Upcoming: Burn This by Lanford Wilson, Proxy Theatre at Northwest Visa College, San Antonio, May 10 - 19

presents

Burn This

by Lanford Wilson

directed by Mark McCarver

May 10 - 19

Black Box Theatre, Northwest Vista College, Palmetto Arts Center

3535 North Ellison Drive, San Antonio, Texas, 78251 (click for map)

Tickets: $8 to $12 admission; $24 - $32 supporting levels via

Burn This begins after the funeral of Robby, a young gay dancer. His roommates- choreographer Anna and ad-man Larry- are left stunned and grieved. Burton, Anna's lover, tries desperately to console her, to no avail. Pale, Robby's older brother, comes to the Lower East Side Manhattan loft to collect Robby's belongings, but is unable to leave after meeting Anna. The four characters must find a way to overcome loss, regain control of their lives and ultimately find and redefine themselves. Owning a long history on Broadway, Burn This comes to San Antonio for the first time in years.

For reservations or more information: proxytheatre@gmail.com or 210.865.7618
Additional Website for the Show: facebook.com/proxytheatre

Cast:
Anna: Brandi Hollsten
Burton: Josh Harris
Larry: Jory Murphy
Pale: Roy Bumgarner


Tickets: Level One: Play ($12/ {$8 student/military/senior/satco}) Play with us. -regular admittance to one show -attend designated rehearsals -interact with the artists -invited to post mortem discussion Level Two: Ardor ($24) Experience the ardor. -all that tier one offers -your own script, signed by the cast -workshop attendance -invited the designer reveal Level Three: Danger ($32) Live dangerously. -all from tiers one and two -invited to prop party closing night -open-seat guarantee for all shows 

Burn This by Lanford Wilson, 7 Towers Theatre Company, December 2 - 18

For this intimate, powerful urban drama the setting is superb: a balcony-level studio downtown with a kitchen, a vantage point from which one could study passing vehicles, lines of close-parked cars, and pedestrians hurrying to music venues nearby. It's a "studio" in every sense of the word: with the addition of a minimum of furniture it represents a New York loft. Situated in the Ballet Austin building at 501 West Third Street, it's an appropriate practice space for the principal character Anna, a dancer aspiring to take on choreography. She says nothing in the opening moments, wrapped in music and apparently lost in an inner world , moving in a deliberate, expressive non-dance, settling on the beanbag chair and pillows right at our feet.

And it's a studio almost in the cinema sense. The 7 Towers Theatre Company performs close up for a limited audience seated on perhaps twenty hard folding chairs along the perimeter of the room. The action is so close before you and the faces are so near that you could be sitting in the darkness before the big screen -- except that these people are real and immediate, and they are using this studio in which you're no more than hovering eyes and consciousness.

Click to read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Funding Appeal: Burn This by Lanford Wilson, 7 Towers Theatre Company, Austin, December 2 - 18

Received directly:

7 Towers Theatre Company

appeals for for $2000 in funding via

for

Burn This

by Lanford Wilson

December 2 - 18

City View Terrace, Ballet Austin, 501 W. 3rd Street (click for map)

As of October 25, $1250 has been pledged; 25 days remain

The Project

Our first full season kicks off with a production of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This, December 2-18. The play is an often funny, often heartbreaking look into the human soul after a tragic loss. It deals with the aftermath of a dancer’s death for his roommate, a struggling New York choreographer, and his brother, a hard-edged restaurant manager from New Jersey. Burn This is a play that speaks to the realities of living in a less than ideal world, and finding moments of beauty within it. It’s about the artist’s place within the community. To that end, we’re producing Burn This in the City View Terrace at Ballet Austin. This non-traditional space allows us connection to the larger Austin arts community as well as to the downtown business community that surrounds both our production space and the lives of the characters in the play.

What We Need & What You Get

We need your help to get this first production off the ground! Besides production rights ($600+) and production space ($1000+), we need to provide costumes, set pieces to turn Ballet Austin's space into a New York loft, advertising/marketing costs and stipends for our professionally trained artistic and production teams. (Sadly, we'll never be able to afford to pay these fantastically talented people what they're worth, but you can help us to at least show some appreciation for the time, effort, and passion they've given us!) For your help, we'd love to give you some perks (see the sidebar), and an engaging, thought-provoking night of theatre!

Click 'Read more' for further information or go to the Indiegogo page . . . .

Upcoming: Talley's Folly, Unity Theatre, Brenham, July 2 - 19

Found on-line:

At the Unity Theatre, Brenham, Texas,
a Pulitzer Prize winner returns

Talley's Folly
A love poem for an apple and an orange
by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Teresa Beckers
July 2 – 19, 2009
Thursdays 7:30 pm Fridays & Saturdays 8:00 pm Sundays 4:00 pm

On a moonlit summer night in 1944, with the world at war, two people have a clandestine meeting along a quiet river in an abandoned boathouse known to the locals as “Talley’s Folly.”

A charming romantic comedy and Unity Theatre’s first presentation 14 years ago, Talley's Folly returns to tell of an unlikely love between a bookish accountant and a 31-year-old spinster. The audience is invited to watch as this fragile pair tip-toes toward love through a thicket of family disapproval and their own complicated pasts.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .