Diana Lynn

BWW Previews: WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU ARE at Community Arts Workshop

Small, Ponce, and Tautz have partnered with local artists and artisans to produce free mythmaking workshops to perpetuate the arts of story creation and storytelling. From these workshops evolved 'Who Knows What You Are,' the finale performance showcasing work developed throughout the workshops. An original song cycle that incorporates theater, music, and film, this production depicts the birth of the world, 'in a mythic, surreal way.'

The Ford Continues Free Online Series From The Ford Presenting Invertigo Dance Theatre

Invertigo Dance Theatre presents After It Happened – a story of trauma, hope, and healing.

POINT REYES FARMSTEAD CHEESE COMPANY Supports California Association of Food Banks

Throughout the month of May, every wedge of cheese purchased at www.pointreyescheese.com will generate a donation of an equal wedge to the California Association of Food Banks.

The Academy Invites 842 To Membership; 50% Are Women

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 842 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. The 2019 class is 50% women, 29% people of color, and represents 59 countries. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2019.

Austin Critics Table Announces 2018-2019 Award Nominees

After considering hundreds of live stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions in Austin between the dates of May 1, 2018, and April 30, 2019, members of the Austin Critics Table have announced their nominees for outstanding dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre with the nominees for the 2019 Critics Table Awards.

Salvage Vanguard Theater Stages TRYOUTS By Adara Meyers

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.

BWW Review: TRYOUTS Examines Art and the Female Experience in Austin, TX

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.

Salvage Vanguard Theater Presents HOUSE PLAY By Diana Lynn Small

Salvage Vanguard Theater hosts an immersive development brunch as we test-drive and share the design elements for House Play, a new theatrical event by Diana Lynn Small.

Salvage Vanguard Theater Stages TRYOUTS By Adara Meyers

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.

Salvage Vanguard Theater Presents HOUSE PLAY By Diana Lynn Small

Salvage Vanguard Theater hosts an immersive development brunch as we test-drive and share the design elements for House Play, a new theatrical event by Diana Lynn Small.