Articulations

RAT Droppings

"...Well, the RATs are gone from our fair city, but like all..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Raving About Theatre

A Swarm of Wily, Unruly Theatre Types Meet in the Heat

"...Try raving RATs...."

Aug. 9, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rats Saving a Sinking Ship

America's Alternative Theatres Unite

"...theatres, geographically and economically isolated from one another, struggle separately when they could be struggling together - not in..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Arts Feature

Working Vacations

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...company member Sarah Richardson says, "One of the great frustrations about producing new work in Austin is the limited..."

July 9, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Strands on the Web

"...debut in 1988. Katherine Catmull has set up a separate page for every show, each with a photo from..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Column

Scavenging for Home

The NATObombing of Belgrade provoked playwright Lisa D'Amour to examine the intention behind her art and reasons for being an artist.

"...the previous fall, studying with Dah Teatar, the powerhouse collaborative theatre company that wowed audiences in Austin during the..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Lisa D'Amour

Perfect Expression

Erik Ehn on Making Big, Cheap Theatre With Frontera

"...Be careful what you ask for. At last year's RAT Conference in Seattle, where artists from independent theatres throughout..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Bottom's Dream: chokecherry

"...came into contact with Austin theatre at the original RAT Conference in Iowa City in December 1994. This was..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Theatre Town Meeting

"...Would you like to have a bunch of RATs invade Austin this August? That's RATs as in Regional..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001

"...producing plays, The Public Domain is going to cease operations." He offered no formal explanation, instead he used the..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The L.A. Way

"...Gossett met Chronicle Arts editor Robert Faires at the RAT conference (a national theatre alliance) several years back, he..."

July 28, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Out of the Boomers' Shadow

David Bucci, Playwright for Today's Young Theatre Haters

"...they say in the Salvage Vanguard Theater manifesto, "a collaboration between all artistic disciplines in a theatrical context." More..."

July 19, 1996 Arts Feature

Second Big SXSW Music List

Nile Rodgers, Modern English, Cool Kids, and 204 more added

"...Increasingly integrated music, film, and technology conference now just 115 days..."

Nov. 15, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW 2019 Reveals Initial Artist List

Amanda Palmer, Oh Sees, Laura Jane Grace, Swervedriver and 236 more

"...The South by Southwest Music conference, five months ahead of its March 11 kickoff, announced..."

Oct. 17, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music List No. 9

Spoon, Atmosphere, Charles Bradley, and 243 more added

"...With their music conference drawing near, now only 19 days away, South By..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Adds to 2018 Music Lineup

Andrew W.K., Tank & the Bangas, and 164 more

"...a second wave of showcasing music acts for the conference’s 2018 iteration, including rock & roll life coach Andrew..."

Nov. 7, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW List No. 7

Music fest drafts Dion, Børns, Sun Kil Moon, Faust and 143 more

"...and first wave German krautrockers Faust, brings the Music conference total to 1,559 – about three-quarters of its full..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Works Theater Community

Austin theatre groups band together and land $90,000 to support making new work

"...theatre city, one in which exceptional new work is generated and supported, just received a big boost – a..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Don Howell: In Memoriam

"...the forefront of the national alternative-theatre movement called the RAT Conference, a move that had a profound effect on..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lasting Commitments

The 2008 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...Laugh Riots stand-up competition, and more. Coyle has befriended generations of stand-ups in Austin, and through her efforts, the..."

May 23, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Long Incubation of the Incubus

Playwright David Hancock and director Vicky Boone reveal how they developed the play The Incubus Archives over six years, through 11 sometimes radically different versions.

"...clear, and dramaturgically sound as the author and his collaborators can make it...."

Oct. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

New York Stories

"...of more theatre types heading that way for another RAT Conference later on......"

May 9, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Theatre Refuses to Fade in 1995 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

The past 12 months saw some of Austin's

"...with colleagues from around the country in the second RAT conference, further solidifying Austin's presence on the national theatre..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

A Certain Ringing in the Ears

Rat Bastard's noise caravan rolls into town

"...night for what seems like forever, Frank Falestra, aka Rat Bastard, would gather his group the Laundry Room Squelchers..."

April 4, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...and his pain was intense, Burson says. She was frustrated and scared. In addition to Mike's mysterious and unceasing..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Chapter 1: Before the Beginning

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

"...in several things, among them moving forward by communistic/ democratic consensus, and that he was always right...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Public Enemies

Michael Mann's film is a human-scale biopic of the gangster folk hero John Dillinger.

"...to outsized, heavily lacquered characters: the demon barber, the pirate swish, that sad-eyed topiary stylist. Sure, Depp knows how..."

July 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Reefer Madness

Big time drug policy pusher swoops in on Austin

"...Madras told a smattering of people at a press conference at Austin's Phoenix House rehab center last month...."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Column by Jordan Smith

Inside Agitator

Fulani Follower Stokes Fires of Resentment and Reform

"...she felt more than betrayed -- she smelled a rat. To express her disapproval -- and to publicly humiliate..."

Dec. 12, 1997 News Feature by Audrey Duff

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If you have time for..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

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