Review: Hyde Park Theatre’s Running Bear

Hyde Park’s new original play perfectly showcases writer Raul Garza

"...2018). But in Garza’s latest and most mature work, Running Bear – which is getting a captivating world premiere..."

June 20, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Review: Hyde Park Theatre’s Running Bear

Hyde Park’s new original play perfectly showcases writer Raul Garza

June 24, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Groundswell Theatre Company's Bear Eats Bear

This site-specific audio work puts the audience in a postapocalyptic world to show how central art is to the human experience

"...is offering the premiere of Lydia Blaisdell's site-specific work Bear Eats Bear, an "immersive audio experience" at a central..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Arkansaw Bear

The magic and spirit of Second Youth Family Theatre's production of The Arkansaw Bear make for a moving story of a child coping with a grandparent's death

"...Running Time: 1 hr..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

'Friday Night Lights': Running the Numbers

"...Central Texas playoff picture looks like, district by district. Bear in mind 5A sends four teams per district to..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...(Antonio Salieri), Amadeus, Penfold Theatre Company Macy Butler (Emily), Running Bear, Hyde Park Theatre Abby Ferree (Sam), A League..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The Tigger Movie

"...is as predictably tame as the fluff in Pooh bear's noodle, and therein lies its charm. Unlike some animated..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Career Girls

"...our faces are fresh and unlined; the next, they bear the folds and creases added to them by Time...."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Where the Wild Things Are

This very special film is the rare children’s offering that isn’t coded for adults or made corny and flip for kids.

"...a fearsome fight with his mother, he takes off running … and keeps running, until his neighborhood melts away..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Productions and performances, from the fantastic to the unfortunate

"...local venues. One of the best was Raul Garza's Running Bear, revolving around a successful middle-aged structural engineer (Mical..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Night Listener

This taut, wiry exercise in eerie bad vibes, about a writer-cum-radio personality and a disturbing teenage literary sensation, is emotionally dense but never fully takes flight.

"...speaker, and it might all be too much to bear were it not for Toni Collette, who continues to..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Over the Hedge

Canny casting and a sly anti-consumerist message give this animated feature extra adult appeal, but like a lot of animated fare it’s overly busy and splashy.

"...sort of Acme-Laboratories slapstick violence, and there’s a scaryass bear (voiced by Nolte) who may terrify small-fries by growling,..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mr. Baseball

"...the letter “l”? -- and rarely subtle. (The best running gag has the lanky Selleck constantly ducking to prevent..."

Oct. 9, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Voyeur

"...mother (Zuiderhoek) protects him as if he were her bear cub. In one extraordinary scene she even licks him...."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Urban Legend

"...though the marketing juggernaut he's created is beginning to bear bitter fruit. Like chainsaws and Karo syrup, it comes,..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All Eyez on Me

Keep ya head up but don't expect too much from this biopic

"...their key emotional and dramatic elements. The film’s 140-minute running time often seems to last longer than Shakur’s brief..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Perry's Iowa Math

Ex-Bear Stearns economist backs gov's run. Ruh-roh!

"...run in the Iowa GOP's presidential straw poll without running in the Iowa presidential straw poll? If you're Gov..."

July 27, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Alamo

In this round of historical revisionism there's not much to remember except, maybe, Davy Crockett becoming a fiddler on the roof.

"...down to a manageable 135 minutes from an original running time of somewhere in the vicinity of three-plus hours...."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bloody Sunday

"...microphone through the jumble of shattered glass and feet running through rumble. It must have been much the same..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Diamantino

Politics and Pekingese in this strange, sweet, and very Portuguese fantasy

"...less ludicrous than his big dog fantasy, with characters running complicated scams that somehow always bounce off the soccer..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared

A bestselling Swedish novel jumps to screen with inevitable Forrest Gump comparisons

"...this” attitude and little more than the slippers that bear his first name in Magic Marker. He shuffles off..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The third installment of this animated series gets the job done as the animals take protective cover in a traveling circus.

"...amusing due to its talented voice cast and brief running time. The new characters – who, in addition to..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Academy Award-Nominated Animated Shorts 2009

The Academy gets animated.

"...tip jar. “Oktapodi,” at just a couple of minutes running time, is a colorful burst of stretchy octopus tentacles..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Murder at Yellowstone City

Horse opera is just a sturdy, well-worn mule trail

"...a theatre with his longtime companion. There is Violet Running Bear (Beatty), an intrepid Native American girl who begins..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

A Simple Twist of Fate

"...an afternoon's monotony by acting out the country-western song, “Running Bear,” comes close to being embarrassingly precious.) In the..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

UT Football: The Best and the Worst

Emerging Horns transition out of a season of gross extremes

"...Longhorns turned Baylor's salvageable season from Sugar (Bowl) to Bear poo, pulling out a close, 23-17 win. However –..."

Dec. 8, 2015 Sports Post by Kahron Spearman

The AggreGAYtor: February 11

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Putin goes cuddle-bear, the NFL gets way gay, and AGLCC wheels and..."

Feb. 11, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Newton Is Next Victim of Longhorns’ 'Huge Expectations'

The search for a running game continues

"...ankle on the flaming bench there next to Fozzy “Bear” Whittaker as Texas continues its search for a running..."

Sept. 9, 2010 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

'May the Passenger Pigeon Sing Thee to Thy Rest'

Second-Place Winner

"...have names like them; most thought we were called Running Bear, if they didn't assume we were Mexicans. So..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Books Feature by Perry Tyson Midkiff II

Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup Unveiled

Fall free-for-all bags 134 acts minus black metal

"...ago, revealing the full artist lineup for the 13th running of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. It’s raw...."

May 7, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

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