New Russian Drama Festival

Austin gets another taste of contemporary Russian drama, and so does actor Joey Hood

"...actually a selling point for the 2013 New Russian Drama Festival, taking place Feb. 7-10, at Salvage Vanguard Theater...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sundance Original 'Rectify' Premieres Tonight

New series tackles crime and punishment in the South

"...convicts after they're returned to society? Rectify, a new original series from the Sundance Channel does just that...."

April 22, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Small-Town Drama, Small-Town Hospitality

Austin director Tyler Russell gets help picking some Texas Cotton

"...the same name, a gnarly, sly, and humorous crime drama about real estate, crops, and political corruption in the..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Round Rock ISD Drama Nears Climax

TEA superintendent investigation results to be revealed this week

"...The affair itself is documented extensively in the woman's original petition for a restraining order, filed in July 2021;..."

Feb. 11, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Faster Than Sound: The Drama Behind the Cactus Cafe Negotiations

Accusations of unprofessional behavior and an HR complaint leave the historic venue in limbo

"...Drama kicked off the day before, when longtime Cactus Manager..."

July 16, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Texas-Set Drama Bull Gets in the Chute With Black Rodeo Riders

Austin-based director Annie Silverstein premieres her SXSW selected feature

"...seconds – while she was shooting her new Texas-set drama, Bull. "I had this moment where I went, 'Wow,..."

April 17, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

No Strangers to Drama

Austin couple rescues Vernon Plaza Theatre

"...show 3-D movies, fell into disrepair and neglect. "The original framework was still there, and the previous owner had..."

June 15, 2007 Screens Feature by Rick Klaw

Troubles in the Blood: The Irish Roots of Vampire Drama Sunrise

Director Andrew Baird on its immortal and universal themes

"...there) that first introduced Baird to the project. The original script was set, suitably enough, in scriptwriter Ronan Blaney’s..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wen Ren’s End-of-the-World Drama Last Sunrise Found Its Spark in China

Light in the dark

"...Ren originally wrote the script in English, to be shot in..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tying the Knot: A Drama

Yes, the merger of Austin's Paramount Theatre and State Theater Company is a business affair, but since theatres traffic in stories, human dramas that talk to us about life, this historic event deserves to be looked at as a story, the story of a wedding between two neighbors.

"...us, feed our souls. Besides, theatres traffic in stories, dramas with characters and conflict and emotion and suspense that..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Turkey Day Drama, a Red Hot Patriot, and Scares for the Season in Our Recommended Events

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the weekend!

"...you prefer your exploration of trauma woven through with original prose and poetry? No problem – that’s included. You..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Drama & Tonic

Why Austin theatres are adding mixed drinks to the mix, offstage and on

"...toward this for several years, steadily upgrading what was originally a bare-bones lobby area into a cozy venue for..."

July 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Judas Project

"...of a story with nary a trace of the original drama and emotion. Not unless you count the heavy-handed..."

March 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When You Finish Saving the World

Underwhelming adaptation of Jesse Eisenberg's neurotic audio drama

"...work here is writer/director Jesse Eisenberg's own award-winning Audible Original drama of the same name, a three-hander featuring a..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Theatre Synesthesia's The Brutes

Casey Wimpee’s original drama is about a Civil War-era family, but it’s deeply relevant to our own fractured time

"...Wimpee's script is an original one for sure. From beginning to end, The Brutes..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Gale Theatre Company's Salomé

This original drama reworks the familiar tale to give us a new perspective on the Judean princess

"...first see the Judean princess in Gale Theatre Company's original version of her biblical tale, she's sitting bolt upright,..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...in her theatre's status as an incubator of new drama. Since its debut in 1994, the Planet has been..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Fireworks

Teen anime adds parallel timelines to a Romeo and Juliet plot.

"...is an unlikely adaptation of Shunji Iwai’s 1993 TV drama Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rattling Our Stage

A Survey of Austin's Rebel Theatre Scene

"...Jason Neulander Experimental drama. Now, there's a term to conjure dread in the..."

April 10, 1998 Arts Feature

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Your friendly neighborhood web-head goes beyond Peter Parker

"...pulled the trigger and killed off Peter Parker, the original Spider-Man. His successor was no nerdy white orphan from..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2018 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Top honors go to Drowsy Chaperone and Fixing Troilus

"...In all the drama of Election Day, some of the drama of the..."

Nov. 7, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...be the second generation of the X-Men after the original teen lineup either graduated from the Xavier school or..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

The paternity mystery is solved, but the ABBA hits keep coming

"...the tide, I was no great fan of the original stage musical, which was constructed around the beloved song..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Black Nativity

Kasi Lemmons’ adaptation of this Langston Hughes work is a muddled church-time reverie.

"...Grinch, for starters. In Black Nativity, the musical film drama loosely based on Langston Hughes’ 1961 off-Broadway play, the..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Snitch Cartel

This Colombian film is based on the true story of Andrés López, a drug trafficker who later worked with the DEA.

"...last year’s foreign-language Oscar race, is a fast-paced action drama that’s based on an autobiographical book by Andrés López..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Oranges

The great ensemble cast is the highlight of this movie about a 50-year-old man who falls in love with his best friend's daughter, who is half his age.

"...movies that falls into that fissure between comedy and drama but succeeds at neither, specializing instead in satire that’s..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

"...is one of the Hollywood pioneers and an American original who, for numerous reasons, has never received his just..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

"...Gong Li, Ray Lui and Charles Heung. Ouch. The original God of Gamblers, with Chow Yun-Fat, was an ingenious..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Edward II

"...has taken all the latent homosexual subtext in Marlowe's original and brought it front and center -- and then..."

May 1, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Laal Singh Chaddha

Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original

"...Advait Chandan (Secret Superstar) and adapted from Eric Roth’s original screenplay by Atul Kulkarni. Hindi film superstar Aamir Khan..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

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