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The Man with the Dancing Eyes, Lab Theatre, UT, 9/02-04

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Muses IV

Broken Record Overtime Theatre Christie Beckham Tyler Keyes Cynthia Davila

The Carpetbagger's Children, San Pedro Playhouse, San Antonio

Barefoot in the Park, Silver Spur Theatre, Salado

The Odyssey A Rock Opera by Freddy Carnes, 8/13-9/04

Metamorphoses Zach Theatre Kirk Tuck

Wedding Singer Georgetown Palace

Dead White Males Sustainable Theatre Austin Texas

Into The Woods

Zell Miller III B-Boy Bluez Uprise Productions Austin Texas

Dinner with Friends JAM'D Theatre Company Austin Texas

Merchant of Venice Austin Drama Club

Tutto Theatre I Witness Blue Theatre Austin

Theatre for Youth

Adventures of Iris and Momo Paper Moon Repertory Austin Texas

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Vigil by Morris Panych, Hyde Park Theatre

Omnium Gatherum, McCallum High School

Nadine Mozon Delta Rhapsody

Raped Clarity Gemini Playhouse

  The 39 Steps Austin Playhouse

The Tempest, Austin Shakespeare

kt shorb Generic Ensemble Company

Taming of the Shrew, EmilyAnn Theatre

Operacion Clown Callate (Shut Up)

The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere

Frankenstein Trouble Puppet Theatre Company Austin

Rent, the musical

Hats the Musical Bastrop Opera House, 9/16-26

Little Shop of Horrors, Vive les Arts Theatre, Killeen, 9/17-10/03

Mud Maria Irene Fornes Southwestern University Georgetown

Midsummer Night's Dream The Baron's Men

Communicating Doors, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, 9/24-10/09

Noises Off Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, 9/24-10/16

Seven Circles of Flimflammery, Loaded Gun Theory, Austin

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Upcoming: Terminal by Susan Yankowitz, Texas State University, San Marcos, October 29 - November 1 Print E-mail

 

Dance of Death by Kazuya Akimoto Found on-line:

Terminal

by Susan Yankowitz
Texas State University Theatre Department
October 29-31, 7:30 p.m.
November 1, 2 p.m.

This ground-breaking collaboration with Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre -- an investigation into mortality -- was first produced in 1969 and then revised in 1996. Ms. Yankowitz won the Drama Desk Award for this unusual work. The original script can be found in “The New Radical Theatre Notebook” and ordered through Applause Books, 212 595-4735 or I” Types of Drama, Plays and Contexts”, at www.ablongman.com/barnettod. The later version of the play is available in Performing Arts Journal 57, Johns Hopkins Press, www.press.jhu.edu.

"Terminal sends its audience away with a passion for preserving the gift of life: its gorgeous variety, its possibilities, its essential sweetness.” Kroll, Newsweek

“…the closest thing we have to the transcendently didactic theater of the ancient Greeks.” John Lahr, New York Times



The original version can be found in The New Radical Theatre Notebook and ordered through Applause Books, 212 595-4735 or in Types of Drama, Plays and Contexts, at www.ablongman.com/barnettod. The recent revised script is available in Performing Arts Journal 57, Johns Hopkins Press, www.press.jhu.edu or Performing Arts Journal

Susan Yankowitz (photo by William Myers)Bio. Susan Yankowitz is a playwright, novelist, lyricist and librettist. Among her plays are The Revenge, Phaedra In Delirium (winner of the QRL poetic play competition); Under The Skin, Terminal and 1969 Terminal 1996, both pieces collaborations with Joseph Chaikin's Open Theatre (Drama Desk Playwright’s Award); A Knife In The Heart (O’Neill Conference winner; West Coast Premiere October 2002 at Sledgehammer Theatre); and Night Sky, presented throughout the United States and internationally. Her plays have been translated into French, Japanese, Catalan, Dutch and German; they have been widely published and anthologized. She is also the librettist/lyricist of Slain In The Spirit, a gospel-and-blues opera with music by Taj Mahal; Cheri, an opera/music theatre work with Michael Dellaira; and bookwriter/lyricist of True Romances, a musical fantasia with Elmer Bernstein.

In addition to her work for the stage, she has written a novel, Silent Witness, published by Knopf, as well as several films and television plays. Her teleplay, The Prison Game, was aired on PBS, as was Sylvia Plath: Arrow To The Sun, which won her a WGA nomination for the best-written documentary of the season.

Her work has been honored by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, NYFA, TCG, Berilla Kerr, McKnight and Rockefeller Foundations. She is a frequent fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell, and is a member of New Dramatists, PEN, the Dramatists Guild, and WGA.

[Illustration: Dance of Death by Kazuya Akimoto from http://www.kazuya-akimoto.com/2008/2008contents/7143gallery3.html]


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