Tech Call: Opportunity for Costumer and Sound Designer: Trinity Street Players' Blood Brothers, opens June 1

Trinity Street Players is still seeking a Costumer and a Sound Designer for the Austin premier of Blood Brothers! Join the production team of Cathy Jones (producer), Bob Beare (director), Giacomo Leone (AD), James Lindsley (SM), James Jennings (lights), and Steve Williams (set design) on this dark but beautiful musical opening June 1st! TSP is a volunteer-run community theater putting on professional productions in the heart of downtown Austin. Contact rkbeare@hotmail.com for more info!

Educating Rita, Sidetrack Productions at Austin Playhouse, April 23 - May 9

Educating RIta slipped through with a low profile during its short run at the Larry L. King stage at Austin Playhouse. That off-key, self-effacing approach seems typical of big Michael Stuart, the show's director and the male lead in this two-person production. He did something similar in last summer's theatre off season, sharing the Austin Playhouse stage with Zeb West in David Mamet's A Life In the Theatre.

Stuart can do that because within the season subscribers to his home-base theatre, the Austin Playhouse, there is a goodly number of admirers for this man's gentle, rumpled humor. He doesn't have to advertise. For love of Stuart they queue up to fill the seats in that space, which serves literally as a sideshow to the much more extensive Austin Playhouse season.

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