THE WHIPPING MAN by Matthew Lopez, City Theatre, February 7 - March 2, 2014

(Click poster to go to show info at www.citytheatreaustin.org)

Auditions in Wimberley for Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, by Ed Graczyk, February 6, 8 and 9, 2014

The Wimberley Players are holding auditions for "Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean", a comedy-drama by Ed Graczyk, produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

"Come Back..." takes place in 1975 as a group of women, quirky high school friends, who honor their promise to reunite 20 years after the death of their idol, Jimmy Dean in their hometown of McCarthy, Texas, a dustbowl remnant of days gone by. Their reunion reveals not only the depth of their friendships, but reveals the secrets they have guarded and built their lives around. Funny, intimate, dramatic... a great show for audiences and the ensemble cast of five women, ages 35-40 years.


Auditions will be scene readings from the play at these date/time/locations:

February 6th, Thursday, from 7-9PM, Room 206 at the Theater Building of Texas State University, 601 University Drive, San Marcos. The Theater Building is a round red brick building located at the corner of University Drive and Moon Street.

February 8th, Saturday from 2-4PM, at the Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley; and

February 9th, Sunday from 7-9PM, at the Wimberley Playhouse


You are invited and encouraged to attend!


Show Dates: April 11, 2014 – May 4, 2014, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:30 pm

Long time Wimberley Player David Bisett is directing. His directing credits include: Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart, Leading Ladies, Divorce Southern Style, Da, All the Way Home, Marvin's Room, and Blythe Spirit. For questions about the play, contact David Bisett at 4davbis@gmail.com
 

Contact Adam Witko for info about scripts (512) 632-7638 or Adam@AdamWitko.com


Click to view cast list and descriptions at CTXLT.com

Auditioning for Teenage Girl Who Speaks Spanish, Plane Pretend at MACC, January 18, 2014

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THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF ICE by Max Langert, Punchkin Rep, January 25 - February 1, 2014

Punchkin Rep is producing a new play by Austin playwright, Max Langert, entitled “The Relentless Pursuit of Ice” for FronteraFest 2014!

Friday, January 24 at 8pm

Saturday, January 25 at 8pm

Friday, January 31 at 8pm

Saturday, February 1 at 8pm

The Relentless Pursuit Of Ice is set in the impending desolate future, where we focus on a couple. We follow their daily life of enduring the never ending, increasingly miserable hot sun. With the weather getting hotter, and more unbearable, a special delivery is brought to their door. Choices must be made. Will this new adventure tear them apart, or bring them together?

HERE IS OUR AMAZING CAST!

Liz: Candice Carr Tom: Adam Foldes Frankie: Jonathan Itchon

We are pleased to welcome Kyle Zamcheck to our team as our Director for this production!

Venue: The Museum of Human Achievement (please email us at info@punchkin.org for the venue address). If you purchase tickets online, you will be sent a confirmation email from Frontera Fest with the venue address. Bring a blanket!

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Auditions in San Antonio for Carmen de la Calle,

Published by San Antonio Latino/Latina Theatre Alliance:


CALLING ALL ACTORS ! Colectiva Arts & Culture is holding auditions for "Carmen de la Calle", a New Latino musical written by nationally recognized writer/poet and performing artist Amalia Ortiz. The Latino Cultural Center in Dallas,TX will be presenting 'Carmen' March 14th and 15th, 2014. This is a wonderful opportunity to be a part of an amazing show created here in South Texas, it is our chance to take San Antonio Teatro on the road and beyond. Actors with experience and training in musical theatre and cDance are highly encouraged to Audition. I will be waiting to hear from you San Anto.
Director: Joel C. Settles Producer: Colectiva Arts & Culture
Presenting Organization: The Latino Cultural Center Dallas,TX
Auditions are by appointment only. To request an appointment please email Joel Settles at joelsettles@gmail.com or call 210.440.2753. Please submit a photo of yourself ( any kind of photo is sufficient ), resume, and indicate the role(s) in which you are interested. Please prepare a one minute musical selection of your choice. Please choose something appropriate for the show.
On the day of your audition please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to your scheduled audition appointment. Bring a CD of your musical selection. A cappella is allowed.
Audition Location: The Cameo Center, 1123 E. Commerce St. SA,TX (click for map )
Performance Dates: March 14th & 15th at Latino Cultural Center Dallas,TX (meals and lodging will be provided )
Rehearsals Feb 3rd – March 13th
“Carmen de la Calle” is a new Latino musical written by nationally recognized and award winning poet and performer Amalia Ortiz (Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry HBO, the prestigious Hedgebrook writers residency program, 2011 IC3 Residency at the National Hispanic Cultural Center) .This full length musical will feature the diversity of Texas music including Latino Hip-Hop, Tex-Mex Conjunto, country music, and adaptations of traditional Mexican standards. From the pulsating beat of hip-hop and rap to the dance hall sounds of George Strait and Doug Sahm, “Carmen de la Calle” will have it all. Set in 1989 San Antonio and the present, this adaptation of Georges Bizet’s classic opera dives deep into the themes of passion and envy in portraying the lives and struggles of the marginalized and working classes of South Texas. “Carmen de la Calle” highlights the hibridity of Tex-Mex culture by incorporating the melodrama of novelas (Mexican soap operas), spoken word, bilingualism, and the musical confluence of Mexican standards, modern Tejano, Hip-Hop and the music of 1989 pop culture.

