Ann Pittman's Austin Theatre Favorites in 2013

From her blog aNNpITTMAN, posted January 12:

Top Ten Twenty-Thirteen Theatre

Ann Pittman (via Blogspot)

Everyone has their favorites. And everyone's weighing in (Chronicle critics: AdamRoberts, Robert Faires ... a cat).

Of course, I have my own opinions :)

So here's my credential-free pick for Austin's Top Ten 2013 Theatre Experiences (p.s. I don't include national tours or shows I was in on this list... tours obvs. aren't Austin, and despite my first girl-on-girl kiss this year, its probably biased to nominate performances I was a part of). Of the over twenty shows I saw this year, here's some moments, people and experiences that I loved (in no particular order)...

1. Barbara Chisholm in Fixing King John. This was a fun, smart show by the Rude Mechs, and pulling her hair out in the middle of it was a brilliant Barbara Chisholm.

2. The amazing set of Nursery Crimes (the DAC has never been better utilized) and the supporting characters trio of Travis Bedard, Bobby DiPasquale, and Heath Thompson. Kudos to Last Act's Will Snider for some great choices.

3. Ryan Crowder's big fat crocodile tears (in addition to the rest of his performance) in Penfold Theatre's Red.

4. Martin Burke's final monologue in Harvey. Lovely.

5. Kristi Brawner in general. From Sally in Reefer Madness to Lucy in Charlie Brown, she is quickly becoming Austin's most versatile 20 Something (sorry guys, she's taken).

6. HPT's Ken Webster as Thom Pain. Again.

7. Mad Beat Hip & Gone. I cannot understand why this didn't get more critical attention. Whatev. You guys, it was great. And those lightbulbs...

8. The Drawbridge/Gangplank lowering and raising set piece thing in Austin Playhouse's Man of La Mancha. Awesome and daunting. Broke up the play and the mood perfectly appropriately.

9. Little Shop of Horrors' colorful costumes at Zilker Park.

10. ZACH's A Christmas Story set. You'll shoot your eye out.

AND what I really, really wanted to see (which might have influenced the above list), but, alas, life had other exciting adventures...

1. Mical Trejo in Teatro Vivo's Confessions of a Mexpatriate

2. And Then There Were None by Austin Playhouse

3. Tongues (in the swimming pool!) by Theatre at the J

4. Fat Pig by Theatre En Bloc

So there you have it! Of the Austin theatre events I saw, these were the most super-duper. Maybe next year I'll be brave enough to give you The Worst Of... who knows! In the meantime, here's looking forward to more great, funny, meaningful, important, silly theatre in the heart of Texas in 2014!

Adam Roberts' 10 Favorites for Austin Theatre in 2013

Top 10 Dramatic Turns of 2013

A look back at some of the year's most gripping performances

By Adam Roberts, Fri., Jan. 3, 2014

Jill Blackwood in 'Les Miserables,' Zach Theatre (photo: Kirk R. Tuck)

In reverse chronological order:

1) THE COMPANY OF 'LET IT BE CHRISTMAS' (World Vision & Gateway Church) The performers heralded Christ's birth with rafter-shaking vocals that soared on high.

2) THE COMPANY OF 'BLOOD WEDDING' (Mary Moody Northen Theatre) The air of rural Spain poured forth from the ensemble in a riveting production of Lorca's drama.

3) JILL BLACKWOOD IN 'LES MISERABLES' (Zach Theatre) As Fantine, Blackwood dreamed her dream center stage in arresting fashion.

4/5) RACHEL MCGINNIS MEISSNER AND LAURA ARTESI IN 'A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE' (City Theatre Company) Meissner's striking turn as Blanche provided both realism and magic, and Artesi delivered a stellar Stella.

6/7) MICHAEL STUART AND BENJAMIN SUMMERS IN 'A WALK IN THE WOODS' (Street Corner Arts) Summers' Honeyman was visceral and searing, and Stuart's Botvinnik drew one in to such a degree that it was difficult to glance away.

8) THE COMPANY OF 'TWELVE ANGRY MEN' (City Theatre Company) From 1 to 12, each juror contributed his own heft to this wonderfully weighty production.

9) THE COMPANY OF 'BEAUTY IS THE BEST PRIEST: SHORT PLAYS OF THE HAR­LEM RENAISSANCE' (Austin Commun­ity College Department of Drama) Like a living museum inside a more traditional one, the company granted new insight into a world of literature with which I'd had little acquaintance.

