A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet, Tongue and Groove Theatre at Austin Playhouse, July 10 - 26

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, July 29




Found on-line, following up a July 9 listing in the Austin Statesman:

Tongue and Groove Theatre presents

A Life In The Theatre
by David Mamet

July 10-26; Thursday – Saturday at 8:00 PM (and every Sunday at 5:00PM)
On the Main Stage of The Austin Playhouse
3601 South Congress, 78704

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Ahhhh! A life in the theatre! The drafty halls, the penciled scripts, the stories you hear. The greasepaint–just vivid colors in oily goop, but somehow as evocative as Proust’s madelines–blah blah blah blah….

What is it with actors and their maddening romanticizing about life in the theatre? The surest traditions are long hours, lousy pay, inept producers, sweaty dressing rooms, falling scenery, and the wrath of critics.

The only thing that could make the job worse is some creepy old actor with an irrepressible desire to educate the uninitiated. Here we have the young Zeb West (The Red Balloon) barely tolerating the wisdom and idiosyncrasies of the old Michael Stuart (The Fantasticks)—onstage and off—in this hilarious and touching send-up of the traditions, superstitions, and vagaries of the theatre.

Directed by Mark Stewart (Bomb Shelter: Or The Modern Pinocchio).

Tongue and Groove Theatre is a sponsored project of Austin Circle of Theaters. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.