Austin Premiere: MAD & A GOAT, a new play by Diana Small with Heather Johnson, FronteraFest at Salvage Vanguard, January 21 - February 1, 2014

Mad & A Goat

by Diana Small
a FronteraFest Long Fringe presentation
January 21 - February 1, 2014
Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map
 
This is a two-women show about one woman, who, to free herself from college debt, joins a Wyoming goat farm she inherits from her occult-leader birth parents. There is seduction. There is beer. There are biscuits. And let’s not forget about the goats. 

FronteraFest is the ideal setting for Mad & A Goat's Austin premiere. The play had a workshop production in the first ever Fort Collins Fringe Festival at Bas Bleu Theatre last August with the intent of further developing the work for an Austin audience.

Diana Small, currently a playwriting fellow in UT’s Michener Center for Writers, premieres her new play Mad & A Goat in this year’s Long Fringe at FronteraFest at Salvage Vanguard Theater. The play shows four times: Tuesday, January 21 at 7 pm, Saturday, January 25 at 3:30 pm, Tuesday, January 28 at 9:15 pm and Saturday, February 1 at 8:45 pm. Tickets are $7 and can be purchased online at fronterafest.com.

Diana also acts in the show with longtime collaborator Heather Johnson, who ventures to Austin from her home in Fort Collins, CO to perform in the play. Mad & A Goat was developed with support from ScriptWorks’ Seed Support Fund. Also contributing to the play’s development is Rachel Gilbert, assistant directing and stage managing, and Rachel Alulis with design.

Before moving to Austin, Diana Small acted in the Lit Moon Theatre Company in Santa Barbara, CA. More recently, Diana returned to Santa Barbara last November to reprise her role of Queen Margaret in Henry VI Part 3. Heather Johnson is a full-time actor in Fort Collins and founded the city’s improv troupe, The Comedy Brewers. In Austin, Diana wrote and directed the play Suspicious Dinner at the 2013 Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-Op, and she wrote Dream: A Midsummer Forrest Tour directed by Will Davis for the Zach Theatre’s balcony play series. Diana premiered the show Be Still and Know Nothing co-created with Patrick Shaw and Caleb Britton at UT’s Lab Theatre last December.

Innocent When You Dream by Zeb L. West, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 25 and 26, 2013

by Dr. David Glen Robinson

Innocent When You Dream just shrieks festival piece—simple set design, simple-looking props, simply costumed performer sleeping and dreaming on-stage as the house opens. All these things have to be in place and removed quickly in a sequence of similar performance pieces performed in one evening. Then all of it has to be crated up and shipped to the next festival. After the curtain call, Zeb West, the creator and performer of Innocent When You Dream thanked his Kickstarter contributors for supporting the piece’s travels so far.

But that was later. When the performance lights went up at the beginning of the performance, there was a waking man telling us we’re all in the belly of the whale together with him, and his name is Jonah. OK, now we knew this was a piece about insanity, confirmed by Jonah’s incessant talk of the crackers that he lived on that all got soggy so he can’t share any with the audience.

Where could anyone go with this insane premise? Mr. West/Jonah showed deftness in taking us with him with his sweetness, friendliness, and a lot of encouraging talk directly to the audience. The audience was with him from the git-go. He showed a certain boldness as well, spinning engaging material out of the two probably mossiest, most hidebound but eternally fascinating works of literature found lying about inside whales, Don Quixote and Moby Dick. West merged their stories into a lament for all lives and relationships gone wrong. Yes, this show was about love and loss.

Trouble Puppet’s creations always have the quality of imagination in their fabrication, color, and concept. The human touch gives them life. And puppeteers, good ones, know the character they want to give each puppet. All of Zeb West’s puppets were hand puppets, their characters keyed distinctively by West’s character voices. Their stories meshed into a satisfying whole, and the stage was inhabited by a number of fascinating characters, without any use of ventriloquism.

Trouble Puppet Theatre Company member West has taken a slightly different tack with Innocent When You Dream, His one-man show, but he retains their commitment to innovative puppetry, heightening the band's reputation for skillful and efficient production. The audience was happy to render its standing ovation in appreciation. The show ran only one weekend, October 25 and 26 at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre studio space. My only wish for this worthy show would be for a longer run and a printed program to give due credit to the producing staff, designers, and the 98 supporters who kicked in $4240 -- 125% of Zeb's goal -- through his Kickstarter page to make possible his production and summer 2013 tour across Canada and the United States.

FIESTA EN LA VANGUARDIA, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 19, 2013

 
[Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

presents

Party on the Vanguard 2013! Fiesta en la Vanguardia! Salvage Vanguard Theaters Annual Fundraising Extravaganza.
Saturday October 19th join us for a ghostly celebration of Salvage Vanguard Theater and the eclectic and enigmatic arts programming of the east side! A day of the dead celebration! The party will be hosted by drop dead gorgeous local performer Jay Byrd, and acclaimed composer (in this realm and the next) Peter Stopschinski will DJ.
The price of admission includes:

ONE! The pleasure of viewing the artistic and sometimes morbid stylings of some of your favorite East Austin artists: Trouble Puppet Theater, Gnap! Theater Projects, Church of the Friendly Ghost.
TWO! A sneak peak of SVT’s haunting production of Andrea Thome’s Pinkolandia running at SVT Oct 17th- Nov 2nd. Plus! a sneak peak of Sibyl Kempson’s River of Gruel, an eerie SVT production in association with the spooky Rude Mechs, premiering at the Fusebox Festival in the spring of 2014.
THREE! Frighteningly delicious eats and drinks.
And finally FOUR! A raffle! Who doesn’t love prizes? You know you love prizes. One free raffle ticket with the price of admission.
Saturday October 19th at Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 E Manor Rd, 78722
7- 11pm
$15 admission
Tickets at salvagevanguard.org
If you cannot attend, you can still buy raffle tickets online!
Go to http://www.salvagevanguard.org/donate.shtml to enter. Raffle tix are $5, or 3 for $10, or 7 for $20

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AN EVENING OF BULGARIAN PUPPETRY with NIKOTINE by Milena Milanova, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 25 - 26, 2013

AND










present

An Evening of Bulgarian Puppetry
touring, world-class puppetry for adults, 
featuring Nikotine (an adaptation of Chekhov's play "On the Evils of Tobacco").
***two nights only***

October 25 and 26, 2013 at 6 p.m. AND 8 p.m. (running time is 1 hour and 15 minutes)
Co-presented by Trouble Puppet Theater Co. and Salvage Vanguard Theater in an intimate studio venue.  Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map
Tickets: sliding scale $15 - $50 plus fees via

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Nikotine
Written, Directed & Starring Milena Milanova

Nikolai Nikotine is humiliated and terrorized by his wife. He appears before the audience, at her insistence, to discuss the evils of smoking. Embarking on a public psychotherapy session, Nikotine lies and tells the truth, loves and hates, makes important decisions, tests our patience, sings and dances, and introduces us to his only friends, trying in vain the whole time to speak against one of his few remaining pleasures in life: smoking.
This adaptation of On the Evils of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov stars actress/interpreter Milena Milanova and a grumpy Russian puppet in a cabaret-style atmosphere, where the audience can experience the Slavic spirit in both its cruel and amusing incarnations.
Praise for Nikotine: "Combining puppetry with some beautiful scenes of physical theatre, 'Nikotine' is at the same time sweet, unique and strangely addictive." - Martin Miller, Hairline
"The connection between Milanova and her puppet is immediately obvious and a pleasure to behold." - Julie Dawson, Edinburgh Reporter
"Throughout, this is puppetry of a very high order indeed, and Milanova's considerable skills outshine those of many highly competent puppet companies." - Bill Dunlop, Edinburgh Guide
Awards for Nikotine:
The Union of Polish Actors First Prize
The UNIMA Poland Prize First Prize at the 7th International Gala Star Drama Festival
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/459565

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GET INTO TROUBLE fundraiser, Trouble Puppet Company at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, August 1, 2013

[workshopping and performing at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

presents

Get into Trouble

 

with Trouble Puppet Theater Co.
Aug. 1, 2013, 7–11 p.m.
Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. Austin, 78722 -- click for map

Party with your personal demons! Join the Trouble Puppet Theater Company at their 5th annual party and festival of troublemaking. Admission includes live performances by Adam Sultan, Datri Bean, and others, as well as games, raffles, food by Counter Culture, and drink. Plus a sneak peek at Trouble Puppet’s upcoming show The Head, an original Trouble Puppet show, and the personal demons living inside the head.

Come in costume as your own personal demon (or angel) to receive additional raffle tickets! All for $15 at





http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/425542.

Funds raised support creation of our show The Head (opens Sept. 26).
 
Trouble Puppet Theater Co., Trouble Puppet Theater Company, led by Artistic Director Connor Hopkins, is dedicated to the creation of exceptional works of puppet theater and is the recipient of such B. Iden Payne Awards as Outstanding Direction of a Drama, Outstanding Original Script, Outstanding Production of a Drama, and Outstanding Puppetry. Trouble Puppet is a sponsored project of Salvage Vanguard Theater and is supported by the City of Austin Cultural Funding program, the Jim Henson Foundation, and individual donors.

Salvage Vanguard Theater is a hub for Austin artists, audiences, and arts organizations. SVT creates and presents transformative, high-quality artistic experiences that foster experimentation and conversation.

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THE ReSET PROJECT, Lucky Chaos Theatre Projects at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, August 2 - September 7, 2013

(performing at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map)


presents

The ReSet Project

directed by Asaf Ronen

(www.LuckyChaos.com)

 August 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th & September 6th, 7th at 8pm at Salvage Vanguard Theater 
THE LIFE YOU'VE LIVED IS ONLY THE FIRST DRAFT. True lives, reinterpreted. Improv meets drama on a plane of fantasy.

General admission $10. For details and tickets, visit www.luckychaos.com

What if you could take a point in your life and ReSet it? The ReSet Project brings together eight improvisational actors, all over the age of 40, to reflect on their lives and share true stories of crucial crossroads from their past. This treasure trove of experiences becomes the inspiration for improvised fantasy and fantastical tales.

Kathy Rose Center (Lucky Chaos Theatre Project)

Using elements which include sustained silences and childlike extremes, director Asaf Ronen (Spirited, The Suitcase) again pushes the boundaries of the art of improvisation to create a theater piece infused with authenticity, playfulness and intimacy.

In addition to the ensemble performers, each show will also feature a guest from Austin’s creative community, over the age of 40, who will share their story and serve as inspiration. Come see the show celebrating, and inspired, by Austin’s older artists.




ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects: LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1^st and 2^nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1^st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!”

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JOMANA JONES: RADIATE by Daniel Alexander Jones, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, July 5 - 13, 2013

[Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

presents the regional premiere of 

July 5th thru July 13th, Thursdays-Saturdays, at 8 p.m.

with one late night performance Friday July 12th at 10:30 p.m.

at the Salvage Vanguard Theater - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin TX 78722 - click for map.

Conceived by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Daniel Alexander Jones with composer Bobby Halvorson, JOMAMA JONES: RADIATE is part concert, part revival - featuring the triumphant return of legendary expatriate performer Jomama Jones. A mythical R&;B diva who left the United States after a string of hits in the 1980s, Jomama Jones returns from the darkness as a lone star with a singular purpose – to awaken the comeback in us all, through her music and live performance.

Jones is accompanied by her collaborator and musical director, Bobby Halvorson, her backing vocalists, the Sweet Peaches - the extraordinary Helga Davis and Laura Jean Anderson, and a knockout band. She also welcomes a series of very special guests from the Austin community. Jomama Jones shares songs of resilience and regeneration as she recounts her rise to the stratosphere, her self-imposed exile from the U.S. and surprising observations of the America to which she has returned.

"RADIATE glows..." said the New York Times, "making it hard to resist this sequined earth-mother's soulful embrace."

“…A fully fledged creation, complete with a hot band and a powerful message about staying human in tough times” – Minneapolis City Pages

“Jones is a brilliant persona, full of love, light, and beautiful lyrics and stories.” – Jill Dolan, The Feminist Spectator

“Performed with fearless style ... [Jomama Jones] will have you wiggling and bouncing in your seat... a fusion of retro-funk, camp and theatricality that begs for yet another comeback.”– David Cote, NY-1 News

Come spend an evening with the woman Backstage Magazine called "a true theatrical original!”

Performances run July 5th thru July 13th, Thursdays-Saturdays, at 8pm with one late night performance Friday July 12th at 10:30pm at the Salvage Vanguard Theater - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin TX 78722.

Tickets are available online starting May 27th, 2013 at http://jomama.brownpapertickets.com for $12, or can be purchased at the door for $15. Thursday, July 11th is PAY WHAT YOU WISH NIGHT - tickets available at the door. The SVT box office opens one hour prior to performance.

About Daniel Alexander Jones (Jomama Jones)

Daniel Alexander Jones is a performance artist, writer and director. American Theatre Magazine named him "one of fifteen artists whose work will be transforming American stages for decades to come." His unconventional body of work includes plays (Bel Canto, Earthbirths, Phoenix Fabrik), performance pieces (Blood:Shock:Boogie, The Book of Daniel, Cab and Lena) and devised work (Qualities of Light, Clayangels). In collaboration with composer Bobby Halvorson, Daniel, as his "altar-ego" Jomama Jones has released three recordings and performed to critical acclaim at Soho Rep, The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre and Victory Gardens. He directed world premieres of plays by writers including Shay Youngblood, E. Patrick Johnson, Renita Martin and Erik Ehn. Daniel holds a degree in Africana Studies from Vassar College and a graduate degree in Theatre from Brown University. He is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Fordham University and taught previously in the MFA programs at the University of Texas at Austin and Goddard College. Daniel is a Creative Capital grantee, a MAP Fund grantee, and a Howard Foundation Fellowship recipient. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists, a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center, and held Fellowships with the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media at Columbia College, Chicago. Daniel Alexander Jones received the prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre in 2006 in recognition of his dynamic body of work. Jones will workshop his new musical theater event Bright Now Beyond as part of his performing artist residency at Salvage Vanguard Theater this summer (full production slated for SVT’s Mainstage July 2014). Follow Jomama Jones on Twitter @msjomamajones and visit http://jomamajones.bandcamp.com/

About Salvage Vanguard Theater:

Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) is a theater company and performance hub located in East Austin. SVT creates and presents transformative high-quality artistic experiences that foster experimentation and conversation. Visit www.salvagevanguard.org or contact Adrienne Dawes for information: 512-474-7886 or adrienne@salvagevanguard.org

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AM I WHITE by Adrienne Dawson, staged reading at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, June 18

[Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

presents

a workshop of
Adrienne Dawes'
Am I White
Tuesday June 18th@ 8pm.
When Neo-Nazi terrorist Wesley Connor returns to prison after a failed bomb plot, he is confronted with the two identities that threaten his position within the White Order of Thule most: fatherhood and his own mixed race heritage.
Inspired by the true story of Leo Felton and Erica Chase, Am I White travels between linear narrative, recurring dreams and minstrel show nightmare to discover if a singular self exists in post-modern, “post-racial” America.
Featuring: Cyndi Williams, Jacob Trussell, Jamie Rhodes, Florinda Bryant, and Ben Wolfe
Directed by Jenny Larson; Video Design by Lee Webster
Seating is limited (studio space has only 50 seats) but you can pay what you wish - tickets sold at the door.

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Innocent When You Dream by Zeb L. West, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, May 24 and 25, 2013

Posted on Facebook by Zeb L. West:

Innocent When You Dream 

by Zeb L. West

May 24 and 25, 2013, 8 p.m.

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd., - click for map

 

Don Quixote spends most of this comedy adventure re-telling the story of Moby Dick! See Sancho Panza (as Ishmael) and Ahab battle the white whale windmill! This solo adventure uses puppets, masks, old-timey stagecraft, physical comedy, and sea shanties to smash two literary epics into an hour of shameless antics!

Come see the Austin premiere of the show I'm taking up to 7 fringe festivals in Canada this Summer! Two nights only in the small space at SVT. This is my first go at this thing, so the paint is still a bit wet - I have another month for changes and fixes, so I'd love the feedback and support of my Austin community to make this play as good as it can be! Directed by my constant companion Steve Moore.

This play takes place inside the belly of a whale! A castaway has been swallowed and driven mad by only having two books to read. It's an irreverent and silly one-man comedy about getting dragged along rock bottom and figuring out how to get out of the belly of the beast, told through masks, puppets and sea shanties.

Zeb West studied physical theater, clown and mask-making at the Dell'Arte School in California, and is a member of Austin's Trouble Puppet Theater Company and Brooklyn's Alphabet Arts.

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/373628

Where: Salvage Vanguard Theater
When: May 24th and 25th at 8pm
How much: $10 General (higher price tickets available for those who want to help with the dream)

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BLOOD, SWEAT AND CHEERS by Amy Gentry and Kaci Beeler, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, May 30 - June 9, 2013

Mr. and Mrs. Danger Productions

presents

Blood, Sweat, and Cheers

A New Comedic Play About Competitive Cheerleading

May 30th through June 9th, 2013

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 4 pm

Tickets $15-20 available at http://www.austincheershow.com.

