Zachary Scott Theatre Center: Ciccolella's curtain call

After a successful eight-year run as managing director, Ann Ciccolella is making her exit from the Zachary Scott Theatre Center

"...making her exit after a most successful eight-year run. Ann Ciccolella is stepping down as managing director this year...."

Feb. 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Delicious Collisions

What a difference a year makes with Ann Ciccolella at Austin Shakespeare's helm

"...are signs that, since becoming the company's artistic director, Ann Ciccolella has been leveraging a broad spectrum of tools,..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Articulations

Ciccolella Change-Up

"...people) and say "Austin Circle of Theatres," they'll think "Ann Ciccolella." That's because for the past eight and a..."

June 25, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

The end of the Ann Ciccolella Era at the Austin Circle of Theatres.

"...Ciccolella Checks Out..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Austin Shakespeare Festival: Changing of the Bard

Guy Roberts has resigned as artistic director of the Austin Shakespeare Festival, and Ann Ciccolella has been named his successor

"...July 31, and on Aug. 9, the ASF board announced Ann Ciccolella as the new artistic director...."

Aug. 24, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Austin Shakespeare's Macbeth

This military-themed staging of the tragedy gets lost in a haze of design and technical issues

"...her program note for Macbeth, Austin Shakespeare Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella talks about the Bard's fondness for employing antitheses...."

May 13, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Austin Shakespeare's A Streetcar Named Desire

This thoughtful take on Tennessee Williams' classic subtly pits the Old South against the New North

"...the University of Texas shone with The Diary of Anne Frank ('56), St. Edward's University wowed audiences with To..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Austin Shakespeare's The Seagull

This new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's beloved classic takes wing well enough but doesn't quite soar

"...Austin Shakespeare Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella's adaptation, which she directs, struggles to make its..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Design for Living

Keen direction and outstanding performances bring us into Noël Coward's Thirties dandyism

"...season, but you won't hear me complaining; Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella seems to have hit her stride recently with..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Mary Stuart

Austin Shakespeare's staging of this historical drama is something special

"...new and soaring translation by Peter Oswald, and director Ann Ciccolella has assembled a design team and group of..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

'The Santaland Diaries': Zach's New Home for the Holidays

When it has three popular shows and only two theatres to run them in, what does Zach do? Turn the old bicycle shop next door into Santaland.

"...came about just a couple of months ago," says Ann Ciccolella, Zach's longtime managing director. "Christmas is a good..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a real horror show, making the clash of Edward Albee's middle-aged marrieds George and Martha both titanic and terrifying.

"...Zach's production, directed with precision and without mercy by Ann Ciccolella, makes their clash as titanic and terrifying as..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Madame X

In Madame X, playwright Ann Ciccolella dramatizes the events surrounding the creation of Sargent's famous portrait of Virginie Gautrau, using them as a springboard for an absorbing inquiry into the meaning and relationships of art, beauty, and society.

"...In Madame X, playwright Ann Ciccolella provides us a glimpse of this, dramatizing the..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Articulations

A special visit to Austin by Theatre Communications Group executive director Ben Cameron.

"...Case in point: Zachary Scott Theatre Center managing director Ann Ciccolella, who had the ear of Ben Cameron, executive..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Working Vacations

Theaterless Theater Corps, Rude Mechanicals, KAIROS! Co.

"...they have been collaborating for a year. Brently Heilbron, Anna Krejci..."

July 9, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

My Children! My Africa!: Schoolbells in the Revolution

"...Zachary Scott's production savvy, First Stage's political awareness, and Ann Ciccolella's strong direction, but the production is short of..."

June 11, 1999 Arts Review

Monumental Shift

Major personnel changes across the Austin arts scene signal the start of a new era

"...organizations. More than a half-dozen artistic leaders left or announced their departure from major companies or institutions, including Austin..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts Board Love Stories

That special thing that happens between artists and boards of directors can be a lot like a love relationship: Intimate. Fulfilling. Long-term. Working as one body. However, it can be and often is complicated.

"...Scott Theatre Center has 50. "It's huge. Huge," grins Ann Ciccolella, Zach's managing director. "We have a book with..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

1998-99 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

The year's best work on Austin stages.

"...the Austin Circle of Theatres gave out its 25th Annual B. Iden Payne Awards in a ceremony at the..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Lomax (dance), David Mead (music), Tommy O'Malley (theatre), and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (arts); and the Chronicle's Heather Barfield..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

B. Iden Payne Award Nominations, 1999-2000

"...nominations for the 1999-2000 B. Iden Payne Awards, the annual theatre honors named for Shakespearean scholar and director B...."

Aug. 18, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Payne Pleasures 2004

Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals

"...B. Iden Payne Awards. The Austin Circle of Theatres' annual honors for excellence in local stage work are a..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2002-2003

The full list of nominations for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...nominations were Austin American-Statesman staff reporters Michael Barnes and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin (arts); freelance writers Jamie Smith Cantara..."

May 9, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Past Passion

Austin Shakespeare revisits Tom Stoppard in Hades for The Invention of Love

"...the playwright for a second helping, and Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella uses the occasion to bring guest artist Philip..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Belle of Amherst

Helen Merino is open and radiant as Emily Dickinson in this one-woman show about the reclusive poet

"...Once Austin Shakespeare Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella decided to direct the show, she considered only..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Arcadia

A magnificent-looking and intelligent staging of Tom Stoppard's masterpiece

"...Park residents forever. In the modern day, blunt writer Hannah Jarvis (Liz Beckham) seeks the identity of the mysterious..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Zachary Scott Theatre Center: Enter stage left, a new managing director

After a national search, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center found its new managing director, Elisbeth Challener, right in its own back yard

"...went hunting for a new managing director to replace Ann Ciccolella, it undertook a search from coast to coast...."

June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cabaret

Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of Cabaret embraces the play's sexuality and hedonism but doesn't always convey its debauched defiance

"...crude, sexy, butch female whose presence is fairly electric. Susanne Abbott's rapport with audience, band, and chorus is playfully..."

June 18, 2004 Arts Review by Molly Beth Brenner

Age of Aquarius

With a new production of the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, director Dave Steakley caps 10 years of making the Zachary Scott Theatre Center rock -- and so much more.

"...fired them at the audience with irresistible style and make-you-wanna-shout verve. Attendance records at the theatre were trampled by..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Misery

In bringing Stephen King's Misery to the stage, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production paint the story's characters in the most awkward fashion possible and mixes horror and comedy to a degree that's confusing.

"...Scott Theatre Center production, but almost none of them panned out. For those who don't know the story, romance..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

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