Caliche Springs Dinner Theatre by Louise Richardson
Sunday, April 25th @6:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
The Caliche Springs Dinner Theatre is a backstage comedy about a fictional community theatre overlooking Lake Travis near Austin, Texas. Angie Squires narrates her story of the last days of CSDT, the inside politics and the earnest efforts of a clique of amateurs to bring to life two classic productions and one commissioned work about the founding father of the mythical town of Caliche Springs, Texas. Angie is basically the entire office staff of CSDT, a Cinderella who just wants her chance to act in a show.
Louise Richardson is an Austin playwright and a member of both Austin Script Works and the Central Texas Storytellers Guild. She has acted in more than 30 productions in Austin, directed about a dozen others, and has written about half a dozen plays. Her Monty Python-like Hamlet the Dane was produced at Capital City Playhouse in 1991 and her musical Chanteuse, for which she wrote the book, lyrics and music, will open at Cafe Caffeine, 909 West Mary Street in Austin, beginning April 23rd and ending May 9th.