The story begins in present day with Mercedes behind her bar. After witnessing a scuffle between a young patron and her boyfriend, Mercedes is reminded of the tragic story of her friend, Carmen. With the musical help of a local DJ and the house band, Mercedes guides the audience through a flashback of her youth in San Antonio. Audiences will be swept up in the lives of Carmen, a gorgeous and tenacious femme fatale factory worker and Queen of the Theo Avenue Gs, her lover Joe, a strait-laced all-American military police officer who grew up in the Valley, and neighborhood homies like Frasquita, a female emcee with big hair, big earrings and big attitude, and Don Cairo, Carmen’s macho equal, aspiring rapper, and leader of the Theo Avenue Gs.

Click  to view role descriptions at CTXLT.com

Gallathea by John Lyly, Poor Shadows of Elysium at Trinity Street Black Box Theatre, First Baptist Church, January 3 - 19, 2014

 



by Michael Meigs

Kevin Gates is intensely dedicated to the text of early modern English drama. In the same secret space where he was transformed into Shakespeare's Coriolanus just over a year ago, he has conjured up a graceful and whimsical staging of a work from the London of 1588 that you've not seen and probably have never heard of: John Lyly's Gallathea.

It's a pastorale that provides definitive evidence that Shakespeare wasn't the only dramatist whose plots sent young ladies disguised in men's clothing off to adventures, amorous and otherwise. Lyly's play was performed by the Children of St. Paul's for Queen Elizabeth on New Year's Day, Gates notes, and the Virgin Queen no doubt appreciated the many references to the 'virgins' in the leading roles: Gallathea and Phillida, whose fathers sent them off under manly cover in order to escape sacrifice to the god Neptune.

Rachel Steed-Redig, Kristin Hall (photo: Bridget Farias)

One amusing hitch to this strategem: the two sweet women fall in love with one another.

You've certainly seen other avatars of Gallathea, by the way, for in Greek mythology she was the sculpture carved by Pygmalion and endowed with life by Aphrodite. George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion was the basis for My Fair Lady. And pastoral scenes were dotted throughout early modern European literature. Gates cites a 1574 play by Torquato Tasso. It so happens that Miguel de Cervantes' first work, a verse compendium published in 1585, was La Galatea.

Lyly's story shares little with the legend or those literary works except for a pastoral setting where various Greek gods vie with one another to exert dominion over the small number of rustics inhabiting the forest. Lyly sends three plots spinning through this 90-minute performance: the flight of the virgins and their finding of one another; the misadventures of some penniless brothers in search of fortune or at least of regular employment; and Cupid's attempts to cast tricksy spells upon huntress Diana's band of vestals, an effort to entice them from chastity to the pleasures of love.

Click to read more at CTXLT.com . . . . 

(*) Sound Designer Needed ASAP for Portmanteaux at the Overtime Theatre, San Antonio

Posted by Lara T. Garza today, January 9:

Laura T. Garza (via Facebook)

Atac San Antonio

** Sound Designer NEEDED ASAP for the show I'm directing right now at The Overtime** Portmanteaux by Deborah Yarchun opens Jan 24th [and runs through February 22] ... if you are interested in helping out, please comment on this thread... if you know people in the biz please share this posting.. I would greatly appreciate it — at The Overtime.

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Audition Call in Austin for the Vagina Monologues, Saturday, January 11, 2014

Posted on Facebook:

A call to women interested in being a part of V-Day Austin's 2014 The Vagina Monologues production, whether on or off the stage.

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

Saturday, January 11, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Auditions for Teatro Vivo's Sketch Comedy 'The Mexcentrics,' January 4, 2013

Teatro Vivo is holding Actor Auditions on January 4, 2014, 3 - 7 p.m. for The Mexcentrics sketch comedy troupe at TKO - 700 N. Lamar #200B.
Parts are available for men and women ages 18-80+. Knowledge of Spanish for some roles is a plus but not required. Actors should prepare a comedic monologue. Each monologue should be no more than 1- 2 min. in length. Bring a headshot or photo. You may also bring a resume – optional.
Auditions are by appointment. For more info or to schedule an audition, email Deanna at deanna.teatrovivo@gmail.com.

*Writer Workshop Jan 6 - 9th
*Rehearsals Jan 13 - Feb 6 (Mondays - Thursdays)
*Tech week Feb 10th - 12th
*Show Runs Feb 13 - March 1 (Thursday - Saturday)

Auditions in San Antonio for Portmanteaux by Deborah Yarchin, Overtime Theatre, December 26 and 27, 2013

Auditions for Portmanteaux by Deborah Yarchun,
Thurs 6-8 pm and Friday 4-6 pm; callbacks Friday 6-8 pm Overtime Theatre Center, 1203 Camden Street, San Antonio, 78215 - click for map

Auditions will include cold readings from the script or a one minute prepared contemporary monologue.
Portmanteaux by Deborah Yarchun: (Jan 24 – Feb 22) 

Liza, a recent college graduate and composer, works a manic number of odd jobs. When she’s not Duck Tour guiding, selling ads for a magazine about creepy places in Pennsylvania, catering, or tutoring, she creates soundscapes of her isolated existence in her now roommate-devoid, shelled out apartment. Her life-agenda is thrown into disarray when she collides with Dale, a young anarchist with a diametrically opposed concept of life. Through misadventures including an ill-fated attempt to fly a kite, urban spelunking, and an epic rideshare journey, Dale and Liza alter each other’s worlds.

Playhouse's Tribe Brings Theatre to Teens, by Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News

 

Playhouse's Tribe brings arts to teens

By Deborah Martin  December 20, 2013

Daniel Quintero (photo: Jim Reel via San Antonio Express-News)SAN ANTONIO — Daniel Quintero remembers really, really wanting to be involved with theater, and not being entirely sure how to make that happen.

Quintero, 18, eventually found his way to The Playhouse San Antonio, scoring an internship and launching the Daniel the Intern blog, where he provides a behind-the-scenes look at goings-on at the theater.

A few months ago, he started working on a project to give other teens a similar experience.

“I want other kids that have that same yearning to have the opportunity to engage themselves in theater,” Quintero said. “I'm a senior (at Keystone School); I'll be gone in a year. I want to leave behind something I didn't have.”

That something is The Tribe, a group of high school and college students based at The Playhouse. The roughly 20 members — all of whom have made cash donations to the theater as part of the program, giving them a literal investment in the theater — help market The Playhouse. They also see Playhouse productions and serve as an informal welcoming committee at performances, chatting with audience members about the theater and whatever show is taking place. 

They've also helped facilitate events: Quintero recently mediated a Q&A following a performance of the play “Wittenberg” in the Cellar Theater.

They host some of their own events, too. Their first was a preview of the spring shows in the Cellar Theater; all of the Tribe members delivered spirited readings from the plays.

The program was modeled, in part, on the Young Adult Council, a teen group based at the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

Amy Mireles, Naomi Villegas, Andrew Gutierrez (photo: Jim Reel via San Antonio Express-News)

Read more at San Antonio Express-News

Auditions in Bulverde for 'Irena's Vow,' January 5, 2014

Spotlight Theatre & Arts Group Etc, Inc. (S.T.A.G.E., Inc.)

Auditions for IRENA'S VOW, Sunday, January 5, at 4 p.m.

Based on real events, it tells the story of Irena, a housekeeper for a Nazi commandant, who decides to shelter Jewish workers in the officer's house.

Characters Needed: 4 Female - 6 Male

Irena Gut Opdyke; Helen; Rokita's secretary; Franka Silberman; Schultz; The Visitor; Polish Worker; Mayor of Jerusalem; SS Officer; Major Rugemer; Lazar Hallar; Sturmbannführer; Ida Hallar

Location: 1300 Bulverde Road , Bulverde, Texas, 78163-0575

Contact Persons: Zada Jahnsen/Charlotte Miniard (830) 438-2339

(*) 'Two-fers' for Cameo Theatre's White Christmas, December 14, 2013 - January 1, 2014

From livingsocial.com:

"Irving Berlin's White Christmas": 2 Tickets

Cameo Theatre • San Antonio, TX

Select Dates in December and January

• Two Tickets ($36 instead of $72)
• Choice of Ten Performances
• Hear All the Songs from the Film Plus More!

Make your days merry and bright with a ticket to the stage production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas at Cameo Theatre. With two tickets to one of ten shows through January 1, you and a special date can get caught up in this classic story of two "dynamite acts" in the days of the dinner show, including original Irving Berlin favorites like "Sisters," "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep," and of course, "White Christmas."
Choose from the following offers:
• $36 ($72 value) for two adult tickets to a show on December 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, or 29; or January 1
• $42 ($84 value) for two adult tickets to a show on December 31
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A timeless tradition without which no holiday season would be complete, "White Christmas" tells the story of dynamic duo Bob Wallace and Phil Davis's rise to song-and-dance fame following World War II. Fueled by an interest in two lovely sisters with their own singing act, the pair of performers end up in Vermont putting on an elaborate holiday production that will warm your heart and have you on your feet by the finale.

Extra: Click to read Deborah Martin's December 17 view at www.mysanantonio.com

 

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