This Off-Broadway theatrical production features edgy dramatic and comedic performances on labels, issues and stereotypes in relationships. Based on the 2006 Lambda Literary Award-winning book of short stories by Laurinda D. Brown. Walk Like A Man - The Play is presented by Positive Scribe Productions and ALLGO in association with OutYouth Austin, Book Woman, Inc., University of Texas at Austin GSC, and LesConnections.com
Emmy Award-winning actress Elaine Bromka reveals a gallery of intimate portraits of three remarkable, radically different First Ladies—Lady Bird,...More
A wickedly funny dark comedy about a young journalist who is high on ambition and low on morals. Featuring Joey Hood (Killer Joe, Bombs in Your Mouth, The Collection) and directed,...More
In his new play "Toxic Assets," Steven Tomlinson searches for the origins of the financial crisis in the psyche of an economics professor who becomes obsessed with,...More
The Glass Menagerie is one of America’s great plays, written by Tennessee Williams and performed as part of TexARTS’ professional Off-Broadway Series. The rather,...More
One of Broadway’s most neglected masterpieces, the romantic and achingly beautiful A Little Night Music deals with the universal subject of love, in all its wondrous,,...More
Trouble Puppet Theater Co. presents Fup Duck, created by visiting artist and resident Caroline Reck (adapted from the book by Jim Dodge). Music by White Ghost,...More
This performance will mark the 174th Anniversary of the fall of the Alamo and the ensuing Sam Houston lead San Jacinto Campaign for Texas Independence.
In The Shadow Of Giants native Texan troubadour Craig Toungate portrays his great grandfather, Texas pioneer settler and member of Sam Houston’s army Meredith Toungate. The show tells the story of the Texas Revolution from the fall of the Alamo to the Battle of San Jacinto using original songs and narration based on eyewitness...
New York City. The boss of the Marchetti crime family has been murdered. Who will lead this syndicate into Reagan's second term? Murder. Meatballs. The Mob.
The Family is the first ensemble-devised, full-length play by Gnap! Theater Projects.
International Magician, Matias of Chile, will have you on the edge of your seat with his suspenseful and interactive Magic & Comedy Show. This spectacular event creates a magical atmosphere of wonder and mystery, where fantasy becomes reality. Experience the Impossible and Let It Amaze You!
Benefit Performance for the Victims of the Earthquake in Chile will be held, Saturday, March 13th, 2010 at 10:00pm.
Award-winning artists Chad Salvata and Jo Beth Henderson have created the newest ethos adventure, Xephyra, an alternative world music and video mythos. This non-traditional performance is presented with video images and live music. The extraordinary vocals are performed in an imaginary language of a mythic tribal island world.
Xephyra, a warrior of the Blue Orchid tribe, journeys on her quest to find her husband, Warrior, who has not returned from the Island Wars. Along the way, she...
Iden Payne Award winner Alex Garza has put together a collection of stories and characters that look at romance, heartbreak, desire, and life-long commitment from the eyes of different people. In this 75 minute performance, he discusses his childhood crushes, including the girl who broke his heart in the 2nd grade and his teenage obsession with TV heart throbs Sean Astin and Kirk Cameron. Tickets $10. For more information, email starlextheatre@yahoo.com.
In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me a Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo , two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The...
The LCP returns with a special encore performance of "El Channel", their newest full-length original sketch comedy show unlike anything you've seen from them before.
Dysfunctional divas and celebrity goats. A right-wing militia-man on a mission. An intern program with a 100% fatality rate. Dis-organized crime. And much, much more. It can all be seen on "El Channel," a tv station which re-defines the meaning of "on the border."
Have fun, meet new people and learn to improvise in the Hideout's low-pressure classes. The six-week Level One class is designed for anyone who wants to loosen up, be more spontaneous and learn to take risks on stage and in life. No prior experience necessary.