Salvage Vanguard Theater at 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 - click for map

From the minds of critically-acclaimed Hideout Theatre artistic director Roy Janik and "Best of Austin" actor Kaci Beeler comes a brand new comedic play about the world of competitive cheerleading.

In Blood, Sweat, and Cheers 17-year-old June Davis returns to her old cheer gym, the notoriously competitive Austin Cheer Depot, after an abrupt two-year sabbatical. While some of her old teammates are happy for her return, rival and cheer captain Kennedy Campbell is not pleased. June battles her teammates, her parents, her coaches, her best friend James, and herself to make it to the top...but is being the best worth losing everything?

This high-energy, heart-felt, coming of age comedy features a new script by local writer Amy Gentry and improviser Kaci Beeler, performances by notable Austin comedians including Curtis Luciani and Courtney Hopkin of Your Terrific Neighbors, and a full competitive cheer routine starring athletes from Austin Cheer Factory, Austin's most elite cheerleading program.

After the original script was created by Kaci and Amy, the actors were encouraged to create spontaneous elaborations and interpretations in rehearsal, making the final product a collaborative mix of traditional and improvisational theater.

The lead actors, Kaci Beeler, Kayla Lane Freeman, Karen Jane DeWitt, and Courtney Hopkin, have been doing intensive physical training for the past 8 months. Led by fellow actor and 73-time National Champion Halyn Erickson, these 4 adult women have learned to cheer in the extremely athletic, competitive style executed by today's contemporary All-Star Cheer training centers. All five women have been documenting their training experience online in the Austin Cheer Show blog (http://austincheershow.blogspot.com).

Due to the intense nature of the production, Blood, Sweat, and Cheers is running for two weekends (eight performances total) at The Salvage Vanguard Theater main stage on Manor Rd.

This is one theatrical event no one in Austin will want to miss.

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TRUE HOLLYWOOD TALES - 8. SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, May 18, 2013

Episode VIII:
Somewhere Over The Rainbow

May 18, 2013 @ Salvage Vanguard Theater 8pm - click for map
FREE preshow martini mixer starts at 7pm 
 

www.weirdtruetales.com

In this episode, we'll examine the fabulous lives and often tragic deaths of Hollywood's favorite gay icons. We'll also look at the history of gay rights in the 20th century and its impact on popular culture.

Featured biographies;
Divine
Freddie Mercury
Liberace
Judy Garland

Starring
Lashonda Lester (ACL Live, Austin Monthly)

Featuring:
Ralphie Hardesty (The Encyclopedia Show)
Roxy Castillo (Black Widow Burlesque)
Cymone Love

With special drag performances by the award winning Cupcake and Miss Austin Pride 2011 Kai Lee Mykels!

Hosted by Luke McClory

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THE CRUEL CIRCUS, Trouble Puppet Theatre Company at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, May 2 - 25, 2013

[workshopping and performing at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

presents an original play:

The Cruel Circus
written and directed by Connor Hopkins

May 9 - 25, Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 6 p.m.

 A mysterious tinkerer brings to life an entire world of strange circus performers some polished and complete, some clumsy and misshapen then disappears, leaving them to make sense of who they are and what they are made for.

A new work of dark whimsy from the company who brought Austin award-winning productions of The Jungle, Frankenstein, Riddley Walker, and most recently, Toil & Trouble.

Featuring performances by Zac Crofford, Travis Bedard, Seth White, Rob Jacques, Jose Villarreal, Gricelda Silva, Ellie McBride, Caroline Reck, and Brock England

Preshow music by Cami Alys; Music by Justin Sherburn; Sound Design by K. Eliot Haynes and Bernard Klinke; Lighting Design by Stephen Pruitt; Costume Design by Monica Gibson (with Lucie Cunningham)

ASL interpretation available for selected performances by Parker Dority and Shelby Mitchusson.

Made for adults. But children 10 and up, accompanied by adults, are welcome.
Tickets: Sliding scale, $10 - $50, available now through





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LET'S TALK mixe and talk showr, Lucky Chaos Theatre Project at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 11, 2013

 
(performing at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. - click for map)

presents

LuckyChaos kicks off its 2013 season at our new home Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT)! With monthly shows ranging from comedy to dramatic, scripted to improvised, we are taking chances and hope you join us in our journey.

