Video Preview: Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno, featuring Ken Webster, Hyde Park Theatre, July 11 - August 3, 2013

Eric Graham's video preview of the



    presentation of

written by Will Eno and performed by Ken Webster
July 11 - August 3, 2013

11 W. 43rd Street at Guadalupe - click for map

 
Purchase tickets online or call 479-PLAY (7529). The show runs at 8 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, July 11 - August 3, 2013. Every Thursday is Pay What You Can Night. For the first three weeks (July 11-27) Friday and Saturday tickets are $20 ($18 for students, seniors, military, and Austin Creative Alliance members). For the final weekend (August 1-3) tickets are $22 ($20 for students, seniors, military, and Austin Creative Alliance members). Purchase tickets online or call 479-PLAY (7529) for reservations.

Thom Pain is hilarious, curious, heartbreaking, astonishing. The New York Times called playwright Will Eno "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation."

An encore of the one-man piece that won raves from Austin critics and audiences in 2007 (Click to read the review of December 14, 2007 by Avimaan Syam in the Austin Chronicle). The play the New York Times called "astonishing in its impact" returns in an award-winning performance by HPT Artistic Director Ken Webster. The Austin Critics' Table named Ken Webster Outstanding Lead Actor for his 2007 performance in this role, and the show was nominated for Outstanding Production. 

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Preview: Shakespeare at Winedale, 2013, University of Texas, July 18 - August 11

July 18 - August 11, 2013

Winedale Barn

3738 FM 2714 Round Top, Texas 78954-4901 (click for map )

click to view full performance schedule at AustinLiveTheatre.com

Shakespeare at Winedale’s 2013 Summer Class takes the stage this summer with performances of The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Henry IV, Part I, and, for the first time at Winedale, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Performances will begin July 18th and run through August 11th; performances are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 7:30pm with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission or $5 for students/UT ID holders and may be ordered online through the Shakespeare at Winedale website www.shakespeare-winedale.org.
The complete summer performance schedule can be accessed at this link: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/winedale/_files/pdf/Performances-And-Tickets/Summer_Schedule_2013.pdf
For the first time in the program’s history, this summer’s class will perform Christopher Marlowe’s thrilling tragedy of Doctor Faustus. Based on the classic German myth, the tale of Doctor Faustus chronicles one academic’s deal with the Devil to gain knowledge and power. This is only the third non-Shakespearean play to be performed at Winedale, and the first time Marlowe has been performed in the Winedale Theatre Barn. Join us for a devilish good time.
The magic continues with Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which tracks the survival of shipwrecked sailors as they roam about an island inhabited with a spirit, Ariel, a monster, Caliban, and the vengeful sorcerer, Prospero. This tale of magic, revenge and betrayal will come to life when set against the backdrop of Winedale’s natural beauty.
Henry IV, Part I begins with a disquieted new King of England, Henry IV, who must begin his reign by dealing with the murder of his predecessor, battles with Scotland and Wales, and his son’s debauched behavior. This is the first of Shakespeare’s plays in which we are introduced to the lovably infamous Falstaff – a role so hilarious it allegedly earned commendation from the Queen Elizabeth I. Shakespeare at Winedale prides itself on its histories. You won’t want to miss this classic tale.
The Comedy of Errors sees two sets of twins who were separated at birth thrown back together with a wonderful array of confusion and frustration. Shakespeare’s shortest play, Comedy will delight audiences with a slapstick farce of mistaken identity.
“We have a fantastic array of performances this summer,” says Shakespeare at Winedale Director James Loehlin. “The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays, and The Tempest is perhaps his most magical one. Henry IV is a history, a comedy, and a tragedy wrapped up in one play, and Falstaff is probably Shakespeare’s greatest comic character. And it is a thrill to be doing Marlowe—Faustus is a haunting play you will never forget.”
When the students complete their work in residence, they will tour to Austin and Dallas, TX, as well as the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA, home to the world’s only historical recreation of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars stage. More information about touring dates and venues will be posted to the website soon.
Thursday, July 25th, is Fayette County Night; tickets for Fayette County residents are only $4 for that evening’s performance of The Tempest, and door prizes will be raffled off at the end of the performance. Our annual Season Finale is Saturday, August 10th, beginning at 6:30pm with a special catered reception before the evening performance of The Comedy of Errors; tickets are $25.
Shakespeare at Winedale is a University of Texas program in which students study and perform Shakespeare at the Winedale Historical Complex near Round Top. Since its founding by English professor James Ayres in 1970, the program’s unique, hands-on approach has brought Shakespeare’s words to life for hundreds of students and thousands of audience members. University students from many disciplines and backgrounds work together for six weeks at Winedale, ending their summer with four weekends of performances in a converted nineteenth-century hay barn.
For more information about the Shakespeare at Winedale program, please visit our website: www.shakespeare-winedale.org or contact the Program Coordinator Liz Fisher at (512) 471-4726 or lfisher@austin.utexas.edu.
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Upcoming: Preview of Chanteuse by Louise Richardson, October 30

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Chanteuse

by Louise Richardson

preview performance, October 30, time to be provided

You are invited to a house concert to preview "Chanteuse", a musical about friendship, fame and folk music, which will be presented at The City Theatre in January. Come back with us to the early 1960s. Feel free to don your favorite pillbox hat and cat-eye sunglasses, or turtleneck dickie and sports coat with elbow patches, or your batik scarves and headbands...[Please do consider dressing up in your scariest 60's attire. After all, it is Halloween weekend and this is Austin!]

Be a part of the folk music scene in New York's Greenwich Village as two idealistic young women from Texas, Johanna Clarke and Darcy Bailey, melt the heart of curmudgeon, coffeehouse owner and blacklisted comic, Sidney Feldman. Hear songs you will not soon forget and get to know three characters you will care about.

Meet the up and coming cast, director Lizz Taylor, and Louise Richardson, playwright and ASCAPlus Award winning composer for the music in "Chanteuse". Have a nosh and tour the house.

Where: 6400 Dry Cliff Cove, Austin 78731, the imaginative and idiosyncratic home of Helen Roberts

To help us plan our program we would like to know if you would like to explore the grounds as well (safe walking shoes required!) These gardens will be featured in the coming season at KLRU's Central Texas Gardener. House and garden are wheelchair accessible.

Reservations are limited. Please RSVP to Louise Richardson at (512) 973-3885 or lrcaliche@gmail.com.

Upcoming: Hillcountry Underbelly Preview Party, Vortex Repertory Yard, July 27

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JOIN US NEXT WEDNESDAY JULY 27th FOR A PARTY BENEFITING PAPER CHAIRS' HILLCOUNTRY UNDERBELLY...

(we'll also be introducing the new Paper Chairs joining the company).

Wednesday, July 27, 8:00pm-11:00pm - The VORTEX

What Will They Do Next is donating free whiskey for our drinking pleasure.

The Butterfly Bar will offer Happy Hour prices on drinks for the duration of the party.

We'll have local musicians jamming out BLUEGRASS tunes on the patio as well as a SNEAK PREVIEW of a few of Mark Stewart's original music from HILLCOUNTRY UNDERBELLY.

We'll also have cards, games, dominoes, merriment, projection things....

IT'LL BE FUN. promise.

$5 suggested donation.

See you there.