Coming off their run with FronteraFest Long Fringe, Capital T is giving you ’4′ more chances to see PRECIOUS LITTLE TALENT by Ella Hickson .
Final ’4′ Performances February 9th-11th, Thursday thru Saturday, 8pm, on the Blue Theatre Mainstage.
★★★★ The Guardian “It is young, full of spluttering energy and has a real fire in its belly about the need to retain your optimism in a cruel world – Hickson really is a little bit special”
Theatre from the Edge-“The fringe theater event of the Southwest!”-Austin American Statesman.
Presented By Hyde Park Theatre in collaboration with ScriptWorks, a group dedicated to supporting emerging playwrights and developing new dramatic works. FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre. Everything from new works by emerging playwrights to cutting edge choreography.
FronteraFest Long Fringe – Longer productions (90 minutes or less) presented at the Blue Theatre and the Salvage Vanguard Theater.
Show Information and Performance Schedule Listed Below.
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Drawing A Paycheck
by Annie La Ganga (90 minutes) Wedding cakes, greeting cards, pysanky, kirigami, and crochet. Oils, watercolors, charcoal, and collage. Museums, workshops, church basement craft fairs and prisons. Jack of all trades, master of living off her boyfriend, writer, comedian, and monologist Annie La Ganga draws portraits of volunteers from the audience while telling funny stories about her love of arts and crafts and her many misguided entrepreneurial adventures.
Jan 26th at 7:00pm; Jan 28th at 5:00pm; Jan 30th at 7:30pm; Feb 2nd at 8:45pm
Foursquare
by Manuel Zarate (90 minutes) What is love? It’s everything and nothing. It’s funny and awful. It’s the “till death do us part” and the one night stand. For three strangers in Austin, Texas, one night will change their lives forever. Each will face the myth of their past and the reality of their present. Love is not what we thought it was.
Jan 27th, Feb 1st at 7:00pm; Jan 29th at 4:15pm; Feb 4th at 9:15pm
Getting Betta
by Don Fried (Paradox Players) (60 minutes) In this touching futuristic comedy, Michael is a technologically challenged senior and Betta is a virtual computerized assistant assigned to him against his wishes. As Betta continually acquires technology upgrades, she becomes paranoid and schizophrenic. Crystal, Betta’s programmer, arrives and it soon becomes clear she’s no more in control of Betta than Michael is. Getting Betta premiered simultaneously in California and Colorado in March 2011.
Jan 24th, Feb 2nd at 7:00pm; Jan 31st at 9:15pm; Feb 5th at 1:15pm
The Heart You Were Born With
by Drew Julian (75 minutes) The play opens with the unexpected arrival of Bobby’s old college roommate, Will, who is suffering from the recent death of his girlfriend. Complications occur when Will falls for Kelli, the current girlfriend of Bobby. These friends come to face the fragility of their loyalty for each other when their sense of desperation sets in.
Jan 24th at 8:45pm; Jan 28th at 7:00pm; Feb 4th at 2:30pm; Feb 5th at 8:30pm
Here’s to You
by A. John Boulanger (Imagine That Productions) (75 minutes) Newlyweds Steven and Ellen Gellar pop into a psychic parlor to see what lies ahead for them as husband and wife. Skeptical Steven fears the worst, as eager Ellen awaits the arrival of Madame Orida Mozelle, psychic extraordinaire (and stage star of yesteryear). With each card (and after a few cocktails) Madame O reveals devastating predictions for a marriage that might not last its first night.
Jan 28th, Feb 1st at 9:15pm; Feb 4th at 7:15pm; Feb 5th at 4:15pm
Internet Casanova: The Reboot
by Bill Bauer (Weird City Theatre) (75 minutes) What if, instead of blocking an online scammer, you tried to see how far you could string them along? Weird City Theatre presents this expansion of Bill Bauer’s 2011 Short Fringe comedy based on chat transcripts. Javier Smith, Carrie H. Stephens, and Minerva Villa return from the original show, joined by Callie Barrons, Tammy Cox, Renei Brown Sims, and Kathryn Tait.
Jan 25th, Feb 3rd at 9:15pm; Jan 28th at 3:00pm; Feb 5th at 6:30pm
Life and Other Terminal Maladies: Short Plays for the Long Fringe
by Trey Deason (Purple Crayon Theatre) (90 minutes) “Every life must end, Eden. And that is a truth you should celebrate. Why else would someone like you, who’s had so much pain and disappointment in her life, treasure it so?” A collection of darkly comic and deeply moving short plays by acclaimed and two-time BIP nominated playwright Trey Deason, about life, its cure, and other plagues of mankind.
Jan 26th at 9:15pm; Jan 29th at 6:30pm; Jan 31st at 7:00pm; Feb 5th at 2:00pm
Click here to purchase tickets for Life and Other Terminal Maladies: Short Plays for the Long Fringe
Precious Little Talent
by Ella Hickson (Capital T Theatre) (90 minutes) The US premiere of the latest breakout hit from London, Precious Little Talent follows two twenty-somethings–one American, one British–and their struggle to arrive at adulthood during a time when the rules seem to be shifting and the ground is unsteady. “The play is refreshing, honestly and strongly about now. Ask no more” – ★★★★ The Times www.capitalT.org
Jan 25th, Feb 3rd at 7:00pm; Jan 27th at 9:15pm; Jan 29th at 2:00pm
You are cordially invited to join us
Reception with Artist — Friday, January 27th, 2012
6pm to 9pm. Open to the Public. Free to Attend
Installation runs thru Sunday, January 29th, 2012
2012 Cross Horizons Art Exhibit presents works of art that explore the dynamic interaction between artist, creative process and the identities of their workplace. The Exhibit is a year long exploration of the artist in habitat and the commonality of artistic process to band inspiration. While celebrating the relationship between the artists’ body, mind and environment, the Exhibit explores the boundaries between the artists’ public and private space and how the work that is created speaks across mediums, across horizons.