Click for tickets at Eventbrite ($6.12)

We kick off our 2013 season with Let’s Talk! followed by a mixer! Let’s Talk is a fun ‘Talk and Show’ where we chat with our guests and catch a glimpse of the person behind the art, and then they will treat us to a sample of their work. Come join us and talk to our guests after in the Meet&Greet, and stay for the LuckyChaos Kickoff Mixer! We would love to talk to you about our upcoming shows and the inspiration behind them.

Talk show guests are:

DaXun Zhang is a double-bassist who’s toured with YoYo Ma, the celebrated cellist. Daxun has won numerous international awards as well as performed extensively with prominent orchestras nationally and internationally. "If the bass is finally to produce a headliner, the instrument can have no better champion than Zhang," (The Washington Post, March 2005) Daxun has graciously agreed to perform some of his favorite pieces!

Yen Tan, previously featured on the frontpage of the Austin Chronicle, is a professional graphic designer who designs the most kickass and sought-after posters. His newest feature film, Pit Stop, is premiering in the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in 2013.

Beili Liu is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in time and process based installations using materials ranging from thread, paper, incense, wood, salt to water. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Her art is “materially simple but metaphorically rich” (Art in America Review, April 2009).

Anuradha Naimpally has been performing worldwide for over 30 years.and is widely respected as a performer and teacher of the Classical Indian dance technique Bharata Natyam. She has received awards and accolades nationally and internationally. We will be treated to a sample of this expressive and vibrant artform.

Jingqun Shao is a master teacher of the classical Chinese instrument Guzheng. She’s spent over 40 years mastering this instrument, studying under the tutelage of prominent masters in China and in later years, performing and teaching around the world. Her students have won awards and she’s developed over the years, her own signature style of playing. Come for this rare opportunity to see her perform a piece for us.


ABOUT LuckyChaos Theater Projects: LuckyChaos Theater Projects produce works by or about Asian Americans as well as other under-represented communities. We hope to increase dialogue about these experiences through the performance arts. Our projects are stories from a different point of view and range from published works to original works including submissions from the community. We explore all mediums including scripted, experimental, improv and movement. Come checkout our shows – every 1st and 2nd weekends of the month at Salvage Vanguard Theater (Studio) – Fri/Sat 8pm and 1st Sat 10pm. “Create Art. Create Identity. Create Possibilities. Play On!”

www.luckychaos.com

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Upcoming 21013 FronteraFest: Short Finge at the Hyde Park Theatre, Long Fringe at the Salvage Vanguard, January 15 - February 16 Long Fringe at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 15 - February 3

Hyde Park Theatre in collaboration with ScriptWorks and the Salvage Vanguard Theatre

presents

The 20th Annual FronteraFest

January 15 – February 16, 2013

FronteraFest, now celebrating its 20th year as one of the largest fringe performance events in the Southwest kicks-off its ‘Short Fringe’ from January 15 – February 16 and ‘Long Fringe’ performances from January 21 – February 3, 2013. The Short Fringe takes place at Hyde Park Theatre (511 West 43rd) Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Long Fringe performances are held at Salvage Vanguard Theatre (2803 Manor Road) at various dates/times (available at www.hydeparktheatre.org). There is also a special ‘Mi Casa es Su Teatro’ event which takes place one day only, Saturday, February 9th from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.

Over the course of two decades, FronteraFest stages have been host to more than 2,000 performances and well over 8,000 participants from Central Texas and beyond. The month-long Festival, now an institution, features three separate components; the Short Fringe which runs the entirety of the Festival showcasing pieces 25 minutes or less, and the Long Fringe, with longer pieces between 45-90 minutes. The final and most unique component, 'Mi Casa es Su Teatro' consists of one day of performances hosted primarily at private homes.

FronteraFest is a collaboration between two of Austin’s foremost arts organizations, Hyde Park Theatre, an award-winning professional theatre in Central Austin and ScriptWorks, a statewide playwright development and service organization. The Salvage Vanguard Theatre at 2803 Manor Rd. hosts the Long Fringe productions.

The festival was created in 1993 by Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre Artistic Director Vicky Boone. Boone resigned in 2001 and Ken Webster became Artistic Director of the organization, which changed its name to Hyde Park Theatre. In 2002 Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' began a partnership to produce the storied festival with Christina J. Moore of ScriptWorks serving as festival producer.

