Upcoming: Divas! musicale, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, March 12 - 27

Received directly:

Divas: An Evening of Music!

A Gaslight-Baker Original Production
Fridays and Saturdays, March 12-27, 8 p.m.
Special Matinee Performances Sunday, March 21 and Saturday, March 27, 2 p.m.
Admission is $12/ general, $10/student and seniors, available on-line

We are excited to be present the first musical review put on by the Gaslight Baker Theatre! Christy Smith and Tysha Calhoun have taken on the task of creating Divas: An Evening of Music performed by 11 of the most talented female artists that Central Texas has to offer.

The program will showcase tunes from the early 1920's to present day, from show tunes to pop music. The Gaslight-Baker is thrilled to have all these talented DIVAS together together on stage to deliver an exciting, enjoyable night of song and dance.


The cast features Lauren Allen, Amber Bhatnagar, Brandi Brown, Tysha Calhoun, Carla Daws, Jennie LaBuhn, Merrari Martinez, Kristie "Kirby" Mattos, Melanie Salyers, Christy Smith, Sandy Zellers Tolson. [Photo: Eric Marsh]

Directed by Tysha Calhoun with choreography by Christy Smith, this production is a new venture for the theatre, with memorable performances by both individual "divas" as well as light and fun group numbers. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "I Will Survive," "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Bushel and a Peck" and "Memory "are an example of the numbers which will be performed.

For more information, check our website at www.gaslightbakertheatre.org or leave a message at 512- 376-5653.

Hamlet, City Theatre, October 22 - November 15

Director Jeff Hinkle and the City Theatre cast led by Aaron Black as Hamlet give us a gripping up-tempo version of the famous events in Elsinore. Elapsed playing time from the first challenge on the battlements to Hamlet's dying gasp, "The rest -- is silence" is just a little more than two and a half hours.

That fits the play well within the max bounds for today's young movie-going public and gives them the bonus of a break in the middle for snacks and bathroom. The nearly full house for opening night offered the encouraging prospect of a well attended four-week run to open City's fourth season.

It's a good ride, with some surprises along the way.

Aaron Black paints a two-speed Hamlet. From the first, alone or speaking to us directly in his monologues, Black establishes the prince's intelligence. His deft timing and effectively calibrated pauses show Hamlet's mind at work and establish a bond with the audience.

In company with any but Horatio or the player king, however, Black speeds up, provokes and antagonizes. His diction is precise but as his lines move toward rant, he seems to be less the master of his own thoughts. They burst forth in hectoring images.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Images: Hamlet, City Theatre, October 22 - November 15

Images received directly from City Theatre Austin,
for

Hamlet

October 22 – November 15
Thursday – Saturday 8:00 p.m. Sunday 5:30 p.m.

The cast includes Aaron Black (Hamlet), Tim Brown (Claudius), Christy Smith (Gertrude), Shannon Davis (Ophelia), Jeannie Harris (Polonius), Collin Bjork (Laertes), Bryan Headrick (Horatio), McArthur Moore (Fortinbras, Ghost, Gravedigger), Clay Avery (Rosencrantz), Alexander Hall (Guildenstern/Marcellus), John McNeill (Player King), Leslie Robinson (Player Queen/Barnardo/Osric), and Colter Creech (Captain/Voltemand/Cornelius).

The City Theatre Company production of Hamlet will have a run time of two hours and thirty minutes including intermission. The director and cast invite audiences to the talkbacks after shows on Sunday, October 25 and Sunday, November 8.

The City Theatre. 3823 Airport Blvd. – east corner of Airport Blvd. and 38 ½ Street.

View more images at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming: Hamlet, City Theatre, October 22 -

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, October 26

UPDATE: Article by Sara Pressley in the Daily Texan, October 21: Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' Gets Modern Twist at Local Venue

Received directly:


Hamlet

City Theatre, October 22 - November 15
After show talk-backs October 25 and November 8.

A murdered king. A usurped kingdom. A promise of revenge. Returning to court to find his father murdered and his mother remarried, the young and melancholy Dane faces his most terrible dilemma between duty and doubt, madness and mistrust, and “murder most foul.”

[photo by Jordy Wagoner, Daily Texan]
An undisputed masterpiece of world theatre, William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy of passion, corruption and revenge has captivated audiences for more than four hundred years and remains as relevant and urgent as ever.

With Aaron Black, Collin Bjork, McArthur Moore, Christy Smith, and Tim Brown and featuring the live music ensemble orchestra of Mother Falcon.

Tickets $15 - $20. Guaranteed reserve $25. Thursdays pay what you can. Group and student discounts. www.citytheatreaustin.org

For reservations, call 512-524-2870 or e-mail info@citytheatreaustin.org.

The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D. – east corner of Airport Blvd. and 38½ Street.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Boom Town by Jeff Daniels, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, May 22 - June 6

Compression facilitates explosion.

This is a relatively simple application of basic physics. External pressure applied to a volatile gas speeds combustion, renders it the violent and maximizes heat. That's one of the principles that runs your automobile with its internal combusion engine.

Director/designer David Schneider at the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart applies the principle to Jeff Daniels' sardonically titled "Boom Town."

Schneider shrinks the focus within the wide proscenium by masking the wings with black curtains, and sharply narrowing the playing space to a nearly claustrophobic kitchen set.

He has cast the three roles for maximum credibility. There's not a breath of comedy or of exaggeration here. Two men and a women are linked by a failing business in a failing small town. They constitute a triangle. . . in geometry the most stable of figures but in human relations potentially the most volatile.

Read More at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .