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DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD by Bert V. Royal, Round About Players, Nov. 14 - 16, 2013

DOG SEES GOD: 

CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD

by Bert V. Royal

directed by Sean Tecson

Thursday, Nov. 14 - Saturday Nov. 16, 2013, 8 p.m.

WIN B.202, University of Texas theatres, Winship Drama Bldg. (WIN), near 23rd St. and San Jacinto, Austin

ADMISSION: FREE!

(Reserve your tickets online: http://bit.ly/17pWiVt)

After CB’s dog dies from rabies, he begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. But a chance meeting with an artistic kid, the target of this group’s bullying, offers CB a peace of mind and sets in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits.

CAST: David Barrera, Marian Kansas, Robert Di Donato, Sean Przano, Jerry Berger, Julianne Plantes, Kat Agudo, Callie Hacker

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Kathleen Brown; STAGE MANAGER: Adam Chalmers
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Creative Action Building Campaign: Founder/Architect Eva Schone Explains Concept

Creative Action supplies a link to the Trophyology website of its founder, architect Eva Schone:

Besides designing TROPHYOLOGY’s awards and recognition gifts, founder and creative director Eva Schone enjoyed her work as a project architect with Tom Hurt Architecture in Austin, Texas.

These two parts of Eva’s creative work come together in a project that is very special to her and that embodies many of the values that we hold dear at TROPHYOLOGY.

Earlier this month, ground was broken in East Austin for the new headquarters building for Creative Action. This nonprofit group, headed by executive director Karen LaShelle, inspires youths to learn academically, socially and emotionally through arts activities. Creative Action serves more than 18,000 children a year in our community.

Tom Hurt Architecture was selected to be the architecture firm for the new building in 2009, and it was Eva’s distinct pleasure to be the project architect for this project. Working closely with Tom Hurt, she designed the building and managed the design process. “We’ve been working on this project for the past 3 ½ years,” Eva says. “This has been a dream project for me. It is has every aspect that I am looking for as an architect.“ Slated to open in September 2014, the building, situated on a triangular lot that challenged the architects, will have 7,500 square feet over two stories. The ground floor will welcome program participants in classroom spaces, and the upper floor will house Creative Action’s administrative offices.

The story of the project begins several years ago, when the Meredith family, which is well known for their significant philanthropic contributions in Austin, had a vision to create a community hub in East Austin, adjacent to the MLK light rail stop. The Sustainable Food Center and PeopleFund are the other two organizations that form the trifecta of the new “Chestnut Social Profit Village.” In addition, the development will include an amphitheater, trails, a skate park and community gardens.

The new Center for Creative Action was designed to have generous views of the community gardens and rooms filled with daylight, which was important to Eva. “Natural light has such positive effects on children and learning.” Eva notes. In addition, ”operable windows will allow the building users to “live with the seasons,” she says. Reclaimed brick will bring a quality material to the building. Eva is proud that the project team was able to secure the reclaimed brick at a reduced price, assisting the sustainability of the building in more than one way. A prominent brick exterior wall will continue throughout the building like a spine, Eva says, so that the beautiful, history-rich brick can be appreciated both on the outside and on the inside.

Read more and view architectural sketches at www.trophyology.com

Video: Creative Action Opens Funding Campaign for Its Own Building in East Austin

Posted at the website of

Goal: $50,000 by January 1, 2014

Click to go to donations page

2013 Globe Awards by Alamo Theatre Arts Council, San Antonio

Thanks to Deborah Martin's listing at Art Beat, San Antonio Express-News:







by Deborah Martin
October 14, 2013

Classic Theatre was the big winner at this year’s Alamo Theatre Arts Council’s Globe Awards, walking away with a total of 16 awards. Of those, nine went to the company’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

The Woodlawn Theatre and the Sheldon Vexler Theatre did pretty darn well, too, scoring 13 and 11 awards, respectively. The Woodlawn’s wins include People’s Choice Award, which was voted on by Globe attendees at Sunday’s (Oct. 13) awards ceremony; it went to “In the Heights.”

The Jasmina Wellinghoff Award for contributions to the city’s theater scene went to husband-and-wife team William McCrary and Michelle Pietri.

Without further ado, the other awards went to:

Comedy

Production: “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “Painting Churches” and “Scapin,” all produced by Classic Theatre of San Antonio.

Direction: Allan S. Ross, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Matthew Byron Cassi, “Scapin,” Classic Theatre; and Roberto Prestigiacomo, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Lead actor: Bradley Tejeda, “Italian American Reconciliation,” The University of the Incarnate Word; Scott Leibowitz, “The 39 Steps,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; and Dru Barcus , “Scapin,” Classic Theatre.

Lead actress: Catherine Babbitt, “Chapter 2,” Woodlawn Theatre Black Box; Alyx Gonzales, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University; Terri Peña Ross, “Painting Churches,” Classic Theatre.

Supporting actor: John O’Neill, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Eric Montoya, “Italian American Reconciliation,” University of the Incarnate Word.

Supporting actress: Jo Grabow and Terri Peña Ross, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre.

Drama

Production: “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theatre; “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater.

Direction: Tim Hedgepeth, “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theater; Paul Fillingim, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; and Seth Larson, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater.

Lead actor: Andrew Thornton, “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theatre; Jim Mammarella and Roger Alvarez, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre.

Lead actress: Christy Huffman and Anna Gangai, “August: Osage County” and Belinda Harolds, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” both shows produced by the Sheldon Vexler Theatre.

Supporting actor: Stephan Gaeth, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; and Rodman Bolek, “Red,” Playhouse Cellar Theatre.

Supporting actress: Jennifer Colacino, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre.

Musicals

Production: “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre; “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College; and “Ragtime,” Playhouse.

Direction: Vivienne Elborne, “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre; Ronald Watson, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College; Christopher Rodriguez, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Black Box Theatre.

Musical direction: Mary Lou Russell, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College.

Choreography: “In the Heights,” Woodlawn Theatre.

Lead actor: Gerardo Solis, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” San Antonio College; Isidro Medina, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Theatre Black Box Theatre; and Walter Songer, “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre.

Lead actress: Mariela Flor Olivo, “Spring Awakening,” Playhouse.

Supporting actor: Chris Berry and Michael J. Gonzalez, “The Producers,” Woodlawn Theatre; Rick Sanchez, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Black Box Theatre .

Supporting actress: Seeley Stephens, “Let’s Go to the Movies,” Harlequin Dinner Theatre.

Design

Scene design: Ben Grabbill and Kurt Wehner, “In the Heights,” Woodlawn Theatre; Abigail Entsminger, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; Ken Frazier, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; Allan S. Ross, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre.

Costume design: Katherine Johnson and Greg Hinojosa, “When Pigs Fly,” Woodlawn Black Box Theatre; Sophia Bolles, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; Margaret Mitchell and Jodi Karjala, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Jodi Karjala and Teatro del Drago, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Lighting design: Dylan Brainard, “August: Osage County,” Sheldon Vexler Theatre; Felice Garcia, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Tim Francis and Teatro del Drago, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Sound design: Rick Malone, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Classic Theatre; Alex Coy, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater; Rick Malone, “Painting Churches,” Classic Theatre; and Teatro del Drago, “La Tempesta,” Trinity University.

Adapted script: Sophia Bolles, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Overtime Theater.

Original musical arrangements: Darrin Newhardt, “Scapin,” Classic Theatre.

Original musical score: Thomas Nyman and Kevin Parman, “Roads Courageous.”

Opening This Week in Central Texas, September 9 - 15, 2013

Opening This Week 

September 9 - 15, 2013

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Click HERE for a list of all productions CONTINUING on stage

Opening in and around Austin . . .

 

Hourglass Productions at Galaxy Dance Studio, Sept. 14 - 28

Playhouse Smithville, Sept 12 - 28, Oct in Giddings

Rumors by Neil Simon, Circle Arts New Braunfels, Sept 14 - Oct 6

Penfold at Trinity St, First Baptist Church, Sept 13 - 29

Way Off Broadway Community Theatre, Leander, Sept 13 - Oct 5

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Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry, Rose Theatre Company, Sept 13 - 28

September 13 - October 6

Opening This Week in Central Texas, July 22 - 28, 2013

Opening This Week

in Central Texas

July 22 - 28, 2013

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Opening around Austin . . .

SummerStock Austin at Rollins Theatre, Long Center

 

 

 

 

Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander

 

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Video: Alpha Psi Omega's 'Spring Awakening' at the University of Texas, March 8 - 10, 2013

A video about the new

and its presentation at the University of Texas of the musical

Spring Awakening

Co-Directed by Oscar Franco & Kelley Henry

Books & Lyrics by Steven Sater, Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the original play by Frank Wedekind
March 8th @ 8PM (sold out), March 9th @ 2:30PM &8PM, March 10th @ 2:30PM at Hogg Auditorium
Students: $8, Non-Students: $10 ; Parental Advisory: Mature Content
Seating is limited to 140 per performance.
Check out our website: http://utalphapsiomega-com.webs.com/

Upcoming: Vodka, Fucking and Television by Maksym Kurochkin, Breaking String Theatre at Hyde Park Theatre, November 29 - December 15

is proud to present

Vodka, Fucking and Television

by Maksym Kurochkin, translated by John J. Hanlon
directed by Liz Fisher

November 29 - December 15
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Industry night Monday, December 3
Back-to-back performances (8pm, 10:00pm) on Friday December 14, Saturday December 15
Talk-back Saturday, Dec 8 (With special guest - Translator John J. Hanlon)
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St. at Guadalupe
General Admission: $15 - 25, Sliding scale
● Student rush tickets released 10 minutes before curtain for all performances: $10
● Available at breakingstring.com/tickets and 512-784-1465


Widely regarded as one of Russia’s greatest living playwrights, Maksym Kurochkin was introduced to Austin in 2011 at Breaking String Theater Co.’s inaugural New Russian Drama Festival; he would return as the spotlight artist for New Russian Drama Festival 2012, which saw the American premiere of his play The Schooling of Bento Bonchev. Kurochkin’s plays’ imagination, immediacy, irreverence and humor have made him a sensation in Russia and now in Texas, and Breaking String is excited to extend its relationship with Max’s work.

Vodka, Fucking and Television is a dark comedy about a struggling writer, and the vices holding him back. But Kurochkin gives this plot a surprising twist: The vices become personified, and each gets a chance to justify their presence in the hero's life, or get the boot. Inspired by artistic malaise, Vodka,Fucking and Television is like the Cohen Brothers' Barton Fink meets Sartre's No Exit.

Led by director(and frequent Breaking String collaborator) Liz Fisher and featuring performances by noted artists Adriene Mishler, Joey Hood, Jude Hickey and Noel Gaulin, and design by Ia Enstera (scenic), Steven Shirey (lights), Glenda Barnes (costumes) and Lowell Bartholomee (video), and set within the embracing closeness of Hyde Park Theatre’s black box theatre space, VF&T promises to make a splash in Austin this holiday season.


MAKSYM KUROCHKIN is recognized as one of the most imaginative playwrights in Moscow today, “the ideal playwright for the global age,” as Moscow Times critic John Freedman defined him. He was introduced to Austin audiences in 2011, when Breaking String premiered a staged reading of his play, Repress and Excite. In 2012, Breaking String spotlit his work during New Russian Drama Festival 2012, which featured the American premiere of Kurochkin’s The Schooling of Bento Bonchev. In response to Bento and the festival staged readings, Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires wrote, “These plays' irreverence, imagination, and immediacy were so familiar and engaging that if I hadn't alreadyknown they were minted in Moscow, I might have taken them for plays created locally.”

Regarding his accomplishments in Russia, Kurochkin is the recipient of the Boldest Experiment of the Year award from the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily for Kitchen, the Moscow New Drama award for the futuristic comedy Titus the Irreproachable, and the Russian Anti-Booker award for experimenting with new avenues in drama. In Afisha magazine, Russian critic Yelena Kovalskaya named Kitchen one of the top 20 plays in Russia in the first decade of the century.

The Moscow Times named his Repress and Excite the best play of the 2006-7 Moscow season. Translations of that play and Vodka, Fucking, and Television, his trailblazing work from 2003, appeared in TheatreForum magazine. A translation of The Schooling of Bento Bonchev was workshopped at Towson University in 2010 and published in Performing Arts Journal. Titus the Irreproachable, translated by Noah Birksted-Breen, was a featured reading at the Russian Theatre Festival in London in February 2010. John J. Hanlonʼs translation of Mooncrazed was presented at the HotINK festival at NYU in January 2010.


This translation of Vodka, Fucking and Television was produced under the auspices of the CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL THEATER DEVELOPMENT’s New Voices / New Visions initiative. The Center for International Theatre Development, led by Philip Arnoult, has been a frequent collaborator with Breaking String in bringing the best that contemporary Russian theater has to offer, home to Austin, TX.

BREAKING STRING THEATER, founded and led by Producing Artistic Director Graham Schmidt, produces drama important to Russian culture and exposes Austin audiences to new developments in Russian theater. We do this by staging excellent productions of Russian traditional and avant-garde plays, providing artists with a creative, respectful and professional work environment, and pursuing collaboration with Russian theater artists, notably through our annual New Russian Drama Festival, where we spotlight high-profile Russian playwrights and bring them to Austin for brief residencies, as well as premieres of new plays.

BREAKING STRING THEATER is a sponsored project of the Austin Creative Alliance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Breaking String Theater enjoys core funding support from the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Committee, and for this production of Vodka, Fucking and Television, we received a Q Rental Subsidy Grant from the Austin Creative Fund.

(Click to go to the AustinLiveTheatre front page)

Theatre Action Project Rebrands: Creative Action

[received September 12]

Creative Action Emerges with Rebranding of Theatre Action Project

 

Theatre Action Project, the Austin, Texas arts education nonprofit today announced a rebranding campaign including taking the new name for the organization, Creative Action. The organization began in 1997 as a violence prevention project conducted by University of Texas graduate students in the Drama and Theatre for Youth Program at UT and became a nonprofit organization in 2001. With today’s announcement, Executive Director Karen LaShelle shared the decision behind the rebranding:

Over the past fifteen years we have been busy. Really busy. We (a team of artists, educators and youth development professionals) have tirelessly dedicated ourselves to using our creative skills to engage and educate thousands (close to 100,000!) of young people. We have grown from a handful of volunteers into one of the largest arts organization in Austin, employing more than 60 artists every year. Last spring we were named one of the top 50 arts education organizations in the nation by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Our programs are in seven local school districts each week.

Our ultimate goal is, and always will be, to provide unique experiences and opportunities that give youth the skills they need to improve their own lives and the world around them. As those of you that know us well can attest, we never set out to make youth into thespians; we simply know that using theatre and dramatic role-play to teach young people really hooks them in a special way.

As we have evolved to best meet the needs of Central Texas youth, we have continued to innovate and find even more ways to engage and spark the hearts and minds of kids. So, what began as a program mostly using theatre, role-play, and drama, has become something much more expansive. Today, we employ a host of creative arts, including film, dance, music, visual art, media arts, and whatever other random acts of creativity the moment calls for to help us meet our mission. And the name, Theatre Action Project, just doesn't describe what we do anymore.

Today, we are happy to announce our new name: Creative Action. This new name reflects our dedication to using a variety of creative art forms to carry out our mission: to activate the academic, social and emotional development of young people. We will still provide our acclaimed interactive classroom performances, after school arts residencies, and community-based youth theatre programs to inspire youth to be creative artists, courageous allies, critical thinkers, and confident leaders in their community. We just have a better name to describe what we are all about!

We are excited to share this new development with you, and thank you for your support as we move forward!

 

Creative Action serves 16,000 youth annually in six area school districts. The organization is the largest provider of arts education programs in the Central Texas area.

Creative Action uses the creative arts to activate the academic, social and emotional development of young people. Through interactive classroom performances, after school residencies and community based programs, Creative Action's team of professional teaching artists inspire youth to be creative artists, courageous allies, critical thinkers and confident leaders in their community.

Inspiring young minds through the arts.

www.creativeaction.org

[AustinLiveTheatre note: website www.austintheatreproject.org is still on-line, while the new URL is not yet active]

Upcoming: Looking in the Wrong Direction by Bianca Emery, BE Productions at the Dougherty Arts Center, August 11

BE Entertainment and Productions

(poster image from Bianca Emery)

presents

Looking in the Wrong Direction

by Bianca Emery

August 11 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.)

Dougherty Arts Centers, 1110 Barton Springs Rd (click for map)

Tickets via www.beentertainment.org or at 1-888-352-3113

Back By Popular Demand the Hit Inspirational Gospel Stage Play Looking in the Wrong Direction Is Set to Showcase One Night Only.

When a bright young lady suffers the tragic loss of her dear mother, she turns away from God and into the arms of a drug-dealer who becomes her boyfriend and number one source of comfort, protection, and belonging. Sadly, tragedy strikes her life again and thankfully she finds her way into the arms of friends and family who do their best to get her back on track and headed in the right direction once again....back into the arms of God."

$20 (Advanced) $25 (At the Door) $15 (Group Discount if 10 or More Tickets are purchased at one time; you must call 1-888-352-3113 to Make Arrangements for the Group Discount)

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Ongoing: The Guys You Slept With by T.J. Young, Rose Theatre Company, San Antonio, January 20 - 28

Found on-line:

presents

The Guys You Slept With

by T.J. Young

Jan 20-21, 27-28, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm

Rose Theatre Company, 11838 Wurzbach and Lockhill Selma, Upstairs in The Elms Shopping Center Overlooking Pam's Patio (click for map)
tel. 210-360-0004 or therosetheatreco@yahoo.com

$10- $12 tix

Mel is dating 4 guys at one. None of them seen right for her, and she tells her roomate, Peter, about all of them. As she looks for that missing someone they push her to question herself and who exactly she is look for. With laughs and emotion, we learn about Mel and The Guys She Slept With.

[image: Kristen Hinton, Torence White, Ryan Kirby, Kyle Tolbert, Trevor Anthony - from Rose Theatre Company via mysanantonio.com)

UPDATE: From 'First Impression' by Deborah Martin of the San Antonio Express-News at her Art Beat blog at www.mysanantonio.com : "An actress friend of playwright TJ Young’s complained that he never wrote any decent roles for women, and, in response, he came up with The Guys You Slept With.”The well-structured one-act follows the romantic misadventures of a young woman (Kristen Hinton) who shares her issues with the guys with her roommate (Young), refusing to see him as boyfriend material. A few scenes could bear a little trimming, but the piece is compelling and well-acted.

Auditions for Precious Little Talent, Capital T Theatre, November 27

Received directly; this information is also posted at the Capital T website:

Auditions for Precious Little Talent, November 27, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Capital T is excited to announce auditions for its next production Precious Little Talent by Ella Hickson. We are having open casting for all 3 roles. All actors will be paid.

Precious Little Talent is the story of two 20-somethings graduating into a world that’s sold them down the river. Londoner Joey’s got a first class degree, 20K worth of debt and works in a pub. It’s Christmas and she flees to New York in a bid to find comfort with her estranged father. Just as the world seems to have shunned her, so will he. Yet in the face of such rejection, world-weary Joey falls in love with an idealistic young American and learns what it is to have hope in the future.

Roles

Joey – Female – 24 years old – British Accent. Joey’s got a first-class college degree, 20k worth of debt and works in a pub. Shunned by the world, rejected by her estranged father, she finds herself falling in love with an idealistic young American…

Sam – Male – 19 years old. The idealistic young American that Joey falls in love with. He currently is George’s caregiver, but has big plans for his future.

George – Male 50-60 years old – British Accent. Joey’s father and Sam’s employer. A former world class academic who is suffering from early onset dementia.

Rehearsal will begin in December with performances in the last two weeks of January and the first weekend of February. We anticipate working around actors' holiday plans.

Auditions by appointment. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

Contact us at preciouslittletalent@gmail.com with a resume and recent pic.

