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The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

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After four centuries of being berated, belittled, betrayed, bullied, battered, and butchered by the men in Shakespeare's plays, the women have had enough. They're ready to speak out, to give Will a piece of their minds. And in playwright Susan Kelso's Roses and Thistles, they do just that.

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

Lady sings the blues

The Paggi House opened in 1980, and immediately became known as one of Austin's most beautiful and best dining establishments. Twenty years later, the restaurant is still one of Austin's finest.

Volente debates incorporation as a means of escaping Austin's extraterritorial jurisdiction, and its development rules.

Chronicle critic Ada Calhoun finds The Off Center's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead gasping for air..

A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.

Soft-spoken and self-effacing choreographer Stephen Mills seems an unlikely candidate for rebellious Prodigal Son. But he was, breaking away from Ballet Austin in 1996, only to return two years later. Now the newly named artistic director of Ballet Austin, Mills talks about his departure, his return, and the future of the company.

The familiar misadventures of the wooden puppet who wants to be real get a high-spirited comic treatment in JohnnySimons' Pinocchio Commedia, and Tongue and Groove Theatre's spirited and playful production make the hundred-year-old tale delightfully fresh.

Film Reviews and reports from the SXSW Film Festival 2000

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.

The announcement of Ballet Austin's new artistic director; the release of facility specifications for the Long Center.

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

Robert Faires examines Artists Repertory of Texas' debut production, the world premiere of Tennessee Williams' Spring Storm

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

KOOPerate, Dammit

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Georgetown Village: Smart Growth Without Trying