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The 'streetcar effect' – offering Austinites far more than a free ride
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July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
A Desire Named 'Streetcar'
Civic coalition forms to add downtown trolleys to the
Capital Metro rail plan
"...to ask Cap Met to bring back a downtown streetcar system as part of that plan...."
July 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
"...Burt and others as gifts. Burt has denied any connection between his ownership of stock in the company and..."
April 13, 2007 News Feature
Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup
See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat
"...to see original material from Taxi Driver and A Streetcar Named Desire at the center's upcoming Stories to Tell..."
May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...for the more complex (and potentially controversial) Downtown Austin streetcar circulator proposal and subsequent financing plan, expected to be..."
Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature
Top 10 Onstage Works of Wonder in 2002
Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.
"...2. A Streetcar Named Desire (Austin Lyric Opera): A glimpse inside a..."
Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...destination of commuter rail, and the possibility of central-city streetcar lines – still await resolution and will likely be..."
Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Brass Ring Lessons
How TexARTS' first two go-rounds in staging classic musicals are helping to make its new Carousel ride a winner
"...Lesson 4: The Broadway connection is key...."
June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Seaholm: The railroad conundrum
Two pieces of long-neglected and barely salvageable railroad track along and on the Seaholm Power Plant site could hold the key to whether the city has a commuter rail system limited to North and Central Austin or one that spans the entire city.
"...under Congress Avenue. Capital Metro's solution is to offer streetcars that will run, with cars, in transit lanes between..."
Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...lost not only a great political voice, but a connection to a period of time when Texas seemed on..."
Sept. 22, 2006 Column
Delay of Game
Seaholm, Block 21 challenge the Downtown Domino theory
"...the junction of two commuter rail lines, a downtown streetcar system, a large chunk of Capital Metro's bus network,..."
April 8, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
The Moontower's Glow
Art Davis' new play The Moontower's Glow is a spiritual cousin to both The Rocky Horror Show and You Can't Take It With You, focusing on a houseful of eccentrics who have rejected the normalcy of society to live their dreams, no matter how ludicrous they may appear to the rest of the world.
"...part of Blanche Dubois in the new play A Streetcar Named Desire...."
Dec. 21, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Homecoming Queen
Many actors leave Austin seeking a career on the stage and are never heard from by the folks in their old hometown. But Austin native Starla Benford has come home as the star of a national tour. She talks about starting out at Harvard, making her mark as a professional, and nine months on the road with The Vagina Monologues.
"...turn as Blanche in the 1986 production of A Streetcar Named Desire at Capitol City Playhouse and the jazzy,..."
June 8, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Writing Rebel
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stewart Stern remembers writing Rebel Without a Cause:"I was caught up in the same kind of fervency and speed that the characters were."
"...wanted him to use in dramatizing the separation and connection between the principal characters in the opening scene. Completely..."
June 16, 2000 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus
Young Guns and Typewriters
"...Desire was a bold riff on Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. But even such forays into more mainstream..."
Sept. 18, 1998 Arts Feature
Plays in Our Stocking
A Few Dramas We Want St. Nick to Give Austin Theatre
"...artists (in this category, place also Three Sisters, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)...."
