The Ransom Center's "Vaudeville!"

This exhibition reveals how the history of that entertainment form is really the history of the U.S.

"...list was being woven into the centurylong story of vaudeville...."

June 8, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Vaudeville Vanya

Some of Austin's finest young actors have banded together as a creative family called St. Idiot Collective and are out to make solemn Anton Chekhov fun with 'Vaudeville Vanya'

"...off and have fun in the SIC inaugural production, Vaudeville Vanya...."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Borderline Vaudeville

Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler go off-off-off Broadway with Border Radio.

"...performances of a new musical, Border Radio: A Nuevo Vaudeville Documentary Performance, are all about. Thankfully, that's not the..."

May 10, 2002 Music Feature by Clay Smith

Tapestry Dance Company's April Fools

This remount of the tap troupe's valentine to vaudeville brought the old art form back with delights in abundance

"...last weekend, I don't so much care who killed vaudeville as who revived it...."

May 11, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

From Circus to Cocktails

Two nights, two very different shows from CircX and friends

"...be taking a more bohemian swing for Who Said Vaudeville was Dead?. Decisions, decisions …..."

July 9, 2011 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Quirk rock, turntable antics, local pop, and more to keep you busy

"...Quirk rockers Primus, riot grrrls FEA, and Kid Koala's vaudeville show help you get out of the house and..."

May 10, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Parental Guidance

The actors deserve credit for the professionalism they bring to this family comedy stinker.

"...her folks (Crystal and Midler), two raging hambones so vaudeville-ready we expect their necks to get cane-yanked out of..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2007

The boys are back with their hyper-filthy animation show.

"...festivals are a nifty, modernized take on the bawdy vaudeville shows of yore. You won't get that with YouTube,..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Producers

The film's wonderfully over-the-top performances often feel constrained by first-time film director Susan Stroman, whose inexperience behind the camera is all too apparent.

"...which is grounded in the traditions of burlesque and vaudeville, can be pretty damn hilarious at times, thanks in..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Songcatcher

"...a “golly-gee” sensibility and facial theatrics more befitting a vaudeville act. Janet McTeer plays Dr. Lily Penleric, a doctor..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation '98

"...to the Alamo Drafthouse. The new feel is more vaudeville than film fest, right down to the Viking-helmeted emcee..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Critical Care

"...sounds as though he were Mark Twain performing a vaudeville sketch (in an office in another wing of the..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Head Above Water

"...makes first-time director Wilson's film a nicely nervy horror show-cum-extended-vaudeville routine. Keitel plays George, a well-respected circuit court judge,..."

June 27, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Special Kaye

Vaudeville, Broadway, TV, film &ndash Kaye Ballard has done it all

"...it a career. Not Kaye Ballard. This veteran of vaudeville, Broadway, television, cabaret, and film is still at it,..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Vaudeville Vanya

St. Idiot Collective's 'Vaudeville Vanya' ambitiously seeks to explode a great old play with a great old medium, but it ends up a sheen of vaudeville brushed over a hellbent staging of Uncle Vanya

"...Vaudeville Vanya..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...way to new technologies. Thus came the death of vaudeville...."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Going Over the Top and Other Outrageous Behaviors: Being melodramatic – on purpose

Karen Hastings, a specialist in melodrama and vaudeville, is offering locals a master class in acting the old-fashioned way

"...Kan., Hastings specializes in old-style theatre like melodrama and vaudeville. She recently arrived in Round Rock to direct a..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

A Double Life

Splitting the difference between Peter Schickele and his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach

"...It was really sort of the last gasp of vaudeville. I saw that show twice, once in Washington, D.C.,..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Two Generations, One Art

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

"...and none of it was contemporary. It was old vaudeville bits, Punch and Judy, traditional German folk music. I..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Reading The Riot Act With Devon Parks

Arkansas filmmaker on the lessons of no-resource cinema

"...of murder, a disappearance, star-crossed lovers, revenge, and a vaudeville troupe from the East Coast whose performances stir up..."

Jan. 18, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Professors of Pleasure

Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.

"...Idiots as it was with the master entertainers of vaudeville and the circus. The skilled performers of old took..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

"...Toni Bravo, Gender Boxes addresses gender issues through a vaudeville-like experiment in entertainment. Set to songs by Nat King..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Arts Review

Wonka

Roald Dahl's candy king gets a flavorless and cloying origin story

"...a chocolate cartel led by Paterson Joseph’s Arthur Slugworth, vaudeville their way through the spunky “Sweet Tooth.” In the..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Theater Camp

"Let's put the show on in the barn" mockumentary

"...annoyed by the movie’s winks and nudges, visualizing a vaudeville hook to yank every showboating thespian offscreen...."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Review: Different Stages' The Tavern

Not to be melodramatic but, damn, Different Stage's revival is a satire worth sitting through

"...Different Stages, brilliantly satirizes the popular melodramas and melodramatic vaudeville blackout sketches of Cohan's era. Sure, these art forms..."

March 24, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

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

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

"...in unison. There was music, an emcee, a full-fledged vaudeville atmosphere, and shows would run for a full season...."

May 27, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Shimmy Around the Globe as the Jigglewatts Celebrate World Burlesque Day

Austin's sinsational artists join the international festivities

"...as the can-can, the old circus-style hoochie-coochie dances, and vaudeville routines, through to the mid-20th century golden era of..."

April 27, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

F.T.A

The suppressed anti-Vietnam war cabaret finally hits the spotlight

"...finally Japan. Agitprop theater in the guise of political vaudeville, the scrappy revue was comprised of satirical skits, protest..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bohemian Rhapsody

"...An effortless mix of prog, pop, cabaret, metal, jazz, vaudeville, opera, disco, and anything else they felt like, they..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Great Buster: A Celebration

Peter Bogdanovich sketches the outlines of the life of Buster Keaton

"...one long sentence, placing as much emphasis on his vaudeville childhood as his run as king of the silent..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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