Auditions: "Broadway Bound" Musical Summer Camp in Wimberley, Lee Colee Studios

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Broadway Bound
June 2010 Music Theatre Boot Camp
Could you be the best of the best?
Lee Coleé Boot Camp , Wimberley

The biggest production yet is being planned for this summer’s musical theatre boot camp, produced and directed by Lee Cole Studios at the Wimberley Players’ Playhouse.

This June, kids 8-14 and teens 15 and up will be performing highlights from four Broadway blockbuster classics.

Camp dates are June 7th -27th. After over 80 hours of instruction and rehearsals with theatre professionals, the teens will present highlights from West Side Story and The Phantom of the Opera. This will be the first boot camp that gives the performers a chance to tackle in depth acting skills in a dramatic production instead of light or broad comedy. The music and vocal demands are also quite challenging since the style leans heavily on operatic techniques.

For the younger performers, 8-14, highlights from Annie and Oliver will be presented. Theatre patrons will get to experience the excitement of two to three Broadway shows in a single evening.

For the first time, kids and teens interested in technical theatre can audition and interview for a backstage position as stage manager, lighting or sound tech, costume and props supervisor or backstage crew as well as box office representatives.

Information available on-line. E-mail: lee@atnip.com Telephone: (512) 847-7934
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Arts Reporting: Fox-7 Does FronteraFest with Schave & Reilly and Kevin Draine, January 26

Found on-line: Nik Ciccone of Fox-7 interviews Ben Schave & Caitlin Reilly (2 min. 56 sec)
and Kevin Draine the "Bitter Poet" ( 2 min. 35 sec.):

FronteraFest Celebrates Offbeat Theatre

Updated: Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010, 9:13 AM CST
Published : Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010, 9:12 AM CST

A big month-long theatre festival in Austin has more than a hundred shows. FronteraFest is going on now across Austin and it's described as the "newest, rawest, most exciting theatre happening."

Nik Ciccone stopped by Hyde Park Theatre and spoke to some local actors about this festival.

Love Me by Philip Kreyche, Blue Theatre, January 18, 23, 27, 30

The title of Philip Kreyche's Love Me is deceptively simple. As playwright and principal actor he takes on German expressionism, focusing on the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka in the period 1918-1919, when the painter was known among his circle of bohemians in Dresden simply as "mad Kokoschka."

Renowned as an artist of dark and powerful brushwork and a writer of equally dark, sex-obsessed essays and narratives, in 1912 Kokoshka became involved with Alma Mahler, whose husband had just died. The painting at the left, Two Nudes (1913), is Oskar's vision of them together. The affair burned out by 1914, partly due to his possessiveness. Kokoschka enlisted in the cavalry, mostly to escape her, and in Galicia suffered a gunshot wound to the head and a bayonet wound to the side. He convalesced and returned to his art, employed as an art instructor. In 1919 he commissioned an anatomically correct life-sized female dummy, a purchase that caused a scandal when he published his correspondence with the manufacturer.

Read more and view images at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Double The Love, KingsNThings at U.S. Art Authority, February 12 & 13

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It's coming up on that time of year again!

Kings N Things will be having our annual Valentines show in February of 2010! This year, it's one heck of a

Double the Love

event with the show running February 12 and 13 (our first two-night show!) at the amazing all-ages venue: United States Art Authority (2906 Fruth Street - next to Spiderhouse).

Dance party to follow.

Rebecca Havemeyer will be gracing us with her hosting talents yet again!

Featuring performers from Austin, Dallas and Houston... bringing awesome drag performances, queerleading, burlesque, dance moves, bellydancing AND MORE!!

$8 presale
$10 week of show and at the door
ALL AGES

Friday, February 12 and Saturday, February 13
Doors at 9 p.m., Show at 10 p.m.
Presale tickets released for general admission 15 minutes before the show starts

10% of proceeds to benefit OutYouth

**Online ticket purchases are recommended as this more intimate venue has the potential to sell out**

Online tickets can be purchased at eventbrite.

Upcoming: The Graveside Service by Tim Thomas, FronteraFest at Hyde Park Theatre, February 5

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Announcing


The Graveside Service

by Timothy Thomas

as part of FronteraFest's Short Fringe. This is your first chance to get a glimpse at what will become a new musical from Loaded Gun Theory. This show will sell out!

Friday February 5, 2010, 8 p.m. at the Hyde Park Theatre
Buy Tickets Now!

