FLORENCE, A new devised work to be performed at Sparky Park, Austin, December 6-8 & 12-15, 2013

From Gale Theatre Company, in collaboration with the City of Austin and Bottle Alley Theatre Company, comes FLORENCE. Directed by Katherine Wilkinson and created by the Gale Ensemble, Florence tells the story of Florence Lawrence, America's "First Movie Star." Through physical theatre, dance, and video, Florence explores fame, old hollywood, and what it truly means to be remembered. Expect to see actors literally swinging from the rafters of the historic sparky park substation. Florence is also filled with shakespeare, kanye west, exhaustion, chaos,glamor and much much more. 

Dec 6-8 & 12-15 @ 8pm

Sparky Park Substation, 3701 Grooms Street, Austin (THE SUBSTATION WILL BE HEATED!) - click for map

Tickets: $20-General, $10-25 & Under --Buy tickets at








This performance is rated PG-15


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Directed by Katherine Wilkinson (www.katherinewilkinson.com)
Choreographed by Katherine Wilkinson & Celina Chapin

Performed by Ra'chel Lowery, Zoey Cane Belyea, Sam Gorena, Kenny Amponsah, Vanessa Alvarado, Martha Zo Ryland, Brittaney Ortiz, Kimberly Gifford

Stage Managed by Zac Crofford & Paul Mahaffey
Scenic, Costume and Media Design by Ráchel Lowery
Dramaturgy & Video Design by Zoey Cane Belyea
Produced by Gale Theatre Company & Bottle Alley Theatre Company

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For more information: www.galetheatre.tumblr.com www.bottlealley.co @galetheatre @alleybottle

FAME, the musical, Austin Children's Theatre at the Vortex Repertory, February 9 - 24, 2013

presents

February 9 - 24
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. , Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday matinee February 23 at 2:30 p.m.
Vortex Repertory Company, 2307 Manor Rd. - click for map

This February the students of Austin Conservatory of Theater become students of The High School for the Performing Arts. Join them at PA as they sing, dance, and dream their way through the four year journey in this bittersweet and inspiring musical. With a variety of characters, universal themes, and catchy pop music, this musical is perfect for teens and teens-at-heart. Come dance on the sidewalk, make magic, and live forever with Fame!

Though the performers range in age from 11 to 15, are calling this show PG-13 for mature themes and language. If you have any questions, please call 512-927-6633.

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Aiming High -- Theatre Education at Colee Studios, Austin Shakespeare and Tex-Arts

Waylon and Willie scored a big hit back in 1978 with the ballad "Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, " with the mournful advice, "Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such."

It's tempting to add, "Don't let 'em grow up to be actors, either," but that would be foolish, because it would go unheeded. There's a huge and ever renewing pool of talent out there, young persons of all ages with stars in their eyes, and we can only be grateful for the opportunities to watch them learn and grow.

Of all those theatre students in the universities, colleges, and high schools in and near Austin, perhaps one in a thousand will eventually be able to work full time in performance. Others will slide into different employment where from time to time they can astound with the assurance and the eloquence from theatre training. Some will choose education, either from the beginning or later on, with the recompense of regular if not spectacular earnings and a coterie of youngsters who want to understand what it's really like "out there."

Young persons in Central Texas have plenty of opportunities for quality theatre education, even outside the familiar paths of schoolwork. This past week I visited three of the best -- Lee Colée Atnip's annual "Broadway Bound" workshops, Austin Theatre's youth production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the reduced-scale Globe replica the Curtain Theatre, and Tex-Arts' three-week intensive academy production of Fame, the Musical.

Read more and view images at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .