Images by Nadia Morales for Here's To You by A. John Boulanger, FronteraFest at the Blue Theatre, January 28 - February 5

Received directly or found at FaceBook, images by Nadia Morales for the

presentation of

Here's to You, an old comedy

by A. John Boulanger

FronteraFest 2012 at at the Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale Road

Saturday, January 28 @ 9:15 pm
Wednesday, February 1 @ 9:15 pm
Saturday, February 4 @ 7:15 pm
Sunday, February 5 @ 4:15 pm

Tickets are $8, available on-line through Hyde Park Theatre

Newlyweds Steven and Ellen Gellar pop into a psychic parlor to see what lies ahead for them as husband and wife. Skeptical Steven fears the worst, as eager Ellen awaits the arrival of Madame Orida Mozelle, psychic extraordinaire (and stage star of yesteryear). With each c...ard (and after a few cocktails) Madame O reveals devastating predictions for a marriage that might not last its first night.

Here's to You stars Judd Farris, Kim Adams, and Michelle Cheney as Madame O.

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Upcoming: Here's to You, Imagine That Productions at FronteraFest, January 28 - February 5

Received notice via Twitter and Facebook:

Here's to you, an old comedy

by A. John Boulanger

FronteraFest 2012 at at the Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale Road

Saturday, January 28 @ 9:15 pm
Wednesday, February 1 @ 9:15 pm
Saturday, February 4 @ 7:15 pm
Sunday, February 5 @ 4:15 pm

Tickets are $8, available on-line through Hyde Park Theatre

Newlyweds Steven and Ellen Gellar pop into a psychic parlor to see what lies ahead for them as husband and wife. Skeptical Steven fears the worst, as eager Ellen awaits the arrival of Madame Orida Mozelle, psychic extraordinaire (and stage star of yesteryear). With each c...ard (and after a few cocktails) Madame O reveals devastating predictions for a marriage that might not last its first night.

Here's to You stars Judd Farris, Kim Adams, and Michelle Cheney as Madame O.

Kickstarter Appeal by John Boulanger: Down the Drain, Hyde Park Theatre in August

Notification received via Twitter:

John Boulanger, author of House of Several Stories, has recruited Austin actors Meredith McCall and Martin Burke for Down the Drain, planned by his company Imagine That! Productions for the Hyde Park Theatre in August. He's asking via www.kickstart.com fr pledges of financial backing of $3750 to do the show. To read the whimsical pseudo-interview and view the video in a larger format, click here to go to the Down the Drain page on Kickstarter.

Review from Elsewhere: Ba

Quoted in its entirety, from Austinist.com:

FronteraFest Long Fringe 2011 Review:

A Writers Vision(s) at Salvage Vanguard Theater

John Boulanger knows American absurdism. His precedent-setting House of Several Stories, which garnered the ACTF National Student Playwrighting Award in 2008, presented a refreshing reminder of the genre's ability to stun and strike a deep, resonating cord. Viewers expecting something like a repeat of this stylistic acrobatics show be forewarned: despite typical elements like negligent mothers, incompetent therapists, and general confusion about reality, this show is only absurdist-ish. It's straight-up zany. This show simply won't allow you to take it seriously. Don't bother trying.

It's not just mad-cap and unleashed; there's technically a through-line narrated Seuss-style about a struggling writer visited a la Christmas Carol by three representations of his sub-conscious in his efforts to unclog unclear-to-him blockages in his latest creative process. It hardly matters though; the ridiculousness effervescing through the piece suffices in the place of any real meaning (though admission of this at the end of the piece comes across as unnecessarily defiant). It's a rambunctious pastiche of farce, absurdism, and pop cultural weirdness stuffed with appearances of local theatrical luminaries like Babs George, Jill Blackwood, Martin Burke, and Laura Lane that, in lieu of receiving Equity-scale pay, revel in enjoying themselves on-stage. Most successfully, it’s masturbatory and thoroughly self-amusing without being alienating. Like its lead character in the end, it simply refuses to take the process of writing "seriously" and is all the better for it.

By Bastion Carboni in Arts and Entertainment on January 25, 2011