To commemorate two decades of exciting, moving, sometimes weird and delightfully unexpected performance, former FronteraFest ‘Best of Fest’ winners and long-time participants have been invited to return to the stage for special appearances on Thursday evenings, including Steven Tomlinson, Emily Fordyce, Cyndi Williams, Zell Miller, III and Keira McDonald. Past notables include nationally recognized playwrights Kirk Lynn, John Walch, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour, who presented some of their earliest work at the festival.

Tickets available from BuyPlayTix via www.hydeparktheatre.com

All FronteraFest performances are listed on Austin Live Theatre's Central Texas theatre calendar and at the HPT website.

Click for further background at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Physical Comedy and Clowning, Caitlin Reilly and Mark Gindick, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 2 - 4, 2013

NYC and Austin Clowns Present New Work for a New year: Shows and Physical Comedy Workshops

Shows run January 2 - 4, 2013 at 8 pm at Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road, Austin, TX.
Tickets at the door. $10.
For more information, please call Caitlin Reilly at (512) 740-1354 or visit these sites:

markgindick.com schaveandreilly.com gnaptheater.org salvagevanguard.org bongarbiz.com

January 2 - 4, 2013 at 8:00 PM in the SVT Studio

New Clown Theater Performances and Workshops by Mark Gindick, New York City performer and featured clown in the PBS’ acclaimed documentary CIRCUS!, and Austin’s Caitlin Reilly of Schave & Reilly at the Salvage Vanguard Theater.
Gnap! Theater Projects with Schave & Reilly and Salvage Vanguard Theater present three evenings of new solo physical comedy and clown shows Wednesday-Friday, January 2 - 4 at 8 pm at Salvage Vanguard Theater. A talk-back session will follow, hosted by Michael Bongar, a special events and entertainment producer from New York. Two shows lead the evening bill, with a short new piece by Austin’s Caitlin Reilly of Schave & Reilly, “It’s Just Reilly.” Mark Gindick performs “Wing-Man,” his original theatrical piece without one spoken word and winner of United Solo Theatre Festival’s BEST ONE-MAN SHOW.

Physical Comedy Workshops are being offered as part of this event. Please visit gnaptheater.org for more information.

Shows run January 2 - 4, 2013 at 8 pm at Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road, Austin, TX.

Tickets at the door. $10.

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Opportunity: FronteraFest 2013 Applications Available via Hyde Park Theatre

FronteraFest 2013 runs January 15 - February 16, 2013. Applications and information now available at www.hydeparktheatre.org

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the holy-smokes-this-is-momentous 20th anniversary season of FronteraFest at Hyde Park Theatre (typically one gives emeralds on the 20th, hint hint). The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, BYOV, or Mi Casa--as always and ever, FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre. Too bad there's no actual way to expect the unexpected, because that is your only hope.

FronteraFest is produced in collaboration with ScriptWorks, a group dedicated to supporting emerging playwrights and developing new dramatic works.

The Short Fringe
January 15 - February 16, 2013 at Hyde Park Theatre

Every night we present a new bill of four or five plays no longer than 25 minutes each. Brilliant monologues? Plays in progress? Comedy improv? Cabaret singers? Avant-garde dance? Short films? Multimedia? We've seen it all.

Every Saturday night is a juried "Best of the Week" performance, and the last week, February 12-16, is the juried "Best of the Fest"--with a few wild cards thrown in. A complete schedule, updated regularly, will be available here as the festival approaches.

PARTICIPANTS: Get your application in PDF format turned in right this second, or at least by November 1, 2012. (Seriously, we give out slots on a first-come, first-served basis, so don't delay.) The fee is $50, but there's a $10 discount if we receive your application by October 1, 2012. Print it out, fill it out, sign it, and mail it to us with your wee check.

The Long Fringe
January 21 - February 3 at Salvage Vanguard Theater

Longer productions (90 minutes or less) at Salvage Vanguard Theater: everything from new works by emerging playwrights to cutting edge choreography. Get more details about the shows in this year's Long Fringe right here as soon as we have 'em.

PARTICIPANTS: Download your application in PDF format plus more participant Long Fringe info today. There's a 10% fee discount if we receive your application by October 1, 2012.


B.Y.O.V. (Bring Your Own Venue)
The name says it all: participants bring not just their creative work but also their own venue. It's all part of FronteraFest.

PARTICIPANTS: BYOV fame awaits you! Download an application in PDF format today. Fill it in, mail it in.