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BWW Review: Theatre en Bloc's UNTIL THE FLOOD: A rich and intense 90 minutes of what theatre does best.
by Joni Lorraine - November 09, 2018
UNTIL THE FLOOD is a rich and intense 90 minutes of what theatre does best.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns To Round Rock Stage In Original Live Radio Show
by BWW News Desk - November 08, 2018
Penfold Theatre Company presents A Christmas Carol Classic Radiocast November 29 - December 29 at Old Settlers Hall, next door to Round Rock's "Christmas Towne."
Atelier Dojo Art Academy Gears Up For Grand Opening Bash
by BWW News Desk - November 08, 2018
Austin-based art studio Atelier Dojo is thrilled to announce the sponsors and details for their upcoming grand opening event on Saturday, Nov. 17, on the second weekend of the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour (EAST). The event will be sponsored by Tribeza and cocktails will be provided by Violet Crown Liquors. There will be live music by the Jeff Bloom Quartet and photography by Scott Kentros. The grand opening event is open to the public and will take place from 6 - 9 p.m. at the studio's East Austin location at the Canopy Arts Complex (916 Springdale Rd, Building 2, Suite #106B, Austin, Texas 78702). Founder, faculty and members' work will be on exhibition during the event and both weekends of EAST and a special presentation will be made at 7:30 p.m. during the grand opening event. To RSVP, please see here.
DOUBT: A PARABLE Announces New Show Dates And Location
by BWW News Desk - November 08, 2018
Kicking off the 13th season, City Theatre Austin is excited to present John Patrick Shanley's critically acclaimed stage play Doubt: A Parable. Winner of the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it is directed by guest director Rick Roemer and features Joel Gross, Brooke Culbertson, April Patterson, and Babs George as Sister Aloysius.
SORRY! WRONG CHIMNEY! Comes to Hill Country Community Theatre
by BWW News Desk - November 07, 2018
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Actually, there are two of them, along with a surprise appearance from the Easter bunny thrown in for good measure. Add a policeman in a tantalizing striptease and you quickly understand why Hill Country Community Theatre's production of "Sorry! Wrong Chimney!" will put you in a ho, ho, ho mood for Christmas.
Broadway's ANASTASIA On Sale This Friday in Austin
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2018
Lexus Broadway in Austin presented by Texas Performing Arts announces that the individual tickets for the tour of the critically acclaimed Broadway production of ANASTASIA will go on sale Friday, Nov. 9 at 10:00 a.m.
Ground Floor Theatre Announces Cast Of FUN HOME
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2018
Ground Floor Theatre is proud to announce the cast for Fun Homerunning December 5-22, 2018. One of the most groundbreaking productions ever to hit Broadway, Fun Home is the winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Based on Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir, Fun Home features music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Lisa Kron. As the first theatre in Austin to produce the Tony Award winning musical, Ground Floor Theatre has cast Sandra Mae Frank as Joan, Broadway veteran (Spring Awakening) and a deaf actress, integrating American Sign Language into this musical.
New Austin-Based Experiential Art Company HOUSE OF L Gears Up For Launch Party This Thursday
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2018
In partnership with various branches of Sotheby's International Realty offices across the country, HOUSE OF L will produce unique, weekend-long "pop-up" art events across the country that bring together art lovers from all walks of life in exceptionally beautiful properties, curated with art from around the world. HOUSE OF L will also partner with additional lifestyle brands in 2019 to create, produce and execute on-brand art experiences for creatives in North American markets. In the coming year, HOUSE OF L will host pop-up events in Miami, Aspen, Los Angeles, Dallas and Austin. For more information on HOUSE OF L, please follow @ _thehouseofl_ and/or subscribe at www.houseofl.art. 
UT Dance Repertory Theatre Presents FALL FOR DANCE
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2018
Under the direction of Charles O. Anderson, Dorothy O'Shea Overbey and Gesel Mason, The University of Texas at Austin's award-winning dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre, returns to the stage in Fall For Dance, November 6-11 at the B. Iden Payne Theatre. An examination of embodiment and innovation through contemporary ballet, Fall For Dance features works by renowned guest artists, including Jeremy Arnold, Millie Heckler, Dorothy O'Shea Overbey, Gregory Dolbashian, Gesel Mason and Sidra Bell, as well as undergraduate student choreographers Andy Duong, Abby Loper and Adison Norman.
Sean Thompson on Touring LOVE NEVER DIES
by Frank Benge - November 05, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to one of Broadway's longest running musicals, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is his show LOVE NEVER DIES; which is currently touring across the United States. The tour staging is inspired by the reworked 2011 Australian production of the musical. To give Austin audiences an inside look into the show, we talked with Sean Thompson who plays hero turned flawed husband and father, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny.
BWW Review: Penfold Remount of Doctuh Mistuh's NEVERMORE Still Wows
by Frank Benge - November 05, 2018
NEVERMORE: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a Canadian musical that was written and composed by Jonathan Christenson which follows the rather dismal life and internal struggles of Edgar Allan Poe that later on inspired his work as an author. The script contains references to both his poems and short stories. While most of the script dramatizes true events in his life, other aspects are entirely fictitious. The musical was originally produced at the Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta and went on to be performed across Canada, and at the Barbican Theater in London, and the New Victory Theatre in NYC. The current production now playing at Ground Floor Theatre is a remount of the original Doctuh Mistuh production, produced in conjunction with Penfold Theatre, and features most of the original cast.
TexARTS Presents A COOL YULE
by BWW News Desk - November 05, 2018
It's that time of year again. 'A Cool Yule', the TexARTS holiday tradition, returns for its sixth year! This swingin' cabaret will warm your heart with the songs of Andy Williams, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Sugarland, Michael Buble, Peggy Lee and more!
Something For Nothing Theater Presents William Shakespeare's MACBETH
by BWW News Desk - November 03, 2018
Sorcery and fate, ambition and honor, cunning and bravery fight for dominance as Something for Nothing Theater stages its 2018 fall production of Shakespeare's MACBETH directed by Mary Beyer. In a land where witches prophesy the fall of dynasties, ghosts lurk among the dinner guests, and families are forced to flee their homes, the promise of power has driven one former soldier to unthinkable corruption. Can Scotland survive the reign of Macbeth?
Gabriel Royal Comes To The Grand
by BWW News Desk - November 02, 2018
The Grand 1894 Opera House continues "A Jewel of a Season" on Saturday, November 10 at 8pm, with Gabriel Royal: The Underground Cello Project. The concert was written by the highly-acclaimed, modern chamber pop music composer- performer, Gabriel Royal. Tickets may be purchased at The Grand's Box Office, 2020 Postoffice Street, by calling 409.765.1894, 800.821.1894, or online at www.thegrand.com.
BWW Review: MACBETH Highlights The Might of Women and Folly of Man
by Lacey Cannon Gonzales - November 01, 2018
All in all, MACBETH presented by Something For Nothing Theatre is an enjoyable evening of accessible theatre. Although the play falters in act two, the show itself is mostly well done. The talent of the women in this production is the undeniable force driving the show. While by no means are their characters innocent, one wonders if Macbeth would have fared better if he had listened to them a little closer.
Salvage Vanguard Theater Stages TRYOUTS By Adara Meyers
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2018
Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) presents MainStage world premiere of Tryouts by Adara Meyers, a Boston-based experimental playwright. Directed by co-Artistic Director Diana Lynn Small, Tryouts casts a satirical gaze on women, femininity, and motherhood, inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Virgin and Child with St. Anne,' and Freud's debunked maternal psychosexual essay on the painting.
New Web Series Announced About The Black Theatre Circuit
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2018
Austin award nominated Playwright Robert King Jr. (' For The Love Of Mahalia', ' CICI', ' The Voices Of Donny Hathaway') partners with newcomer Terrance Jamal to bring the Black Theatre Scene to TV in their new web series 'Sun-Kissed'. The new urban dictionary phrase used to describe a person of color or African- American decent who has been tinted by the sun. This new web series is centered around the life of gay black playwright Sonny Henderson.
BWW Review: TRYOUTS Examines Art and the Female Experience in Austin, TX
by Amy Tarver - October 25, 2018
Now playing at The Dougherty Arts Center in Downtown Austin, TRYOUTS brings to life an examination of Leonardo da Vinci's painting, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne. Painted in 1503, this work has been analyzed by many historians to decipher Leonardo's relationship to both religion and female expression. Among the analysts is psychology's godfather, Sigmund Freud. The essay Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood psychoanalyzes Leonardo's life based on his paintings. Freud theorized the depiction of the two mothers and the child in this painting represent Leonardo's emotional suppression and a manifestation of what Freud refers to as, The Vulture Fantasy. Moving from the subject matter presented by the men of the past, TRYOUTS consists of five talented women navigating the mother-daughter dynamic in the present day. Against the backdrop of an uppity all-girls school, more modern and common feminine themes are presented for the audience to contemplate - at least that is what appears on the surface.
New Austin-Based Experiential Art Company HOUSE OF L Announces National Launch
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2018
In partnership with various branches of Sotheby's International Realty offices across the country, HOUSE OF L will produce unique, weekend-long "pop-up" art events that bring together art lovers from all walks of life in exceptionally beautiful properties, curated with art from around the world. HOUSE OF L will also partner with additional lifestyle brands in 2019 to create, produce and execute on-brand art experiences for creatives in North American markets. In the coming year, HOUSE OF L will host pop-up events in Miami, Aspen, Los Angeles, Dallas and Austin. For more information on HOUSE OF L, please follow @ _thehouseofl_ and/or subscribe at www.houseofl.art.
BWW Review: Great Performances Abound in THE ADDAMS FAMILY
by Frank Benge - October 25, 2018
The characters in The Addams Family were created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. The characters traditionally include Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, close family members Uncle Fester and Grandmama, their butler Lurch, the disembodied hand Thing, and Gomez's Cousin Itt. The characters are a satirical inversion of the ideal American family: odd, wealthy, macabre and unaware that other people find them, at the very least, bizarre. They originally appeared as single-panel cartoons, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker between their debut in 1938 and Charles Addams' death in 1988. They've been adapted to multiple forms of media: television, both live action and animated, and a series of films. The most recent adaptation is the musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY with a book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa.
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is Brilliant Slapstick Comedy
by Frank Benge - October 25, 2018
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is a comedy by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company that won Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards. Mischief Theatre Company have also written Peter Pan Goes Wrong which opened at London's Apollo Theatre in December 2015 starring the same cast. They have also done a spoof of Dickens A Christmas Carol, all with the same frenetic pace and trademark extreme physical comedy. It's like the hyperactive child of Noises Off gone off their meds.
BWW Review: Texarts + THE UNEXPECTED GUEST = Good Theatre
by Joni Lorraine - October 25, 2018
The weather and season are perfect for an evening or afternoon cooped up with a bunch of murder suspects in an English manor.  You won't be disappointed in THE UNEXPECTED GUEST.
Award-Winning Musical NEVERMORE Returns In Time For Halloween
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2018
Doctuh Mistuh Productions and Penfold Theatre Company are pleased to bring Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe back to Austin. Nevermore made its regional premiere in Austin in October 2016 and subsequently was the winner of five B. Iden Payne Awards, including Best Musical. The Nevermore revival will run October 25 - November 10 and plays at the Ground Floor Theatre.
Award-Winning Burlesque Documentary To Screen In Austin
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2018
The world is opening their eyes to THE OLD STRIPPER. And she's coming to a local movie theater near you in Austin.
One Week Left To Submit Nominations for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards!
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2018
Nominations are NOW OPEN for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors have set the categories and now YOU get to nominate and vote for your favorites! Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.

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