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Nov.14–Dec.06, 2008
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Dec.11-13, 2008

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Dec.13 & Dec.20, 2008

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12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Christmas
Dec.18-Jan.03
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10.31.08 Gretchen Phillips Reviewed; Austin Chronicle
10.31.08 2008 B. Iden Payne Awards, Many honors and even more laughs; Austin Chronicle
09.23.08 Pink Sun Review; Austinist
08.22.08 Talkin' the Walk; Austin Chronicle
   
 
-- NEWS ARCHIVES --
 
08.03.08 Talented Young Thespians Brighten Austin Stage; KEYE News Segment
07.25.08 Check Out the Summer Youth Theatre at the Vortex; KEYE
06.20.08 Beauty Queen of Leenan; Austin Chronicle
04.16.08 The Last Days of Desmond"Nani" Reese; Austin Chronicle
03.28.08 Troades Arts Review; Austin Chronicle
03.24.08 Review: ‘Troades’; Austin360
01.18.08 Beirut Arts Review; Austin Chronicle
01.23.08 Emotionally Battering Beirut at the VORTEX; Austinist
11.20.07 The Neovaginal Monologues: Tales of Transformation; Austin Chronicle
11.02.07 2007 B. Iden Payne Awards: Prize; Austin Chronicle
09.28.07 2007 B. Iden Payne Awards: Take a bow, nominees; Austin Chronicle
09.21.07 Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Austin Chronicle
08.31.07 Dragonfly Princess; Austin Chronicle
07.27.07 The Wyrd Sisters; Austin Chronicle
07.06.07 The Constant Wife; Austin Chronicle
05.18.07 A Thought in Three Parts; Austin Chronicle
05.25.07 Austinist Review: A Thought in Three Parts; Austinist
03.23.07 Hamlet; Austin Chronicle
01.28.07 Trickster Unleashed; Aielli Unleashed, a KUT Radio on-line feature
01.19.07 Trickster; Austin Chronicle
01.18.07 No Fooling; Trickster is a Winner; Austin American Statesman
01.14.07 KUT Arts Eclectic Minute on Trickster
11.04.06 Ring Rip Rent ; Austinist
11.03.06 Ring Rip Rent ; Austin Chronicle
11.03.06 Local Playwright's‘Ring Rip Rent’ questions government, sexuality; Daily Texan
11.03.06 2006 B. Iden Payne Awards: Payne, Payne, who got the Payne?; Austin Chronicle
10.30.06 The Winners Are?; Austinist
09.09.06 Bell(e); Austin Chronicle
08.11.06 Psycho Beach Party; Austin Chronicle
08.04.06 Psycho Beach Party: Dueling Chicklets; Austin Chronicle
07.28.06 Summer Theatre joins young and old; Daily Texan
07.21.06 Summer Youth Theatre's The Visit: Kill Schill; Austin Chronicle
06.09.06 I'd Like to Thank...; Austin Chronicle
05.19.06 Cream of the Crop: Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards; Austin Chronicle
03.10.06 Where are They Now - Triple Play; Austin Chronicle
12.30.05 The Last Shall Be First; Austin Chronicle
12.23.05 A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire; Austin Chronicle
12.16.05 First Night Austin; Austin Chronicle
10.28.05 Vampyress; Austin Chronicle
10.20.05 Vampyress; Xlent
09.20.05 And the Winners Are; Austin Circle of Theatres
09.23.05 Phaedra's Love; Austin Chronicle
09.12.05 'Phaedra's Love' an Unsettling Delight; Daily Texan
08.19.05 Nominations for the 2004-2005 B. Iden Payne Awards; Austin Chronicle
07.22.05 Getting Kids Into the Act; Austin Chronicle
07.15.05 To be Continued; Austin Chronicle
06.17.05 Holes Before Bedtime; Austin Chronicle
06.06.05 You Could Loose Sleep Pondering 'Bedtime'; Xlent
03.25.05 Sleeping Beauty; Austin Chronicle
03.11.05 Working Beauty: An Interview with Bonnie Cullum; Austin Chronicle
01.28.05 St. Enid and the Black Hand; Austin Chronicle
11.05.04 VORTEX’s ‘Wake’ Liberates and Disturbs; TxTriangle
10.07.04 'Wake for the Dark Poet' wants to creep you out in the Artaud tradition; Xlent interview with Heather Barfield
08.20.04 Payne Pleasures 2004; Austin Chronicle
08.01.04 Rob Nash 12-Steps His‘Dysfunctional’ Saga into a Musical; TxTriangle Interview with Rob Nash
07.30.04 The Good Woman of Setzuan; Austin Chronicle
06.06.04 Do Kill the Messenger; Austin Chronicle
05.14.04 Ghost From a Perfect Place; Austin Chronicle
05.14.04 Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004; Austin Chronicle
04.23.04 Oh, What a Lovely War Protest!; Austin Chronicle Interview with Kathryn Blume
03.12.04 Dark Goddess 2004; Austin Chronicle
01.30.04 Pythia Dust; Austin Chronicle
01.08.04 VORTEX Brings Jade Esteban Estrada’s ‘Icons’ to Austin; The Texas Triangle
11.17.03 VORTEX Repertory Company Gives One of Shakespeare's Lesser Works a Shot; Austin Statesman's XLENT
10.12.03 Restaging of 'Elytra' is Even More Heavenly; Austin American Statesman's XLENT
09.04.03 The VORTEX Gets Down to Barebones; Austin American Statesman's XLENT
08.08.03 Norman Normal Saves the World: The Geek Breaks Out!; Austin Chronicle
06.27.03 Eggheads: Ain't That a Kick in the Head; Austin Chronicle
06.01.03 VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre Pushes Teens to Produce; KLRU Spotlight Report
05.23.03 Holy Cross Sucks!: One for All; Austin Chronicle
05.09.03 Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003; Austin Chronicle
04.25.03 Black Tower: Timeless Struggles; Austin Chronicle
03.21.03 The Scarlet Letter: A Recurring Nightmare; Austin Chronicle
03.20.03 'The Scarlet Letter' Comes to Life at The VORTEX; The Daily University Star
02.07.03 Unkindest Cuts of All; Austin Chronicle News Article on Austin Art Funding
01.17.03 Holy Well, Sacred Flame: Spring Down Memory Lane; Austin Chronicle
12.20.02 Ratgirl's Holy Rockin' Christmas: X-mess; Austin Chronicle
12.06.02 The Ratgirls invade The VORTEX; The Daily Texan
11.29.02 Medea: If Looks Could Kill; Austin Chronicle
11.18.02 'Medea' a timely schizophrenic; The Daily Texan
10.24.02 Mother Bone; Texas State University-San Marcos
10.02.02 Payne Pleasures 2002; Austin Chronicle; B. Iden Payne Awards
07.26.02 Moby Dick: Study of Mortality in Blue and White; Austin Chronicle
07.19.02 Moby's Play: Kirk Smith on Bringing Melville's Whale to the Stage; Austin Chronicle; Interview with Kirk Smith
07.07.02 12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Family; Austin Chronicle
05.31.02 The Music of Erica Zann: That Way Lies Madness; Austin Chronicle
05.24.02 More Places at the Table: Nominations expand for the 10th Austin Critics Table Awards; Austin Chronicle
04.19.02 Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off; Austin Chronicle
03.22.02 Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One): Darn That Dream; Austin Chronicle
01.25.02 The Dark Goddess Phenom; Austin Chronicle
12.28.01 Rob Nash Does Romeo and Juliet: The Power of One; Austin Chronicle
11.23.01 Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief: Nothing to Sneeze At; Austin Chronicle

11.09.01

Frailty, Thy Name Ain't Woman; Austin Chronicle
10.26.01 Shopping and Fucking: Coitus An' Corruptus; Austin Chronicle
09.28.01 Most Valuable: Stephanie Swenson; Austin Chronicle
09.14.01 The Deluge: Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain; Austin Chronicle
08.17.01 Richard III: Performances Within Performances; Austin Chronicle
07.20.01 Cyrano de Bergerac: Particular Panache; Austin Chronicle
06.29.01 Uncaged: Yadda Yadda, Warden; Austin Chronicle
06.22.01 Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste: Sweet Toot; Austin Chronicle
05.22.01 Salome: Under the Veils; No Heart; Austin Chronicle
05.19.01 ROYGBIV 2001: That's Life... D'0h!; Austin Chronicle
05.17.01 Austin Critics Expand Pool of Award Nominees; Austin American Statesman
05.08.01 Twelfth Night: Gently Into that Good Night; Austin Chronicle
04.13.01 The Devil's Disciple: In on the Joke; Austin Chronicle
04.10.01 VORTEX Production Devilishly Good; The Daily Texan Review
03.21.01 Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities: Immediate, Raw, Raw Storytelling;
Austin Chronicle
03.09.01 Radio Radio; Austin Chronicle
02.23.01 What a Piece of Work is Woman!; Austin Chronicle of Roses and Thistles
01.29.01 NAKED Ambition: Finley Exposes the Raw Truth in 'Shut Up'; The Daily Texan
01.25.01 Finley's Art is Commentary on Relevant Societal Issues; The Daily University Star
12.01.00 Rob Nash: Quadrilogy in One Eve; Tx Triangle
11.24.00 The Bridge Burner: Reheated; Austin Chronicle
09.22.00 Payne Pleasures 2000; Austin Chronicle
09.08.00 Elytra: New Synthesis; Austin Chronicle
08.18.00 B. Iden Payne Award Nominations, 1999-2000; Austin Chronicle
07.29.00 The Frogs: Awkward Bawdy; Austin Chronicle
07.14.00 And You Come From Where ...?: Where Did the Love Go?; Austin Chronicle
06.16.00 A Mid-Indian Summer Night's Dream: Missing the Bluebonnets; Austin Chronicle
05.26.00 Fractured Greeks: Great Deeds, Human Follies; Austin Chronicle
03.31.00 Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show; Austin Chronicle
03.17.00 The Apocalytes & the Tetragons: Psychic Blasts and Undulating Bodies; Austin Chronicle
02.18.00 Dark Goddess: Remembrance of Deities Past; Austin Chronicle
01.20.00 2000-01 Season; nytheatre.com review of Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio
01.14.00 Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio: Grooving Among the Shreds of Shadow; Austin Chronicle
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12.31.99 Senioritis: Devilish High School Chemistry; Austin Chronicle
12.28.99 Head of the Class; Finishing His High School Epic, Rob Nash Graduates to Off-Broadway; Weeklywire
12.10.99 Head of the Class; Austin Chronicle
11.26.99 Ashes to Ashes: Dense and Chilling Quiet; Austin Chronicle
09.17.99 1998-99 B. Iden Payne Award Winners; Austin Chronicle
09.10.99 Junior Blues: A Bullet Train Through Adolescence; Austin Chronicle
07.31.99 Mechinal: Repression in Blue; Austin Chronicle
07.16.99 Sandbox: Young at Heart; Austin Chronicle
05.07.99 Twelfth Night: Gently Into That Good Night; Austin Chronicle
02.19.99 A Planet of Their Own; Austin Chronicle (VORTEX News Announcement)
12.30.98 Y Ask X&Y?; Austin Chronicle
12.20.98 Goin' to Georgia: Light in Our Lives; Austin Chronicle
11.24.98 Strings Attached; VORTEX Pulls Off a Difficult Heartstring-jerker with Flair;Weeklywire
11.21.98 Norm L:Zero Tolerance; Austin Chronicle
09.21.98 Nothing is Funnier Than Unhappiness: Samuel Beckett's Endgame;Weeklywire
09.08.98 Theater Critical: Schlock and Self-Mockery;Weeklywire
08.21.98 Sophomore Slump: Souped-Up Teen Angst; Austin Chronicle
07.10.98 The Last Word on Sex (Annie Sprinkle)
05.26.98 Beauty Vultures and the Plague of Sleep: Heartwarming Chill; Weeklywire
04.13.98 Macbeth;Weeklywire
02.23.98 A Little Horseplay;Weeklywire
01.21.98 Triskelion: Shiny, Scary World; Austin Chronicle
12.20.97 Myth in the Flesh: A Good Lesson in Wonder; Austin Chronicle
12.07.97 From Cosmic Accident to Refined Art: Rob Nash Onstage; Austin Chronicle Interview with Rob Nash
11.24.97 Strings Attached; Weeklywire Review of Marvin's Room
11.10.97 The American Chestnut: Vacuums to Vietnam; Weeklywire
10.08.97 Scavengers: Explosive Comedy; Austin Chronicle
08.02.97 Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: Engaging From the Page; Austin Chronicle
07.02.97 Revenge Is Sweet: Vengeance Carries the Day; Weeklywire
06.28.97 The Ravaging: Seeds of a Biting Work; Austin Chronicle
05.24.97 Sukkah (Shelter): Climbing Sound; Austin Chronicle
04.24.97 Whatever Now: A Report on Heather Woodbury on the Verge of Fame; Austin Chronicle
04.19.97 Suburbia: A Positive 'Tude; Austin Chronicle
12.14.96 Freshman Year Sucks!: Another Lion Tamed; Austin Chronicle


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