Casting: 6 men and 7 women. Show dates: 4 weekends - opening Fri 11/9, closing Sun 12/2 ; performances on Fri/Sat @ 8pm; 2:30 performance on Sun.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Auditions in Wimberley for Sordid Lives by Del Shores, Wimberley Players, September 5 and 12
Casting: 6 men and 7 women. Show dates: 4 weekends - opening Fri 11/9, closing Sun 12/2 ; performances on Fri/Sat @ 8pm; 2:30 performance on Sun.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Upcoming:ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, Wimberley Players, September 14 -October 7
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2012 Wimberley Players Season
Once Upon a Mattress
Music by Mary Rogers
Lyrics by Marshall Barer
Book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller & Marshall Barer
September 14 – October 7
Friday and Saturday Evenings 8:00 p.m.
Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.
Long-time favorite musical comedy, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea. Queen Agravaine decrees that only a princess who can pass her sensitivity test may marry her son Prince Dauntless-and no one else in the kingdom may marry until Dauntless does. When the princess Winnifred the Woebegone appears, life improves immensely throughout the kingdom. Singing, dancing, and lot of laughs.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Upcoming: Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare under the Stars, EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, July 30 - August 11
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Monday, July 30 - Saturday, August 11, nightly at 8:15 p.m.except Sunday
Family Night Special - Mon. - Wed. $12.00 for adults; $6.00 for students
Regular Pricing - Thurs. - Sat. Nights Tickets $15.00 for adults; $10.00 for students;
Tickets are available at the gate or online by clicking here
Much Ado About Nothing will be presented on our outdoor mainstage. Chairs with cushions are provided or bring your own blanket for up-front seating. Accessible seating is available. Gate opens at 7:00. Please call 847-6969in advance for assistance. For more information visit www.emilyann.org.
William Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing spins the tale of young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspiring to get verbal sparring partners Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. Of course, it isn't a Shakespeare comedy without a little mischief, mistaken identity, and clown-foolery involved. Come join this rumpus event, as we enter an 1880's sideshow circus, complete with a lion tamer, tight rope walker, jugglers, a mermaid, and more brought to you by 37 Shakespeare Under the Stars students. (See more about the students' work below).
Friday, June 8, 2012
Auditions in Wimberley and Austin for Macbeth, EmilyAnn Theatre, June 23 and 25
To audition, please contact EmilyAnn Artistic Director, Bridget Farias, at bridget@emilyann.org to set up an audition appointment.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Auditions in Wimberley for Youth Production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, EmilyAnn Theatre, May 12
Shakespeare Under the Stars is a unique educational program that offers students age 12 through graduating high school seniors the opportunity to study and perform one of Shakespeare's plays. Please email Bridget Farias at bridget[AT]emilyann.org to set up an audition time. Rehearsals and program begin July 2. Performances are July 30 - August 11. Click here for more information about the program.
The EmilyAnn Theatre was founded to provide a permanent home for Shakespeare Under the Stars (SUS), now in its 23rd season (and its 14th season at the EmilyAnn). Shakespeare Under the Stars is a unique educational program for middle and high school students who study and perform one of Shakespeare's plays. Students audition in May and memorize their lines before they arrive in late July. All actors are of high school age or younger.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Upcoming: Sundown Town, a musical by Kevin Cohea, Wimberley Players, April 13 - May 6
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Sundown Town
by Kevin D. Cohea
April 13 - May 6
Friday and Saturday Evenings 8:00 p.m.
Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.
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A young African-American carpenter wanders into an early 1900s Southern town where black people are prohibited after sundown; his friendship with a blind Confederate veteran confronts the conventions and beliefs of the community and the church, and uproots a sympathetic family. This musical play stares unblinkingly at a dark corner of American history through fascinating characters who tell their stories through a well-crafted drama, which features a driving musical score built around traditional instrumentals and songs of the era.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Upcoming: Little Women, EmilyAnn Studio Theatre, Wimberley, February 3 - 26
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Little Women
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Upcoming: Happy Birthday by Marc Canoletti, Wimberley Players, February 3 - 26
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Happy Birthday
by Marc Canoletti
adapted from the French by Beverley Cross
February 3 - 26
Friday and Saturday Evenings at 8:00 p.m., Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.
Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Rd. (click for map)
Theatreoffice tel. (512) 847-1529; box office (512) 847-0575
Tickets $19 for general admission, $10 for students, $21 for opening night with reception
Bernard invites his mistress Brigit to his home to celebrate her birthday; to hide his relationship with her from his wife Jacqueline, he also invites his friend Robert. Bernard plans to tell Jacqueline that Brigit is Robert's mistress. Unfortunately, Robert is having an affair with Jacqueline! When the new maid, also named Brigit, arrives ahead of time, frantic complications—in which identities, plots, counter-plots, and bedrooms are exchanged with ever increasing confusion—transpire until an unexpected ending makes everyone happy, including the "temporary" Brigit who has acquired a mink coat and a wad of cash.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Upcoming: Wimberley Players' New Year's Eve Gala, December 31
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The Wimberley Players are offering their First Annual New Year's Eve Gala at the Playhouse (450 Old Kyle Road - click for map), with entertainment starting at 9 p.m. and a light champagne-and-blackeyed-peas breakfast at 11 p.m.:
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Auditions for Happy Birthday, Wimberley Players, November 28 and 29
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Audition Notice for Happy Birthday, a comedy by Marc Camoletti; adapted from the French by Beverly Cross; directed by Tysha Calhoun
Monday, November 28, 7 p.m., Tuesday, November 29, 7 p.m.
Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley, Texas (click for map)
Performance dates: February 3 - February 26, 2012, Friday and Saturday Evenings 8 p.m., Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.
Cast:
3 Women: Jacqueline - the wife; Brigit - the mistress, Brigit - the maid
2 Men: Bernard - the husband; Robert - the friend
Contact: Contact Adam Witko @ 512-632-7638 or e-mail adam@adamwitko.com
Website: www.wimberleyplayers.org
Happy Birthday is a comedy for two men and three women. Bernard has somewhat foolhardily asked his mistress, Brigit, to his home on her birthday despite the fact that his wife Jacqueline is present. To lull Jacqueline's suspicions he has also invited his oldest friend, Robert, and asks him to complete the cover-up by pretending that Brigit is his own mistress. Robert refuses, since he has been having an affair with Jacqueline, but Bernard involves him by low cunning. By chance, a temporary maid Jacqueline has engaged for the evening arrives when Jacqueline and Bernard are out and, her name also being Brigit, Robert mistakes her for Bernard's girl friend. Thus are laid the foundations for a shaky edifice of frantic complications, in which identities, plots and counterplots—and bedrooms—are changed round with ever increasing confusion until an unexpected ending is reached which leaves everyone happy—not least the "temporary" Brigit who has acquired a mink coat and a wad of cash.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Upcoming: She Loves Me, a romantic musical, Wimberley Players, November 18 - December 11
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She Loves Me
by Joe Masteroff
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Buy tickets -- box office at (512) 847-0575
Georg and Amalia are two feuding clerks in a European parfumerie during the Holiday Season in the1930s. They secretly find solace in their anonymous romantic pen pals, little knowing their respective correspondents are none other than each other.
Funny, intelligent, honest and sentimental, She Loves Me is a warm romantic comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old world elegance and nostalgia, yet as universal and relevant as ever in this age of internet romances.
Upcoming: Bus Stop by William Inge, The Rep, Wimberley, November 4 - 19
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The Rep, Wimberley
presents
Bus Stop
by William Inge
November 4 - 19, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.
at the Katherine Ann Porter School, 515 FM 2325, Wimberley (click for map)
Tickets $12.50 at the door or on-line;
Reservations and information at (512) 395-7043
[image: Evanston, IL Greyhouse station via www.evpl.org]
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Upcoming: The 39 Steps, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado, October 14 - November 5
by Michael Meigs
Joseph Kesselring's 1941 play Arsenic and Old Lace is a "golden oldie" kept alive for American culture by Frank Capra's 1944 film with Cary Grant and by community theatre productions such as the charming one currently at the playhouse in Wimberley.
Theatre critic Mortimer Brewster has been brought up his maiden aunts Abby and Martha, and one wonders how he escaped noticing the fact that they're nuttier than fruitcakes. Mortimer's brother Teddy stalks about the place, throughly convinced that he's President Teddy Roosevelt.
