Eggheads by Joseph Skibell, Tongue and Groove Theatre at Center Stage on Real, September 6 - 14, 2013

presents

Eggheads

by Joseph Skibell
September 6 - 14, 2013
Fridays - Sundays at 8 p.m.
Center Stage at 2628 Real, 8 p.m. - click for map

Tongue and Groove Theatre is proud to present award-winning author Joseph Skibell’s screwball comedy, EGGHEADS! for a limited 2-week engagement.

Running only two weekends: September 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, and 14 at 8 p.m. at Center Stage, 2826 Real Street, Austin, 78722. 

Tickets can be purchased at the box office or in advance through brownpapertickets.com. $15.00 opening weekend; Thursday September 12 is paywhat-you-can, and the closing 2 performances on September 13 and 14 are $20.00.







Directed by artistic director David Yeakle, this zany play conjures Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka and Sigmund Freud as brilliant comedy-writers for their “nephews”, the Marx Brothers and features Mark Stewart and Courtney Hopkin with a cast of 18 portraying more than 60 prohibition-era characters. With period-costume design by Walter Young; art-deco graphic design by Wendy Mitchell; lighting design by Amy Lewis; sound design by Mark Stewart. Stage managed by Carli Werner.

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Upcoming: Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One), Tongue and Groove Theatre at Rollins Theatre, August 16 - 26

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD (PLUS ONE), Tongue and Groove Theatre Company at Rollins Theatre, Long Center, August 16 - 26
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The source material for this original comedy, directed and adapted by Tongue and Groove Artistic Director, David Yeakle, is a 1940s-era suite of songs by the late record producer, Robert Scherman. The story follows a dreamer across time and space to various landmarks of both the ancient world and modern U.S., bouncing from then to now, from temple to skyscraper, classical drama to screwball romance. This is the 10th anniversary of Tongue and Groove’s original staging; the 2002 Austin Critic’s Table awarded the production “Most Unique Theatrical Experience”. This new production stars Mark Stewart, who originated the role of Richard ten years ago, and Courtney Hopkin as Martha, and features lighting design by Jason Amato, costumes by Pam Friday, and settings by Wendy Mitchell. The show is designed to be enjoyed by the entire family! Tickets for general admission are $20, with discounts for students and seniors, and can be purchased through the Long Center Box Office. The production will run for only two weeks, opening on Thursday, August 16, continuing through Sunday, August 19th, resuming Wednesday, August 22 through Sunday August 26. All performances are at 8:00p.m. For more information, please visit our website: www.tongueandgroovetheatre.com

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Upcoming: The Head, Hands and Toes Tango Show by Tongue & Groove Theatre, September 9 - 18

Received directly:

presents

The Head, Hands, and Toe Tango Show!

directed by David Yeakle

September 9 - 18, Fridays - Sundays at 8 p.m.

Kenny Dorham's Back Yard, 1106 E. 11th Street (click for map)

Tickets are available at the door. $10/adults, $5/children 12 and under.

Opening September 9, The Head, Hands, and Toe Tango Show! is a delightful, family-friendly series of vignettes performed to tango tunes. Directed by David Yeakle, this unique production features the on-stage talents of Greg Griffin, Miranda Guillory, Matthew Barrera, Roxanne Rohmann, Zach Pettichord, Blake Addyson, Gricelda Silva, Adrienne Mishler, and Harmony Zambrano. Performances are Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, September 9-18. All shows are at 8:00pm at Kenny Dorham’s Back Yard, 1106 East 11^th Street (3 blocks east of I-35, next to the Victory Grill) near downtown Austin.

Live theatre under the Texas sky! Free parking! Lawn seating and concessions available.

This original production is made with the cooperation and generous support of DiverseArts culture works.

[Image by Wendy Mitchell]

Reviews from Elsewhere: Austinist writers on' The Incredible Shrinking Man' and 'Waiting for the Big O,' FronteraFest LF 2011

Found at Austinist.com:

Dan Solomon on The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tongue and Groove Theatre:

Tongue And Groove Theater proved itself, with The Red Balloon, to be one of Austin's more interesting theatrical stylists. Omnivorous in its approach, the company seemed determined to just create a brilliant, beautiful live experience, unconcerned with being Theater-with-capital-letters and instead mostly interested in giving audiences what they want, not what they expect.

That's a tradition it's more than carrying on with The Incredible Shrinking Man, the work-in-progress performance of which may have been the highlight of the FronteraFest Long Fringe. It's a silent piece, with three actors whom we neither hear nor see, except silhouetted behind a projector screen, and all of the backgrounds come in the form of projected animation. [. . .]

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Bastion Carboni on Waiting for the BIg O by Daniel Huntley Solon:

Political drama is a minefield. The compulsion to discuss hot-button issues seems, more often than not, to beget messy and overwrought or overtly agenda-laden work and halt open conversation, rather than inspire it. Not that it can't and hasn't been done really well; it's just that the bar is high.

Waiting for the Big O chooses a different tactic, purportedly choosing museum-piece observations of the political climate in November 2008 rather than dissection of the deeper connotations of those events. [. . . ]

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Reviews from Elsewhere: The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tongue and Groove Theatre at FronteraFest

Comment of Barry Pineo, published at the Austin Chronicle, January 27 (252 words):

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 479-7529

www.hydeparktheatre.org Jan. 28, 7pm; Jan. 29, 4:15pm Running time: 45 min.

Almost every Tongue and Groove Theatre production presents an opportunity for great fun, and this, the company's latest effort produced for the FronteraFest Long Fringe, is no exception.

Click to read full text (252 words) at the Austin Chronicle . . . .

Upcoming: The Head, Hands and Toes Mambo Show (mime), Dougherty Arts Center, September 11 - 20

Found on-line:

Tongue and Groove Theatre
presents

The Head, Hands and Toe Mambo Show

directed by Omid Ghorashi

An assortment of mime vignettes set to mambo music. A fun hour of delightful entertainment for the entire family.

Friday, September 11 – Sunday, September 20. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm.

The Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd.

Tickets are $10 — available through Austix
Call (512) 474-8497,
Visit www.nowplayingaustin.com,
Or pay by cash or check at the door.

Tongue and Groove Theatre is a sponsored project of Austin Circle of Theaters. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet, Tongue and Groove Theatre at Austin Playhouse, July 10 - 26

With David Mamet's name on the playbill, one expects edgy situations and sharp language, but this production of A Life in the Theatre was one of gentle comedy and smooth edges.

It's a two-man show in which we see two male actors in an unnamed fifth-rate theatrical company sharing a dressing room. Michael Stuart is the mature actor and Zeb West is the newcomer. Mamet gives us vignettes of them over the stretch of a season or so, sketching out their initial, stiffly polite contacts and showing the development of a relationship. The notion is that the stodgy, opinionated old-school actor is going to be eclipsed by the up-and-coming future rival. The implied question is whether there will be a passing of the torch or an arm wrestling contest for it.

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A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet, Tongue and Groove Theatre at Austin Playhouse, July 10 - 26

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, July 29




Found on-line, following up a July 9 listing in the Austin Statesman:

Tongue and Groove Theatre presents

A Life In The Theatre
by David Mamet

July 10-26; Thursday – Saturday at 8:00 PM (and every Sunday at 5:00PM)
On the Main Stage of The Austin Playhouse
3601 South Congress, 78704

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or call 1-800-838-3006 — available 24/7!

Ahhhh! A life in the theatre! The drafty halls, the penciled scripts, the stories you hear. The greasepaint–just vivid colors in oily goop, but somehow as evocative as Proust’s madelines–blah blah blah blah….

What is it with actors and their maddening romanticizing about life in the theatre? The surest traditions are long hours, lousy pay, inept producers, sweaty dressing rooms, falling scenery, and the wrath of critics.

The only thing that could make the job worse is some creepy old actor with an irrepressible desire to educate the uninitiated. Here we have the young Zeb West (The Red Balloon) barely tolerating the wisdom and idiosyncrasies of the old Michael Stuart (The Fantasticks)—onstage and off—in this hilarious and touching send-up of the traditions, superstitions, and vagaries of the theatre.

Directed by Mark Stewart (Bomb Shelter: Or The Modern Pinocchio).

Tongue and Groove Theatre is a sponsored project of Austin Circle of Theaters. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.