Now Playing Onstage in Austin - Week of 11/18/2012

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ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE
The Palace Theater
10/26-11/25/2012
A musical tribute to the legendary country singer, who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963, complete with down-home country humor and true emotion. The show includes many of Patsy's unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams, and Walking After Midnight.
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Jane Austen'S PRIDE & PREJUDICE
The Long Center Rollins Studio Theatre
11/7-11/25/2012
Enter a beautiful world of comic characters and elegant heroes in an unlikely romance when the sparkling wit of Miss Elizabeth Bennet meets the serious soul of Mr. Darcy. Enjoy graceful ballroom dance and music. November 7 - 25, 2012. Rollins Theatre of The Long Center for the Performing Arts Special Pre-Performance Teas before Sunday Shows
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CIRQUE DREAMS: HOLIDAZE
The Long Center
11/20-11/25/2012
The perfect way to catch the holiday spirit! An international cast of more than 30 artists costumed as holiday ornaments come to life and perform astonishing feats of disbelief. Experience gingerbread men flipping in mid-air, toy soldiers marching on thin wires, snowmen daringly balancing, icemen powerfully sculpting, penguins spinning, puppets caroling and reindeer soaring high above a landscape of holiday wonderment. An original music score and some holiday favorites accompany hundreds of spectacular costumes adorning a magical tree of dreams in a setting of gigantic gifts, colossal candy canes and 30-foot towering toy soldiers. (Recommended for ages 5 and up.)
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THE COLLECTOR
Salvage Vanguard Theater. Produced by Animal Cracker Conspiracy Puppet Company
11/23-11/25/2012
The Collector Austin Premiere! 3 Nights Only! San Diego�based Animal Cracker Conspiracy Puppet Company, special guests of Trouble Puppet Theater Co., presents a genre-stretching, surreal, multimedia tale about a lowly debt collector who travels through the urban landscape, undergoing a radical transformation of spirit. The Collector, a multidimensional mixed-media performance viewed through Orwellian, neo-Victorian lenses, is a contemporary puppet theater work that engages the audience in a projected reality, a detailed and gritty environment of toy theater, animated objects, miniature protagonists and antagonists, all unfolding in dialogue-less mystery. This alternate reality is underscored by original film and constructed soundscapes. Created and performed by Bridget Rountree and Iain Gunn of Animal Cracker Conspiracy Puppet Company, this nontraditional spectacle features recorded surround sound designed by the experimental composer Margaret Noble. The Austin premier of The Collector is made possible by grants from the Jim Henson Foundation, The Sator Arts Foundation, Synergy Art Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and continued support from the San Diego Guild of Puppetry. Presented by Trouble Puppet Theater at Salvage Vanguard Theater, studio theater, 2803 E Manor Rd. Austin, TX 78722. This run has limited seating. Three shows only! Tickets are $15 ($12 for students/seniors and $10 for groups) at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/295054 or at the door. Animal Cracker Conspiracy: Visual artists and performers, Bridget Rountree and Iain Gunn, joined forces in 2005 and began collaborating in a series of performance art pieces that combined mixed media, physical theater, and puppetry. In 2007 they launched Animal Cracker Conspiracy, a contemporary hybrid puppet company, and co-founded Zirk Ubu: live arts ensemble. Zirk Ubu with a cast of nine performers produced over fifteen pieces of original work dedicated to physical theatre, puppetry, circus, and sideshow, from 2007-10 in San Diego and Mexico. In 2010 Bridget and Iain focused solely on Animal Cracker Conspiracy after receiving their first grant from the Sator Arts Foundation for "The Collector", which received two Jim Henson Foundation Grants. In 2010, Animal Cracker Conspiracy began hosting quarterly shows, The Adult Puppet Cabaret, producing and fostering an audience for adult puppet performances in San Diego, which has received three Puppet Slam Network grants and has been highlighted in Puppetry International. During this time Animal Cracker Conspiracy has participated in both national and international artist residencies and workshops with Bread and Puppet, North American Creative Laboratories, La Pocha Nostra, RosenClaire, and the Old Trouts Puppet Collective. Trouble Puppet is a sponsored project of Salvage Vanguard Theater and is supported by The Jim Henson Foundation, the City of Austin, and individual donors. Salvage Vanguard Theater is a hub for Austin artists, audiences, and arts organizations. SVT creates and presents transformative, high-quality artistic experiences that foster experimentation and conversation.
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THE SCARLET LETTER
University of Texas B. Iden Payne Theatre
11/16-12/7/2012
Adapted by Sarah Saltwick Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne Directed by Steven Wilson Presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance "There was a wild and ghastly scenery all around her, and a home and comfort nowhere." Sin. Guilt. Judgment. Love. Protagonist Hester Prynne comes to the stage in a reimagining of Hawthorne's classic tale. About the playwright and director Sarah Saltwick is a playwriting and fiction Michener Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been presented, developed or produced by Paper Chairs Theatre Company, Scriptworks, WordBRIDGE, Bristol Riverside Theater, Shrewd Productions, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and Moving Arts. Prior to his study at The University of Texas at Austin, Steven Wilson spent fifteen years working throughout Chicago as an actor, director and educator. His directing credits include The Transition of Doodle Peque�o (UT Austin), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (A Red Orchid Theatre), The 13th of Paris (LiveWire Chicago Theatre), and Orange Flower Water (No Name Players). Most recently, Steven was the assistant director for Dividing The Estate at the ZACH Theatre where he also works as a teaching artist. He is a master of fine arts candidate at The University of Texas at Austin.
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YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
The Vortex Theater
11/17-12/8/2012
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this comedy introduces us to the Sycamores, a family that delights in eccentricity. They may seem mad, but they show us that those who pursue convention for its own sake and who need to conform to society's conventions are the maddest of us all. This play about living life to the fullest, following your own dreams, and daring to be unconventional has been a perennial since its debut in 1936.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sam Bass Community Theatre
11/16-12/15/2012
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been adapted by Phil Grecian in this very theatrical stage play. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. You may have seen A Christmas Carol before but never like this! Adapted for the stage by Phil Grecian from the novella by Charles Dickens
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