Robert Faires Outlines FronteraFest BRING YOUR OWN VENUE performances, January, 2014

Change of Venue

This year, FronteraFest is takin' it to the streets – and a chapel, a bookstore, a home ...

By Robert Faires, Fri., Jan. 10, 2014


Come January every year, FronteraFest fans begin flocking toward Hyde Park Theatre and Salvage Vanguard Theater with the instinctive surety of swallows winging their way back to Capistrano. And why not? With HPT serving as the site of the Short Fringe for the performance jamboree's full 21-year history and SVT being a home base for Long Fringe shows for the last five fests, audiences have been conditioned to expect their annual fix of taking-a-risk, skirting-the-edge, what-in-sweet-heaven-was-that theatrics in those specific venues. But this year, regulars who rely on that reflex to get them to all of the festival's offerings risk missing some of the more intriguing projects on the schedule.


Now, nothing's happened to FFest's traditional stages (see "FronteraFest: The Basics" , but the number of entries in the category dubbed BYOV ("Bring Your Own Venue") is considerably higher than usual. Where most FronteraFests see one or two projects mounted somewhere other than SVT, the 2014 festival has six – and that isn't counting Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, the independently curated day of site-specific short pieces that's been part of FFest for more than 15 years. You can take your pick of a church chapel, a SoCo sidewalk, a dance studio, a bookstore, a warehouse, or a writer's residence for a performance adventure.

Read more at the Austin Chronicle on-line, including capsule descriptions of BYOB performances

(*) 2014 Renaissance Guild Season, San Antonio

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Robert Faires' 15 Favorites in 2013 Austin Theatre, Austin Chronicle

Top 10 Reasons I Stayed in Love With Theatre in 2013


Austin thespians played for keeps, with boundless commitment and imagination, in the year's most memorable theatre


By Robert Faires, Fri., Jan. 3, 2014


1) 'SLIP RIVER' (UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance/Cohen New Works Festival) Spiriting its audience beneath the Payne Theatre, past clotheslines and through butcher-paper forests, feeding it cornbread muffins, and leaving it onstage in a festive dance party, this exhilaratingly theatrical mash-up of 19th century novels and modern pop – its orphan hero chases freedom along an "underground railroad" run by Beyoncé! – packed more imagination, adventure, and wit into half an hour than most plays do in three times that.


2) 'RICHARD III' (Texas State University Dept. of Theatre & Dance) The Bard's diabolical monarch as Third World despot, with Eugene Lee channeling Idi Amin in his brutal grasp for the crown. The entire cast seemed caught in Richard's fearsome grip, and chilling images of mayhem from director Chuck Ney kept us in dread throughout. 

3) 'I AM THE MACHINE GUNNER' (Breaking String Theatre) Lives during wartime – a mob thug in modern Moscow and a soldier on the front lines of World War II – rendered in harrowing detail by playwright Yury Klavdiev and conjured with hallucinatory power by Joey Hood, fluidly sliding between past and present while maintaining a white-hot intensity.


4) 'THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS' (Capital T Theatre) Who knew that fusty old mystic William Blake could inspire such carnal passion, such hilarity, and such theatrical bliss? A rapturous union of script, director, and actors, teeming with intelligence and craft.


5) 'THE POISON SQUAD' (The Duplicates) This inquiry into the origins of food-safety testing proved, for epicures of performance, a feast – steeped in ingenuity and collaborative energy, and liberally seasoned with playfulness.


6) 'WATCH ME FALL' (Action Hero/Fusebox Festival) The British team's cheap-theatre replays of daredevil stunts (e.g., a bike jumping over bottles of fizzing Coke) were a hoot, but seeded within them were disturbing images that also dared us to confront our cultural lust for danger and mob mentality.


7) 'THE EDGE OF PEACE' (UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance) Suzan Zeder's valedictory effort at UT wove threads from her 30 years of playwriting into a deeply felt drama of community, growing up, and moving on. A fitting farewell to her Mother Hicks characters and the year's most artfully crafted script.


8) 'TRU'/'THIS WONDERFUL LIFE' (Zach Theatre) Two solo shows, both performed in the cozy Whisenhunt, both by actors of prodigious gifts giving themselves over completely to their subjects: Jaston Williams to Truman Capote, his portrait deepened by time and made even more poignant; Martin Burke to It's a Wonderful Life, embodying the film's characters with rare honesty and embracing its message with sincerity.


9) 'ADAM SULTAN' (Physical Plant) We all died at the hands of playwrights Steve Moore and Zeb West in this extraordinary meditation on mortality and community. It imagined one man's efforts to memorialize Austin's theatre artists as they pass over time and did so with humor and grace.


10) 'ORDINARY PEEPHOLE: THE SONGS OF DICK PRICE' (Rubber Repertory) A night around the old piano in the living room – literally, as an exuberant ensemble escorted us through a batch of this local songwriter's most personal tunes as we sat in a Hyde Park living room. Sheer delight.


Honorable Mentions:


'THE BOOK OF MORMON' (Broadway in Austin/Texas Performing Arts)

'QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT' (Vortex Repertory Company)

'HOLIER THAN THOU' (Poison Apple Initiative)

'REEFER MADNESS' (Doctuh Mistuh Productions)

'BUTT KAPINSKI: WE ARE THE DARK' (Deanna Fleysher/Institution Theater)

THE JUNGLE BOOK and ALL SHOOK UP Set for Winter 2014 at TexARTS

After a record-breaking 2013, TexARTS is gearing up for a phenomenal new year. This winter’s Musical Theatre Academy shows will include the youth production of Disney’s “The Jungle Book” and the teen production of the Elvis Presley inspired “All Shook Up.” These family friendly shows are sure to be audience pleasers.

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TexARTS Winter Shows:


Jan. 11 - 12 and 18 - 19 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The Jungle Book
Youth Musical Theatre

Join Mowgli, Baloo, King Louie and the gang as they swing their way through madcap adventures and thwart the ferocious tiger, Shere Khan. Adapted from the beloved Disney film, this musical includes all your favorite tunes, like “The Bare Necessities,” and “I Wan’na Be Like You.” Directed by Natalia Luna, Choreographed by Cassie Eckerman and Music Directed by Jamie Shaw. Jan. 11-12 & 18-19 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.





Feb. 1 – 2 and 8 - 9 at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.

All Shook Up

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Teen Musical Theatre

A new musical comedy inspired by Twelfth Night and other Shakespearean comedies, built around a number of songs made famous by Elvis Presley. It takes place in 1955, somewhere in middle America, where one girl's dream and a surprise visit from a mysterious leather-jacketed, guitar-playing stranger help a small town to discover the magic of romance and the power of rock & roll. Among the 24 songs featured in the score are classics like "Heartbreak Hotel," "Love Me Tender," "Don't Be Cruel," "Can't Help Falling in Love," and of course the title tune. Directed by Keenah Armitage, Choreographed by Kiira Schmidt and Music Directed by Nissa Kahle. Feb. 1-2 & 8-9 at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.



All performances will be held at the Kam & James Morris Theatre at TexARTS (2300 Lohman's Spur, Suite #160, Lakeway, TX - click for map). For all ages are welcome. Tickets: $15. For more information visit www.tex-arts.org or call 512-852-9079 x101

(*) San Antonio Current Theatre Reviewers Pick Top 5 for 2013

San Antonio

 

5 Top Local Plays and Musicals This Year 

By Joy-Marie Scott December 29, 2013

Paige Blend, Roy Bumgarner, Twyla Lamont in Roads Courageous (photo: Siggi Ragnar)

We asked our theater critics, Thomas Jenkins and Steven G. Kellman, for their top picks from the theater scene in 2013. Beyond the productions, Jenkins also noted the considerable movement—both physical and conceptual—at some of the city’s top companies, which started this year and will continue into 2014.


“The Playhouse mounted its first original main stage musical in recent memory—Roads Courageous—while populating its Cellar with recent New York hits (Red, Wittenberg),” said Jenkins, “and big changes are afoot at three of the city’s most established theaters: the Jump-Start and the Classic Theatre have found new homes—in Beacon Hill and the Deco District, respectively—while the AtticRep joins the new Tobin Center as its resident theater company in 2014.”


Click each image below for comments from a reviewer and link to the review in the San Antonio Current. 

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Klose/Seal Productions
(photo: Siggi Ragnar)

Sam Mandelbaum as Hamlet in Wittenberg by David G. Davalos, Playhouse San Antonio
(photo: Siggi Ragnar)

(link to Steven G. Kellerman's review)

The Book of Mormon touring company

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, adapted by Sophia Bolles, Overtime Theatre
(photo: Siggi Ragnar)

Hellcab by Will Kern, Attic Rep at Trinity University
(photo: Siggi Ragnar)

SBCT Radio, New Year's Eve at Sam Bass Community Theatre, Round Rock, December 31, 2013

presents

RADIO SBCT

NEW YEAR's EVE at 8 p.m.

(www.sambasstheatre.org)

Sam Bass Community Theatre,600 N. Lee St., Round Rock (in Memorial Park)

(click for map)

An evening of Live Old Time Radio

MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW FOR A SPECIAL EVENT
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Directed by Frank Benge

Spend your New Year's Eve with us at Sam Bass Community Theatre and travel back in time to the Golden Age of Radio!
We've planned an evening of classic entertainment for you!!

"The Baby Snooks Show"
"The Thin Man"
"The Shadow"
"The Bickersons"
... all performed live with live on-stage sound effects...
plus our Big Band Singer...
it's just like stepping back and being part of a live studio audience.

Featuring:
LYNN BEAVER, MARC BALESTAR, MARY SOUTHON, VERONICA PRIOR, FRANK BENGE,
MICHAEL VOHS, ROXY BECKER, IAN KING, ALEXANDRA RUSSO, RHONDA ROE,
DARREN SCHARF, CHRISTINA LITTLE-MANLEY and NATHAN URBAN

We will also have our usual silent auction, a special 40's gala buffet following the performance with a champagne toast at midnight... all included in your admission!!

We hope to see you and ring in 2014 with you!

Click to purchase tickets ($18 plus Vendini service fee)

Auditions in Lakeway for The Red Velvet Cake War by Jones, Hope & Wooten, Lakeway Players, January 5, 11 and 14, 2014

(thelakewayplayers.com)THE LAKEWAY PLAYERS ANNOUNCE AUDITIONS FOR the full length comedy THE RED VELVET CAKE WAR

AUDITION LOCATION:  The Lakeway Activity Center, 105 Cross Creek,  Lakeway, TX 78734 (click for map)

AUDITION DATES:   Saturday, January 11th, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Rm. B; Wednesday,  January 15th, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Rm B; Thursday, January 16^th, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Rm. F

Please contact Pam Mitchell to set up a specific audition time: Pam Mitchell, Director, creationsbypam@sbcglobal.netor 512-672-9416

CAST:  3 Men, 7 women 

In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins—Gaynelle, Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette—could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion. Their outrageous antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out. Having “accidentally” crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s girlfriend’s doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, a saucy firebrand and the number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it’s time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the rough-around-the-edges store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum’s newest widower. But the cousins can’t back out of the reunion now. It’s on and Gaynelle’s hosting it; Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist. Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season. Things spin hilariously out of control when a neighbor’s pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed suitor shows up to declare his love and a jaw-dropping high-stakes wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake. As this fast-paced romp barrels toward its uproarious climax, you’ll wish your own family reunions were this much fun!

The quality of the auditions will determine the best casting for this show.  This will be assessed after all auditions are completed.

SHOW DATES:  Thursday, Friday, Saturday, March 27^th, 28, and 29th, 2014

(*) Upcoming: THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall, Renaissance Guild, San Antonio, January 17 - February 9, 2014

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ALL-IDAY SHOW, Kings N Things at Elysium, Austin, December 20, 2013

 (click image to go to the Kings N Things Facebook page)

Trinity Street Players' 2014-2015 Theatre Season, Austin

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, Different Stages at Vortex Repertory, November 15 - December 14, 2013

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by Michael Meigs

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring is one of those whimsical comedies that just won't die. The playwright wins our sympathies with a pair of comforting maiden aunts, their capable journalist nephew Mortimer and a sweet parson's daughter. He then plays a series of clever modulations in madness -- from the harmless to the surprising to the pathological.

The play and the Jimmy Stewart movie are familiar, so this review's not likely to spoil it for anyone. You already knew about the poisoned elderberry wine, right? And the fact that Mortimer's brother Teddy, nutty as a fruitcake, has been helping his aunts by excavating 'Panama Canal locks' in the basement for use as the final resting places for a succession of lonely old men?

If you didn't, my apologies to you. But don't worry, for that surprise comes early in the action, as much for our protagonist Mortimer as for the audience. His quandary is how to deal with this revelation that, incredibly, has escaped his attention for months or maybe for years.

Karen Jambon, Jennifer Underwood (photo: Bret Brookshire)

Entirely normal except for their characters' belief in the beneficial effects of poison, Jennifer Underwood and Karen Jambon as the maiden aunts are mild, sweet and droll. It's a treat to see these partners playing together. Jambon's little-lady bird-steps are a bit affected, but otherwise these ladies are the sorts with whom you'd love to bake gingerbread.

Joe Hartman's bully portrait of Teddy (not) Roosevelt is a lot of fun, too -- especially in those moments when he backs ecstatically wide-eyed into the basement stairway. And while we're handing out compliments, bravo for Sarah Danko as Mortimer's girlfriend/fiancée Elaine. The lines assigned to her were written for a meek and progressively frustrated young thing, but Danko gives them an indignant bite often enough to suggest that maybe she's more of a woman that the hapless Mortimer actually deserves.

Click to read more at Central Texas Live Theatre

Video: Zach Theatre Profile by Dell.com, November, 2013

Dell produces a high-quality mutual appreciation 3 min. Zach Theatre profile and posts it on the Dell page 'Inspire - Small Businesses with Big Ideas.' Featuring Nat Miller, Education Director, Cate Tucker, Stage Manager, and David Munn, Interactive Art Manager.

Video: Helen Merino as Emily Dickinson in 'The Belle of Amherst' by William Luce Austin Shakespeare, November 16 - December 1, 2013

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Auditions in Austin for Assassins, musical by Steven Sondheim, December 14, 2013

Auditions for Steven Sondheim’s ASSASSINS

Soubrette Productions -- with director Philip Olson of 2011’s award-winning Putnam County Spelling Bee and music director Adam Roberts -- seek non-Equity male and female actors of all ethnicities for a production in April, 2014 at the Carver Center. Rehearsals will begin mid-February 2014. All roles are compensated. 

For character breakdowns and synopsis, visit mtishows.com. Please bring a headshot, resume and sheet music for 90 seconds or less of a prepared song. Accompaniment provided. December 14th, 12pm-2:30pm. Callbacks announced and held later that day. Auditions are by appointment only. 

To schedule, email: contactsoubretteproductions@gmail.com. Please allow 5-7 days for slot assignment response.

Video Promo: The Fault by Katie Bender, Universty of Texas, December 3 - 7, 20013

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The Fault

by Katie Bender
directed by Charles Ott

Dec. 3-7 at 8 pm; Dec. 7 at 2 pm
B. Iden Payne Theatre, University of Texas

A small ragged house stands perched on a fault, pressed between the redwoods and Pacific Ocean. The Davies family resides within, holding together and splitting apart.

The Fault includes mature language and adult content.

About the playwright Katie Bender is a playwright, performer and third-year master of fine arts candidate in playwriting at The University of Texas at Austin. Her plays are irreverent, fun and magical, exploring characters and worlds at the edge of what is possible.

She is a founding member of Underbelly – a theatre collaborative that stages immersive journey plays in forgotten spaces, riffing on American classics. Underbelly’s devised piece Slip River premiered at the 2013 Cohen New Works Festival. Created in collaboration with playwrights Gabrielle Reisman and Abe Koogler, Slip River won the Austin Critics’ Table Award for Best Comedy of 2013.

As a performer Bender recently appeared in the regional premiere of Lisa D’Amour’s The Cataract and the world premiere of Tom Horan’s Static.

Auditions in Austin for The Means by Tatiana M. Panovich, for FronteraFest, November 23, 25 and 26, 2013

Now casting for The Means, a short, dark-comedy written by Tatiana M. Panovich and selected for production at the 2014 Frontera Festival at Hyde Park Theatre. 


Donald “Bud” Kerpinski literally wakes up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and has encounters with Mitchell (his boss), Jackie (a tough young woman), and Jasper (a bank teller), all of which send him hurtling towards the inevitable ends, having been justified by “The Means.”


Characters to be cast/auditioned:


- Bud – Male between 30 and 60

- Narrator/Mitchell – Male between 20 and 70

- Jasper – Male between 20 and 45


Performance date: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 (with the possibility for two encores). Rehearsals: To be arranged upon casting


Audition dates (please email for specific time slot request): SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25; TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26


Please email your HEADSHOT, RESUME, and ANY TIME/DATE CONFLICTS (up to performance) to TheMeansThePlay@gmail.com and include a 20-min. time slot you would like to be seen at, along with a second choice. Sides will be provided at time of audition.

Auditions in Austin: Two Neo-Nazi ingenues for Am I White by Adrienne Dawes, Salvage Vanguard, December 3, 2013

Salvage Vanguard Theatre is holding open auditions for the world premiere of Am I White, an original play by Adrienne Dawes to be directed by Jenny Larson in October 2014.

When Neo-Nazi terrorist Wesley Connor returns to prison after a failed bomb plot, he is confronted with the two identities that most threaten his position within the White Order of Thule: fatherhood and his own mixed race heritage. Inspired by the true story of Leo Felton and Erica Chase, Am I White travels between linear narrative, recurring dreams and minstrel show nightmare to discover if a singular self exists in post-modern, “post-racial” America.

Casting two non-AEA actors for the roles of POLLY and RYAN:

Polly (19-25) - White, Female - member of White Order of Thule; Wesley's teenage girlfriend. {This role sings one song - please prepare 16-32 bars of a "lover's lament" to sing}

Ryan (21-31) - White, Male - Wesley's cell mate, member of the Aryan Brotherhood, also plays Interlocuter in minstrel show scenes.

AUDITIONS: TUESDAY DEC 3RD 7:30-10:30PM at Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 E Manor Rd. - click for map

To request an audition appointment: please email headshot/resume in Word or PDF format to Adrienne at adrienne@salvagevanguard.org. Auditions will consist of 1 minute monologues and prepared sides from the script. Callbacks are scheduled for December 5th 6-9pm. Rehearsals begin in late August/early September 2014. Performs for three weekends starting in October 2014.

Opening This Week in Central Texas, September 16 - 22, 2013

Opening This Week

September 16 - 22, 2013

 

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Click HERE for a list of all productions CONTINUING on stage

Opening in and aound Austin . . .

 

September 21 Open House 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., gala from 9 p.m.

McCallum Fine Arts Academy MacTheatre, September 18 - 22

Vortex Repertory Cyberfest, September 20 - 28

Dixie Swim Club, Hill Country Community Theatre, September 19 - 29

 

Stop Hitting Yourself, Rude Mechs at the Off Center, September 19 - 28

Subud Culture Assoc at Zach Theatre

'Self-producing for the Fringe,' with Christi Moore, Sept. 18

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Arts and Culture on-line Gets A Glimpse of Central Texas Theatre, August 29, 2013

Nancy Wozny, editor in chief of the new on-line magazine Arts & Culture Texas, gets a first glimpse of Central Texas theatre:

 

 

Performania

Aug 29, 2013 | Nancy Wozny | Theatre

Musings &  Mumblings on Time-Based Art

Brock England, Nathan Jerkins in Rose Rage, Hidden Room Theatre (photo: Kristen Wrzesniewski)

IT ALL STARTED A FEW YEARS back in a ladies’ room in Terlingua, Texas, a place that felt like the end of the world — or at least, the end of Texas.


I happened upon a poster for a theater company performing Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s raucous, apocalyptic comedy, Hunter Gatherers. I had recently seen a fabulous production by Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre and wondered how Nachtrieb’s feral approach went over in Brewster County.


I ran to tell my traveling companions, who chalked it up to the delusions of a performaniac. We had been traveling all day, and it had been at least five days since I had seen a performance of any kind, so I could very well have been making up stuff. It has been known to happen.