10) JACOB TRUSSELL IN 'OTHER DESERT CITIES' (Austin Playhouse) Trussell's turn as Trip was as captivating and multilayered as it was realistic and honest.

Robert Faires' 15 Favorites in 2013 Austin Theatre, Austin Chronicle

Top 10 Reasons I Stayed in Love With Theatre in 2013


Austin thespians played for keeps, with boundless commitment and imagination, in the year's most memorable theatre


By Robert Faires, Fri., Jan. 3, 2014


1) 'SLIP RIVER' (UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance/Cohen New Works Festival) Spiriting its audience beneath the Payne Theatre, past clotheslines and through butcher-paper forests, feeding it cornbread muffins, and leaving it onstage in a festive dance party, this exhilaratingly theatrical mash-up of 19th century novels and modern pop – its orphan hero chases freedom along an "underground railroad" run by Beyoncé! – packed more imagination, adventure, and wit into half an hour than most plays do in three times that.


2) 'RICHARD III' (Texas State University Dept. of Theatre & Dance) The Bard's diabolical monarch as Third World despot, with Eugene Lee channeling Idi Amin in his brutal grasp for the crown. The entire cast seemed caught in Richard's fearsome grip, and chilling images of mayhem from director Chuck Ney kept us in dread throughout. 

3) 'I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER' (Breaking String Theatre) Lives during wartime – a mob thug in modern Moscow and a soldier on the front lines of World War II – rendered in harrowing detail by playwright Yury Klavdiev and conjured with hallucinatory power by Joey Hood, fluidly sliding between past and present while maintaining a white-hot intensity.


4) 'THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS' (Capital T Theatre) Who knew that fusty old mystic William Blake could inspire such carnal passion, such hilarity, and such theatrical bliss? A rapturous union of script, director, and actors, teeming with intelligence and craft.


5) 'THE POISON SQUAD' (The Duplicates) This inquiry into the origins of food-safety testing proved, for epicures of performance, a feast – steeped in ingenuity and collaborative energy, and liberally seasoned with playfulness.


6) 'WATCH ME FALL' (Action Hero/Fusebox Festival) The British team's cheap-theatre replays of daredevil stunts (e.g., a bike jumping over bottles of fizzing Coke) were a hoot, but seeded within them were disturbing images that also dared us to confront our cultural lust for danger and mob mentality.


7) 'THE EDGE OF PEACE' (UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance) Suzan Zeder's valedictory effort at UT wove threads from her 30 years of playwriting into a deeply felt drama of community, growing up, and moving on. A fitting farewell to her Mother Hicks characters and the year's most artfully crafted script.


8) 'TRU'/'THIS WONDERFUL LIFE' (Zach Theatre) Two solo shows, both performed in the cozy Whisenhunt, both by actors of prodigious gifts giving themselves over completely to their subjects: Jaston Williams to Truman Capote, his portrait deepened by time and made even more poignant; Martin Burke to It's a Wonderful Life, embodying the film's characters with rare honesty and embracing its message with sincerity.


9) 'ADAM SULTAN' (Physical Plant) We all died at the hands of playwrights Steve Moore and Zeb West in this extraordinary meditation on mortality and community. It imagined one man's efforts to memorialize Austin's theatre artists as they pass over time and did so with humor and grace.


10) 'ORDINARY PEEPHOLE: THE SONGS OF DICK PRICE' (Rubber Repertory) A night around the old piano in the living room – literally, as an exuberant ensemble escorted us through a batch of this local songwriter's most personal tunes as we sat in a Hyde Park living room. Sheer delight.


Honorable Mentions:


'THE BOOK OF MORMON' (Broadway in Austin/Texas Performing Arts)

'QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT' (Vortex Repertory Company)

'HOLIER THAN THOU' (Poison Apple Initiative)

'REEFER MADNESS' (Doctuh Mistuh Productions)

'BUTT KAPINSKI: WE ARE THE DARK' (Deanna Fleysher/Institution Theater)

Elizabeth Cobbe's Favorite Theatre Sets for 2013, Austin Chronicle

Top 10 Theatrical Sets of 2013, to a Cat

The year's scenic designs proved especially appealing to the feline theatregoer

By Elizabeth Cobbe, Fri., Jan. 3, 2014

(uncredited photo via Austin Chronicle)

1) 'THE AMAZING ACRO-CATS' The performing cats wandered freely through the audience, making the whole theatre their set.


2) 'THE HEAD' (Connor Hopkins for Trouble Puppet Theater) The staging area provided levels upon levels, with intricate, handmade puppets for kitty to maul if she became bored.


3) '33 VARIATIONS' (Cliff Simon for Zach Theatre) How was there not a cat lurking in those cavernous archives?


4) 'NOISES OFF' (Patrick Crowley for Austin Playhouse) Disregard the slamming doors, if you can, and relish in the many hiding places for actors and felines alike.


5) 'FIXING KING JOHN' (Thomas Graves, Madge Darlington for Rude Mechanicals) Platforms rigged for actors and audience made ideal scratching posts.


6) 'INTIMATE APPAREL' (Jocelyn Pettway for UT Department of Theatre & Dance) Several detailed scenes existed together onstage, with beautiful fabrics waiting to be peed on and shredded.


7) 'RED' (David Utley for Penfold Theatre Company) A thoughtful, realistic treatment of Mark Rothko's art studio provided hiding spaces and paint cans in abundance.


8) 'FAT PIG' (Patrick and Holly Crowley for Theatre en Bloc) Shifting platforms are great entertainment, provided you don't catch your tail in the rails.


9) 'MAD BEAT HIP & GONE' (Michael Raiford for Zach Theatre) Dark lighting made the catwalks all the more appealing to a true cat.


10) 'DIAL "M" FOR MURDER' (Ian Loveall for UT Department of Theatre & Dance) Nothing like a fancy English parlor with fine furniture if you're looking to shed.

Wayne Alan Brenner's Favorites in 2013, Austin Chronicle

Brenner's portmanteau of 13 items includes 6 from locally produced Austin theatre:

 

Top 10 Creative Things I Lucked Into in 2013

Remembering the year thick with superlative works of art onstage and in galleries

By Wayne Alan Brenner, Fri., Jan. 3, 2014

Katherine Catmull (photo: Capital T Theatre)

1) Joked with my editor that the first nine slots of this list would repeat 'THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS' (Capital T Theatre). That brilliant Mickle Maher comedy, about the consequences of two William Blake-enamored professors engaging in glorious copulation on the campus lawn in view of their students, was by far the best thing I experienced in a year thick with superlative works of art. Directed by Mark Pickell, the script was embodied by three actors – Jason Phelps, Katherine Catmull, and Ken Webster, already among the best in town – working at the height of their knock-you-over abilities.

. . . .

4) FRONTERAFEST is another multipartite perennial that keeps on giving, and one of the best Short Fringe things it gave was Kyle John Schmidt's "The Blissful Orphans," featuring Curtis Luciani, Bob Jones, and friends in a fractured fairy tale that surpassed anything Rocky & Bullwinkle ever attempted.

. . .

6) Using Jason Liebrecht as a hinge to open a door between two theatre productions: Martin McDonagh's 'THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE' (Capital T Theatre), brought to Grand Guignol life with Liebrecht chewing the scenery as an Irish terrorist who's out to slaughter whoever killed his beloved pet cat Wee Thomas; and 'FIXING KING JOHN' (Rude Mechanicals), Kirk Lynn's Deadwood-esque upgrade of Shakespeare, in which that same Liebrecht played the brave, hotheaded, sometimes near-colicky, and relentlessly besieged monarch contending with a cast of (mostly doomed) characters equal to his fierce talents.

7) Speaking of stagework, can somebody raid a sports paradigm and confer MVP status on actor MOLLY KARRASCH? I mean, Jesus, Slowgirl, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Tragedy: a tragedy, Dulcey and Roxy at City Hall – the woman's got range and a half.

8) Steve Moore and 'ADAM SULTAN' (Physical Plant) gave the Austin theatre scene an intimate view of itself with this heartfelt hall of mirrors, casting community stalwart Adam Sultan in the title role as a man who spends the increasingly lonely decades of his life commemorating all his creative friends who die as the years go by.

9) 'THE HEAD' (Trouble Puppet Theatre) was the semi-autobiographical apotheosis of everything that Connor Hopkins' strange and splendid company has done before, with so many disparate parts effectively orchestrated to show how ineffectively orchestrated a human can be when desire confounds sense and recreational drugs complicate the situation we call being alive.

Read full article at the Austin Chronicle on-line. . . .

(*) Deborah Martin's Favorites for San Antonio Theatre in 2013, Express-News, December 26, 2013

Best of 2013: Stage

December 26, 2013

This was a very good year for fiercely original work, including several pieces created out of whole cloth and fresh takes on “Hamlet” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”

Here's the best of the best:

• “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” Woodlawn Black Box Theatre
• “The Book of Mormon,” Broadway in San Antonio
• “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater
• “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre
• “Hetarae,” Jump-Start Performance Co.
• “I Am Celso,” Teatro Farolito
• “In the Heights,” Woodlawn Theater
• “Les Miserables,” Playhouse
• “Little Shop of Horrors,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre
• “Method & Madness: Hamlet 2013,” Jump-Start Performance Co. and Classic Theatre
• “Other Desert Cities,” Inception Theatre
• “Painting Churches,” Classic Theatre
• “Picnic,” Playhouse Cellar Theatre
• “Port Cove,” Overtime Theater
• “Ragtime,” Playhouse
• “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theater
• “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Klose/Seale Productions
• “Treasure Island,” Magik Theatre
• “Waiting for Lefty,” Proxy Theatre Company:
• “White,” AtticRep and the Aesthetic of Waste
• “Wittenberg,” Playhouse Cellar 

Deborah Martin

BENDING BROADWAY New Year's Eve Fundraiser, Austin Theatre Project at Center Stage on Real, December 31, 2013

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SBCT Radio, New Year's Eve at Sam Bass Community Theatre, Round Rock, December 31, 2013

presents

RADIO SBCT

NEW YEAR's EVE at 8 p.m.

(www.sambasstheatre.org)

Sam Bass Community Theatre,600 N. Lee St., Round Rock (in Memorial Park)

(click for map)

An evening of Live Old Time Radio

MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW FOR A SPECIAL EVENT
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Directed by Frank Benge

Spend your New Year's Eve with us at Sam Bass Community Theatre and travel back in time to the Golden Age of Radio!
We've planned an evening of classic entertainment for you!!

"The Baby Snooks Show"
"The Thin Man"
"The Shadow"
"The Bickersons"
... all performed live with live on-stage sound effects...
plus our Big Band Singer...
it's just like stepping back and being part of a live studio audience.

Featuring:
LYNN BEAVER, MARC BALESTAR, MARY SOUTHON, VERONICA PRIOR, FRANK BENGE,
MICHAEL VOHS, ROXY BECKER, IAN KING, ALEXANDRA RUSSO, RHONDA ROE,
DARREN SCHARF, CHRISTINA LITTLE-MANLEY and NATHAN URBAN

We will also have our usual silent auction, a special 40's gala buffet following the performance with a champagne toast at midnight... all included in your admission!!

We hope to see you and ring in 2014 with you!

Click to purchase tickets ($18 plus Vendini service fee)

Auditions in Fredericksburg for Little Shop of Horrors, December 16 and 17, 2013

Audition Notice for Little Shop of Horrors - Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman

December 16 & 17, 2013, 7 p.m. at Fredericksburg Theater Company, Steve Shepard Theatre, 1668 Highway 87 south, 1.5. miles south of Main Street, Fredericksburg -- (click for map )

Auditions for FTC's Winter Musical Little Shop of Horrors will be held Monday and Tuesday December 16th and 17th at 7 pm at The Steve W. Shepherd Theater located at 1668 Hwy. 87s. All roles are available for auditions. Please prepare one song that best showcases your vocal ability. A CD player and pianist will be provided. Cold readings will follow vocal auditions. Attendance to both audition days is not mandatory. Performances for Little Shop of Horrors are Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, Feb. 21st-Mar. 9th 2014. Attendance at Crunch week rehearsal, Feb. 17th-20th and all performances is mandatory. The first read thru is scheduled for Jan. 6th and first rehearsal will be on Jan. 13th.

A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!

Click for a list of characters with descriptions. Please contact the FTC office at 830-997-3588 or fbgtheaterco@austin.rr.com with questions or for additional information.

ALL-IDAY SHOW, Kings N Things at Elysium, Austin, December 20, 2013

 (click image to go to the Kings N Things Facebook page)

Seeking Actress for Role of the Mother in Sam Shepard's True West, playing in January, 2014

Weird Rodeo Theater Company 


For Sam Shepard's TRUE WEST we're seeking an actress who can play 50s or 60s for the role of the Mother

Performance Dates: January 9 - 25, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. at the Off-Center in Austin (click for map) Tech rehearsals: January 5-8
 Stipend: $250


*Rehearsals will accommodate holidays.


For more information and to schedule an audition, please send headshot and resume to:

WeirdRodeo@gmail.com 
 Cheers, Chris Hejl, Producer

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, Different Stages at Vortex Repertory, November 15 - December 14, 2013

(www.main.org/diffstages)

by Michael Meigs

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring is one of those whimsical comedies that just won't die. The playwright wins our sympathies with a pair of comforting maiden aunts, their capable journalist nephew Mortimer and a sweet parson's daughter. He then plays a series of clever modulations in madness -- from the harmless to the surprising to the pathological.

The play and the Jimmy Stewart movie are familiar, so this review's not likely to spoil it for anyone. You already knew about the poisoned elderberry wine, right? And the fact that Mortimer's brother Teddy, nutty as a fruitcake, has been helping his aunts by excavating 'Panama Canal locks' in the basement for use as the final resting places for a succession of lonely old men?

If you didn't, my apologies to you. But don't worry, for that surprise comes early in the action, as much for our protagonist Mortimer as for the audience. His quandary is how to deal with this revelation that, incredibly, has escaped his attention for months or maybe for years.

Karen Jambon, Jennifer Underwood (photo: Bret Brookshire)

Entirely normal except for their characters' belief in the beneficial effects of poison, Jennifer Underwood and Karen Jambon as the maiden aunts are mild, sweet and droll. It's a treat to see these partners playing together. Jambon's little-lady bird-steps are a bit affected, but otherwise these ladies are the sorts with whom you'd love to bake gingerbread.

Joe Hartman's bully portrait of Teddy (not) Roosevelt is a lot of fun, too -- especially in those moments when he backs ecstatically wide-eyed into the basement stairway. And while we're handing out compliments, bravo for Sarah Danko as Mortimer's girlfriend/fiancée Elaine. The lines assigned to her were written for a meek and progressively frustrated young thing, but Danko gives them an indignant bite often enough to suggest that maybe she's more of a woman that the hapless Mortimer actually deserves.

Click to read more at Central Texas Live Theatre

Holiday 2013 Greetings from Transit Theatre Troupe, St. Edward's University, Austin

Via Facebook:

Transit Theatre Troupe, St. Edward's University, 2013
Excited to announce our Spring 2013 Season!!

God of Carnage directed by Seth Stewart
AND!
This is Our Youth directed by Anna Schultz 

Bernadette Nason's 2013 Performances of A Christmas Carol by Dickens, December 4 in Spicewood, December 18 in Austin

Two Shows Only! One in Spicewood, One in Austin!

Bernadette Nason (via Facebook)

Charles Dickens'

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
presented by Bernadette Nason

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 7 p.m. at Spicewood Vineyards, 1419 Burnet County Road 409, Spicewood (spicewoodvineyard.com)
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 7 p.m. (further details to be announced)
Award-winning actress/storyteller Bernadette Nason reprises her role as EVERYONE in this critically-acclaimed one-woman version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, bringing vivid life to more than 30 characters.
A Christmas Carol has retained its place as a Christmas classic for over 150 years. Charles Dickens streamlined A Christmas Carol to make it appropriate for his own readings. This version uses the text (almost entirely) from Charles Dickens' own abridged version of his tale.

 

"Now this is a one-woman show. And Nason does portray all the characters. But stating these facts doesn't fully connect to the statement that Nason is A Christmas Carol,: narrator, characters, beginning, middle, drama, humor, end, and all..." Austin Chronicle, December 2009

"We kid you not. This is the Carol to see." Austin Chronicle, December 2010

"This one-woman-show version of the Dickens classic, brought to you by Bernadette Nason at the City Theatre, will send shivers of goodness down your spine while it warms the cockles of your solstice heart. Recommended." Austin Chronicle, December 2011

"Bernadette (Nason) delivers Dickens' quick-moving vivid text with crisp assurance and deft, economical mime. No exaggerations or mugging here; a shift of the shoulders, a roughening of the voice, a glint in the eye and she creates Ebenezer Scrooge in our minds, not in pantomime on the stage. Hers is the opposite of a bravado performance. She invites us into the fable, sketches the characters, and articulates the text with precision and relish... They're all here -- skinflint Scrooge, meek Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's bounding nephew Fred, the two quite distinct old gentlemen soliciting charity, each of the Crachit children, three spirits of Christmas and a goodly crowd of others..." Austin Live Theatre, December 2010

