Penfold Theatre Announces Its 2012-2013 Season in Austin and Round Rock

announces its

Season Line-up for 2012-2013

 

Moonlight and Magnolias

October 4-21, 2012 | Learn more

A wild, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most beloved films of all time.

It's a Wonderful Life: live radio show

November 29 - December 23, 2012 | Learn more
Fall in love with this timeless story of hope all over again.

A Minister's Wife

March 28 - April 14, 2013 | Learn more
A regional premiere and electric new musical, based on Shaw's Candida.

Shipwrecked!

June 6-29, 2013 | Learn more
Travel the globe in a tale of daring that rocked the 19th century world.

Season Tickets

Opening Night Season Ticket Package. ($60) This package includes an opening-night ticket to all four shows in the season, invitations to each opening night party with the artists, and the "perks" of being a Penfold season subscriber (see below).

Regular Season Ticket Package. ($50) This package includes a non-opening night ticket to all four shows in the season, plus the "perks" of being a Penfold season subscriber (see below).

What are the "perks" of being a season subscriber?
* Save 20% off the regular ticket price
* Special discounts for friends and family
* Never pay fees to exchange your tickets
* Never pay online ticketing fees

Upcoming: John and Jen concert, Friar Tuck's, Round Rock, March 6

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John & Jen in Concert
in Round Rock
March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Friar Tuck's Pantry, 204 East Main Street
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Tickets $15.00

Info Line (512) 850-4849
Penfold Theatre website

Penfold's acclaimed production of John & Jen will be presented in concert March 6 in downtown Round Rock. John & Jen takes audiences on a musical journey from the mid-50s to mid-90s, exploring the relationships between brothers and sisters and parents and children during four decades of change.

Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be provided and are included in the ticket price.

*Read more and view image at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming: Poe Reading, Penfold Theatre at Starco, Round Rock, November 3

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Three Days of Rain, Penfold Theatre Company at the Hideout Theatre, September 17 - October 3

This play by Penfold Theatre is a gem. Coming after their play The Last Five Years in January of this year, it confirms that the Penfold company has a vision and a talent for choosing and staging pieces that fit it.

Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain might just as well have been titled Two Generations or Hopes and Enigmas, because those three days are mentioned only in a scribbled note in a diary. They become emblematic after the death of the man who wrote them, a famous and successful New York architect, when his children realize that those were the same three days of a family catastrophe from which they have never recovered.

Through the grace of theatre we discover this story in displaced time -- somewhat as was the case in The Last Five Years. Here, the voyage is in only two steps. The first act occurs in a disused apartment in 1995. Walker and Nan, a brother and sister in their early 30s, meet there before the reading of their father's will. They encounter their childhood friend Pip, the son of their father's partner. The second act gives us their parents at the same age -- two aspiring male architects Ned and Theo, and Lila, the woman who became the mother of Walker and Nan.

Greenberg's text is rich in image and imagination. He creates a small world of gifted but vulnerable and uncertain characters in both generations. The younger ones are backward looking, seeking explanations; the older generation, in act two, strives with anxiety and apprehension toward the future. Greenberg gives us the elements of a solution, but in such a way as to remind us that there is really no single simple story or solution for the thirty-five years of events separating these scenes. Causes are inchoate; personal history arises amidst unexpected events; we are left to formulate our own explanations and myths.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: StarCo Readings, Penfold Theatre, Round Rock, Tuesday, September 8

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Hello friends!

Join us after work for a fun and relaxing evening of 10-minute comedies, as read by some of Austin's newest talent. No charge for admission. Come and go as you please. Sip a cup o' Joe and let us treat you to a buffet of playwrights from David Ives to Shel Silverstein.

When: Tuesday, September 8 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm.

Where: StarCo Coffee (114 East Main Street in Round Rock)

Featuring: Nathan Jerkins, Ryan Crowder, Molly Fonseca, Derek Kolluri and Sarah Tufts.

Coming soon...

Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg