FronteraFest 2008
FronteraFest 2008 runs January 15 - February 16th. Austin Script Works co-produces the festival with Hyde Park Theatre. Complete schedules and online tickets are available at http://www.hydeparktheatre.org.
January Salon
Chasin’ the Bird by Jason Tremblay
Sunday January 27, 2008
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
Set in Kansas City, Chasin’ the Bird is the story of the first recording that Charlie Parker ever made. Moving between 1936 and 1996 the play focuses on William Owens who at 15 made the recording […]
Segunda Etapa: The Second Stage
ASW in partnership with Teatro Vivo presents SEGUNDA ETAPA: The Second Stage, the culmination of the second phase of the Latino Playwrights Initiative. Two full-length plays commissioned by Austin Script Works will receive a week of rehearsals and workshopping leading to public staged readings. The day-long event will also include a playwriting workshop and a party.
October Salon
Eskandar by Allan Baker
Sunday, October 28th at 6:30
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
Eskandar is a modern re-telling of the opera Carmen, set in today’s Afghanistan. Joe is a gay Afghan-American, who has returned to Afghanistan as part of a shadowy military unit. There he meets Eskandar, an Afghan boy […]
September Salon
Sunday, September 30 at 6:30 pm
The State Theatre
719 Congress Ave.
HOLLYWOOD MELODY OF 1933
by Louise Richardson
Hollywood Melody of 1933 is both a tribute to and an updating of the movie musicals of Warner Brothers and RKO from the 1930s. An old-time vaudeville performer, made rich and famous by his stereotypical portrayals […]