MOST LIKELY TO. . . , Coldtowne Theatre, September 24, 2013

"Most Likely To..." A Live Variety Show at ColdTowne Theater September 24, 2013

4803 Airport Rd, Austin, TX 78751 -- click for map

"Most Likely To..." delves into the deepest darkest part of the human experience...HIGH SCHOOL! Then turns them into sketches, songs, and videos.

Have you ever wanted to see your or others' wonderful and terrible high school experiences theatrically performed on stage? Yes? No? Maybe So!

Whether you were a class clown, a loner, or a cheerleader, we were all Most Likely To grow up, so let's look back and remember the days when nothing and everything mattered all at once.

"Most Likely To..." plays at ColdTowne Theater on Tuesday, September 24 at 8:30PM. ONE NIGHT ONLY! $5.00 Admission.

Go to coldtownetheater.com to purchase advance tickets.

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Upcoming: New Year's Eve Comedy by Coldtowne Theatre at Salvage Vanguard

Found on-line:

Coldtowne Theater & Gnap! present a New Year's Eve Night of Comedy!

Dead Uncle Ted and Loose Fish

Dec. 31, shows at 8 & 10pm, and a dance party from 11:30 on...

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Road

Tickets are $20 for each show or $30 for both. This event and the post show dance party is BYOB. Tickets can be had at coldtownetheater.frontgatetickets.com

ColdTowne Theater (in conjuction with Gnap! Theater Productions) is hosting an evening of comedy, dancing and carrying on this New Year’s Eve at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre. Two comic plays, originally performed by L.A.’s Dasariski, are being cast with performers from the Austin comedy community (including members of ColdTowne, the Frank Mills, Midnight Society, Dusk, Get Up and more) and mounted on New Year’s Eve.

The plays, Dead Uncle Ted (8pm) and Loose Fish (10pm), are character driven pieces whose plots ebb and flow along absurd tangents. People’s lives intersect with one another as their comedic flaws are unearthed. Ultimately, no one learns anything too important, and their behaviors remain predictable to the point of being goofy. The inevitability of the whole thing could boarder on tragedy, if it weren’t so damn funny (see 'readmore' for play descriptions).

>Each performance will be opened by a short set from sketch workshops taught by visiting instructor, performer and Dasariski member Rich Talarico (SNL and Mad TV). Talarico is making his second New Year’s Eve appearance in Austin on the heels of last year’s successful Eye for an iPhone revue. At 11:30pm, after the shows, the SVT stage will open for a ’60s dance party!

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Ongoing: Dear Frailty, Coldtowne Theatre, Fridays in August

From the review by Wayne Alan Brenner in the Austin Chronicle, August 6:


Dear Frailty
written and performed by Arthur Simone
Coldtowne Theatre, Fridays at 9 p.m. during August

There's no improvisation here. No goofs for laughs, particularly, either, although the several characters Simone portrays in his almost 60 minutes onstage provoke both nervous giggles and the occasional helpless guffaw. These aren't cartoons he's got going here; these are evocations of real and twisted people, the places where cheaper parody comes from: a grocery-store clerk who's obsessed with physical decay and aging and wants to burn the decay out of everyone's all-too-human flesh; a girl who's not quite happy about her lover's predilection for, ah, water sports; an old woman remembering her harsh past; and the PowerPoint presenter with his hilarious report on the future of capitalism.

And Simone, throughout it all, inhabiting the different characters to a believable and creepy level, with little costumery or props, renders a series of portraits as his muse increases the current to provoke another creative seizure, the jolts reflected in the actor's eyes, his jittery intense manner of delivery. This is good stuff; this is dark and twitchy and very human stuff; it is well-written and equally well-performed, and sometimes it will make you laugh.

Read more at the Austin Chronicle. . . .