Showing posts with label Michelle Brandt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelle Brandt. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

On The Verge (or the Geography of Longing) by Eric Overmeyer, Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University, March 3 - 13


On The Verge by Eric Overmeyer, Mary Moody Northen Theatre



"Bebe Rebozo!"

Those two words summarize the wit and triviality of Eric Overmyers' On the Verge (or The Geography of Longing), now playing at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre at St. Edward's University.


I laughted at the sudden illumination of an impression from 40 years ago. Bebe Rebozo - Richard Nixon's buddy. The Florida banker. The guy with the home in Key Biscayne where our Darth Vader president took refuge from the demands of office.

But so what?

Overmyer invents a tale of three Victorian-era lady explorers venturing off to terra incognita. Pith helmeted and wrapped in voluminous skirts, they recount their observations to us and to one another in the quaintly precise language of 19th century journals. The playwright mischievously sends them enigmas and clues that signal to us the fact that these earnest and intrepid demoiselles are journeying in time as well as in space.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Images by Bret Brookshire: On The Verge (or The Geography of Longing), Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University, March 3 - 13


Images by Bret Brookshire, received directly:

On The Verse Eric Overmeyer Lindsley Howard (image: Brett Brookshire)

Mary Moody Northen Theatre

presents

On The Verge (Or, The Geography of Yearning)

by Eric Overmyer

directed by David M. Long

March 3 - 13, Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2 p.m.

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University, 3001 S. Congress (click for map)

Advance tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. All tickets are $18 at the door. As special Student Night production on Mar. 10 at 7:30 p.m., offers half price tickets to those with a student ID.

Information and reservations at the box office, (512) 448-8484

St. Edward’s University Theatre Program goes on an expedition with playwright Eric Overmyer’s wild theatrical ride, On The Verge (Or The Geography of Yearning). Equipped with optimism, humor and a pound of pluck, three Victorian women set off on an expedition to Terra Incognita, uncharted territory. Armed with their umbrellas, backpacks, and terribly large vocabularies, the trio encounters a Beat-poetry spouting troll, Mr. Coffee, a Yeti, Cool Whip and a 1950s presidential campaign.

On The Verge Eric Overmeyer St Edward's UniversityPlaywright Overmyer is best known as a writer and producer for such acclaimed television series as “Treme,” “The Wire,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “New Amsterdam,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Law & Order,” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” His plays include Native Speech, In a Pig’s Valise, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, Mi Familia Tropicano, Mi Vida Loca, Dark Rapture and The Heliotrope Bouquet, among others. He is the recipient of the Le Comte de Nouy Award for playwriting, a McKnight Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Directed by David M. Long, the St. Edward’s production features Michelle Brandt, Avery Ferguson, Lindsley Howard and Jon Wayne Martin. George Marsolek provides the scenic design, with lighting design by Kris Carpenter, costume design by Alyssa Johnson, and sound design by Phillip Owen.

Click to view additional images by Bret Brookshire at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Upcoming: On The Verge by Eric Overmeyer, Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University, March 3 - 13



Found on-line:


Mary Moody Northen Theatre

presents


On The Verge (Or, The Geography of Yearning)

by Eric Overmyer

directed by David M. Long

March 3 - 13, Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2 p.m.

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University, 3001 S. Congress (click for map)

Advance tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. All tickets are $18 at the door. As special Student Night production on Mar. 10 at 7:30 p.m., offers half price tickets to those with a student ID.

Information and reservations at the box office, (512) 448-8484


St. Edward’s University Theatre Program goes on an expedition with playwright Eric Overmyer’s wild theatrical ride, On The Verge (Or The Geography of Yearning). Equipped with optimism, humor and a pound of pluck, three Victorian women set off on an expedition to Terra Incognita, uncharted territory. Armed with their umbrellas, backpacks, and terribly large vocabularies, the trio encounters a Beat-poetry spouting troll, Mr. Coffee, a Yeti, Cool Whip and a 1950s presidential campaign.

Playwright Overmyer is best known as a writer and producer for such acclaimed television series as “Treme,” “The Wire,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “New Amsterdam,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Law & Order,” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” His plays include Native Speech, In a Pig’s Valise, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, Mi Familia Tropicano, Mi Vida Loca, Dark Rapture and The Heliotrope Bouquet, among others. He is the recipient of the Le Comte de Nouy Award for playwriting, a McKnight Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Directed by David M. Long, the St. Edward’s production features Michelle Brandt, Avery Ferguson, Lindsley Howard and Jon Wayne Martin. George Marsolek provides the scenic design, with lighting design by Kris Carpenter, costume design by Alyssa Johnson, and sound design by Phillip Owen.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Upcoming: DA! fundraiser to send Heron and Crane to NY, July 14


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DA! Theatre Collective proudly announces…

Heron & Crane’s Great Migration

ON THE FLY TO N.Y.!
a DA! Fundraiser to help our original kids' production take flight to FringeNYC

Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 6:30 - 10:30 PM, ONE NIGHT ONLY
at Hyde Park Theatre
511 W. 43rd St.
Austin, TX 78751

Tickets are sliding scale, starting at $8 on-line or $10 at the door. Purchase them on-line at .
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117636

DA! Theatre Collective is proud to announce that Heron & Crane, our original Payne-nominated play for youth, has been chosen to participate in the 14th annual New York International Fringe Festival. FringeNYC is the largest festival of its kind in North America and will include the productions of 200 companies this August. Heron & Crane is honored to ONE of only THREE selections this year for FringeJR, the children & families portion of FringeNYC. The show will be performed at the Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre, New York's oldest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre.

