Upcoming: SummerStock Austin Does Legally Blonde, Chess, Frog and Toad at the Rollins Theatre, Long Center, July 26 - August 12

 

announces its 8th season featuring

Legally Blonde

Chess (co-produced with Austin Playhouse)

and

A Year with Frog and Toad

July 26-Aug. 12

The Rollins Theatre at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Riverside at South First (click for map)

Ticket Information: Long Center Box Office at www.longcenter.org or (512) 474-5664. 

LEGALLY BLONDE - July 26-August 12
SSA is very excited to open its season with the Broadway hit musical, LEGALLY BLONDE. Based on the hit movie of the same name, Legally Blonde The Musical is the award-winning Broadway sensation that’s an all singing, all dancing, feel good musical comedy and the highlight of your year.
Elle Woods, Emmett, Warner and even Brewster will all be there. So, pack up your (legal) briefs and join us for this fun-packed production.
A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD - July 28-August 12
If you missed it last year, you have another chance. The B. Iden Payne Award-winner of Best Play for Youth and an Austin Chronicle Top 10 pick of 2011 is back as part of our Theatre for All initiative. Join Arnold Lobel’s amphibian friends for a morning of tuneful and heart-warming songs, and a story that tells us that friendships really can last forever.
CHESS - August 2-12
SSA is excited to announce its new sponsor, Austin Playhouse, one of the area’s most respected professional theatres. To celebrate this new partnership, the two companies have collaborated to produce the Austin premiere of the musical, CHESS. The production will feature professional actors, SSA Alumni, as well as members of the SSA company.

Click to view full day-by-day production schedule 

and ticket information at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . .

Upcoming: Alice in Wonderland, adapted by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project Theatre, Sam Bass Community Theatre, July 20 - August 11

Sam Bass Theatre Youth Guild 

presents

Alice In Wonderland

an adaptation by the Manhattan Project under the direction of Andre Gregory of the novel by Lewis Carroll

directed by Nelly Ruiz de Chavez

July 20 - August 11

Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.

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

Tickets $18; $15 seniors, students, educators, military; $13 all Thursday performances Reservations: www.sambasstheatre.org. Purchase tickets at the Sam Bass Community Theatre website.

It's hard to imagine anyone not knowing the story of Alice and her Adventures in Wonderland, but you probably won't remember it quite like this! Our ensemble cast of Sam Bass’s Youth Guild brings Andre Gregory's classic avant-garde one-act play to life. This exuberant, funny version of Lewis Carroll's classic is NOT the Disney-fied version. It IS a piece of pure theatre that is full of truth, fun, terror, and uncanny pertinence to our own topsy-turvy times. Andre Gregory may be recalled by some as the subject of the film “My Dinner With Andre”, in which he played himself. 

Auditions in Wimberley for Youth Production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, EmilyAnn Theatre, May 12

The EmilyAnn Theatre in Wimberley announces Shakespeare Under the Stars auditions on Saturday, May 12 for the 2012 Production of Much Ado About Nothing.  Click here to download the application form.

Shakespeare Under the Stars is a unique educational program that offers students age 12 through graduating high school seniors the opportunity to study and perform one of Shakespeare's plays. Please email Bridget Farias at bridget[AT]emilyann.org to set up an audition time. Rehearsals and program begin July 2. Performances are July 30 - August 11.  Click here for more information about the program.

 

The EmilyAnn Theatre was founded to provide a permanent home for Shakespeare Under the Stars (SUS), now in its 23rd season (and its 14th season at the EmilyAnn). Shakespeare Under the Stars is a unique educational program for middle and high school students who study and perform one of Shakespeare's plays. Students audition in May and memorize their lines before they arrive in late July. All actors are of high school age or younger. 

Students also select an area of technical theatre (set construction, costuming, or lighting) on which to focus. College interns and theatre professionals mentor students in acting and the technical theatre areas. With guidance from the artistic director and interns, students collaborate in the construction of the costumes and sets. When not working on their assigned technical area, students rehearse with their director, working on acting and the understanding of Shakespeare's plays. The 6-week experience culminates with the production of 12 performances of full-length plays.

Auditions for Vortex Youth Summer Theatre: The Physicists by Dürrenmatt

Received directly:

VORTEX Repertory Company

announces

AUDITIONS forSummer Youth Theatre 2011

The Physicists

May 23-June 4, 2011 by application and appointment

The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Road (click for map) Bus route. Free Parking.

VORTEX Repertory Company is seeking students ages 13-17 to participate in Summer Youth Theatre 2011 (SYT). Now in its 20th Year, the award-winning SYT program rehearses evenings and weekends in June and July and is tuition-free. SYT encourages diversity. Students of any ethnicity or heritage, students with disabilities or economic challenges, and students of all experience levels are welcome.

This summer, SYT presents The Physicists, a dark comedy written in 1961 by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Three mad scientists--Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Johann Wilhelm Möbius--hold court in an insane asylum atop the Swiss Alps. As nurses begin turning up dead, a police inspector and a venerated psychiatrist join forces to find the cause. Is it the ghost of King Solomon? Is it Möbius's revolutionary theory, the Principle of Universal Discovery? Or is it the simple truth that what has been thought can never be unthought? Written under the threat of nuclear war and now produced in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, The Physicists provides an opportunity for the students of SYT to tackle science, politics, and ethics while telling a story that will make audiences laugh out loud before it chills them to the bone.

SYT 2011 provides students with experiences in all aspects of theatre including acting, technical theatre, and publicity. Rehearsals and workshops are free to all participants. The rehearsals culminate in a full production of a play presented to the public over two weekends. Rehearsals are in the evenings with a few weekend day commitments.

Prior to the audition/interview, students must fill out a short application and prepare a memorized, one-minute piece of text from a play, poem, or song. A parent or guardian is also required to attend the interview.

The Physicists is directed by Rudy Ramirez, VORTEX Repertory Company director, actor, and performance artist. Mr. Ramirez is currently directing VORTEX’s production of LEAR, opening May 20. He has directed numerous other projects including Wheels of Wonderland for the Austin Bike Zoo and Trey Deason’s play, Cardigan. His one-man shows and writing have received accolades around town. He is receiving his MA from the University of Texas in Performance as Public Practice and additionally holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Summer Youth Theatre is funded in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

To download an application, please visit www.vortexrep.org.

To receive an application by mail or to set up audition/interview time, please contact Bonnie Cullum at vortex@vortexrep.org or 512-478-5282.