Each week you'll play games and explore a challenging variety of improv exercises that unleash your natural creativity and humor. Our work is inspired by Canadian improv guru Keith Johnstone, so even if you've done...
Two legendary Broadway stars combine for a once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event. This incredible show reunites these Tony Award®-winning virtuosos (and lifelong friends) for the first time since Evita. Much more than a concert, this unique musical love story is told entirely through a masterful selection of the greatest songs ever written for the stage. Funny, passionate, intimate, and utterly unforgettable, this is An Evening no fan of musical theatre should miss.
The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each month. The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent loving kindness. Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our ongoing mission to chafe against logic and proof, find...
March 27, 2010 is World Theatre Day- designated by The International Theatre Institute (ITI), and observed as a day for the celebration and empowerment of theatre artists and audiences around the globe. This year The Exchange Artists are teaming up with the Greater Austin Creative Alliance to organize a World Theatre Day event titled SPECT[ACTOR] in Austin, TX.
Austin’s celebration of World Theatre Day, SPECT[ACTOR], will include a full day of theatrical happenings in...
'Divas: A Special Night of Music" features popular songs from the 1920's to present, with show tunes included. These numbers will be performed by 12 of the most talented and trained female vocalists Central Texas has to offer. Directed by Gaslight-Baker veteran, Tysha Calhoun with choreography by Christy Smith, this musical production is a new venture for the Gaslight-Baker Theatre. The night is filled with memorable performances by individual "divas" as well as duets and...
In Shakespeare's time, only men were allowed on stage. Now, we will turn the tables. In this classic comedy, Austin's finest actresses will take the stage in this replica of an Elizabethan Theater: Richard Garriot's Curtain Theatre. Join us in this beautiful setting amid a pecan grove on the shores of Lake Austin off City Park Rd., near Rts 2222 and 360.
In Shakespeare's time, only men were allowed on stage. Now we will turn the tables. In this classic comedy, Austin's finest actresses will take the stage in this replica of an Elizabethan Theatre: Richard Garriott's Curtain Theatre.
Join us in this beautiful setting amid a pecan grove on the shores of Lake Austin off City Park Rd, near Rts 2222 and 360.
Alana Macias, Heather Barfield, and Texas Performance Labs are proud to present Zero Libertad, an experimental, multi-media performance piece that simulates Zero Libertad’s (played by Alana Macias) experience in the Contra War of Nicaragua by creating a liminal space between the living and the dead, by use of music, film, visual art, and theatre, high and low culture, pain and pleasure.
Zero Libertad combines electronic beats, found sound, film treated with animation...
We have re-launched our B.F.A. in Musical Theatre, and so join us for our spring musical revue. It will be an evening of memorable melodies as students perform a medley of musical favorites from some of Broadway’s greatest composers and lyricists.
Just when you thought The Flaming Idiots days of jugglin', jokin', throwin', swallowin', leapin' and conquerin' Broadway were over, Austin brings them back! The Flaming Idiots are returning to ZACH's stage for the sort of theatre circus hilarity that brought them to international acclaim and got them kicked out of Williamson County. Prepare to be amazed as you watch their signature spectacle come to the stage with a bound-for-Broadway reunion act that is far more...
Donna Lewis has a dilemma! She is a divorced Christian educator and mother of a teen-age daughter who could pass for her sister. Too old to be considered young and too young to be considered old, she is determined prove that she is still a desirable woman…but at what cost? Join us for the newest work by local playwright, Jeanette W. Hill.
With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux’s classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over...
In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the tale of their family and an era. Their father, the eponymous carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post as county treasurer and tax collector to amass a Texas plantation of twenty thousand acres. Preserving that plantation through the vicissitudes of their lives becomes a central issue for his daughters. It's all about family secrets, tribal memories, sibling rivalry, and how change stalks our...
A modern classic almost from its first performance in 1953, this play has been required reading for most of two generations. Two men discuss everything and nothing as they wait for the elusive Godot. The Broadway revival of "Waiting for Godot" has recently closed, so we bring it to you. Come and join us for a surprising evening of Beckett.
Can patient bunny Ruby put on a play for Grandma’s birthday without little brother Max spoiling the fun? Can Ruby’s Bunny Scout friends help get things done? Theatrework’s USA presents Max and Ruby- the bunny siblings who, no matter what, treat each other with kindness and love. Don’t miss this whimsical story full of music, fun and a big dose of mischief from little bunny brother Max!
Insomnia: A satirical musical comedy on hard work, money and pharmaceuticals. “Insomnia Patch activates the body’s own “alert centers,” creating a sense of well-being, enhancing productivity, and ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR SLEEP.” Another light musical comedy from Crank Collective, who produced last year’s H1N1-themed “Epidemic of Fear, The Influenzical.”
The TexARTS "Great Shakes" teen classical theater troupe under the direction of founder & former professional classical actor Todd Dellinger, brings you one of Shakespeare's most beloved and enjoyed romantic comedies April 10 & 11. On the heels of last years' hugely successful "Much Ado About Nothing" the TexARTS troupe breathes an exciting vitality and vigorous contemporary whimsy to this tried and true classic. From forlorn lovers to firey fairies of the wood,...
The answering of an incessantly ringing cell phone…of someone who is dead… leads to an unexpected chain of events, in this “wildly, imaginative comedy” by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient Sarah Ruhl. Dead Man’s Cell Phone explores how people memorialize the dead-and how that remembering changes them. It is the story of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed...
Try To Remember a time when this romantic charmer wasn't enchanting audiences around the world. The Fantasticks is the longest-running production of any kind in the world, and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. Its moving tale of young lovers who become disillusioned, only to discover a more mature, meaningful love is punctuated by a bountiful series of catchy, memorable...
What does memory look and feel like? Conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, floodlines transforms the North University and Hyde Park neighborhoods into dreamscapes of beauty and loss. The audience travels by car through the streets while witnessing staged vignettes en route. As performers appear, disappear, and reappear again, the audience is asked to consider the relationship between history and memory, seeing and feeling, experience and loss. floodlines has been performed once each spring...
The BLUE Theatre and Getalong Gang Performance Group present the Austin premiere of Steven Gridley's Post-Oedipus, a radical re-working of Euripides' play The Phoenician Women. Post-Oedipus chronicles the tumultuous events of Oedipus' family after his fall, using warped time, musical interjections, chaotic revelries, and intolerable silences to unravel the mental state of a family after disaster. At once a stunning family drama and a jaunt into the absurd, Post-Oedipus will delight and...
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the play and in recognition of its Texas roots, the Way Off Broadway theater company in Williamson County launches a revival of the modern classic – The Fantasticks - the longest running musical in the American theater. Those who have seen it before will enjoy seeing it again – and that those who haven’t seen it will discover the magic that has made it such a success around the world!
Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s surreal and morbid humor have made it a cult hit and the longest running original series on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Talking fast food items, their hairy next-door neighbor and a bizarre cast of super-villains come to life in their first live tour featuring co-creators Dave Willis and Dana Snyder, blending unseen clips from the show, improv and live music (!).
"Connect: Four Short Plays" by Austin playwright Allan Baker. These plays focus on the need to connect: across the generations in a family, at the most critical point in a relationship, at the most important moment in your life...or online on Saturday night! The program includes "Five Minutes", Allan's powerful 2006 FronteraFest "Best of the Fest" selection which has since been produced several times Off Off-Broadway. Benefiting AIDS Services of Austin,...
Join Alice’s madcap adventures in Wonderland as she chases the White Rabbit, races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with the Tweedles, raps with a bubble-blowing Caterpillar, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game! Roles are plentiful, including three Cheshire Cats and dozens of other wonderfully wacky characters. This fast-paced stage adaptation of Alice in Wonderland features updated dialogue and new arrangements of such classic Disney songs as “I’m Late,”...
When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with...
Alan Ayckbourn’s ingenious comedy about three married
couples trying to cover-up their adulterous love affairs which result in a hilarious comedy of errors
as all get tangled up in lies and misunderstandings, culminating in a dinner party where laughter
is the main course. Come find out how the other half lives…and loves.
City of Angels
Book by Larry Gelbart, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by David Zippel
Vocal Arrangements by Cy Coleman and Yaron Gershovsky
Directed by Michael McKelvey/ Music Direction by Michael McKelvey
Film noir meets 1940s Hollywood glamour in this Tony-award winning musical from Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity) and Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H). A frazzled novelist struggles to maintain his artistic vision as he adapts his hard-boiled detective novel to the silver...
Lost your imaginary rabbit friend? Look for him at the Palace Theatre in Historic Georgetown when Mary Chase’s inventive play Harvey opens on Friday, March 26. Directed by Ron Watson, Harvey features Michael Rhea (oft-seen delighting Palace audiences) as Elwood P. Dowd, whose eccentric behavior includes introducing his imaginary rabbit friend (Harvey) to guests at a society party. Virginia Keeley has the role of Elwood’s sister, Veta; and Veta’s daughter, Myrtle May, is...
IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL!, is a sensational new show about chasing your dreams and finding your true home.
With an amazing cast, incredible Tony Award-winning dancing and a thrilling Tony Award-winning score, IN THE HEIGHTS is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community – a place where the coffee is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of...
Austin Children’s Theater is proud to present a Spring full of fairytale adventures! Take a look at all the possibilities… This semester includes Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr., the Original Play Project, TV/Commercial Acting for kids and more.
This class will teach you how to use your training in improvisation to improve your audition skills. We will go through a series of different types of auditions as we show and discuss what improv techniques can be used in the commercial audition process. Students will be taped during their auditions so the can see what they need to work on and how much their work has improved during the class.
Teatro Vivo, Austin's premier Latino theatre company, invites you to the Austin opening of a new Latino comedy entitled, Keeping Track,written by Erica Saenz. This lighthearted comedy is set in a modern day Latino family, who try to solve their problemas con la familia using new hi tech surveillance devices. ¡Ay yi yi! Live-in mother-in-laws, newborn babies, hovering single friends, microchips and monitors all come to balance on the fine line between staying in touch con la familia...
Escape from Happiness is a ferociously dark and wildly comic vision of the struggles of one very idiosyncratic family to achieve wholeness, peace, and stability in the face of a complex and adversarial world. Walker's viciously funny satire cuts straight to the heart of urban anxiety. Three adult sisters join forces with their mother to solve a crime. With criminals and cops closing in on their home, and a father they do not trust, time is running out for this family. Ten...
Carlo Goldoni’s 18th century comic masterpiece, The Servant of Two Masters, reinvigorated commedia dell arte and has influenced the great comic actors to the present day. It tells the story of a clever and mischievous servant, Arlecchino, who decides that two paydays are better than one and hires himself out to two different masters at the same time. As he attempts to juggle the demands of two high-strung lovers who have lost each other and are looking for each other in an unfamiliar...
Play-Time is the Paramount's special Matinee series of Children's plays. Here's the schedule for this year:
Peter & the Wolf: Sunday, Oct 11, 2009
The duck, the bird and the cat join Peter and his grandfather to outsmart a wily wolf in this familiar cautionary tale, set to music both classical and contemporary. Adapted by Allison Gregory, this show gives a fresh new look to a traditional Russian folktale.
In this Mexican folktale, a vain Cuckoo bird learns that in times of trouble it is not her outer beauty but rather her inner beauty that saves the day. The show is recommended for ages 5 and up. It is free and open to the public.
The Austin Public Library Youth Services' Literature LIVE! performance troupe communicates the importance of literature in shaping the lives of youth by inspiring the imagination through live theater/puppetry productions.
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