2014 Theatre Season

Gidion’s Knot 

 by Johnna Adams

Directed by Lily Wolff

January 20-February 8, 2014 at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre

Over the course of a 90-minute parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother’s son, the teacher’s student, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely — or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion’s act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

“heart-stopping…the show has pathos and suspense in bucketloads…Within a lean 80 minutes, the show raises profound questions about parenting and education and documents the gut-wrenching force of maternal loyalty.” —Washingtonian

Gregory Moss’ fast paced & hilarious history of 80′s punk rock and coming of age

punkplay

Directed by Mark Pickell

May 29-June 21 at the Hyde Park Theatre

A history of America in the 1980s, an idiosyncratic genealogy of punk rock music, and a personal narrative of growing up as an outsider, punkplay is a mix tape tribute to the excesses and energy of adolescence. Mickey, a thirteen-year-old suburban misfit, is befriended by an angry runaway named Duck. Together, the boys attempt to reinvent themselves using punk rock, but as reality threatens to crash in on them, their fabricated world of amped-up music and shocking band names becomes just as oppressive as the society they’re desperate to reject.

“[A] brilliantly funny dissection of adolescent grasping for identity … In scenes as rat-a-tat as a Ramones track, the two battle over band names, experience their first porn and hero-worship their local idol… Did we mention this all takes place on roller skates?” - Time Out Chicago

In staccato scenes inspired by punk anthems, Moss captures the clammy intensity of adolescent bonding: arousal by contraband porn; battles over band names; preening in search of authenticity… [It's] political satire meets Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” -The Village Voice

Austin premiere of the Pulitzer Prize nominated play from UT graduate Lisa D’Amour

Detroit

by Lisa D’Amour

Directed by Mark Pickell

August 21-September 13 at the Hyde Park Theatre

In a first-ring suburb just outside a city that might be Detroit, Ben and Mary see sudden signs of life at the deserted house next door and invite their new neighbors Sharon and Kenny over for a barbecue. As the action unfolds we learn that Sharon and Kenny met at rehab, neither is employed, and they don’t own a stick of furniture. The quintessential American back-yard party turns quickly turns into something more dangerous—and filled with potential.

“…totally nails the great, deep malaise of middle-class suburbia, with a sustained energy and a wicked eye for telling details…funny as hell.” —NY Post

“…sly, timely and neatly surprising…very much an of-the-moment American play” —Time Out NY

2014 Theatre Season - Street Corner Arts, Austin

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(*) 2013-2014 Theatre Season, Renaissance Guild, San Antonio

(performing at the Jo Long Theatre at the Little Carver Civic Center, 226 N. Hackberry St., San Antonio - click for map)

presents details of the 2013-2014 theatre season:

We Are Who We Were: The Migration Project
The project is an examination and celebration of the great migration of the twentieth century on the present day and its impact through the eyes of contemporary playwrights. Last season it was “A Raisin in the Sun”, this year will feature 3 Main Stage productions that highlight the experience that changed the shape of American culture and history including leadership, family, religion and gender politics/ responsibility. 

Season 13 FREE Audition Workshop & Season Auditions
September 6-7, 2013
Free Audition workshop training to prepare & encourage and performers for season auditions.


Season 13 Fundraiser October, 2013
Get dressed up, come have some fun, &help support our season efforts! More details coming!

Langston Hughes
December 12-15, 2013
A retelling of the Christmas story with a predominately black cast, with narrative, dance, gospel songs and folk spirituals, a unique creation of this prolific poet and playwright.

The Mountaintop * ~ Katori Hall
January 17-February 9, 2014 (no show Jan 18 & Feb 3)

A gripping reimagination of events the night before the assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people.


Crumbs From The Table Of Joy ~ Lynn Nottage
March 28-April 13, 2014



A Black, recent widower and his daughters move to Brooklyn for a better life. Not knowing how to parent, he turns to others for answers, namely his sister-in-law who stands for everything he dislikes. As the racial and social issues of the late 1950s escalate, personal issues between the two explode, prompting him to walk out. A few days later, he returns, with a new wife—a white, German immigrant, and life in the household gets heated.


ActOne Series
Theme: “Family Matters”
May 9 & 10, 2014
An evening of original one-act plays and monologues presented by some of the city’s finest!

May 23, 2014



Theatre Summer Camp for Kids *
June 9-27, 2014


Greatness happens with vision, belief, motivation and support. The CCCC and TRG share a common vision to empower young lives to reach the unthinkable! This latest installment will have two camps to facilitate youth from ages 6-18, beginner to advanced!


Season Tickets available soon!


*In partnership with The Carver Community Cultural Center

*All events at The Carver Community Cultural Center unless noted


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2013-2014 Theatre Season, Texas State University, San Marcos

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2013-2014 Georgetown Palace Season

2013 - 2014 Theatre Season

Season Tickets Now Available - $192 ($176 for seniors) for 8 seats that can be used for any 2013 - 2014 show

The Music Man
Book, Music and Lyrics By Meredith Willson

Weekends Sept. 27 - Oct. 27 Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

Con man Harold Hill doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef when he comes to River City, Iowa, to sell musical instruments and uniforms for a boys' band. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for the local librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall. Featuring favorites songs such as (Ya Got) Trouble, Seventy-six Trombones, Marian, The Librarian, and Shipoopi. The Music Man was a part of our 2004-2005 Season at the Palace and we are happy to bring it back to our stage. (Auditions July 27-29)

Tickets go on sale August 9th.

Peter Pan, The Musical
Based on the Play by J. M. Barrie; Musical by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne, Mark Charlap, Carolyn Leigh

Weekends Nov 15 - Dec. 29 Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

Special Weekday shows at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 19, 23, 26, & 30th

New to the Palace stage, this timeless classic about lost boys, pirates, and lost innocence is one of the world's most celebrated musicals. Here is all the charm of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the children Wendy, Michael and John, pirates and Indians, embellished with show-stopping songs, Never Never Land, I Won't Grow Up and I'm Flying. (Auditions Aug. 24-27)

Tickets on Sale Sept. 20th.

Lend Me a Tenor
By Ken Ludwig
Weekends Jan 10 - Feb. 2nd Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.
This night in September of 1934 is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. World famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Othello, his greatest role. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Tito is given a double dose of tranquilizers causing his assistant and the theatre manager to believe he is dead and setting off a chain reaction of slapstick and mistaken identity. This comedy will leave you teary eyed with laughter. First performed at the Palace in 2003 and again in 2007, we bring back Lend Me a Tenor for your enjoyment. (Auditions Oct. 19-21)

Tickets on sale Nov. 15th.

CATS

Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Weekends Feb. 14 - March 23 Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.
Come make another Memory at the Palace! A true musical theatre phenomenon, CATS opened in London and ran for a record-setting 21 years and for 18 years on Broadway. Based on the universally popular poetry of T.S. Eliot, CATS tells the story, in song and dance, of the annual gathering of the Jellicle cats at which time one special cat is selected to be reborn into a new life. The Palace is proud to bring back this hit show from our 2007 season. (Auditions Dec. 7-10)

Tickets on sale Dec. 20th.

Moon Over Buffalo
By Ken Ludwig
Weekends Apr. 11 - May 4th Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

This madcap comedy was last performed at the Palace in 2006. The Boston Herald calls this play “nothing less than a love letter to live theater." Charlotte and George Hay are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac and Noel Coward's Private Lives, when they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee. (Auditions Jan. 18 - 20)

Tickets go on sale Feb. 14th.
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Guys And Dolls
Weekends May 16 - June 15 Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Music/Lyrics by Frank Loesser

Come for the “oldest, established, permanent, floating crap game in New York.” Stay for the Hot Box Dancers, the Havana nights and all the gamblers, dolls, showgirls and redemption you can handle. Last seen at the Palace in 2006, we hope you join us for this classic New York musical that never fails to entertain. Based on The Idyll of Sarah Brown and characters by Damon Runyon. (Auditions March 1 - 4)

Tickets on sale March 21

Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story (2014)
By Alan Janes
Weekends June 27 - Aug 3 Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

We left you wanting more in 2011, so Buddy is back at the Palace! On February 3rd, 1959, the man who changed the face of popular music tragically died in a plane crash at age 22. Now,Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story tells the story of the three years in which he became the world’s top recording artist with a show that features over 20 of his greatest hits including Peggy Sue, That’ll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Not Fade Away, Everyday, Rave On, Maybe Baby, and Raining In My Heart. (Auditions April 12-15)

Tickets on sale May 2

The Full Monty

Book by Terrance McNally, Music/Lyrics by David Yazbeck

Weekends Aug. 22 - Sept. 21 Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p.m. and Sun. at 2:00 p.m.

For the first time at the Palace, we bring you this hilarious and moving musical version of the Academy Award-nominated 1997 film. Six unemployed steelworkers try to make some quick cash by becoming a team of male strippers. Their unlikely new job strengthens their self-esteem and friendships. As the guys work through their fears, self-consciousness and anxieties, they find strength as a group and overcome their inner demons. FOR ADULT AUDIENCES. (Auditions June 7-10)

Tickets on sale June 27

2013-2014 Theatre Season of Penfold Theatre, Austin and Round Rock

 







Penfold Theatre Company announces its 2013-14 Season

Red
By John Logan. September 12-29, 2013 at Trinity Street Theatre. Mark Rothko, the revolutionary twentieth century abstract expressionist, receives the art world’s largest commission: to create a series of murals for The Four Seasons restaurant in the new Seagram building on Park Avenue. Under the watchful gaze of a threatening new generation of artists, Rothko labors to create an iconic work that will stand as a monument to his illustrious career, while doubts and fears of his own relevancy threaten to tear him apart. Red won the 2010 Drama League, Drama Desk and Tony Awards for best play and now receives its Austin premiere.

It's a Wonderful Life: a live radio show.
By Joe Landry. December 5-22, 2013 at Rice’s Crossing Store. It's Christmas Eve 1946, and members of the KPNF radio station are coming together for a radio performance of It's a Wonderful Life. You are invited to be their live studio audience! Watch as five actors bring the entire story to life, playing dozens of characters and performing live foley sound effects in the style of A Prairie Home Companion. With this imaginative re-telling, you'll fall in love with George Bailey and his timeless tale of despair, redemption and hope all over again.

Ordinary Days.
By Adam Gwon. March 20 – April 6, 2014 at the Off Center. From one of musical theatre's most exciting new composers comes Ordinary Days in its Texas premiere. A refreshingly honest and funny chamber musical about four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and taxis. Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. Ordinary Days is a story for anyone who's ever struggled to appreciate the simple things in a complex world.

Romeo & Juliet.
By William Shakespeare. June 5-22, 2014 at the Round Rock Amphitheater. Shakespeare’s tale of young lovers swept into a catastrophic vortex of misunderstandings, secrets and fate is one of the most beloved stories of all time. In this fresh adaptation for five actors, Romeo and Juliet, the son and daughter of two noble families locked in an old feud, are irresistibly drawn to each other. Defying the hatred and distrust surrounding them, they dare to believe they can, and must, be together.

This is Penfold's fifth season. More information is available online at http://www.penfoldtheatre.org/about/14season

2013-2014 Theatre Season at Southwestern University

(Southwestern University, 1001 E. University Blvd, Georgetown)


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The Laramie Project (tickets)

September 25-29, 2013

The chronicles of how the town of Laramie, Wyoming, comes to grips with the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming. (For mature audiences)

The film opened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002 and was nominated for 4 Emmys.
   

Tartuffe (tickets)

November 15-17 & 21-24, 2013

Tartuffe is a self-righteous, mischievous, religious conman, who wins the confidence of wealthy but gullible Orgon. Tartuffe uses his influence over Orgon to infiltrate his household. Will Orgon realize the truth before it’s too late or will Tartuffe ruin them all?

A hilarious and delightful masterpiece by Moliere.

   

Gypsy (tickets)

March 26-30, 2014

The story of Rose, the original ruthless stage mother, who dreams of stardom for her youngest daughter June. When those dreams are dashed, Rose redirects her ambitions on her less talented daughter Louise, who becomes the famous 1930’s striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee!

Recognized as the greatest American musical of all time. The original production received 8 Tony Award nominations.

   

 
Bent (tickets)

April 10-13, 2014

Max and Rudy, two gay men in 1930's Berlin, are caught in a scandal that exposes their relationship.They desperately attempt to flee Berlin, but are caught and sent to a concentration camp. Max lies to the guards and tells them he is Jewish, believing he will receive better treatment. In a time of terror, love and hope are found. (For mature audiences)

Bent was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1980.

“Powerful and Provocative” – New York Times

   

Dance Repertory Theatre (tickets)

April 24-25, 2014

Featuring the work of the Southwestern Dance program and its gifted choreographers. This production celebrates the enduring power of movement in visual and kinetic revelry. Experience a mosaic of vivid and imaginative dance works in varied styles.

Southwestern University, Sarofim School of Fine Arts

1001 E. University Avenue, Georgetown, TX 78626 | (512) 863-1504
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2013-2014 Theatre Season at the Sam Bass Community Theatre, Round Rock

[Sam Bass Community Theatre, 600 Lee Street, Round Rock - click for map]

announces its 2013 - 2014 theatre season:

The Red Velvet Cake Wars
by Jones, Hope & Wooten - directed by Lynn Beaver

In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins—Gaynelle, Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette—could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion. Their outrageous antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out. Having “accidentally” crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s girlfriend’s doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, a saucy firebrand and the number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it’s time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the rough-around-the-edges store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum’s newest widower. But the cousins can’t back out of the reunion now. It’s on and Gaynelle’s hosting it; Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist. Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season. Things spin hilariously out of control when a neighbor’s pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed suitor shows up to declare his love and a jaw-dropping high-stakes wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake. As this fast-paced romp barrels toward its uproarious climax, you’ll wish your own family reunions were this much fun!

A Christmas Story
by Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture "A Christmas Story." Directed by Laura Vohs.

Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Goldblatt's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out." All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more.

The Boys Next Door
by Tom Griffin, directed by Eric Nelson

The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth.


The Chalk Garden
by Enid Bagnold, directed by Frank Benge

A story about the need to bring love - real love - to children. Miss Madrigal is a newly hired nanny/companion at the home of Mrs. St. Maugham, a wealthy and slightly eccentric old woman who has been at war with her daughter Olivia for some time. Olivia has a daughter Laurel who has emotional problems, and whom Mrs. St. Maugham has legally taken away from Olivia. The old lady pretends that only she can give the love and care to the girl that her own daughter fails to give, but in reality she allows Laurel to have full freedom. As Laurel is an arsonist and liar this is not the best policy. The household is completed by the wryly humorous butler Maitland. He sees the blundering by his employer, and he would like to tell a few things to Laurel, but he restrains himself because of his status as an employee. Madrigal, of course, having just arrived is more willing to openly confront Laurel. She does so in an effort to understand her. Laurel appreciates having a new person to toy with, and opens up to an extent (revealing a love of old murder cases), but she is trying to find out the secret that Madrigal is holding back on - which she assumes can prove quite wounding if exposed, and she would love to expose it. At points the secret comes near to the surface, but it keeps getting closed as quickly as it seems to appear. In the meantime Madrigal tries to get her employer see the need for Laurel to have her mother back into her life.

Refried Flimflammery
An evening of selected short plays from the playwrights of Loaded Gun Theory's "Slapdash Flimflammery"

Once again, we offer an evening of the most popular of the short plays from the minds of Loaded Gun Theory! These were all done one night only... until NOW!! A riotous evening of adult laughs!!


Jungalbook
Adapted by Edward Mast. Based on the Mowgli stories of Rudyard Kipling. Directed by Nelly Ruiz de Chavez.

Our Youth Guild summer show! This dramatization places the jungle of India on a children's playground. The dialogue and action refer to the jungle, but the play draws color and style from a child's intense world of playfulness, loyalty, adventure and betrayal. Mowgli, the human child, grows up in the jungle, raised by wolves under the guidance of Baloo the bear. The tiger, Sherakhan, killed his parents and wants the boy's flesh, but Bagheera, the lone panther, protects him. Mowgli grows up wild and unconcerned, believing he's a wolf; but the tiger works long and hard to poison the wolf pack against him. With rope stolen from the human village, Mowgli meets and destroys Sherakhan; but his use of "manthing" has broken jungle law. Mowgli must choose whether to defy the law or leave the jungle forever.

2013-2014 Theatre Season at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University

(*) 2013-2014 Theatre Season at Woodlawn Theatre, San Antonio

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