Call to Color: Cult of Color

The ballet based on Trenton Doyle Hancock's art may be problematic thematically, but it's still an enthralling experience

"...a lot of talk. In a recent interview, former Arthouse adjunct curator Regine Basha said that "one of Austin's..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Donna Huanca: Secret Museum of Mankind

The artist's self-proclaimed graveyard of old art doesn't make for a tight show, but it's an ambitious one

"...Even before Lizzie Wetzel's performance, a smoke machine, incense, and drumbeats made the opening..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

After a Fashion

This week, your Style Avatar sounds a bit like Homer in the Flaming Moe episode of The Simpson's: Mow, Mow, Mow, mow, mow

"...MOW LIKE IT I usually manage to give hairdresser, artist, writer, and astrologer Deborah Carter of Pink Hair Salon..."

May 11, 2007 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Radical Inclusion: A Morality Tale

Halfway through the 365 days of 365 Days/365 Plays, Suzan-Lori Parks' dramatic project has everyone making theatre and in new ways

"...the schedule of area productions, but literally anybody can participate...."

April 27, 2007 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

When There's Motion, but No Pictures

Guest Artistic Director Ed Halter adjusts Cinematexas' experimental aim

"...with such noted venues as the Museum of Modern Art, Eyebeam, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From 1995..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Culture Flash!

A national economist discusses the role of the arts in regional vitality, the LBJ celebrates the NEA at 40, Miami City Ballet cancels a show, and the Blanton Museum delays its grand opening

"...University of Minnesota economist Ann Markusen speak on The Artistic Dividend: How the Arts Contribute to Regional Development. This..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires

2004 ACL Fest Guide

Everything you need to know

"...much a rite of Austin as its venerable spring counterpart, South by Southwest. And why shouldn't it? Low ticket..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature

Arts Bullets

Two Austin arts groups go to D.C. for an international arts festival, and another is headed to New York for one

"...Austin makes itself known at the 2004 International VSA arts Festival in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 11. That's..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature

Sisters Under the Scrim

Six of the finest theatrical artists in Austin discuss their work behind the curtain designing lighting schemes, mixing sound, and creating and constructing sets and costumes and how their careers have been affected by the fact that they're women.

"...bill). These women are some of the finest theatrical artists in Austin, shaping audiences' emotional responses to performance events..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

Dream of a New Circus

In the two decades it has taken for Cirque du Soleil to reach Austin for the first time, this Montreal-based troupe has not only reinvented circus as performance art but grown into one of the most unexpected and unlikely of entertainment empires.

"...It started on a street corner in Quebec and now it..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Feature by Michael Point

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...that will arrest the action of his lungs and heart. It's an unlikely setting for an opera, even one..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Putting It Together

The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music

"...lurks beneath the surface of this incredibly well-listened, well-traveled artist whose record collection numbers in the thousands and who..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Waves Coming to Shore

No artist in the last 50 years has combined dance, theatre, music, scenery, and costume into epic spectacles like Pina Bausch, and as this German visionary returns to Austin Dawn Davis explores her work and her impact on the city's Johnson / Long Dance Company.

"...into the underworld, at every portal another mantle of artifice fell away. Many artists believed that only by paring..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Dawn Davis

Dancing About Architecture

All Things Must Pass

"...can't hang your whole year on one week." The partners also say that they consider the Lounge to have..."

March 26, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Further Reflections

"...take advantage of this gorgeously filmed setting to craft performances that are subtly interwoven and distinct. Now, as any..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

The South Bank

"...north, it means you're moving toward the city's performing arts treasure trove -- some two dozen spaces of all..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Record Reviews

"...The Nashville artist known as Hayseed distills the music of his Kentucky..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

They Blowed Up Real Good!

"...there, and let him run a music club for art's sake, focusing on traditional music like hard-core blues, conjunto,..."

March 28, 1997 Music Column

Exhibitionism

"...reminded me with delight what acting brings to the performance of a song. They were three of our theatre..."

March 14, 1997 Arts Review

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus

The legendary composer delivers his final performance in a stirring concert documentary

"...– Sakamoto himself. You also won’t hear from the artist, who communicates solely through his music. You won’t even..."

March 29, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan's roaring, terrifying, and carnal tale of the father of the atom bomb

"...Rami Malek, Macon Blair, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Conti, Josh Hartnett, Dylan Arnold, David Dastmalchian, Benny Safdie, James Urbaniak and..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Gets Back Together for the Texas Burlesque Festival

The kitties of Austin's legendary burlesque troupe still have claws

"...at the memory. It was 2001, and the first-ever performance of Kitty Kitty Bang Bang, the legendary Austin burlesque..."

May 27, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Souvenir Part II

Second part of Joanna Hogg's chronicle of loss

"...For anyone who watched Joanna Hogg's heartbreaking 2019 semiautobiography, The Souvenir, the opening sequences of The..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

Forget the details, relish the intimacy of this music documentary

"...fluff. It’s packed with the usual music documentary live performances, writing sessions, and valuable personal moments, but it’s the..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

OUTsider Fest Review: Our Future Ends?

Lemurs, dancers, and the question: Are queer spaces going extinct?

"...been thrown into the deep end of a postmodern art pool...."

Feb. 21, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

Hereditary

Toni Collette's burning inferno of a performance illuminates this extraordinary horror

"...It starts like a domestic drama: Annie (Collette) is a successful..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jennifer Sherburn's 11:11

This project of 11 different dance programs in 11 months goes through one stage after another

"...need a definition of space in which to frame performance as an event distinct from the rest of human..."

May 5, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Steve Parker's Song for Bat / Man

For this year's Fusebox, composer Steve Parker flies a batty Austin concert with live echolocation

"...interactive concert that's set to premiere as a final part of this year's Fusebox Festival...."

April 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...and one of the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman's great performances – as well as taking part in a conversation..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Talking Trash

Trash Dance streams here for the next two weeks – for free

"...PBS channels (not Austin's KLRU, according to listings) as part of the third season of America Reframed, which is..."

Jan. 13, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

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