We’re excited by this opportunity, but getting two actors, two crew members, and three musicians all the way up to New York for nearly two weeks requires a little help from our friends (or maybe a lot)... SO, this Bastille Day, our generous sponsor, Austin's own HPT, will throw open its doors to help us host DA!-Party-of-DA!-Season!

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Arts Reporting: DA's Heron and Crane Goes to New York


DA! Theatre Collective
proudly presents…


Heron & Crane

an original children’s production
written by Kirk German, adapted from a Russian Folk-Tale
The New York International Fringe Festival - Fringe NYC
a production of The Present Company
August 13 - August 29
Tickets: $10 -- FringeJR
for tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org

DA! Theatre Collective is proud to present Heron & Crane as part of the 14th annual New York International Fringe Festival -- FringeNYC. FringeNYC is the largest festival of its kind in North America and will include the productions of 200 companies this August.

Heron & Crane is honored to be selected as ONE of only THREE FringeJR selections this year; FringeJR is the children and families portion of FringeNYC.

Heron & Crane is the story of two strong-willed swamp-birds who discover that becoming friends requires a little give-and-take... or maybe a lot. This dynamic comedy explores diversity, problem-solving, and ecology through music, dance, and audience interaction. Adapted from a Russian folk-tale, with a new ending every time!

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Leave It to Beverly, DA! Theatre Collective at the Off Center, November 5 -21







Kirk German's Leave It to Beverly is a rib-tickler. His characters and cast go sailing off into TV Land of the 1950s and 1960s, taking the gags and the mannerisms way up over the top. DA! applies its energetic young 21st-century humor to Mom and Pop's naive entertainments and comes away a winner.

Consider, for example, canned laughter. The early days of television featured many programs filmed before live audiences, but with rising costs and the introduction of video tape, producers were happy to sweeten audience reactions or do away with them entirely by using "laugh tracks." A single eccentric artist, Charlie Douglas, pretty much had the monopoly of that business through the 1960s, thanks to his "laff box," a complicated non-computerized device.

German's opening episode "Leave It to Beverly" features our dear housewife Beverly, newly a mother of twins, and Husband, a big, genial horned-rim-glasses-wearing avatar of Robert Young. Author and actors satirize the saccharine and the silliness of those classic sitcoms, in an acting style both coy and twinkling, and the action is regularly interrupted by roars of recorded laughter.

Beverly and her girlfriends become somewhat flustered by this unexplained punctuation of their lives. Eventually, after "Trixie Knows Best," the knock-off of both Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, the girls discover great big tins resembling 2-gallon Campbell's soup containers, labeled "HA.HA.HA." Within them is a gelatinous colored substance that has got to be the canned laughter that permeates their existence. How it got there and the reason for it are enigmas that are solved in the final, post-intermission episode, "Make Room for Lorraine."

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

Monday, October 19, 2009

Upcoming: Leave It To Beverly by Kirk German, DA! Theatre Collective at the Off Center, November 5 - 21

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, November 11



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Leave it to Beverly

DA! Theatre Collective is proud to present the world premiere of Kirk German's three-part 1950s sit-com-gone-wrong, Leave it to Beverly.

The show opens on November 5 at The Off Center and runs for three weekends.
The performance on Friday, November 6 is followed by a live performance by The Greatest American Heroes, Austin's favorite TV Theme Song Band.

TICKETS $15 - $25 (sliding scale), $12 Students/Seniors/ACOT Members
E-mail: tickets@datheatrecollective.org
Phone: Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 or (512) 484-1242
Online: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/84993

Originally workshopped to great acclaim as a one-act in Vermont, and later at the Frontera Fest Short Fringe in 2003 (where it was recognized as a Best-of-Fest selection), Leave it to Beverly subverts the classic sit-com genre through three interconnected acts (Leave it to Beverly, Trixie Knows Best, and Make Room for Lorraine). Each fast-paced and bizarre episode features an archetypal TV female confronting her artificial universe in hilarious and unexpected ways.

Guaranteed to leave you craving the good ol' days of Nick-at-Nite (but with a twist), Leave it to Beverly confronts consumerism, turns gender roles upside-down, and celebrates the elusive mysteries of Tupperware, Astroturf, and Mr. Clean.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Upcoming: Direct Object, Da! Theatre Collective, Studio Space at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, September 17 - 26


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Direct Object

DA! Theatre Collective is proud to present the return of Direct Object, DA!'s award-winning debut show inspired by the world-famous and long-running production from Moscow, Objects and People.

Condensing story-telling into its most essential elements, Direct Object presents a series of transformative and astonishing vignettes which feature people interacting with every-day objects as you've never seen them before.

A tortilla-maker's rolling pin transforms him into a bold matador. A librarian takes sudden flight from the pages of an Austin Chronicle. And who knows what may happen with a soccer ball, a back-pack, a scarf, a trunk, an umbrella, an exercise bungee, and more?


This latest incarnation of Direct Object is directed by Heather Huggins and features Jude Hickey, Robin Grace Thompson, Kirk German, Lisa del Rosario, Scott Roskilly, Michelle Brandt, Jacob Trussell, Stephanie Denson, Heather Huggins, and Wallis Currie-Wood, with an original score by Travis Cooper and Melissa Jurrens.

The show opens on September 17 at the studio space of the Salvage Vanguard Theatre and runs for two weekends. Tickets are sliding scale: $10/$15/$20/$25. Wednesday, September 23rd is pay-what-you-can. Call (512) 474-7886 or go online and reserve your tickets today!


Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .