Jobs & Opportunities in San Antonio at the Playhouse

Join our Playhouse San Antonio team!

Box Office Attendant/House Manager: The Playhouse San Antonio is seeking 2 friendly, outgoing individuals to join our Front of House team as Box Office Attendants and House Managers. Candidates will have customer service experience, a professional demeanor (both in person and on the phone), and excellent organizational skills as well as a keen attention to detail and a passion for making every patron’s experience pleasant, convenient, and efficient.

Experience & Requirements

• Computer proficiency required including an intimate working knowledge of all applications in the Microsoft Office Suite
• Background in theatre or performing arts highly preferred but not required
• Box office experience including box office software experience preferred but not required
• Must be able to maintain a professional demeanor in a fast-paced work environment
• Must be able to communicate effectively with patrons and colleagues in order to answer patron questions, problem solve, and continue to create a pleasant environment.
• Experience completing financial transactions and inventory tracking highly preferred.
• Hours vary with performance schedule. Evenings and weekends required.

Apply today! Email your résumé with cover letter to Box Office Manager Shannon Bishop at sbishop@theplayhousesa.org. No phone calls, please.

Designers: Set, Lighting, and Costume Designers are needed for shows in the The Playhouse Russell Hill Rogers and Cellar Theaters for shows this season and next. Designers are contracted on a show-by-show basis. Please submit resume and photographic samples of your work or drawings to info@theplayhousesa.org or mail to The Playhouse San Antonio, P.O. Box 12356, San Antonio, TX 78212. No phone calls please.

Music Directors: Music Directors are needed at The Playhouse for upcoming and future shows. Music directors are contracted for each individual show. Please submit a resume to info@theplayhousesa.org or mail to The Playhouse San Antonio, P.O. Box 12356, San Antonio, TX 78212. No phone calls please.

800 West Ashby | P.O. Box 12356 San Antonio, TX 78212 | Office: 210-733-7258 | Fax: 210-734-2651 | Box Office: 210-733-7258

IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON, Austin Troubadours at Unitarian Univeralist Church, September 6, 2013

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If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On!

The Music of Shakespeare's Plays

Friday, September 6, 2013, 8 p.m.

Tickets at the door: $20 general admission, $10 seniors/children (cash or checks only)

Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Avenue - click for map

The Austin Troubadours present a unique musical program for Austin audiences of all ages, "If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On! – The Music of Shakespeare's Plays," Friday, September 6, 8:00 p.m. at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin. The concert will offer songs and dances mentioned or alluded to in the plays of William Shakespeare, including As You Like It, The Tempest, and Hamlet. The Austin Troubadours will present a number of popular dances from the period, as well as jigs, pavanas, and almans and music that was often played before and after Shakespeare’s plays by his theater musicians.

The Austin Troubadours, known for their unorthodox approach to musical interpretation, will present a historically informed performance with authentic instruments and period costumes. Austin Troubadours Artistic Director Slobodan Vujisic talked about the inspiration for their September concert. “We’re excited to present a program of primarily 16th- and 17th-century dances and songs used in Shakespeare’s plays or inspired by him. For instance, "Kemp’s Jig" (anonymous) refers to William Kemp, who was Shakespeare's favorite actor and clown, and "Have You Seen But A White Lilly Grow" was composed by Shakespeare’s lutenist, Robert Johnson. "It Was A Lover And His Lass" (Thomas Morley) is a song from Shakespeare’s comedy "As You Like It." It promises to be a concert audiences will enjoy hearing and seeing as we perform with authentic instruments in costumes of the period.”

From the Austin Troubadours' successful Kickstarter campaign to support

their 2012 CD Mediterranean Journey

Featured at the concert are Jenifer Thyssen – soprano (Best Female Classical Singer by the Austin American-Statesman’s Austin Critics Table Awards in 2003), Neli Vujisic – harpsichord, Victor Eijkhout - recorders and crumhorn, Bruce Colson (Austin Symphony) - baroque violin, Oliver Rajamani - percussion, John Walters - viola da gamba, and Slobodan Vujisic - lute.

If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On! – The Music of Shakespeare’s Plays is set for Friday, September 6, 8:00 p.m. at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, 4700 Grover Avenue, Austin, TX 78756. Tickets are available at the door: $20 adults, $10 for seniors and children under 12. Cash and checks only. For more information, call 512-983-0600. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.

About The Austin Troubadours Artistic Director Slobodan Vujisic has gathered some of the top early music specialists from Austin and around the nation. Featuring Medieval and Renaissance secular and sacred instrumental and vocal music, The Austin Troubadours combine various well-known and obscure historical instruments with lush vocals. Historically informed and inspired by years of musical experience, each member of the Austin Troubadours delights and moves audiences to tap their feet and hum tunes of antiquity.