"Bernadette Nason's one-woman show sees her take up the role of a master storyteller whose narration is very close to the soul of the original work...A Christmas Carol, has a number of characters with diverse personalities making it very difficult subject for a monologue. On the contrary, Nason actually manages to bring life to over 30 characters, and goes on to give each character a unique voice and facial expression..." Austin Post, December 2010

Quickie Video Promo: Alpha Psi Omega Presents 'Noises Off,' University of Texas, November 22 - 24, 2013

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Alpha Psi Omega at UT Austin presents "Noises Off!" at the SAC Auditorium on Nov. 22 @ 7 PM, Nov. 23 @ 2 PM & 7 PM, and Nov. 24 @ 2 PM! Tickets are $3 for UT students and faculty and $5 for general admission. Come support local theatre!

Austin Stage Crew Member Claire Hunt Dies in Traffic Accident, November 18, 2013

Communicated to members and followers of the Austin chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), November 18:

Claire Hunt (photo courtesy of Kenny Kuykendal)

IATSE member Claire Hunt died this morning, November 18, 2013. 

She was driving in to a load-out call in Austin from her home in Cedar Creek around 3 a.m. when she was involved in a head-on collision. A car in oncoming traffic crossed double yellow lines.

Claire, you were a wonderful friend, positive co-worker, and loving mother. You will be missed.

No news yet of a memorial service.

Between scene shifts at Austin Lyric Opera’s Don Carlo she created this in collaboration with other deck hands.

(photo courtesy of Ryan Gallagher)

Video: Center Stage, Austin, 2013

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Austin Theatre Makers: Your Chance to Get the City to Pay Attention to Your Value for Tourism, December 7, 2013

From the Austin Creative Alliance:

Cultural Tourism Meeting In a Box

Share your thoughts on the Cultural Tourism Plan

The City of Austin is seeking input from various local artists, arts groups and producers to provide input on:

1) How to engage new audiences

2) How to align tourism initiatives with local arts stakeholders

3) How to empower local practitioners to participate in tourism initiatives

4) How to maximize cultural tourism opportunities year round

Come give your ideas and suggestions into this process. Only we can speak for ourselves and remember, the world is run by those who show up.

Cultural Tourism Plan Information Gathering Session

Saturday, Dec 7, 11am to 1pm
Dougherty Arts Center Theater
RSVP to russell.wiseman@austintexas.gov for "will attend" only

Video: FALL FOR DANCE, Dance Repertory Theatre, University of Texas, November 15 - 24, 2013

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Fall For Dance

Dance Repertory Theatre, University of Texas
Artistic Directors: David Justin and Holly Williams

Presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance

November 15 - 24, 2013 at the B. Iden Payne Theatre
BUY TICKETS NOW ($15.00 - $25.00)


Dance Repertory Theatre, the award-winning student dance company, returns to the stage to present work by nationally acclaimed artists including Mark Morris, David Justin, Yoav Kaddar and Holly Williams. 

Program: Raw by Yoav Kaddar; Unspeakable Truths by Stacy Skolnik; Orchid (premiere) by Holly Williams; Quiver by David Justin; Grand Duo by Mark Morris

Click for more information at the website

Composition by J.S. Bach: Partita No. 2, sarabande

LAS TREMENDAS AVENTURAS DE LA CAPITANA GAZPACHO por Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo, Proyecto Teatro at the Mexican-American Cultural Center, November 7 - 9, 2013

Las Tremendas Aventuras de la Capitana Gazpacho

A comedic drama performed in Spanish with English surtitles

November 8, 9 and 10

Friday - Saturday 8PM / Sunday - 4PM

Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center, 600 River Street - click for map

For reservations and ticket information call:

(512) 420-9078 or www.proyectoteatro.com

ProyectoTeatro presents their first main-stage production
Las Tremendas Aventuras de la Capitana Gazpacho (o de cómo los elefantes aprendieron a jugar a las canicas),
a comedic drama written by the Mexican dramaturg Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo
and directed by the company's artistic director, Luis Armando Ordaz Gutiérrez.

"Las Tremendas Aventuras de la Capitana Gazpacho" exposes the most common internal conflicts of human beings through absurdity that sadly-and why not, comically-are the driving forces of our very own realities.