Two Reviews: Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, Wondrous Strange Players, Community Renaissance Market, September 8 - 18

Darkness at the Break of Noon: Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding

By Brian Paul Scipione

The stage is stark, the lights are dim, the crickets and the wind are rumbling in the background. A woman, weary and worried, enters the room and falls into a stiff chair. Her son comes through with the intention of going to work. The word knife enters the conversation and the mother explodes, going from worry to wailing at the world’s iniquities. She is bitter and inconsolable; she has lost her husband and oldest son to murders. She blames knives, evil people and the society that engenders them but her son is persistent, hopeful, and loving. He wants to get married and needs her blessing and counsel. She recognizes the hope in his eyes and begins discussing the proper wedding customs, yet the tone in her voice has not changed. What good are marriage, love and truces in the land of the dead? Every child born is to live its life mere seconds away from the cold dirty steel of a hateful man’s blade. The tone of the play is set: if life is bad it can only get worse.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: The Magic Fire by Lillian Groag, Red Dragon Players, Austin High School, October 6 - 16

Found on-line:

present

The Magic Fire

by Lillian Groag

directed by Billy Dragoo

October 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16, at 7:00 PM

$7 per person

Preas Theatre. Austin High School, 1715 W. Cesar Chavez (click for map)

THE MAGIC FIRE concerns a family of Italian immigrants in the Buenos Aires of the 1950s at the time of the death of Eva Perón. The father, Otto Berg, himself a refugee from Nazi Austria, and his family find themselves trapped in the fascist system of Juan Perón's regime, and once again retreat, taking private refuge in books, music, theatre and the arts. Their next-door neighbor, Henri Fontannes, a high-ranking officer in the Peronist army, is most likely involved in secret police activity in which enemies of the state are known to "disappear." He and his wife, Angelica, share with the Bergs the geographical location of their living quarters and an ardent love for the arts. When the reality of the political situation enters the Bergs' own apartment (their maid's brother is in hiding there), they are forced to confront their ethical choices—morals and politics in place of art, and Fontannes becomes the only man who can help them.

Reserve tickets by calling the theater office ~ 512 - 414- 7311
(No credit cards accepted -- cash or checks made payable to "AHS Theatre")

Upcoming: Beirut by Alan Bowne and Night Maneuver by Howard Korder, Southwestern University Black Box Theatre, February15 - 19, 2012

Found on-line:

Black Box Series

presents

Beirut and Night Maneuver

1 Night, 2 Shows, 1 Price!

February 15 - 19

7pm | Wednesday & Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday

Purchase Tickets

Heather Hall, Southwestern University, Georgetown

click for campus map - click for driving instructions

Beirut by Alan Bowne

Directed by Alexis Gette ‘13

Beirut is the story of a Brooklyn man quarantined in the Lower East Side after testing positive for a deadly, nameless virus. His girlfriend, who has not been infected, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. The plague has upped the ante on love and introduced them to sacrifice. They are a Romeo and Juliet of the boroughs. An East Side story.

(Adult subject matter for mature audiences only)

Night Maneuver by Howard Korder
Directed by Abraham Ramirez ‘13

A series of lies and inconsistencies drive this plot and the relationship between brothers, Lou, Tim, and the absent Monty whose heavy shadow follows them throughout. An underhanded power-struggle between the two ensues, as Lou acts as the rather obnoxious patronizing older brother, and Tim the pathetic and helpless younger brother. It becomes clear that both of them have their secrets. Using mind games and deception, they each try to catch the other out. Intriguing and touching, this play is a powerful unfolding of the human construct that reveals its inner-most fragility.

(Adult subject matter for mature audiences only)

Upcoming: Columpio by Joe Luis Cedillo, Texas State University, September 17

Found on-line:

Texas State University

Conference of Black and Latino Playwrights

presents

COLUMPIO (The Swing)
by Joe Luis Cedillo

directed by Carlos Jose Murillo

September 17 at 2 p.m.

PSH Foundation Theatre,430 Moon Street, San Marcos (click for map)

House of Recuerdos (Memories) The house I grew up centered around the kitchen. My sisters and I ate all of our meals, gained access to the sandbox in the backyard, swing set, climbing and exploring the hill in our backyard. School books on the table, dinner conversations, smells of tortillas, growing plants in mayonaisse jars, our music and our parent’s, folding laundry, building a model solar system, band-aids, and love. All kinds of love. It was the canvas of roughly 30 years of my life. I grew up Chicano. During the Civil Rights era, my parents like many Mexican-Americans in the Southwest—and that generation of American youth—struggled for political recognition, created a positive self-image and identity. They marched, participated in sit-ins, and created their moment in history. It was earned through community organizing, civic pride and social consciousness as well as tear gas, police beatings, and blood. American is my citizenship, Mexican our heritage—but Chicano was who they fought for me and my sisters to be recognized as. It was a point of pride when we moved out of the barrios. Restrictive housing laws and Homeowner’s Associations that could once legally bar Mexican-American or African-American families from ownership were repealed. Families now had access to new tract homes with large yards and better schools where college was a tangible reality. It was the pride my father had in driving up our driveway and mother had in ensuring our house stayed perfectly ordered and clean. Our family life in our hous can be seen in the Polaroids my dad took. Birthdays, baptisms, graduations, my Marine Corps going away party. This play is a work of fiction, but is very much the home I carry inside me. On Feb. 21, 2005, while I stood with my mother and father, sisters, nephew and nieces, a landslide obliterated the house I grew up in.