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A RIDE WITH BOB, Zach Theatre, February 20 - 24, 2013

hosts the Austin farewell performances of

A RIDE WITH BOB

A musical drama chronicling the life of Bob Wills

Feb. 20-24, 2013

 

Co-written by ANNE RAPP (author of Cookie’s Fortune and Dr. T and the Women) and RAY BENSON (nine-time GRAMMY award winner)

Starring RAY BENSON and ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
at ZACH’s new Topfer Theatre, 202 South Lamar Blvd., (corner of Riverside Drive and South Lamar Blvd.)
Performances begin Wednesday, Feb. 20 and continue through Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013.
Wednesday-Friday: 7:30 p.m. -- Saturday and Sunday: 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.

To order tickets call 512-476-0541 ext. 1 or visit www.zachtheatre.org. Tickets range from $35 - $75. Bar opens one hour before showtime and remains open.


The play that started as a commemoration of Bob Wills’ 100^th birthday in 2005 is coming back to Austin for one final week of shows in February 2013. This first-ever musical drama about the legendary Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys debuted in Austin in 2005 and has since enjoyed great success in more than 70 performances in 19 cities.

“Every true-blue Texan needs to see this musical!” —PegasusNews.com

In 1973, just after the release of Asleep at the Wheel’s first album, young bandleader Ray Benson was invited to Dallas to meet the great Bob Wills. Upon his arrival, he learned Wills was not feeling well, and the meeting was postponed for the next morning. But the conversation Benson was so eager to have with his idol never happened; that same night Wills had a stroke and went into a life-ending coma. In A RIDE WITH BOB, Benson finally gets to have his long-anticipated conversation, albeit with the Spirit of Bob, who visits him on the Asleep at the Wheel bus late one night.


The fascinating and sometimes outrageous stories of Wills’ career, his contribution to American music, and his raucous personal life unfold in thrilling theatrical detail, and through the process Benson rediscovers his own passion and commitment as a bandleader and standard-bearer for Western swing music. The drama includes live performances of 15 of Wills’ most famous songs, including “San Antonio Rose,” “Faded Love,” “Cherokee Maiden,” “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” and many more.


 Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Tech and Staff Opportunities at The Playhouse, San Antonio

Just announced by The Playhouse, San Antonio:

 

 

Employment Opportunities

Join Our Team!

Marketing and Development Coordinator: Click here for full description and submission guidelines. Submissions accepted through January 3, 2013.

Designers: Set, Lighting and Costume Designers are needed for shows in the The Playhouse Russell Hill Rogers and Cellar Theaters for shows this season and next. Designers are contracted for each show. Please submit resume and photographic samples of your work or drawings to info@theplayhousesa.org or mail to The Playhouse San Antonio, P.O. Box 12356, San Antonio, TX 78212. No phone calls please.

Music Directors: Music Directors are needed at The Playhouse for upcoming and future shows. Music directors are contracted for each individual show. Please submit a resume to info@theplayhousesa.org or mail to The Playhouse San Antonio, P.O. Box 12356, San Antonio, TX 78212. No phone calls please.

Upcoming: The Best of Times, Sara Hickman and friends, musical benefit for the Theatre Action Project, Paramount Theatre, February 5

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SARA HICKMAN & FRIENDS

THE BEST OF TIMES

A benefit for Theatre Action Project

Saturday, February 5 at the Paramount Theatre, 711 Congress
Doors @ 7:00pm | Show @ 8:00pm
Purchase Tickets Online or telephone (512) 474-1221 to purchase tickets.

Join Sara Hickman and friends Robert Earl Keen, Ruthie Foster, Patrice Pike and some of their favorite Texas musicians for a concert to celebrate the release of Best of Times, a compilation album to benefit Theatre Action Project. As Texas State Musician of the Year, Sara Hickman is dedicated to raising awareness and funding for arts education programs in Texas schools. This amazing concert and collection of songs is sure to be another great Texas legend.

VIP Tickets include priority seating and the opportunity to mingle with the artists at an exclusive after party at a private residence two blocks north of the theatre. Complimentary drinks, appetizers and desserts provided by Austin’s finest restaurants with music by The White Ghost Shivers.

Theatre Action Project is a team of professionally trained artists and educators that works in partnership with schools and communities to lead unique and engaging arts programs which allow young people to learn critical life skills, gain tools for creative expression and have successful experiences that build self-esteem and confidence.