Blue Theatre SecondStage Gallery l 916 Springdale, Austin, TX 78702
Gather at the Blue Theatre with other eco-friendly neighbors and party in honor of all things green! The party starts on NYE December 31st 6p.m. with dinner, great prizes, live drummers and DJs All-Night! Come Create A Sustainable Reality this New Year’s Eve! Help Celebrate the ‘Green Conscious Transformation’ of the Blue Theatre as we create a fully integrate eco-conscious entertainment platform.
Eco-Beauty-Eco-Art-Eco-Food-Eco-Beats-Eco-LOVE theBLUE goes GREEN and we are making it fresh and delicious!
Tito’s Handmade Vodka Martini Open Bar (Lavender, Blueberry & Hot Pepper Infused) * Micro-Brew Flavors PLUS Tasty Organic Dinner Menu *
** Organic Fruit Champagne Toast at Midnight!! **
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6:00pm-Doors Open/Gallery Show starts 7:00-9:00pm-Food Served 7:30-9:30-Live Art Installation by Wesley Thoricatha 9:30-Fashion show with new designer Krystee Wylder … 8:00-11pm DJ Ex Stus 10:30-Drum Circle 11:00-2am DJ HappyHappy James 11:00-Live Dance-imation with Topher Sipes and Samantha Beasley “ARTheism” 11:15- Poi dance performance–>>Wesley Thoricatha 11:30pm-Drum Circle 12:00-NYE toast to 2012 12:10-Mother Nature comes out…played my Savonne the Minx(aka Casey Evans) 12:30am-”Call of the Crows” with Rainbow Girl(aka Lauren Lunsford and Melissa Colegrove 1:00am-Spunshine 1:15am-Hoopin it up with Ciara Blossom 1:30am-Live Hoop Dance-imation With Topher Sipes of ARTheism and Caterina Sutttin of Spunshine.
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All-Inclusive Tickets: Dinner+Bar+Admission
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SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES The Blue Theatre Company will go out of their way to create the most sustainable event possible. Each year we strive to do better. Our aim is to minimize the environmental impact for every attendee. What a great vision! These are just some of the initiatives we have taken: Recycling Project, Eco-Tickets, Water, and Environmental Arts and Education.
Thank you for your support!
Join us Wednesday Evening, December 14th at 7:30PM
for a Staged Reading of a powerful new play LEDA'S SWAN
a new play by LEEGRID STEVENS + directed by GARY JAFFE
Open to the Public. Free to Attend w/ Reception to Follow.
Leegrid Stevens (playwright) plays have been seen in downtown New York theatres such as HERE Arts Center, Lark Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Theatre for the New City, Altered Stages, and Spring Theatreworks’ Dumbo space as well as several theatres across the US and Europe. Stevens was named as one of the “People of the Year” by nytheatre.com saying, “Indisputably one of the smartest and most innovative young playwright/directors working in New York’s Indie theatre scene.” Stevens graduated from Columbia’s School of the Arts with an MFA in Playwriting where he won the John Golden Playwriting Award.
GARY JAFFE (director) is a ’8′ B. Iden Payne Award Winner 2011 — Outstanding Director of a Comedy, Outstanding Production of a Comedy, 6 more wins (THE DUDLEYS!: A FAMILY GAME), Austin Critics’ Table Award Winner 2011 — Outstanding Production of a Drama (SPIRITS TO ENFORCE — Capital T Theatre), Richard B. Sewall Cup Recipient 2010, for academic achievement and creative potential — Yale University. Artistic Director of Award Winning Tutto Theatre Company — Austin, TX.
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NOVEMBER 19th at 7PM “Even Clothed” EP Release Show
with…
BUXTON and DANA FALCONBERRY
All Ages / 7 PM / $7.00
R.S.V.P.
FULL TOUR: 12th–20th November
ARTISTS & STUDIOS: Open Weekends
November 12/13 & 19/20, 11:00am–6:00pm
COST: FREE & Open to the Public
Benjamin Hammerschmitt creates sculptural, functional and conceptual metal art. His work explores the tension metal creates across opposing planes and the unnatural forces used to shape those paths. The unyielding nature of the material and the austere industrial processes necessary to transform the metal juxtapose the asymmetrical harmony and tethering fluidity of motion found in each of his signature pieces.
MARVELOUS THINGS
For Reservations email marveloustickets@gmail.com
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We invite you to meet Winnie: a young woman full of life and always in awe of it. But as her wedding day approaches she becomes unable to distinguish the world in which she is living from the marvelous things she imagines. And as the consequences of lives around her quickly unravel, so the creatures of her mind come alive from within the world of the audience and take to the stage. Presumably, Winnie remains safe in the delusions of her imagination, until a spine-tingling series of final events forces her to confront delusion, reality and ultimately: theatrical reality.
Coming this October to the BLUE THEATRE is a new work by Austin Playwright and Director Lindsey Greer Sikes with Orginal Music Composed by Paul Marbach. Inspired by native-Texas indie-rock band Eisley’s “Room Noises”, Marvelous Things is a theatrical event which aims to challenge the traditional form of the play as well as the role of the audience, who are not only spectators but participants in the creation of a false reality—or as we more commonly call it, the theater.
**For a truly Austin experience, be sure to arrive early and grab some dinner with our hot-off-the-grill BBQ, fresh pie, and featured specialty drinks including a spiked Southern Iced Tea!
6th thru 23rd OCTOBER, 2011
Thursdays & Saturdays @ 7PM w/Sundays @ 5PM
Tickets purchased at the door are sliding scale $12-$20. Cash & Check only.