Upcoming: Stop The World, I Want to Get Off, Austin Playhouse, April 22 - May 22

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Stop the World - I Want to Get Off!

by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
directed by Don Toner
musical direction by Oliver Worthington
choreography by Danny Herman & Rocker Verastique
April 22 - May 22, 2011
Austin Playhouse Main Stage, Penn Field, 3601 South Congress (click for map)
Tickets are $26 Thursday and Friday and $28 Saturday and Sunday. All student tickets are half price!

Call (512) 476-0084 for tickets or visit http://www.austinplayhouse.com.

Austin Playhouse is proud to present the classic musical: Stop the World – I Want to Get Off! A thought-provoking tale about the fleeting nature of worldly success, this beloved musical celebrates its 50th year in 2011.

Stop the World! - I Want to Get Off is set in a circus and tells the timeless tale of a Littlechap, played by Rick Roemer, who recently starred as Lady Bracknell in our production of The Importance of Being Earnest. The show is a musical classic—a boundless, humorously entertaining, and tender story about the choices we make and the opportunities we get during our lifetime.

"Stop the World" is directed by Don Toner with musical direction by Oliver Worthington and choreography by Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique. The show stars Rick Roemer as Littlechap and Angela Davis as Evie with an ensemble that includes Kimberly Barrow, Rachel Dendy, Hildreth England, Emily Everidge, Kasey Erin Kelly, Eedann McCord, Stephanie Ngo-Hatchie, Ann Pittman, Hannah Rose, and Jennifer Blakeney Young.

OPENING WEEKEND HALF-PRICE SPECIAL!!! We're offering 20 half-price tickets (that's only $14 each!) for our first Saturday and Sunday performances: April 23rd and 24th. Call 476-0084 and mention the opening weekend special or use discount code: "Littlechap" when you order tickets online at www.austinplayhouse.com. Not valid with any other discounts.

Main Stage Subscribers - Reserve your tickets by phone at 476-0084 or email austinplayhouse@aol.com.

Upcoming: Stop The World, I Want to Get Off, Austin Playhouse, April 22 - May 22

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Stop the World – I Want to Get Off!

by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

directed by Don Toner

April 22 – May 22; Thursday–Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m.

Austin Playhouse, Penn Field (behind the water tower), 3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C (click for map)

Tickets $26 Thursday and Friday, $28 Saturday and Sunday, $35 Opening Night

Available at the box office 512.476.0084 or online at: www.austinplayhouse.com

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Closing out the 2010-2011 Season, Austin Playhouse presents a Bricusse/Newley classic and multiple Tony Award nominated production, a thought-provoking tale about the fleeting nature of worldly success. This beloved musical celebrates its 50^th year in 2011.

Stop the World – I Want to Get Off! is set in a circus and tells the timeless tale of a Littlechap, a clown who conquers the world but loses himself. The story will be told through song, dance, drama, and the artistry of the Austin Playhouse acting company over a one-month run. The show is a boundless, shameless, and humorously entertaining production. Stop the World is about the responsibility we have for our own lives, and how it sometimes feels like the world is spinning out of control and you just want to get off.

Directed by Don Toner, musical direction by Oliver Worthington, and choreography by Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique. The Austin production stars Rick Roemer as Littlechap and Angela Davis as Evie, with an ensemble cast that includes Kimberly Barrow, Rachel Dendy, Hildreth England, Kasey Erin Eggleston, Eedann McCord, Stephanie Ngo-Hatchie, Ann Pittman, Hannah Rose, and Jennifer Blakeney Young.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Orestes, adapted & directed by Will Hollis Snider, Cambiare Productions at Dougherty Arts Center, July 30 - August 15

Click for ALT review, August 3



UPDATE: Insite magazine interview by Brian Paul Scipione of adapter/director Will Hollis Schneider, August 2009 edition

UPDATE: Robert Faires of the Austin Chronicle interviews adapter/director Will Hollis Schneider, July 30

UPDATE: Statesman's Jeanne Claire van Ryzin interviews adapter/director Will Hollis Schneider, July 30

UPDATE: KUT-FM's John Aielli interviews Orestes cast, July 14

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Orestes

Austin’s Cambiare Productions is proud to present a darker, more intimate vision of Euripides' classic Orestes.

Adapted and directed by Austin Critics’ Table nominee Will Hollis Snider (Sonata Escondida, Intermission, Elektra, The Nina Variations), Orestes will be performed at the Off Center (2211-A Hidalgo, Austin) Thursday through Saturday, July 30th through August 15th at 8 PM.

Tickets are priced at $15, $12 for students, and will be available at the door. Thursdays will be pay-what-you-can nights. Reservations can be made at reservations@cambiareproductions.com or at (512) 524-3761.

Snider’s adaptation takes Euripides classic, strips away the presentational storytelling of three millennia ago and reinforces the story with other classic texts including Iphigenia at Aulis, Elektra, The Libation Bearers, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Agamemnon, and The Eumenides.

The production places the title character squarely at the center of his own story. It is set days after Orestes’ murder of his own mother, Klytaimnestra, in retribution for the assassination of his father. The dark fevered hallways of Orestes' mind are explored as he seeks absolution and release from the curse of the House of Atreus.

Sprinting backwards through the events leading up to Klytaimnestra's bloody death, the production unravels before Orestes' eyes the deceit and duplicity of the last generation of the House of Atreus as the black and white of zealous revenge recedes to the greys of politics and treacherous love. Confronted with the truth, haunted by Furies and hunted by his own people, Orestes makes one last desperate stand against God and man.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .