Auditions for The Winter's Tale, Austin Shakespeare, March 16, 2013

Posted on Facebook by Ann Ciccolella, March 9:









Austin Shakespeare will continue auditioning for Winter's Tale next Sat .. contact auditions@austinshakespeare.org to schedule an appt.

Austin Shakespeare Announces 2012-2013 Season

announces its 2012 - 2013 season

(www.AustinShakespeare.org)

In three locations with four productions the professional Austin Shakespeare company will bring audiences comedy and romance with Noel Coward's Design for Living and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at the Rollins Theater, plus teens in Shakespeare’s beautiful story of parents and their youngsters Romeo and Juliet at the Curtain Theater.

Noel Coward’s

Design for Living

November 7 – 25, 2012

at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater. From one of the world’s most popular wits, a provocative story of three friends who engage in a complicated, comic, and loving, relationship. 

Jane Austen’s

Pride and Prejudice

February 6 – 24, 2013

at the Long Center’s Rollins Theater. A new adaptation of one of literature’s most beloved romances involving the proud Mr. Darcy and the clever Elizabeth Bennett. Features extensive 19th century ballroom dance. The new version by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan has been enormously successful at regional theaters around the U.S. recently especially at Oregon Shakespeare.

Shakespeare’s

The Winter’s Tale

May 1-26, 2013

FREE Shakespeare in the Park at the Zilker Hillside Theatre. A dark romance fueled by the war between jealousy and joy, set in Latin America, staged with tango choreographed by Monica Caivano of Esquina Tango and culminating at Carnaval in Rio.

Young Shakespeare’s

Romeo and Juliet

June 20-30, 2013

at Richard Garriott’s replica of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theater off City Park Rd. (FM 2222 & Loop 360). Our fifth year with a new company of teen actors who competitively audition for this production directed and designed by professionals. Teen actors for this 6-week intensive program are selected through open auditions. 

ABOUT AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE: Founded in 1984 and the only professional classical theater company in Central Texas, Austin Shakespeare presents professional theatre of the highest quality with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare, bringing to the public performances that are fresh, bold, imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible, connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today. Austin Shakespeare’s ongoing “Shakespeare Aloud” reading group and “Artist’s Way” sessions invite new participates weekly. Austin Shakespeare’s education program 20/20 sends professional actors into the schools to encourage love of language.  Austin Shakespeare is a proud member of the Austin Creative Alliance.

Upcoming at Shakespeare in Winedale, summer, 2012:Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare at Winedale

announces its 42nd Summer Season:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale and Coriolanus

By William Shakespeare

July 19^th-August 12^th

Shakespeare at Winedale Theater Barn

Winedale Historical Complex, Round Top, TX (click for map)

TICKETS: $10 General Admission; $5 Student/UT ID Holders

Available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726

Click to download the summer schedule in .pdf format

Shakespeare at Winedale’s 2012 summer class takes the stage this summer with performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, and, for the first time at Winedale, Coriolanus. Performances will begin July 19th and run through August 12th; performances are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 7:30pm with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission or $5 for students/UT ID holders and may be ordered online through the Shakespeare at Winedale website www.shakespeare-winedale.org.

Shakespeare at Winedale is a University of Texas program in which students study and perform Shakespeare at the Winedale Historical Complex near Round Top. Since its founding by English professor James Ayres in 1970, the program’s unique, hands-on approach has brought Shakespeare’s words to life for hundreds of students and thousands of audience members. University students from many disciplines and backgrounds work together for six weeks at Winedale, ending their summer with four weekends of performances in a converted nineteenth-century hay barn.

For the first time in the program’s history, this summer’s class will perform Shakespeare’s riveting political thriller Coriolanus. “We are very excited to be doing the Winedale premiere of Coriolanus,” said program Director James Loehlin, “one of Shakespeare’s richest explorations of politics-- perfect for an election year! Coriolanus is set in the earliest days of the Roman republic, but still pertinent today.”

Click for additional information at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: UT Camp Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew June 17-18, Winter's Tale, July 8-9

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Camp Shakespeare:

The Taming of the Shrew, June 17 & 18

The Winter's Tale, July 8-9

(and next summer, a third session!)

The first summer session of Camp Shakespeare which began on June 5 will conclude with public performances of Shakespeare’s early farcical comedy, The Taming of the Shrew at the Sanford Schmid amphitheater on the La Grange fairgrounds on Friday, June 17, at 7:30 p.m., and at the Winedale Historical Center’s Theater Barn on Saturday, June 18, at 1:00 p.m.

Admission for the performances is $5.00. Youth under 12 are free. Reservations for the Winedale performance are encouraged. Please e-mail jayres@cvctx for information and reservations. Tickets are available through the Shakespeare at Winedale website.

Participating are campers from Dallas, Houston, Mineola, Gonzales, Austin, and Brenham. La Grange is represented by Bea Burton, daughter of Lori-Learned Burton and George Burton. The campers were selected for the two two-week residential experience from a field of 83 applicants from around Texas and beyond.

Since arriving, they have not only been confronting the challenges offered by the demands of the play and the daily routines of physical and vocal exercise, music and singing, cabin-cleaning, improvisations, journal-writing, textual and character analysis, and scene work, but also the ever-present Texas heat. Hourly Gatorade is an essential part of the routine.

Camp Shakespeare director, Jim (Doc) Ayres, reports that he and his staff are very pleased with the progress. “We have great kids in the program, a great staff, and a great play,“ he said.

The second session begins on June 26 with students from various Texas cities as well as Brooklyn, Hong Kong, New Orleans, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Ontario. Victoria Borgstedte, daughter of Drs Allyson and Thomas Borgstedte, will represent La Grange. These campers will explore Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

The site of Camp Shakespeare is Briarfield B & B, near Round Top. Ayres will expand the program to three sessions next year to accommodate the increasing interest in Camp Shakespeare.