David Sedaris and the Art of Ignoring
Austin-bound, the author adds a new descriptor: controversial.
"...David Sedaris is used to crowds. As a New Yorker,..."
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April 28, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker
Him Write Funny
"If somebody hates me," David Sedaris confesses in an interview with Sarah Hepola, "I just go to pieces. I mean, it doesn't really seem fair that I've made my career making fun of people, and if someone makes fun of me, I fall apart. But that's the way it is."
"...same way my mother wound up in North Carolina," David Sedaris writes in his new collection, Me Talk Pretty..."
June 16, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola
Why's Everybody Always Picking On Him?
David Sedaris on nitpicky fact-checkers and spiders' thighs
"...David Sedaris is sitting at a provisional desk in a..."
June 27, 2008 Books Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Everyone Gets Naked
David Sedaris Interviewed
"...reach for the book I've packed -- Naked by David Sedaris (Little, Brown & Co., $21.95 hard) -- and..."
June 20, 1997 Books Feature by Anne S. Lewis
New Elf in Town
Flaming Idiot Rob Williams trades his torches for the pointy little slippers of David Sedaris' department-store elf in 'The Santaland Diaries'
"...overnight. And while the curly-cap, slave-to-Santa bit was humiliating, David Sedaris was able to parlay it into a bitingly..."
Nov. 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
In Person
"He's so short," whispered the woman standing next to me, eyeing the much-celebrated humorist David Sedaris during last week's reading at BookPeople
"...began to rumble with voices. An hour before humorist David Sedaris was scheduled to arrive and a full two..."
June 25, 2004 Books Feature by Lauren Hilgers
Blank Generation
Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'
"...Its star, Amy Sedaris, is best known as the sister of essayist David..."
July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham
Strangers With Candy
The high school comedy of co-creators Dinello, Colbert, and Sedaris is completely over the top in its audacity and absurdity.
"...Directed by: Paul Dinello. Starring: Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert, Greg Hollimon, Dan Hedaya, Deborah..."
July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton
Book Reviews
Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts
"...Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris..."
June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola
The Santaland Diaries: Mean, Mean, Mean -- But in a Good Way
Ada Calhoun finds wicked delights in Zach's production of David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries.
"...David Sedaris won the withered black hearts of grinches the..."
Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun
Exhibitionism
"...And writer David Sedaris has seen all of it. He spent a..."
Dec. 11, 1998 Arts Review
What It Is to Be Human
Actor Martin Burke, now in the midst of his fifth sell-out run as David Sedaris' Little Elf in The Santaland Diaries, talks about that show's success and his career as an actor.
"...in every show, including the one he's currently performing, David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries. As he is in the..."
Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo
The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries, as staged by the Zachary Scott Theatre Center, lets you laugh at the ridiculousness of American Christmas customs and yet leaves you feeling a bit more merry
"...The Santaland Diaries is based on the writing of David Sedaris. Sedaris' humor is brutal in its hilarity. No..."
Dec. 8, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah
The Santaland Diaries
An infusion of Lee Eddy into 'The Santaland Diaries' makes Zach's holiday classic even more delightful
"...The Zachary Scott Theatre Center's version of David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries – which is to say,..."
Dec. 2, 2005 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Santaland Diaries
Making his debut in 'The Santaland Diaries,' Rob
Williams creates an elf who's not so naughty yet who
keeps the show nice
"...ago. So it was old news by the time David Sedaris got a job as an elf at Macy's..."
Dec. 10, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires
The Santaland Diaries
"...last practice that's the focus of The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris' career-making account of his time as a Macy's..."
Dec. 26, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah
Zach Theatre's The Santaland Diaries
A new creative team energizes a Zach Theatre holiday tradition
"...tradition seemed uncertain. Since 1998, this stage adaptation of David Sedaris' biting memoir of employment as a Macy's department..."
Dec. 21, 2018 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez
The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries, which recounts writer David Sedaris' experience as a Macy's elf, is funny, irreverent, and sneakily heartwarming, and with Martin Burke in the driver's seat as Krumpet the elf, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production is a nonstop, exhilarating ride.
"...of The Santaland Diaries is made up of writer David Sedaris' recounting of his real-life experience as a Macy's..."
Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner
Gay Place
The second annual Austin International Drag Fest returns this weekend
"...Paramount Theatre presents David Sedaris Writer extraordinaire David Sedaris is all up in..."
April 29, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff
Local Bestsellers
This week's list of bestsellers
is from BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar.
"...1. Naked by David Sedaris..."
Dec. 10, 1999 Books Column
Review: The Santaland Diaries
J. Robert Moore's take on Crumpet sends the Macy's elf to camp
"...theatre history must be Martin Burke as "Crumpet" in David Sedaris' one-man Christmas take-down, The Santaland Diaries, a holiday..."
Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Paul Beutel
Ghost Team
A group of losers stumble onto paranormal activity
"...Directed by: Oliver Irving. Starring: Jon Heder, David Krumholtz, Justin Long, Amy Sedaris, Melonie Diaz, Paul W...."
Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Culture Flash!
The Blanton unloads some prints, 'Keepin' It Weird' gets the eye from CBS, and Zach's Little Elf ain't so little anymore
"...The lead role in the theatre's now-annual staging of David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries was handled last year by..."
Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Growth Spurt
Nine Shows That Transported Me
"...Park Theatre and Jason Phelps' scarecrow caretaker. Spurred by David Hancock's spooky script and Vicky Boone's keen direction, Phelps..."
Jan. 8, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Local Bestsellers, 2001
"...5. Naked by David Sedaris..."
Jan. 4, 2002 Books Feature
Local Bestsellers
Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.
"...1. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris..."
July 13, 2001 Books Column
Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Top
"...a first-person tradition advanced recently by the likes of David Sedaris, Joe Queenan, and P.J. O'Rourke. The premise that..."
June 16, 2000 Books Review by Stuart Wade
Positively Operatic
The Year in Austin Culture
"...10. David Sedaris (Paramount Theatre) At this appearance by comic writer..."
Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola
Arts: Summer Snapshot
Theatre, dance, comedy, and lit events on the horizon
"...David Sedaris At BookPeople. June 13...."
May 19, 2017 Arts Feature
Tough Crowd
The setup: 21 depressives, neurotics, and social misfits walk into a book. Meet comedy's all-stars.
"...so consistent – Bob Odenkirk, Marshall Brickman, Mitch Hurwitz, David Sedaris – that I couldn't help but be awed..."
July 3, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
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