Showing posts with label plays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plays. Show all posts

Sunday, September 29, 2013

(*) Roar! Festival of Staged Plays, Atta Girl Productions at Gemini Ink, October 4 - 13, 2013




Roar Festival Atta Girl Gemini Ink San Antonio TX

Join Atta Girl and Gemini Ink in San Antonio
for two weeks of genre bending staged readings of contemporary plays from throughout the U.S.
513 S. Presa, evenings at 8 p.m. -- click for map
Suggested donation $10.00

OCTOBER 4--Plumbing by Rebecca Kirschbaum
A preacher's son decides to have a sex change operation.

OCTOBER 5--Beware of Tigers by Ben Tremillo
Romance and multiple personality disorder come together for a sweet and sour ending.

OCTOBER 6--MATINEE (3 p.m.)
Confessions of a Mexpatriate by Raul Garza.
Raul Garza guides us through the misadventures of his travels as a Chicano through Mexico.

Sunday, by Janie Sauceda
Janie Sauceda beautifully renders growing up in San Antonio.

OCTOBER 10--You Wouldn't Expect by Marilynn Barner Anselmi
A young woman battles the North Carolina Eugenics board, which performed forced sterilizations until 2003.

OCTOBER 11, 2013--Under the Plastic Stars by Alisha M. Patterson
This fairy tale for adults re-imagines Peter Pan by placing the classic tale into modern day.

OCTOBER 12--Seeking Flight by Joan Broadman
Monty and Enzi are two African Grey Parrots who plot their escape from a research lab. Based on a true story.

OCTOBER 13--MATINEE (3 p.m.)
Bulto by Jorge Piña
Celebrate San Antonio's teatro padrino--Jorge Piña, with a special reading of his latest play Bulto.

The Entrepeneurs by Clyde James Aragon
What if all of the great Latino poets started a greeting card company?

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Upcoming: Three Short Plays by Gary Chason, ARC Alive, Bastrop, June 12Arts


Carried at Rob Faubion's www.AustinOnStage.com, June 7:


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Arc Alive Staging Three Short Plays by Gary Chason on June 12th in Bastrop


The Arc Alive Performing Collective in Bastrop celebrates "Play Day" on June 12th by staging three short plays by Austin-based playwright and Hollywood director Gary Chason. The free performances will be staged at the Upstart Media Arts Center.

The plays include Terminal, the story of a dying young man with unfinished business, featuring Colleen Parnell and Clint Shumake. The story Moving in Circles sees actors Debra Orr and Savanna Darrow sharing the woes of hiring a nanny, and Madame Ripple finds Jamie Damon and Michael McGary looking for drugs with unexpected consequences.

Playwright Chason will attend the performances and participate in post-show discussions.
The afternoon event will also include additional performances by Arc Alive members and announcements of future events.

The free performances begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Upstart Media Arts Center, located at 1800 Linda at Cypress Street in Bastrop (click for map). For more information and directions, call (512) 321-2496 or visit www.UpstartBastrop.com.


Saturday, February 5, 2011

Upcoming: The 2011 David Mark Cohen New Works Festival, March 28 - April 2


David Mark Cohen New Works Festival 2011The schedule hasn't yet been established for the 2011 David Mark Cohen New Works festival to take place at the University of Texas March 28 to April 2, but the website does feature a listing of titles:

The Works - At a Glance

And Then Came Tango - Through the poignant story of a penguin family, this Theatre for Young Audiences adaptation celebrates all types of families

Art Engineered - A new take on a Rube Goldberg machine

Bike Project: Austin - A devised theatrical experience witnessed by an audience on two wheels

Digital Craft: Handmade Craft Meets Digital Design - A costume installation investigating cutting edge technology

Dimentia - An installation of dance, on video. How can two-dimensional images become performance

Do You Hear What I Hear? - An interactive dance experiment where the audience picks the music

Folk - A new play that explores American identity through folklore

Footnotes for People who Don't Speak Spanish - An infomercial/self help seminar that asks, what does it mean to be "white, but not quite?"

Forced Out of (con)Text - A multi-disciplinary project using dance, music and text to explore womanhood and liberation

Hades Ladies - Dance theatre exploring the role of women in the 1980ís workplace

Hands - An interactive performance discovering hands, geared to audiences two and under

Headphone Stories - A sound installation asking, if you could tell one story what would it be?

Heart Trouble - A solo performance that looks at memory and loss through the audio tapes of her father's radio show

Jane - A multimedia dance piece that interrogates modern cultureís virtual socializing

La Canción la Tierra - A bi-lingual puppet performance extravaganza

LISTEN TO ME - Secrets and memories told through recordable sound modules scattered throughout the Winship Drama Building

Racer - A staged reading with music that follows the life of a would be country singer

Raven's Blanket - A shadow puppet experience using oral storytelling traditions

Sex in Public Education: Lessons in NOT Looking for Love - A queer solo performance exposing private experiences of sex and desire

She Creatures - Eight stories embodying different mythical creatures.

Stockpile - A site-specific play following the lives of two groups of squirrels

Swimming Upstream - A look at human conception, through puppetry, music and multimedia

Synaisthe - An intermedia, movement based work exploring our sensory experiences

The Chronicles of Bad Ass Women - Through interweaving monologues, this play tracks the lives of five Texas female outlaws

The Fictional Life of Historical Oddities - A mash-up of mediums examining the candid exploitation of Canadaís Dionne Quintuplets

The Ideal City Project - A performance installation depicting a utopian city and its inevitable ruin

The Sexy Sex Kind of Sex - Devised, interactive theatre examining the importance of consent in sexual relationships

The Sound Ascending - A chamber musical based on Tennessee Williamsí ìOrpheus Descendingî

The Transition of Doodle Pequeño - Theatre for young audiences examining the lasting effects of bullying

Transitional Spaces III - A site-specific contemporary dance employing abstract movement in pedestrian locales

When the Horse Runs Off - A small scale opera inspired by a Buddhist fable

You Can't Win - A concert staged reading inspired by the autobiography of career criminal Jack Black

zz Packer's "Our Lady of Peace" - A devised, site-specific production inspired by Packerís experience teaching in an inner-city school system