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Tickets Still Available! Apr. 25 – 28, 2013 8pm | Thurs., Fri. & Sat 3pm | Sun. Jones Theater
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Ev Lunning, Jr. Purchase Tickets
A comedy about love, money and the end of the world. Heartbreak House is
a soap opera of the 1900’s, where no one is who they seem and everyone
gets their heart broken. During a weekend party at the eccentric
Captain Shotover’s estate, Ellie causes a commotion with her decision
to marry for money rather than love. As the Captain’s daughter Hesione
protests, a lively debate about money, morality, idealism, and realism
ensues among Hesione’s playboy husband, snobbish sister, and Ellie’s
fiance, a wealthy industrialist.
“brilliant comedy”–The New York Times Southwestern University, Sarofim School of Fine Arts 1001 E. University Avenue, Georgetown, TX 78626 | (512) 863-1504 |
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GET 5 SHOWS FOR THE PRICE OF 4! Subscribe Here Packages Starting At $45!  Selections from 365 Days/365 Plays September 27-30, 2012
Playwright
and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play each day for a
year. The subject matter ranges from presidents to deities to
soldiers.
“...one of the American theater’s most wily
and innovative writers, and her stark but poetic language and fiercely
idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and
marvelous” – TIME |
| A Year with Frog and Toad November 16-18, 2012 This whimsical story features two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. They learn life lessons as they go, including friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special.
Nominated for six Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre and a Tony Award for Best Musical.
 This is Our Youth January 31- February 3, 2013
Set
in 1982, This is Our Youth follows three lost young souls in New York
City. Warren, who steals $15,000 from his father; Dennis, a charismatic
domineering drug dealer whose father is a famous painter and mother a
social activist; and Jessica, the anxiously insightful woman Warren
yearns for. A wildly funny, bittersweet, and moving story about trying
to escape a dysfunctional family and finding your place in the world.
"very funny…comedies of such brio and darkly satiric edge are rare.”–The New York Times
 Little Shop of Horrors February 21-24, 2013
A
down-and-out floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he
discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood who
demands to be fed.Soon “Audrey II” grows into an ill-tempered,
foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and
fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing
itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!
One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time! Charming, tuneful, and hilarious Little Shop of Horrors never fails to entertain!
 Heartbreak House April 25-28, 2013
A
soap opera of the 1900's, where no one is who they seem and everyone
gets their heart broken. During a weekend party at the eccentric
Captain Shotover's estate, Ellie causes a commotion with her decision
to marry for money. As the Captain's daughter Hesione protests, a
lively debate about money, morality, idealism, and realism ensues among
Hesione's playboy husband, snobbish sister, and Ellie's fiance, a
wealthy industrialist.
“brilliant comedy”–The New York TimesSouthwestern University, Sarofim School of Fine Arts 1001 E. University Avenue, Georgetown, TX 78626 | (512) 863-1504 |
Southwestern University, Georgetown
presents
Mud Offerings
by Natalie Marlena Goodnow
Tuesday, April 3, 5:30 p.m.
Sarofim Fine Arts, Heather Hall
Southwestern University, Georgetown
This piece is a solo play unraveling the culturally complicated truths, lies and mythologies of women's spirituality and sexuality in contexts of violence and betrayal. Directed by Dino Foxx and kt shorb.
Natalie Marlena Goodnow is a nationally recognized teatrista, teaching artist and cultural activist from Austin, Texas. She performs, directs and writes; she's been practicing some combination of those forms for seventeen years and began teaching through and about them 8 years ago. She specializes in the creation of original work for the stage, as a solo performer and in collaboration with other performers and playwrights, both youth and adult.
Mud Offerings is the 2011 winner of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, which recognizes excellence in feminist plays and performance texts nationwide and has been presented at conferences festivals and venues such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC) , the Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio (New York, New Yor4ki and El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on Anzaldúan Thought (San Antonio, TX). Natalie ('07) studied Theatre, Spanish and Feminist Studies at Southwestern University.
presents
The 1940s Radio Hour
By Walton Jones
Directed by Rick Roemer
Nov 16 - 20, 2011
7pm | Wednesday & Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Saturday & Sunday
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater, Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University, Georgetown (click for map)
[image: Kristi Brawner, Nick Kellogg (photo by Rebecca Bennett for Southwestern University Theatre Department)]
Many local artists will be performing in this production.
Joey Banks is a Southwestern University 2007 alum. He has acted in Footloose, Zilker Summer Musical Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Austin Shakespeare, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Zach Theater, Hair! San Jose Repertory Theatre, Girlfriend, TheatreWorks, and The Madwoman of Chaillot, California Theatre Center.
Trumpet player Walter “Bud” Emmert resides in Sun City. In 1951-52 he was in charge of the Bergstrom Air Force Stage band. He has played in the Austin Symphony in 1951-52, the Lawrence Welk Show in 1948, and with Kay Kyser on a USO tour in 1945.
Clarinet player Pete Geiger resides in Sun City. He performed in many ensembles including, the United States Navy Band and Orchestra in Washington, D.C. from 1947-65, New York Queens Symphony, Paul LaValles Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall, and Sun City Texas Jazz Band. He has also performed on Broadway in Man of La Mancha and Fiddler on the Roof.
For information on our 2011-12 Season visit us at http://www.southwestern.edu/departments/theatre/productions/index.php
For tickets call the Box Office at 512.863.1378 or purchase online at www.southwestern.tix.com
Southwestern University is a selective, nationally recognized undergraduate liberal arts college with an enrollment of 1,300 students. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in Texas. For more information on Southwestern, visit www.southwestern.edu.
Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine is a gender bender and a time twister, a sly comic look at sex and sexual roles in the Victorian British Empire and in the contemporary United Kingdom. One of the many clever twists of the piece, the fruit of some intensive workshopping with actors, is that seventy-five years pass between the two acts but the characters age only thirty years. Churchill explained that that arose from the fact that her 1970's contemporaries felt that their own sexual roles were shaped by the standards of Victorian England.
Some of the results are predictable -- males with flaring nostrils and surging sexual drives in colonial Africa, a devotion to good Queen Victoria, women dutiful yet unfulfilled, and the modern confusions about marriage, sexuality and child-rearing. Others are anything but predictable: notably the cross-gender casting in both worlds, which directly raises the issues of roles, gender roles, play and role-play.
Add to that the audacious transformations of the seven-member cast. Robert Frost as manly Clive, master of the mansion, the family and the natives in deepest darkest Africa in Act I, becomes the impetuous and spoiled seven-year-old Cathyin Act II. Chris Weihert, who in conscientious drag plays Clive's pining wife Betty in the first part, becomes Vicki's miffed, well meaning husband in the second. Jessica Hughes slips a full generation with the ease of a firefighter dropping down the fire pole in response to a three-alarm fire: sniffy traditional mother Maud living with her daughter Betty and family in an increasingly menacing Africa, and then Betty herself, now in her sixties, divorced, alone and slowly awakening to her own long-neglected body.
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presents
Dead Man's Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Heather Huggins
Apr 18-22, 2012
7pm | Wednesday & Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater, Southwestern University, Georgetown
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The man at the next table just died and his cell phone won’t stop ringing. When Jean answers his phone, her fateful act dials her deeply into the dead man’s mysterious business and his eccentric family – not to mention trips to the afterlife and the black market. This imaginative and dark-edged comedy is the captivating odyssey of a woman forced to confront her assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technology-obsessed world. (Mature themes and some strong language)
Click to view production photo at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . .
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presents
The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay, adapted by Benjamin Britten
Mar 1-4, 2012
7pm | Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday
Alma Thomas Theater, Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University
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A Special Theatre and Music Department Collaboration
Muggers, smugglers, prostitutes, and thieves. Nobody plays by the rules, least of all MacHeath-bandit, hedonist, superhero to some, villain to others. John Gay’s opera brings to life the greed, lust, and corruption of 18th Century London. A dark, seedy, absurd, visually rich, and cruelly comic production.
The Beggar’s Opera premiered at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre on 29 January 1728 and ran for 62 consecutive performances, the longest run in theatre history up to that time.
In 1920, The Beggar’s Opera began an astonishing revival run of 1,463 performances at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, which was one of the longest runs in history for any piece of musical theatre at that time.
According to The New York Times: “Gay wrote the work more as an anti-opera than an opera, one of its attractions to its 18th-century London public being its lampooning of the Italian opera style and the English public’s fascination with it.”
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February 15 - 19
7pm | Wednesday & Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday
Heather Hall, Southwestern University, Georgetown
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Beirut by Alan Bowne
Directed by Alexis Gette ‘13
Beirut is the story of a Brooklyn man quarantined in the Lower East Side after testing positive for a deadly, nameless virus. His girlfriend, who has not been infected, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. The plague has upped the ante on love and introduced them to sacrifice. They are a Romeo and Juliet of the boroughs. An East Side story.
(Adult subject matter for mature audiences only)
Night Maneuver by Howard Korder
Directed by Abraham Ramirez ‘13
A series of lies and inconsistencies drive this plot and the relationship between brothers, Lou, Tim, and the absent Monty whose heavy shadow follows them throughout. An underhanded power-struggle between the two ensues, as Lou acts as the rather obnoxious patronizing older brother, and Tim the pathetic and helpless younger brother. It becomes clear that both of them have their secrets. Using mind games and deception, they each try to catch the other out. Intriguing and touching, this play is a powerful unfolding of the human construct that reveals its inner-most fragility.
(Adult subject matter for mature audiences only)
presents
The 1940s Radio Hour
By Walton Jones
Directed by Rick Roemer
Nov 16 - 20, 2011
7pm | Wednesday & Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Saturday & Sunday
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater, Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University, Georgetown (click for map)
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Many local artists will be performing in this production.
Joey Banks is a Southwestern University 2007 alum. He has acted in Footloose, Zilker Summer Musical Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Austin Shakespeare, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Zach Theater, Hair! San Jose Repertory Theatre, Girlfriend, TheatreWorks, and The Madwoman of Chaillot, California Theatre Center.
Trumpet player Walter “Bud” Emmert resides in Sun City. In 1951-52 he was in charge of the Bergstrom Air Force Stage band. He has played in the Austin Symphony in 1951-52, the Lawrence Welk Show in 1948, and with Kay Kyser on a USO tour in 1945.
Clarinet player Pete Geiger resides in Sun City. He performed in many ensembles including, the United States Navy Band and Orchestra in Washington, D.C. from 1947-65, New York Queens Symphony, Paul LaValles Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall, and Sun City Texas Jazz Band. He has also performed on Broadway in Man of La Mancha and Fiddler on the Roof.
For information on our 2011-12 Season visit us at http://www.southwestern.edu/departments/theatre/productions/index.php
For tickets call the Box Office at 512.863.1378 or purchase online at www.southwestern.tix.com
Southwestern University is a selective, nationally recognized undergraduate liberal arts college with an enrollment of 1,300 students. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in Texas. For more information on Southwestern, visit www.southwestern.edu.
