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A brief guide to the 13 – count 'em, 13 – arts fests coming your way in April and May
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April 3, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Page Two: Ten Ways of Looking at an 'Austin Chronicle'
In celebration of our 25th anniversary
"...the discussion afterward would be as to whether the playwrights had any overriding goals or anything resembling a narrative..."
Sept. 1, 2006 Column by Louis Black
Institutionalized Innovation
In its 11th year, the annual Austin theatre celebration FronteraFest is as edgy as ever.
"...Austin Script Works, an organization that supports Central Texas playwrights, has commissioned plays from some of its members, and..."
Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo
Articulations
News of the death of longtime Austin actress Judi Sklar Becker and the birth of a new era at Hyde Park Theatre, with Ken Webster as Producing Artistic Director, Subterranean Theatre Company as producing company in residence, and Austin Script Works as a producing partner for FronteraFest.
"...This week kicks off the big transition at Hyde Park Theatre...."
June 22, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Jumping on the Bard-wagon
With the arrival of September, Austin is again awash in Shakespeare. Five productions -- from a minimalist Romeo and Juliet to a deconstructed comedy goofing on all the plays -- are currently playing Central Texas stages.
"...good fun. ASF opened As You Like It last week and opens Othello this week. Also this week, the..."
Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
Working Worked Out
Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.
"...to live the life of the theatre for the week."..."
Aug. 27, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Y Ask X and Y?
"...the past four years and what will matter next week as the entire trilogy is remounted and performed on..."
Jan. 1, 1999 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola
Five Recommended Arts Events In Austin This Weekend
Weather’s lovely, isn’t it? Just right for going out into the city.
"...1) Last week Flatbed Headquarters had all of its galleries opening new..."
April 26, 2018 Arts Post
James Magnuson Leaves the Michener Center
James Magnuson reflects on his 23 years as director of the Michener Center for Writers
"...the Dobie House, which he'll do in the next week, and find a place for all the books accumulated..."
May 26, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
FronteraFest: The Place to Start
Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' annual performance festival keeps giving artists a spot to launch a stage career in Austin
"...Fringe featuring five short pieces per evening for five weeks; a two-week Long Fringe that offers a handful of..."
Jan. 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe
All Over Creation: Identity Crisis
Two concurrent stage productions show what happens when we define ourselves too narrowly
"...so intensely parallels the one you had just the week before?..."
Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Fighting City Hall
What began as a play for Austin by a Ukrainian playwright has become a dispatch from the front lines of a war
"...But those worlds come crashing together this week in Dulcey and Roxy at City Hall, a new..."
May 2, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The Q&A Hole: How Do You Beat the Heat?
Answers from Hilah Johnson, Bob Khosravi, C. Denby Swanson, and more.
"...is why, even though we're already into the first week of September, for this latest installment of The Q&A..."
Sept. 3, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Drama & Tonic
Why Austin theatres are adding mixed drinks to the mix, offstage and on
"...or whatever jug wine was cheapest at H-E-B that week? Now, though, you look behind the bar – not..."
July 5, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Humana Festival of New American Plays
Local theatre artists play a major role in this year's festival of new drama
"...final days at the Actors Theatre of Louisville this week, you might think you were still in Austin. The..."
March 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
TV Eye
Wrestling With Angels is an intimate, surprisingly extensive profile of one of this nation's greatest contemporary playwrights
"...bad news is that it airs in Austin a week following its national telecast. Fortunately, the Freida Lee Mock..."
Dec. 7, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Culture Flash!
City arts funding revisions get a thumbs-up from council, theatre artists sing for cancer charities, and local playwrights meet and greet
"...most notably Raul Alvarez, who kept meeting and talking week in and week out for months. The vote was..."
Aug. 26, 2005 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Talking Through 'That Day'
Two plays – Omnium Gatherum and The Guys – try to express what happened on September 11
"...air. We start to think about That Day. This week, three years will have passed since the hijacking of..."
Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Articulations
Long Center supporters do a funding turnaround by asking the city for $25 million in bond money, another bunch of Lone Stars are being honored by the Texas Cultural Trust Council with Texas Medal of the Arts Awards, and John Walch wins an award from the American Theatre Critics Association.
"...As noted in last week's Chronicle, Arts Center Stage is pulling an about-face in..."
Feb. 14, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Articulations
An invitation to the city's loosest arts awards ceremony from the Austin Critics Table, a happy birthday to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, and playwright Ruth Margraff is a hit in Big D.
"...go along") cordially invite all actors, technicians, designers, directors, playwrights, singers, dancers, sculptors, choreographers, composers, painters, instrumentalists, and every..."
June 8, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Will Anybody Ever Love Neal Medlyn?
For vulnerable performer Neal Medlyn, Dork = Cool.
"...heard people talking about the metaphorical import of absurdist playwrights like Beckett, his reaction was "Metaphor?" Reading Waiting for..."
Dec. 29, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun
Articulations
Austin playwrights are drawing attention around the nation, and one theatre company is getting hit by the Macbeth curse smack in the face.
"...Austin's playwrights aren't nearly as well-known nationally as its musicians, but..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Articulations
The sophomore production for the Actors Repertory of Texas theatre company.
"...new buzz began about ART's sophomore effort, and last week the company confirmed the rumor: In May, Duggan and..."
March 24, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Articulations
Robert Faires talks FronteraFest.
"...In producing last week's eight-page insert for FronteraFest, we here at the Chronicle..."
Jan. 14, 2000 Arts Column by Robert Faires
FronteraFest 2000
The Chronicle's guide to Austin's biggest performance event.
"...guaranteed a showtime and a venue. So, for five weeks each year, they line up to tell their tales,..."
Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Working Vacations
Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.
"...work as part of Sundance Theatre Lab 1999. A three-week workshop held each July, the lab allows artists to..."
July 9, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Getting in Step
Austin Dance Artists Talk Connecting & Community
"...isolation, apart from dance fans and their colleagues. This week and next, more than a dozen of Austin's independent..."
Feb. 28, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Short Cuts
"...Film Festival and Screenwriters Conference that took place last weekend had its many attendees thinking about the bones of..."
Oct. 18, 1996 Screens Column
Articulations
RAT Droppings
"...don't stand for anything). They assembled in Austin last week for their fourth- ever RAT Conference, this one christened..."
Aug. 16, 1996 Arts Column by Robert Faires
In Memoriam
"...One of the best friends that this city's playwrights have ever had is gone. Webster Smalley, who taught..."
