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Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

'Tis the season when the future is used up yet then renewed by singing each morning out of each night

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

Kill Schill?

'Chronicle' theatre writer Barry Pineo names his 10 favorite stage productions of 200

Intense is an apt word for describing Shakespeare's bloody Macbeth, but intense moments in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance's new revival are few and far between

With Whispers of Heaven, choreographer Sally Jacques invites us to steep in visions of loveliness in a hard place, to ease into beauty as we would a hot bath

The 2004-2005 Austin Critics Table Awards

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

In 1694, three years prior to ‘Tales of Mother Goose,’ which set into print folkloric hand-me-downs ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Puss in Boots,’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood,’ Charles Perrault donned “Donkey Skin.” Three hundred years later, Jacques Demy adapted it.

In 'Genghis Khan,' Salvage Vanguard Theater crafts a surprisingly traditional, surprisingly intimate, and absorbing operatic portrait of a lion in winter

Okkervil River navigates the headwaters of its career

The Vortex Repertory Company's 'Sleeping Beauty' shows the company in a playful mood, delivering a musical adaptation that is fanciful, lighthearted, and disarmingly sweet

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

With the help of Knowbility's AIR-Interactive for the Arts and a team of professional designers, I am going to help reinvent the Internet

Reel Women brings Lunafest to Austin

Comics are art, Spiegelman notes in his panel-busting history lesson

How a ballplayer, a piano player, beatnik poetry, and Lubbock made Terry Allen an epic storyteller.

The Austin Circle of Theaters has handed out its annual B. Iden Payne Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in local theatre from August 2002 through July 2003.

The Austin Circle of Theatres has released the nominations for the 2002-03 B. Iden Payne Awards.

Within or Beneath the Din

"More than the inherent unfairness of life, Nasdijj is angry at man's cruelty and a culture which fosters the abuse of the young," writes Michael Robertson. And as a writer, he "rough-hews the English language until it takes stunning forms."

"Often enough in Man Walks Into a Room, you get a plot description and a lesson," writes Clay Smith of Nicole Krauss' beguiling and haunting debut novel, about a man who loses his memory and isn't particularly interested in getting it back.

Deborah Hay forges her own answer to the issue of how one keeps choreography alive beyond one's own physical and mortal limitations with Nine Nights of Music in May, in which her solo "Music" is performed and adapted by four diverse artists.

Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," and other new releases

Animated comic gem.