UT Department of Theatre & Dance: Gotta sing! Gotta dance!

The new Musical Theatre Pilot Project aims to prepare UT undergrads for belting for Broadway

"...If you seek entertainment of the musical theatre variety in the Austin area, you..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

UT-Austin Faculty Say They’ve Lost Confidence in University President After Protest Arrests

Faculty, staff, and elected officials decry DPS deployment

"...were arrested Wednesday at a peaceful pro-Palestine protest at UT-Austin – most of whom were subsequently released with charges..."

April 26, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

A Guide to Austin's Musical Theatre Scene

"...Braun ig and shiny and fun. Want the essence of stage musicals? That's it. Just ask a kid. When..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Hires Playwrights Annie Baker and Branden Jacob-Jenkins

MacArthur Fellows will teach in theatre department, Michener Center

"...Aspiring playwrights are about to have two new reasons to want to come..."

Jan. 30, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dance Repertory Theatre's 2019 Fall for Dance

In works ranging from tender to tense, the student dancers in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance embodied the spirit of "I can do anything"

"...The line was sung as a dozen women, all of them students in the University of Texas Department of..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Inaugural Austin Theatre Critics Awards Drop 2024-2025 Nominees

Delicious drama of awards anticipation

"...Time to believe in miracles. Behold, the resurrection of the erstwhile Austin Critics Table, slightly revamped into a..."

May 21, 2025 Arts Post by Cat McCarrey

UT's Cohen New Works Festival Brings Experimentation to the Stage

Campus hosts a weeklong celebration of working outside comfort zones

"...on April 15, over 30 original student creations will debut in spaces across the University of Texas campus. Encouraged..."

April 12, 2019 Arts Post by Alyssa Hiarker

Austin Critics Table Awards 2013

Arts writers raise their glasses to outstanding art in list of nominees

"...creative projects recognized in the nominations for the 2013 Austin Critics Table Awards. Earlier this month, a batch of..."

May 24, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

Giving a lot of sweet bouquets (and taking their sweet time doing it)

"...you get older seemed in full force as the Austin Critics Table marked its 20th year of presenting annual..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The Austin Critics Table has named the fifth group of individuals to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...The Austin Critics Table has named the fifth group of individuals..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top of the Line

The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 19th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year's most exceptional..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Wonderful Things About Austin Theatre in 2008 (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Avimaan Syam recalls 2008, in the theatre

"...1) Ophelia (Tutto Theatre Company) Full of magic moments and dramatic direction,..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Avimaan Syam

Vincent Mantsoe and Dance Theatre X

Defining African-derived contemporary dance with professor Charles O. Anderson

"...pioneers like Mary Wigman and Martha Graham appropriated bits of indigenous movement and rhythm from Africa, Asia, and North..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Miller in Austin

"...Dream: Arthur Miller's Theater," drawn from the center's archives of Miller's papers from 1935 to 1953. The exhibition runs..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Arts Feature

Update: Fate of UT's Fine Arts Library

Provost OKs recommendations to preserve, upgrade fifth floor

"...For months, the fate of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas..."

April 11, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critics Table Awards Announced

The Critics Table's picture-perfect year

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of..."

May 13, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Robert Faires’ Top 10 Treasures in Theatre of 2018

It was a year in which theatre making the political personal left the deepest impressions

"...Cullum marked her company's 30th anniversary with a celebration of everything Vortexian – its space, its artistic family, its..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires’ Top 10 Dance and Classical Joys of 2018

In this year’s dance and classical offerings, extraordinary depictions of loss and suffering continue to haunt

"...1) "FOUR MORTAL MEN" (Ballet Austin) Stephen Mills' elegy for dancers he knew in Eighties..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2011

Remembering a theatrical year with superheroes, The Tempest, and a mash-up of the two

"...1) 'BLACK WATCH' (Texas Performing Arts) The National Theatre of Scotland used every weapon in theatre's arsenal –..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Church of the Passionate Cat'

Underbelly Theatre takes you down some delightfully mean streets in its immersive noir adventure

"...In March of 2013, a room that I was sitting in suddenly..."

May 9, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

It's the Sound of 50 G's, Baby

UT grad Nora Boxer wins the prestigious Keane Prize for her short story, 'It's the song of the nomads, baby; or, Pioneer.'

"...The University of Texas announced today the winner of the Keene Prize,..."

May 5, 2010 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

School of Dance

Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin' new choreographic point of view

"...as they paced and pivoted, evoking the human machine of mass transit in Ellen Bartel's MFA thesis dance, "Watch..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Austin Playhouse’s The Immigrant

The company delivers a powerful and timely account of foreigners making a new home in the U.S.

"..."You picked a great night to come," box office attendant Leigh Fisher mentioned as I arrived at Austin..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Top 10 (plus one) Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2007

'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires recalls 2007, in the theatre

"...1) Present Laughter (Zachary Scott Theatre Center) "I've been to a marvelous party," sang Noël..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

As Theatre for Children Matures

In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too

"...Jennings hasn't been a child for many, many years, but he has devoted his life to the child in..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...Planet Theatre: Tomorrowland..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...Time flies when you're recognizing excellence. One minute, you and a half-dozen arts writers are handing out..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...For the 16th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics have joined to recognize the year's..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Changes at UT’s Fine Arts Library Cause a Rift in the College of Fine Arts

Showdown on the fifth floor

"...A tale of two floors: On one, rows and rows of books..."

March 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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