Among Us

The gypsy feet of playwright Ruth Margraff keep wandering back to Austin, and we're fortunate that they do

"...To look at Ruth Margraff, you might not suspect that she is a..."

May 7, 2004 Arts Feature by Cyndi Williams

Looking for a Fight

Ruth Margraff Recasts Texas History as Barroom Brawl

"...Or is it? New York playwright Ruth Margraff has been researching Texas history for her new..."

March 14, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Wandering Preachers, Holy Fools

What best describes the modern playwright? Itinerant preacher? Holy fool? Several artists with an intimate knowledge of the playwriting life offer their views in this roundtable discussion.

"...rises up. Erik Ehn, Daniel Alexander Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Ruth Margraff -- these are not the monumental playwrights of..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Drive, He Said

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

"...they staged the first local production of work by Ruth Margraff: Wallpaper Psalm. They premiered Obie-winner David Hancock's The..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Live Feed

Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart

"...emerge at the time: Lynn, Lisa D'Amour, Erik Ehn, Ruth Margraff, Dan Dietz, Zell Miller III, C. Denby Swanson...."

Dec. 12, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Henson supports The Jungle, Margraff's back, and coming soon to a cinema near you: The Intergalactic Nemesis

"...this weekend sees the company welcoming back to town Ruth Margraff, a playwright we've seen far too little of..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Speaking in Tongues

When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.

"...theatrical project in Austin, The Battle of San Jacinto, Ruth Margraff's 1997 "barroom brawl" of a drama based on..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dispatches From the Edge

Rounding Up the 2001 FronteraFest Long Fringe

"...Ruth Margraff's album-length play, or proletariat operetta, uses song to..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Feast of My Heart

Jason Phelps' show of solo performances about compassion are proof that one person can make a difference

"...seen enough on our stages (Lisa D'Amour, Erik Ehn, Ruth Margraff); texts by past and present hometown heroes whose..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

To Infinity and Beyond!

The year 2001 saw a host of local cultural types taking journeys beyond their homes, traveling to other communities to share their art and finding new venues locally in which to produce their work and expand their creative sensibilities.

"...Broadway a second time with What Goes Up. Playwright/performer Ruth Margraff and choreographer/dancer Deborah Hay both played the Brooklyn..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playwright as Architect

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

"...Anna in the 1997 Salvage Vanguard Theater production of Ruth Margraff's Centaur Battle of San Jacinto, and my wife..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Articulations

An invitation to the city's loosest arts awards ceremony from the Austin Critics Table, a happy birthday to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, and playwright Ruth Margraff is a hit in Big D.

"...Playwright Ruth Margraff is enjoying success with her latest piece, JUDGES..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Real drama bled into the staged kind when actress Latifah Taormina cut herself during a performance of Adam Sobsey's Hang Town Fry, and Salvage Vanguard releases The Cry Pitch Carrolls on CD.

"...Salvage Vanguard Theater winds down its new production of Ruth Margraff's "electric operetta" Wallpaper Psalm, it's offering a way..."

April 13, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Wallpaper Psalm

In Wallpaper Psalm, a strange operetta about an elderly lady in an old apartment building who appears to go crazy, writer Ruth Margraff and director Jason Neulander produce a psalm, a hymn sung in challenging style.

"...Between them, writer Ruth Margraff and director Jason Neulander produce a psalm, a..."

March 30, 2001 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Bottom's Dream: chokecherry

"...just portrayed Clytemnestra in the Bottom's Dream production of Ruth Margraff's The Elektra Fugues last spring; Friedericy played Dot..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

The Cry Pitch Carrolls: Winter Wonderland

RobertFaires examines Salvage Vanguard Theater's production of The Cry Pitch Carrolls

"...happens to these women is at the heart of Ruth Margraff's alternative opera, The Cry Pitch Carrolls, a work..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...The Ravaging (Julia Edwards), The Battle of San Jacinto (Ruth Margraff). In the wings: Junior Blues (Rob Nash)...."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Stadium Devildare

The Rude Mechanicals' Stadium Devildare, from a script by Ruth Margraff, offers a muscle-bound riff on reality game shows and superpatriotism, but its torrents of text eventually leave the brain numb

"...Austin's Rude Mechanicals from a script by sometime local Ruth Margraff. Inside the Off Center, almost everywhere you look,..."

May 7, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Articulations

Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001

"...Playwright Ruth Margraff goes bi-coastal this weekend. In Los Angeles, the..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

The Cry Pitch Carrolls

The Cry Pitch Carrolls uses three crotchety old widows, a homeless mother and child, and a poodle to address the darker shadows of religion and memory, and Salvage Vanguard Theater's revival of Ruth Margraff's opera is a plush, cloudlike dream.

"...Ruth Margraff's opera The Cry Pitch Carrolls is rich and..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Only the Fourth Wall Is Forever

After 10 years, Salvage Vanguard Theater is moving on

"...in a chair with Dan Dietz's Santa Anna for Ruth Margraff's Centaur Battle of San Jacinto...."

June 24, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Arts Bullets

Bring cans of food to the ballet for a prize in return, holdovers for 'Stadium Devildare' and 'Noises Off,' and it's time for the O. Henry Pun-Off and the Capital City Men's Chorus midnight cabaret

"...to see Stadium Devildare, their fuel-injected collaboration with playwright Ruth Margraff and final show of their season. Originally slated..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature

Articulations

Leading off the new year with good news: an arts success story from the Paradox Players and grants for Austin artists from the NEA.

"...work about Evel Knievel created in collaboration with playwright Ruth Margraff; and..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Young Guns and Typewriters

"...will produce a play like [Thalia Field's] Hey-Stop-That or [Ruth Margraff's] Battle of San Jacinto and I'll have inside..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Arts Feature

In Memoriam: Phyllis Slattery

Remembering the longtime director of Dance Umbrella

"...their start in Austin – Margery Segal, Andrea Ariel, Ruth Margraff, to name a few – and all the..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...Dietz galvanized audiences for the Salvage Vanguard production of Ruth Margraff's Centaur Battle of San Jacinto with his magnetic..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

Articulations

A meeting on the Long Center; a profitable gala for Austin Musical Theatre; a new season for Salvage Vanguard Theater.

"...an 11th-hour replacement for the previously announced revival of Ruth Margraff's opera Wallpaper Psalm. New co-artistic director Dan Dietz..."

March 3, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Theatre Critics' Table 1999-2000 Nominations

"...The Cry Pitch Carrolls, Ruth Margraff..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: Glory Days

When is gazing back at the past looking in the wrong direction?

"...nostalgia spiral." "What a centrifugal orbit that was," wrote Ruth Margraff of that late Nineties era. "Something in the..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Salvage Vanguard Theater: Neulander ends his run

After 13 years of running Salvage Vanguard Theater, Artistic Director Jason Neulander is moving on

"...Dan Dietz, Suzan-Lori Parks, Mac Wellman, C. Denby Swanson, Ruth Margraff, Svich, Graham Reynolds, Abi Basch, and more. And..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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