Just as romance is blossoming for the drama critic (who despises the theatre), he discovers that his sweet aunts have been cheerfully poisoning lonely old men and encouraging Teddy to bury them in the cellar as victims of yellow fever at the Panama Canal. Mortimer just might be able to resolve those problems if he could get all three members of his deranged family shuttled off to the Happydale Asylum, but another complication turns up: his long-lost second brother, the homicidal Jonathan, accompanied by a plastic surgeon of questionable ethics and not much talent.
The comedy of the piece springs from the juxtaposition of the thoroughly normal -- doting spinster aunts in their tidy frame house in Brooklyn -- with the deranged and the depraved, creating a bubbling pot that Derek Smootz as the reasonable, rational male lead must keep contained. It's most inconvenient to find unexpected corpses in the window seat and in the trunk of bad brother Jonathan's automobile. All that while trying to keep his increasingly bewildered and annoyed fiancée Elaine (Celeste Coburn) uninformed and out of the way.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
The Tempest, EmilyAnn Theatre, September 9 - October 1


In this hottest Texas summer on record you could be pardoned for suffering a touch of cognitive dissonance when you decide to drive through the beginnings of the Hill Country, 45 minutes southwest of Austin, to attend Shakespeare's last work, set upon a magical island surrounded by the Mediterranean. Wimberley, Texas, is ranch country, and these days the rolling landscape is starkly dry. Even the EmilyAnn's illustration reveals the situation: Laura Ray, portraying magician's daughter Miranda, stands in the low waters of the Blanco River. These days the water is Prospero's refuge and the ocean is the countless miles of sun-toasted ranchland.
The EmilyAnn is a special place, however, something of a magic refuge all to itself. The play begins at dusk, so my wife K. and I had plenty of time to chat with the friendly folk at the ticket window and the concession stand. One strolls through a carefully tended garden on the way to the outdoor amphitheatre. My wife stopped and listened -- one could hear the distinct cheerful trickle of water slipping from pool to pool. With that prelude it became that much easier to enter the agreed meeting place of Prospero's imaginary island.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Auditions for Bus Stop by William Inge, The Rep, Wimberley, September 10
Found at www.AustinActors.net:
Audition Notice - Bus Stop - looking for a few good men
The Rep Theatre in Wimberley is holding auditions for all the male roles in Bus Stop by William Inge and directed by Lee Stubbs.
The play is set in 1955 in a road side restaurant that serves as a rest stop for the bus that runs between Kansas City and points west. A snowstorm forces 5 bus passengers and 3 locals to spend an evening together. During their time together, the quirky characters reveal themselves and some unusual pairings occur. It is a classic American romantic comedy.
Characters:
Bo-20's, a cowboy with a quick temper. Romantic lead.
Virgil-40-50's, a cowboy who serves as a kind of father-figure for Bo.
Dr. Lymon-50-60's, a drunken, pompous, lecherous former college professor.
Carl-40-50's, the bus driver who is having an affair with Grace, the restaurant owner.
Will-30-50's, the sheriff who keeps order with a strong presence.
Auditions will be held at the Katherine Anne Porter School at 515 FM 2325 in Wimberley beginning at 5:00 p.m., Saturday, September 10th. Please call the producer, Whitney Marlett at (512) 395-7043 for an audition time slot.
Production dates: November 4-November 19, Friday and Saturday nights. Contact: Whitney Marlett (512) 395-7043
Friday, May 27, 2011
Upcoming: Anything Goes by Cole Porter, Lee Colee Broadway Bound Summer Camp at Wimberley Playhouse, June 17 - 26
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Wimberley Players
present
Lee Colee's Kids Theater Boot Camp
Anything Goes
Written by P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay
Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley, TX 78676
June 17 - June 26, 2011
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.
Special Ticket Pricing - $15
Tickets available on-line at www.wimberleyplayers.org or through the box office at 512-847-0575; please leave a message if no one answers.
The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, carries an unusual group of passengers. Included amongst them are a gangster, a wealthy debutante, her mother, a nightclub singer, a wealthy New York businessman...and his stowaway assistant. All are involved in a series of comedic happenings that will leave you laughing and your toes tapping!
Be sure to come and watch these kids take the stage and wow you with their talent!
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Upcoming: Alice in Wonderland, a musical, EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, June 3 - 26
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An Original Musical Adventure
June 3-26 (Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 8:15 p.m.)
"Oh, my ears and whiskers, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!"
Don't be late in joining the EmilyAnn Theatre in our musical journey this summer to Wonderland, where you will meet Alice and all of your favorite "mad" characters! This musical production, created by Michael Sirotta, is making it's TEXAS PREMIERE here at the EmilyAnn! Fun and magical for families and audiences of all ages, be sure to join us or...OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!
Tickets: $15/adults, $10/students
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Auditions for Hay Fever, Wimberley Players, May 24
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Auditions for Noel Coward's
Hay Fever
Tuesday, May 24, 7:00 p.m.
Wimberley Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley (click for map)
Director - Laura Haygood, Executive Producer- Adam Witko
Show Dates July 29 – Aug 21, Friday and Saturday Evenings 8:00 p.m., Sunday Matinees 2:30 p.m.
This show is a zany comedy which will be staged with exaggerated characters and comedic movements. I will be looking to fill a cast of 9, 4 men and 5 women. One couple is older, a novelist and retired actress now staying in their country home. They are joined by their 2 adult children and 4 guests. There is a small role as a maid. This will be a fun show to work on: light humor for the hot summer.
Hay Fever is set in the hall of the Bliss family home. The eccentric Blisses—Judith, a recently retired stage actress, David, a self-absorbed novelist, and their two equally unconventional children— live in a world where reality slides easily into fiction. Upon entering this world, the unfortunate weekend guests—a proper diplomat, a shy flapper, an athletic boxer, and a fashionable sophisticate— are repeatedly thrown into melodramatic scenes wherein their hosts profess emotions and react to situations that do not really exist. The resulting comedic chaos ends only when the tortured visitors tip-toe out the door.
Contact: Adam Witko adam@adamwitko.com 512-632-7638
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Upcoming: Night Watch by Lucille Fletcher, Wimberley Players, April 29 - May 22
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by Lucille Fletcher
directed by Nathan Villarreal
April 29 - May 22
Friday and Saturday evenings 8:00 p.m.
Sunday matinees 2:30 p.m.
A gripping mystery-thriller, we glimpse the life of Elaine Wheeler as she paces about inher luxurious Manhattanapartment near dawn, unable to sleep. While her husband is trying to calm her, she spots something through her window, inside an apartment in a building across the way, disturbing, distant, yet clearly visible to her – a tattered chair, shadows...
As seeming illusion melds with existing reality and her haunting memories, Elaine is slowly drawn into a fearsome web of intrigue and foreboding while confronted by family, friends, and the authorities—all who doubt her word. As the plot thickens, the atmosphere of menace and suspense builds to a chilling climax you won’t want to miss.
Tickets may be purchased online at any time.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Upcoming: The Heiress, Wimberley Players, February 18 -March 13
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THE HEIRESS
by Ruth Ann and August Goetz
Directed by Robert FitzGerald
February 18 – March 13, Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
Wimberly Players Theatre, 450 Old Kyle Rd., Wimberley (click for map)
Tickets are $18 each ($20 each for opening night including a pre-show reception at 7 p.m.) available at www.wimberleyplayers.org. Box Office at 847-0575 is open Wednesdays & Thursdays, 2 - 5 p.m., Fridays 2 - 6 p.m.
The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz is an adaptation of Henry James's novel Washington Square. The play launches the Wimberley Players 2011 season and will run for four consecutive weekends.
This Tony Award winning drama is set in the drawing room of a mansion in an affluent residential square in New York City during the 1850’s. It immerses us in the life of Catherine Sloper, a wealthy, yet commonplace, young woman of a retiring and reserved disposition. Unexpectedly, she meets and is wooed by an attractive young man, Morris Townsend, and ultimately falls desperately in love.
We witness Catherine’s anguish, and feel her pain as she is torn between her wealthy father, Dr. Austin Sloper, who has dominated her life since birth, and the promise of a bright future with a man she dared not dream could be hers. Add to this mix a foolish, meddlesome aunt, with other members of two intertwined families and you have a story of love, selfishness, hope and plot-turning surprises. T he Heiress has humor that lightly taps you on the shoulder and brutal reality that slaps you in the heart.