Loaded Gun Theory will reveal everything about KOOP Radio's Mr. Spradling and Mr. Harris and their roles in the deaths of certain musicians.

Lights! Longing! Music! Carnage!

Directed by Amy Lewis with Craig Kanne as Mr. Harris,Gene Storie as Mr. Spradling, Nikki Zook as Lillian Price, Bobbie Oliver as Mrs. Roger T. Price

Upcoming: Mary Stuart by Schiller, Austin Shakespeare at the Rollins Theatre, Long Center, February 11 - 28

Click for ALT review, February 15

UPDATE: Review by Clare Carnavan at Statesman A360 "Seeing Things" blog, February 11

UPDATE: Unsigned review at AustinOnStage, February 11

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is the first company in the Southwest to stage the new adaptation of

Mary Stuart

a dramatic portrait of royal rivalry between
Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth of England

February 11 - 28 at the Rollins Theatre, Long Center
Tickets available now online or by telephone at (512) 474 - LONG

Now in its 25th anniversary season, Austin Shakespeare is proud to be the first theater in the Southwest to be awarded the rights to produce the new suspenseful adaptation of Schiller's Mary Stuart by British poet/playwright Peter Oswald, nominated in 2009 for 7 Tony Awards for the Broadway production.

Austin Shakespeare will transform the Long Center's Rollins Theater into a runway with audience on two sides, designed for a modern-day take on the Elizabethan era as they perform history’s illustrious high-stakes Tudor love triangle opening on Valentine’s Day weekend.

“This new version brings the clash between these charismatic women to life on the stage with language that is true to Schiller's emotional romantic play,” said Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare. “The masterwork drives to reach a confrontation scene that never took place in history.”

The play is based on the story of Mary Stuart, the passionate and beautiful Queen of Scotland, as she struggles to gain freedom from her rival cousin, Elizabeth, the powerful Queen of England. Each woman uses the same man as lover and protector. Peter Oswald's new, energetic adaptation draws striking parallels to contemporary society.

As in the real-life story, Mary Queen of Scots has quite a resume. She murders her husband, marries his murderer, gets thrown out by the Scots as their Queen and conspires to bring about several murders. Schiller brilliantly condensed her story, beginning the action in the days before her execution.

[photo by Kimberley Mead]

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Arrythmia by Zell Miller III and Uprise! Productions at the Vortex Repertory, February 4 - 20

UPDATE: Review by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin at Statesman's A360 "Seeing Things" blog, February 12

UPDATE: KUT's Michael Lee does a feature with Zell Miller III, February 8 (2 min.)

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arrhythmia
written and directed by Zell Miller III
presented by VORTEX Repertory Company and UpRise! Productions
February 05 – 20, 8 p.m.
Tickets $30-$10 available on-line
www.vortexrep.org or at 512-478-LAVA (5282)


VORTEX Repertory Company and UpRise! Productions proudly present the world premiere of the newest hip-hop theater performance piece written and directed by award-winning playwright, Zell Miller III.

arrhythmia examines love, in all of its ugliness and splendor. This urban odyssey utilizes elements of hip-hop, contemporary movement, and lyrical slam-style poetry in this challenging, musical, political, breathtaking experience for all audiences.

Featuring performances from Ebony Stewart, Sean Tate, Aaron Sanders, and introducing Toni Ringgold, as four spirits on a journey: Love, Forgiveness, Remorse, and Elation. Original music by DJ S.T.A.T.I.K. and guitarist Buddy Cannon. Choreography from Ananda Mayi Moss. PR Photo by Bonnie Cullum.

Zell Miller III is an interdisciplinary theater/performance poet. His play premiered at The VORTEX last season and won the B. Iden Payne Award for Best Original Script. His one-man show Radio Silencemy child, my child, my alien child, won the Award for Best Original Script from the Austin Critics’ Table in 2007. Zell is also the creator and co-producer of the Hip-Hop Theater Explosion which features poets, MC’s, DJ’s, dancers, and musicians in a theatrical variety show. He also hosts “Speaking the Spoken: The Art of Verse” a monthly open mic series at The VORTEX. Zell has been a featured poet at SxSW Fest and has opened for legendary artists such as Nikki Giovianni and The Last Poets. As one of the premiere hip-hop theater artists in the country, Zell is proud to bring this art form to his home city, Austin.

arrhythmia is a great way to honor Black History Month (February). Ask about Valentine’s Day Specials with Cake and Wine.