here’s a modern musical comedy that sends up … the origins of modern..."
June 2, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Florence Foster Jenkins
Meryl Streep plays the doyenne called “the worst singer in the world”
"...finally opens her mouth to caterwaul in this sentimental comedy about American socialite and amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins..."
Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Top Comics Announced for Moontower 4
Patton Oswalt, Ron White, Tim Minchin join the party in 2015
"...and laugh lovers of all ages, meet your Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival headliners for 2015...."
Jan. 20, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Venus in Fur
The play’s the thing in Roman Polanski's erotic screen version of the Tony Award-winner.
"...The play’s the thing in the erotic comedy/drama Venus in Fur, which entirely takes place during an..."
Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Movie Studios Play Santa With Three Christmas Day Openings
New reviews of 'Django Unchained,' 'Les Mis,' and 'Parental Guidance'
"...writes Chronicle reviewer Leah Churner in her intro to comedy Parental Guidance, one of three new films ready to..."
Dec. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
TV Eye
The CW and Fox announce their fall programming
"...to watch. Another Disney alum, Ashley Tisdale (High School Musical), co-stars as a captain of the Hellcats, described as..."
June 4, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Me and Orson Welles
Richard Linklater has crafted a joyful period charmer about that moment before a boy becomes a man and another man becomes a mythological figure.
"...gummy opening introduces the “me” in this boy-meets-boy period comedy: He is Richard Samuels (Efron), a dreamy-eyed Jersey high..."
Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Starter for 10
This British coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy is fairly predictable, although the charming actors manage to keep the story’s characters just this side of stereotype and mediocrity.
"...University becomes the stuff of coming-of-age drama and romantic comedy. For the most part, it’s all fairly predictable material,..."
Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Bride & Prejudice
This Jane Austen adaptation takes the Bollywood out of India and leaves us something too familiar.
"...combines the "gotta dance!" earnestness of the classic MGM musical with the big, brash, loopy, colorful vibe of a..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Independent
"...the story of his 63 murders as a Broadway-style musical.) Will our heroes -- who also include Perlich as..."
Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Star Maps
"...balances its heavy drama with a strong dose of comedy and magical happenings. It's a precarious and potentially disastrous..."
Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Star Maps Hustle
Interview With Filmmaker Miguel Arteta
"...Figueroa). Against this sordid backstory, Arteta weaves elements of comedy alongside fantastical, dreamlike moments in a purely Latino fashion,..."
Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Miracle
"...Pilkington. After his big-time, American-made film (the painfully unfunny comedy We're No Angels) went bust, director Jordan returned to..."
Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Angry Birds Movie 2
The birds are back, with an added subversive twist
"...pirate, with its mixture of silliness and surrealism, kid-friendly comedy and complicated feelings, set the groundwork for a swathe..."
Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Wrong Cops
French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.
"...Holmes) particular fetishistic fever dream. Eric Wareheim of the comedy team Tim and Eric is Officer de Luca, a..."
Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Taking cues from Ray and Walk the Line, this comedy biopic spans 70 years in the life of its hero, the fictional music legend Dewey Cox.
"...10 times over. And throughout this absurdist spin on musical biopics, the good news is that sometimes they’re right...."
Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton
Shortbus
John Cameron Mitchell's sophomore film effort asserts – with great gusto and even a brass band – our universal right to sexual happiness.
"...– and though this sophomore effort is likewise partially musical, likewise partially animated, and likewise all kinds of queer,..."
Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Mrs. Henderson Presents
This staid British music-hall drama seems calculated to earn Judi Dench lots of award notices. Mission accomplished.
"...or quaintly entertaining about these displays, even though the musical stage numbers do have a bit of bounce. We..."
Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Girls Will Be Girls
Valley of the Dolls meets Female Trouble in this all-male semimusical romp.
"...Mathews, Hamilton von Watts and Dana Gould. This all-male, semimusical romp invites no end of comparisons. It’s Pink Flamingos..."
Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Serendipity
"...veers from the woefully underrated Jerry Lewis/Oliver Platt black comedy Funny Bones to the just-plain-woeful Town and Country, does..."
Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Nunsense: Amusing Grace
The State Theater Company's production of Nunsense
is long on laughs if short on story, according to
Chronicle writer Skipper Chong Warson.
"...Dan Goggin's musical comedy Nunsense is nothing if not popular. First performed..."
July 21, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson
The Rage: Carrie Two
"...body dump of cheap shocks, even worse dialogue, and musical cues so bizarrely out of place that they seem..."
