Feature: Duo Deal with UPSTART PRODUCTIONS and THE BASEMENT This Weekend
Two companies generating a lion's share of the recent theatrical buzz in DFW, with two of the most highly anticipated shows of March, have joined forces to make their productions accessible to a wide range of patrons by offering a bargain not to missed this week.
Take in Upstart Productions mounting of Clifford Odet's Waiting for Lefty Thursday night, March 23, taking advantage of this company's PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT pricing model and receive FREE admission to The Basement's Saturday, March 25, matinee of Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth.
It is more than a natural fit that these two companies are co-promoting their current offerings. Upstart Productions, founded in 2008 to great critical success and currently experiencing a resurgence, is an artistically ambitious company dedicated to the creation of distinct, innovative and compelling theater. Their aim is to make Dallas a major cultural center through the discovery and cultivation of emerging artists. The Basement is a new company that is a subsidiary of widely heralded Fun House Theatre and Film which is known for their dedication to developing the next generation of performing artists.
The new company, founded by some of the most critically acclaimed young actors the area has ever embraced, is on a mission of their own to take control of their own artistic development while exposing a new generation to live theater with the goal of making them lifelong arts patrons. There is some definite symbiosis going on with these two missions and the co-promotion of productions from differing companies is a great example of an active approach to bring living theater to a wide range of patrons.
"By combining our efforts, we can take advantage of the opportunity to remove an often too present economic barrier to experiencing theater, as well as expose our existing audience bases to new companies," cites Joe Folsom, artistic director of Upstart Productions.
Waiting for Lefty
Composed of different vignettes, Waiting For Lefty tells a desperate tale of a group of New York cab drivers pondering a labor strike. Each person's heart wrenching story plays out to reveal how they arrived at this point in their lives and what the strike could mean for them.
8:00p.m. Thursday, March 23
Pay-What-You-Want at the door (or make a minimum $15 donation in advance at upstarttheater.com/donate)
Ash Studios
3203 Ash Lane
Dallas, Texas 75226
Learn more about Upstart Productions: www.upstarttheater.com
This Is Our Youth
An exploration of existing in the chasm between adolescence and adulthood, This is Our Youth is a snapshot of 48 hours in the lives of three young people, raised privileged and liberal during their attempt to make it out into the world at the dawn of the Reagan Era.
Admission is free with your playbill flyer from Thursday night's Waiting for Lefty
2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25
Stone Cottage Theatre at Addison Conference and Theatre Center
15650 Addison Road
Addison, Texas 75001
Learn more about The Basement at www.thebasement.funhousetheatreandfilm.com.
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