Friday, May 19, 2017
The show’s producer/performer, Kat Primeau talks about this year’s Fringe World Premiere musical comedy ‘Turbulence!’
Making its triumphant return after last year’s acclaimed
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:42PMMonday, May 15, 2017
Ryan Lisman, writer/director of ‘Apathy Killed the Cat’ talks about his new play, making its world premiere at the Fringe.
Making its world
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:33PMThursday, May 4, 2017
Making its premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival next month is the provocatively titled Zombie Clown Trump: An Apocalyptic Musical, and it’s already raising hackles
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:02PMThursday, March 16, 2017
This year’s SXSW secret screening, held on Sunday, March 12 at the Alamo Ritz, was T2 Trainspotting, the long-awaited sequel to director Danny Boyle’s 1996 cult
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:18PMMonday, August 15, 2016
In a career spanning more than 40 years, director Gillian Armstrong has gifted the world of cinema with some marvelous period pieces (My Brilliant Career, Little
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:32PMMonday, August 8, 2016
The San Antonio Film Festival, held July 25-31 at the Tobin Center, brought a wealth of fine films and talented filmmakers to town. Among the many
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:46PMThursday, June 23, 2016
Tom Yungerberg’s dark comedy and Joshua Crone’s sobering drama made impressive debuts at the Fringe.
Kill All Politicians
Written and Directed by Thomas Yungerberg
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:16PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
Two amusing comedies — one based on a terrible movie, the other set in a strange, retro amusement park — make solid debuts at this
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:45PMFriday, June 17, 2016
A seriocomic solo performance and a delightfully off-kilter action comedy are among the shows premiering at this year’s Fringe.
Still Got It
Written and
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:02PMThursday, June 16, 2016
Denizens of an underground civilization and a famous mutant hero are the stars of two musicals making their Fringe debuts this year.
Thug Tunnel
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:38PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Sendups of two Shakespeare classics make their world premieres at this year’s Hollywood Fringe.
MacDeth!
Written and Directed by Ryan J-W Smith
Fringe Premiere
Fringe award-winner
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:49PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
AtticRep‘s Producing Artistic Director talks about the company’s ambitious new production, set to make its world premiere in June.
San Antonio’s AtticRep
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:26PMMonday, May 23, 2016
Making its debut this past March at SXSW — the annual movie and music festival held in Austin Texas — Keith Maitland’s powerful documentary takes a unique
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:09PMMonday, April 25, 2016
An attractively lensed story begins promisingly in Wicker Man territory but disappointingly devolves into a routine mystery.
New York obstetrician Tora Hamilton (Radha
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:02PMMonday, March 21, 2016
Even though the doors of Smart Studios closed in 2010, its legend continues to reverberate throughout the music industry. Founded in 1983 by Butch Vig and
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:08PMThursday, March 3, 2016
Nearly 40 years after Penelope Spheeris’ groundbreaking 1980 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization chronicled the lives of Los Angeles punks, filmmaker Angela Boatwright takes her
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:27PMMonday, February 15, 2016
Jessica Dickey’s shattering solo piece comes to San Antonio’s AtticRep in the capable hands of director David Connelly and star Sarah Gise.
Originally presented to
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:19PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
Director Rick Sanchez’s experimental staging of the classic rock opera contains more hits than misses, thanks to some solid performances.
Jesus Christ Superstar, easily the most
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:25PMFriday, February 12, 2016
The Woodlawn kicks off its 2016 season with a rocking, rollicking production of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical.
Anyone who saw the lackluster film version of Rock
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:49AMThursday, January 7, 2016
Iñárritu’s dark western is a stunningly photographed but ultimately empty exercise in style.
In The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio goes for broke playing Hugh Glass,
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:48PMWednesday, January 6, 2016
Saturday, December 12th was quite a celebration at the Empire Theatre in San Antonio. The occasion was the release of The Nature of… which is
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:41PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Since its original publication in 1843, Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol has been adapted many times for film, stage and television, in both musical and
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:50PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Magic is literally in the air at the Woodlawn this holiday season with its terrific production of the beloved Broadway musical.
The most well-known musical version
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 11:25PMFriday, November 13, 2015
The centuries-old tradition of the traveling show is brought to life in a charming production at San Antonio’s AtticRep.
Taking a break from its regular fare of well-staged narrative drama…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:40PMThursday, October 8, 2015
Green Day’s American Idiot at the Woodlawn Theatre, San Antonio.
When American Idiot opened on Broadway in 2010, it brought to the venerable St. James Theatre a radical new s…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:58PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Leave it to Eli Roth, the king of torture porn, to lovingly resurrect another disgusting genre — the cannibal vomitorium atrocities from the ’70s and ’80s — with his new film …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:42PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Report and film reviews from the Alamo City Film Festival by our man in Texas, Kurt Gardner:
In keeping with its mission of showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, the Alamo C…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:52PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Made in 2013, but amazingly not receiving U.S. distribution until this month, Tom at the Farm is the fourth film by Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan, who made his first film at age 20 (I Kil…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:38PMThursday, August 20, 2015
Almost 60 years ago, Broadway audiences were shocked by West Side Story, an audacious piece of musical theater that dared to take on the subject of race relations. With Jerome Robbins’ fie…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:27PMFriday, August 14, 2015
Festival report by Kurt Gardner.
Of the many films I saw at the San Antonio Film Festival, which took place July 28th through August 2nd, a standout for me was a feature entitled Mome…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:19PMThursday, August 6, 2015
Of the dozens of shorts screened at this year’s San Antonio Film Festival, some really stood out in terms of execution, creative vision, and dramatic heft.
Here’s another selection of co…
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