Upcoming: The 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm by Rachel McGinnis, Paper Moon Repertory at the Blue Theatre, February 17 - March 4

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presents

The 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm

by Rachel McGinnis

February 17 - March 4

Thursdays - Saturdays, Mondays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 6 p.m.

Playing as the first part of a double bill with Will Hollis Snider's Messenger No. 4

Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale (click for map)

Purchase double-bill on-line ($26.72 per ticket) or call to reserve: (512) 524-3761

When a powerful invention lands in the hands of impulsive Phineas Hamm on his 25th birthday, he’s faced with the possibility of altering his reality with the single pull of a lever. What happens when desires and abandon trump resilience and loyalty? Set to music with choreography by Ballet Austin’s Kaitlyn Moise, Phineas is an exploration of tempting fortunes and their immediate outcomes.

The cast features Austin favorites Aaron Alexander (Big Love), Katie Blacksmith (Servant of Two Masters), Molly Fonseca (Going with Jenny), Jay Fraley (Spirits to Enforce), Omid Ghorashi (The Assumption), Toby Minor (Spirits to Enforce), Andrea Smith (Big Love), Breanna Stogner (Down the Drain), Brie Walker (The Tempest), and newcomer Gabriel Peña as Phineas.

The late 1800s. Dancing and indulgence. Invention and industry. The world of Phineas Hamm is ever-changing, swiftly shifting from opulence to poverty and barreling through 21 versions of reality in an age of mass produced workhouses, manors, tenements and brothels. A visual feast set to music with choreography by Ballet Austin’s Kaitlyn Moise, The 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm is a tender look at the power of choice, the pressure of the future, and the spectacular possibility of changing the past.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Hotel Morocco by Aaron Black, Echo Productions at the Blue Theatre, January 22, 24, 26, 30

Aaron Black's Hotel Morocco has lots of ambience and some tough, snarling dialogue. Talk about atmosphere -- he has taken the 50s noir setting of a New York fleabag hotel, populated it with dumbasses, women looking for bad sex, gangsters, a demented ancient resident and one would-be writer on his way down. The writer, carrying the Everyman label of Adam, lost his previous job in a better hotel and is in deep, limp depression over his father's death. To cap it all, he has writer's block.

Black ladles it out. These people are are all corporality, crassness, crime and copulation. The actors, several of whom were with Black in City's Hamlet, have a good time with this nasty dialogue and they deliver it well.

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

Upcoming: The Head, Hands and Toes Mambo Show (mime), Dougherty Arts Center, September 11 - 20

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Tongue and Groove Theatre
presents

The Head, Hands and Toe Mambo Show

directed by Omid Ghorashi

An assortment of mime vignettes set to mambo music. A fun hour of delightful entertainment for the entire family.

Friday, September 11 – Sunday, September 20. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm.

The Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd.

Tickets are $10 — available through Austix
Call (512) 474-8497,
Visit www.nowplayingaustin.com,
Or pay by cash or check at the door.

Tongue and Groove Theatre is a sponsored project of Austin Circle of Theaters. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.