Upcoming: Dos Pocitos by Raul Gaza, Teatrro Vivo at The Salvage Vanguard Theatre, August 18 - September 3

Found on-line:

Teatro Vivo presents

Dos Pocitos

by Raul Garza

Saints & Sinners in a Border Wasteland

August 18 - September 3, Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Road (click for map)

Tickets: $15, $20, or $25; Thursdays are"Pay What you Wish" nights

Tickets will be available on-line at Brown Paper Tickets

It’s 2026 in “Texaco” – the ungoverned, lawless territory formerly known as South Texas. Here a few struggling residents remain, constantly embattled with drug cartels, military and occasional interlopers. With a nod to the past, and an eye to the future, Dos Pocitos is a comedy about this place, and the place it represents for all Latinos.

Click to read ALT report of the staged reading of Dos Pocitos at the Latino New Play Festival in APril

Upcoming: The Good Thief by Conor McPherson, Hyde Park Theatre, July 7 - August 6

Found on-line:

presents

The Good Thief
by Conor McPherson

featuring Ken Webster

July 7 - August 6, 2011

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.

Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St. at Guadalupe (click for map)

Reservations 479-PLAY or buy tickets online

From the playwright and actor who brought you HPT's award-winning production of St. Nicholas, Hyde Park Theatre presents Conor McPherson's The Good Thief: a small-time Irish hood's story, by turns funny, touching, and profoundly harrowing, of a simple job gone horribly wrong.

In their rave about the off-Broadway production, the New York Times said McPherson has "a sure gift for unsettling by stealth . . . hypnotic."

The HPT production features award-winning actor Ken Webster (Critics' Table Award for St. Nicholas & Thom Pain, B. Iden Payne Award for Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll).

The show runs at 8:00 PM on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, July 7 - August 6, 2011. Every Thursday is Pay What You Can Night; Friday, and Saturday tickets are $19 ($17 for students, seniors, and ACOT members), except for the final weekend (August 4-6), when ticket are $21 ($19 for students, seniors, and ACOT members). For reservations, call 479-PLAY or purchase tickets online.

Hyde Park Theatre is located at 511 W. 43rd Street. Covered off-street parking for the patrons of HPT is available in the lot at 4315 Guadalupe Street, just north of The Parlor. You can drive through The Parlor's parking lot to reach it. Evening HPT parking also available at Kenneth's Hair Salon, just south of HPT, and at the Hyde Park Church of Christ on the northeast corner of 43rd & Avenue B. We are grateful to them all for their generosity.

Arts Reporting: 2011 Critics' Table Awards for Theatre

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin of the Statesman lists the performers and performances most favored by the arts writers from the Austin Statesman and the Austin Chronicle for May, 2010 - May 2011. It's a mostly middle-brow selection. Most prominently represented are the Zach Theatre and the Rude Mechs. Special recognition goes to Jude Hickey of the DA! collective, Dustin Wills' "Heddatron" crowd from the Salvage Vanguard, Capital T's Artistic Director Mark Pickell, Texas State musicals, and St. Edward's graduating senior Jon Wayne Martin.

THEATRE

Production, Drama

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Production, Comedy
“Becky’s New Car,” Zach Theatre

Production, Musical
“The Drowsy Chaperone,” Zach Theatre
“I’ve Never Been So Happy,” Rude Mechs

Theatrical Event
“You Wouldn’t Know Her, She Lives in London,” The Hidden Room Theatre/Look Left Look Right

Click 'Read more' to view additional theatre recognition; Click here to see the full list given at the Statesman's Austin 360 Seeing Things blog