Barbara Chisholm News

With its fantastic script, brilliant direction, and flawless performances 33 Variations is an incredible piece of theater the likes of which are rare. This is one orchestra that hits all the right notes.

As 2013 begins, there are already several productions that are on BroadwayWorld's radar. Here is a brief list of some of the most highly anticipated productions Austin has to offer in the coming year…

Austin-based Subud International Cultural Association (SICA) invites everyone - poetry groups, poetry teachers, poetry lovers, singers, dancers, artists, actors, pipers, players and friends - to share in a special lunchtime performance/poetry reading POEMS FOR PEACE in honor of Peace Day, today, September 21, 2012 at Noon at the Rollins Studio Theatre (701 West Riverside Drive).

Austin-based Subud International Cultural Association (SICA) invites everyone - poetry groups, poetry teachers, poetry lovers, singers, dancers, artists, actors, pipers, players and friends - to share in a special lunchtime performance/poetry reading POEMS FOR PEACE in honor of Peace Day, Friday, September 21, 2012 at Noon at the Rollins Studio Theatre (701 West Riverside Drive).

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edward's University theatre training program, announces its 2012-2013 season.

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins starring two-time Tony and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner plays the Geffen Playhouse though February 19. Turner sizzles as Molly Ivins, the brassy Texan reporter whose liberal journalism skyrocketed her to the national stage. This acclaimed one-woman show captures the red-headed reporter's indomitable character by weaving personal anecdotes with her colorful take on national politics. Check out a sneak peek of the production by clicking below!

Red Hot Patriot: the Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins will open at ZACH Theatre's Kleberg Stage, Austin, TX from August 4 - November 13, 2011. Tickets are $20-$49.

Next season the Geffen Playhouse is introducing Angelenos to acclaimed new works - including the previously announced Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins featuring Kathleen Turner, Pulitzer Prize nominee The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz and Tony Award nominee Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts - as well as introducing the theater community at large to three world premieres - including a stage adaptation of The Exorcist by Edgar Award winner John Pielmeier (Agnes of God), The Jacksonian, a new work by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, and Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, the playwriting debut of actor Alan Alda. In addition to the acclaimed playwrights represented this season, the Geffen Playhouse is welcoming internationally lauded directors to helm these works including Tony Award winners John Doyle and Robert Falls.

Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins starring two-time Tony and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner is the first production announced as part of the Geffen Playhouse's 2011/2012 season.