Upcoming: A Teenager's Guide to Love, musical by Weird City Theatre Company at Dougherty Arts Center, May 54 - 21

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announces the world premiere of

A Teenagers Guide to Love

A 50's Musical Parody

May 5 - 21, 2011 at the Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road (click for map)

Performances are Thursday through Saturday nights at 8 p.m.

Thursday Nights are “Pay What You Wish” at the door. For all other performances, tickets are $15.00 for adults and $12.00 for children, seniors and students (with ID), and group rates are available. Advanced tickets can be purchased at our website, www.weirdcitytheatre.com.

Weird City Theatre Company announces the world premiere of A Teenagers Guide to Love, written & directed by WCT Managing Director, Patti Neff-Tiven. A Teenagers Guide is a musical parody of 50's – 60's educational films- How Do You Choose a Date? How Much Affection? Who Wrote the Book of Love?

These questions and more will be explored in an evening of kitschy, song-filled fun Our trusty narrator John F. Carroll guides us through the romantic pitfalls of our teen couple played by Sarah Griffin-Covey and Justin Hampton. With WCT company members Kevin Gouldthorpe, Jenni Bauer, Bethany Harbaugh & Robert Berry. The band includes Seth Tiven (guitarist- Dumptruck, Promise Breakers), Justin Bankston (bassist- Promise Breakers, The Paper South) and Donnie Poston (drummer- Dumptruck, Dunebuggy)

Weird City Theatre's mission is to encourage the growth of the artist and represent the uniqueness and vitality of Austin through re-envisioned classics and original works. Keeping a child-like sense of play, we focus on the process of the actor and we are playing our part to keep Austin weird!

Weird City Theatre is a sponsored project of the Greater Austin Creative Alliance, a nonprofit performing arts service organization.

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Weird City Theatre Company, July 16 - 26

Here's what I like about John Carroll and the Weird City Theatre Company: they have a sense of fun that's irreverent and modern, but they take their drama seriously.

Necessarily low-rent but not sloppy, the company performs with energy, confidence, and an appreciation for the text, whatever it might be. They have a taste for pop -- we've seen an adaptation of Night of the Living Dead, a faithful production of William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, and around Halloween we'll get their take on Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau's 1921 unathorized film version of Dracula.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals from 1775 is pop of a different sort. Sheridan, born into a theatrical family and married for love. The success at Covent Garden of this, his first play, spurred him to buy out Garrick's Drury Lane and subsequently to run successfully for Parliament. It's a comedy of manners in which Jack, an artistocratic military officer, disguises his well born origins in order to court Miss Lydia Languish, a dizzy heiress beguiled by popular novels and intent on forfeiting her ample trust fund by marrying poor, for love.

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