The Game's Afoot at Austin Playhouse

Dates: (12/13/2012 - 1/13/2013 )

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Austin Playhouse

Virtual
Austin,TX 78752

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Phone: 512-476-0084

Tickets: $28 Thursday/Friday, $30 Saturday/Sunday Half-price for students.

Running Time: two hours

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Austin Playhouse is opening their season with Ken Ludwig’s sparkling new comic murder-mystery The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays). The play will open at Austin Playhouse's new temporary theatre space at Highland Mall.
It's December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, is shot onstage during a performance. While recuperating, he invites his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it’s up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.

Ages: Recommended for middle school and up. The show is rated PG for some stage violence.

Cast and Creative team for The Game's Afoot at Austin Playhouse

Starring Jason Newman as William Gillette with Joey Banks, Mary Agen Cox, Boni Hester, Huck Huckaby, Molly Karrasch, Lara Toner, and Cyndi Williams.
Directed by Don Toner with costumes by Diana Huckaby, lights by Don Day, and sound by the Gunn Brothers.

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Where is Austin Playhouse located?

Austin Playhouse is at Virtual, Austin, TX.

What is the history of Austin Playhouse ?

Austin Playhouse is a professional regional theatre, founded in August of 2000. Over fifty of Austin's leading theatre artists, administrators, and volunteers who had worked with Producing Artistic Director Don Toner to build Austin’s State Theatre Company into one of the city’s leading arts organizations, joined him in creating this new professional theatre for Austin. On November 27, 2000 Austin Playhouse was granted 501(c)(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service.

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