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Summer Acts: Austin

Presented by The City Theatre Company at The City Theatre

July 10-July 20, 2008

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Eleven days, six companies, thirty-six shows. City Theatre hosts the July theatre festival with hot performances of new works, original musicals, theatre on the edge, award-winning dramas, and original comedy projects Starring Rory Gene Productions, The Fair Dog Players, and a slew of other troupes ready to burn the stage up with laughter, emotion, and excitement.

Complete Schedule:

Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief
Rory Gene Productions
SA12@8, SU13@12, MO14@7, WE16@9, SA19@6, SU20@8
Bridget Farias directs Pulitzer winning playwright Paola Vogel’s darkly comic spin on Shakespeare’s Othello. Starring Jessica Allen, Molly McKee, and Rory Roberts.

I’m Not Ghandi
Alex Garza
FR11@9, SA12@4,SU13@2, TH17@7, SA19@4, SU20@6
In this all new solo performance, Garza plays a comic array of characters who attempt to comment on their views of a sometimes, twisted, cruel, and tragic world.

Crazy Like a Person: A Musical
Austin New Music Workshop
FR11@7, SA12@12, TU15@9, WE16@7, SA19@8, SU20@12
A musical comedy that asks “What is crazy?” Katie thinks maybe she is. That is until she meets a psychologist, psychiatrist, and life coach whose lives make Katie’s seem normal.

Tis’ the Season
Movement Theatre Company
TH10@9, SA12@2, SU13@4, MO14@9, FR18@7, SA19@10
The dark and outrageously funny comedy about the ridiculous and unfortunate mishaps that occur during those oh-so-wonderful holidays. From Valentine’s to New Year’s, the show will keep you guessing.

St. Nicholas
Phillip Ayliffe
TH10@7, SA12@6, SU13@8, TH17@9, SA19@12, SU20@4 
A jaded Dublin theatre critic become infatuated with a young actress and follows her to London whereupon he meets up with a vampires and goes to work for them.  One of Conor McPherson’s best plays.  Strong adult language.

In the Shadow of the Glen/Riders to the Sea
The Fair Dog Players
SA12@10, SU13@6, TU15@7, FR18@9, SA19@2, SU20@2
Ireland, turn of the 20th century - common people scratch out an existence, by the sea and in the glens. The Fair Dog Players present a pair of brief, rich tragicomedies by J.M. Synge

Go to the website for a complete list of participating shows, schedules, and ticket prices, www.citytheatreaustin.org.