Continued Auditions for Othello and As You Like It, Austin Shakespeare, weekend of October 26, 2013

Posted at Facebook, October 20:

Click to view announcement at Austin Shakespeare website of a second session of auditions on October 15, 2013

Austin Shakespeare season auditions for Othello and As You Like It, August 17, 2013

Austin Shakespeare Season Auditions Saturday, August 17, 2013

Austin Shakespeare will hold season auditions for Othello and As You Like It on Saturday, August 17, 1 - 5 pm at Waller Creek School Auditorium, located at 41st St. and Red River. (clilck for map)

Auditioners should prepare a 1-2 minute Shakespeare piece. Audition pieces should be memorized or read with familiarity. Texts from the scripts under consideration are welcome. Equity and non-Equity actors of all ethnic/racial backgrounds are encouraged to audition.

See website for character list and details: www.austinshakespeare.org.

To schedule an audition, contact Deanna Belardinelli at auditions@austinshakespeare.org.

2013-2014 Austin Shakespeare Season

2013 - 2014 Season

The Belle of Amherst by William Luce

November 13 - December 1, 2013

Othello by William Shakespeare

February 12 - March 2, 2014

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

May 1 - 25, 2014

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Young Shakespeare Troupe at the Curtain Theatre

June 19 - 29, 2014

Celebrating its 30^th year in 2014, Austin Shakespeare announces its new season starting with the acclaimed solo portrait of Emily Dickinson, The Belle of Amherst, starring Helen Merino (Hamlet) Nov. 14-Dec. 1, 2013; and Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Othello, Feb. 12-Mar. 2, 2014; both performed at The Long Center’s Rollins Theater, where Austin Shakespeare is a resident company. The season ends May 1-25, 2014 with Shakespeare’s perfect romantic comedy, As You Like It. The company will return to Zilker Park for the 30^th anniversary of “FREE Shakespeare in the Park.”


The season kicks off with a delightful evening’s entertainment of the now-famous poet, Emily Dickinson: The Belle of Amherst by William Luce. Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella comments: “Join Emily Dickinson in her home and share her incandescent gaiety and touching sadness as this New England recluse lives to innovate poetry with her new style of writing.” November 14 – December 1, 2013, with a low-priced preview on November 13.


Austin Shakespeare invites audiences to a new experience of Shakespeare’s great tale of jealousy and passion in a new production of Othello, February 13-March 2, 2014 at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater, with a low-priced preview on February 12.


In the spring, teens are invited to open auditions (March 22 & 29, 2014) for Austin Shakespeare’s “Young Shakespeare” company to perform in the comic romance of magic and mayhem, The Tempest, to be staged at Richard Garriott de Cayeux’ replica of an Elizabethan stage, The Curtain Theater, June 19-29, 2014. Now in its sixth year, Young Shakespeare is a company of teen actors who will be directed by Austin Shakespeare professional actor and teaching artist, Nancy Eyermann (Love’s Labours Lost, The Winter’s Tale).


For its “FREE Shakespeare in the Park” show, Austin Shakespeare will bring the sexy, cross-dressing romp in the green world to Zilker Hillside Theater with Shakespeare’s As You Like It, May 1-25, 2014. Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella will direct and describes it as: “In the city and in the country, Rosalind, the smartest girl in the world, falls in love with the most desirable man in the world! Hear the famous “Seven Ages of Man” speech and meet Touchstone, the jester! The show culminates in a RenFaire fun fest while we all sing – ‘With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino!’”


Alongside the 2013-14 season in three locations with four Austin productions, Austin Shakespeare will be performing Off-Broadway in New York City for the first time in its history with Ayn Rand’s Anthem, adapted by Jeff Britting, Sept. 25-Dec. 1, 2013 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jerome Robbins Theater. Austin Shakespeare experienced sold-out success for Anthem at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater in 2011.



AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE Austin Shakespeare’s mission is to present professional theatre of the highest quality with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare, bringing to the public performances that are fresh, imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible, connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today. Founded in 1984 Austin Shakespeare is the only professional classic theater company in Central Texas. Austin Shakespeare also brings professional actors and directors directly into the classroom throughout Central Texas. For more information, contact Austin Shakespeare Managing Director Alex Alford at alex@austinshakespeare.org.

Austin Shakespeare is a member of the Austin Creative Alliance, and is funded in part by the City of Austin through The Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

OTHELLO featuring Trevor Bissell, City Theatre, February 21 - March 17, 2013

(3823 Airport Rd. at 38 1/2 St., behind the Shell station)


presents

(image: www.citytheatreaustin.org)

by William Shakespeare

The timeless tale of love, deceit, jealousy and murder.
February 21 - March 17, 2013
Thursday – Saturday 8:00 p.m. Sunday 5:30 p.m.
General Seating $15. Guaranteed Front/2nd Row Reserved $25.
Students $12. Thursday all seats $10. Group discounts are available.
Reservations 512-524-2870 or info@citytheatreaustin.org


One of literature’s most tragic heroes squares off against Shakespeare’s
greatest villain in a compelling story of suspicion, betrayal and vengeance. Iago
leads Othello to the edge of madness by sowing seeds of doubt about his wife’s
fidelity culminating in one of most powerfully dramatic scenes ever written.
Its message is not soon forgotten.


Othello-Trevor Bissell
Iago-Andrew Bosworth
Desdemona- Laura Kathleen Artesi
Emila- Lindsay Mckenna
Cassio- Clay Avery
Rodrigo-Mario Silva
Bianca-Rachel Collier
Barbantio-Mike Dellens
The Duchess-Shannon Francis
Montano-Zach Braver
Lodovico-Dewayne Mangan
Gratiano-Dave Yakubik
Clown-Allegra Fox

Click to go to the front page at www.AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Auditions at City Theatre for Othello, November 18 and 19

City Theatre is casting all roles at auditions for Othello by William Shakespeare. Auditions November 18 and 19 at the City Theatre. 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D. Austin, TX 78722 (click for map). November 18, 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. November 19, 6 – 10 p.m. Bring headshot, resume and a one-minute prepared monologue. Scenes will also be performed. Ten-minute slots by appointment. If you are not able to make this audition time, please let us know.

One of Shakespeare’s most intense and epic tragedies of a great man destroyed by love, politics, suspicion and jealousy. Performances February 21 – March 17 with rehearsals beginning in December.
Call 512-524-2870 or info@citytheatreaustin.org to set up an appt.

Upcoming: Othello, Shakespeare in the Park, Magik Theatre, San Antonio, May 30 - June 2

presents Shakespeare in the Park:

Othello

May 30, 31, June 1, 2, 6:30 p.m.
555 Funston Place, San Antonio, Texas, 78209
Free admission!

Join us for this annual FREE event by the The Magik Theatre bringing San Antonians of all ages together in the balmy summer twilight to experience the joys, sorrows, trials, and triumphs of Shakespeare's characters and stories.

Bring your folding chairs and blankets for hillside seating. Outside food and drink are not allowed - food, beer and wine will be sold inside the gates.

Since 2005, Shakespeare in the Park has played to more than 50,000 people, with vibrant, exciting productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. The festival has also provided employment for more than 50 local artists and technicians.

For additional information:  210-227-2751