I didn’t give the whole incident much thought until the daunting task of finding out about theater outside of Houston landed on my plate when A + C Houston and its North Texas sister morphed into A + C Texas. As a contributing editor for Dance Magazine, reconnecting to dance across the state was more about catching up with old friends. There’s more of an epic aspect to discovering theater in the rest of Texas.


Then, I wandered into Texas NonProfit Theaters, the statewide service organization for all nonprofit theaters in Texas. I clicked on the map, and a thick sea of theater company balloons popped up. I’m guessing that our great state has more theater companies than gun shows, folks. Then, my eyes drifted west toward a lone red balloon smack in the middle of Terlingua. Lo and behold, I discovered Last Minute Low Budget Productions (LMLBP). They did, in fact, perform Hunter Gatherers in 2010. LMLBP describe themselves as a loose aggregation of theater lovers from Terlingua, Big Bend National Park, Study Butte and Lajitas.

Mical Trejo, Confessions of a Mexpatriate by Raul Garza, Teatro Vivo  (photo: Alberto Jimenez)

For the next few weeks, I became rather obsessed with clicking on theater company balloons. The density in the Dallas/Fort Worth region is staggering. After I picked my jaw off the floor, I noticed a healthy number of theater companies in the middle tier, which is something missing in many urban centers, where the one big and many tiny are more the norm.


With Paper Chairs, Hidden Room Theatre, Loaded Gun Theory, Poison Apple Initiative, a chick & a dude productions, The Duplicates and Trouble Puppet, Austin not only wins hands down in the weird and poetic name category, but also in the production of collaborative, original and devised work.


Some other miscellaneous Texas theater trivia: contemporary Russian theater lives in Austin at Breaking String Theater; the “Three” in Theatre Three in Dallas stands for the author, the actors, and the audience; there’s a place called The Globe of the Great Southwest, and it’s located on Shakespeare Road in Odessa, the town most known for its famed football team in Friday Night Lights. Austin’s Zach Theater, the oldest continuously operating theater in Texas is not named after Zach Braff, but rather Zachary Scott, who starred in Mildred Pierce and The Southerner, which is considered Jean Renoir’s greatest American film.


And then there’s the pattern of plays, as I watched Clybourne Park spread from the flatlands of Houston at the Alley to the hill country of San Antonio. David Ives’ Venus in Fur lands at the Alley, the Playhouse in San Antonio and finally, at a chick & a dude productions in Austin. Les Mis makes a similar swing by the big cities, starting at the Zach.


Texas has an ongoing love affair with Will Eno and Annie Baker, judging from the number of plays that dot the theater map. You could see Baker’s The Aliens during the same week in Houston at Horse Head and in Dallas at Upstart Productions.


It’s now many an email list sign-up, Facebook “like,” and Twitter “follow” later. For a while there, my life became “another day, another theater company”. Yesterday, it was Teatro Vivo, a bilingual theater company in Austin; today, The Vexler Theater in San Antonio. If you leave now you can still get to Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers at the Vex, running until Sept. 7.


Really, this is going to take a while. I am just getting started, and still sorting out the “theater” from the “theatre” types. I knew something shifted in my formerly Houston-centric thinking when I unconsciously introduced myself to a crowd of dance watchers at Jacob’s Pillow as a Texas-based arts writer.


As for theater in this great state, it appears to be everywhere, even in the state capital when a dedicated group of Texans shouted, “Let her speak” during Wendy Davis’ now-historic filibusterer. We simply have drama in our bones. Somewhere in Texas, it’s opening night.


Merde, y’all.


—NANCY WOZNY
  nancy@artsandculturetx

Opening This Week in Central Texas, September 2 - 8, 2013

Opening This Week 

September 2 - 8, 2013

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Click HERE for a list of all productions CONTINUING on stage

Opening around Austin . . .

Always, Patsy Cline, New Braunfels benefit for Circle Arts Theatre, 
September 6 - 15

Bastrop Opera House, Sept. 6 - 28

in Wimberley

Seminar:
What Makes Austin Theatre Unique?
UT at Zach Theatre, September 6, 7 - 9 p.m.


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Cameo Theatre, September 7 - October 6