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$30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission, $10 Starving Artists
Thursdays and Sundays 2-for-1 admission with donation of 2 non-perishable food items. Limited seating. Advance purchase recommended.
Based on the true story of The Bloody Countess, Erzsebet Bathori, this original opera is a tale of horror, murder, and magic created by award-winning Ethos composer and designer Chad Salvata. Vampyress received accolades when it debuted at The Vortex in 2005, including winning B. Iden Payne Awards for Outstanding Original Score (Chad Salvata), Outstanding Lead Actress (Melissa Vogt-Patterson), and Outstanding Supporting Actress (Betsy McCann).
Born in 16th-century Hungary, this Bloody Countess, Bathori, murdered hundreds of young women and bathed in their blood in order to sustain her youth and beauty. This historical figure has been both vilified and honored over the centuries. Salvata’s embellishment of her notorious downfall produces a powerful and mysterious work of storytelling.
Vortex’s Summer Youth Theatre presents You Can't Take It With You, a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. You Can't Take It With You presents the world of an extraordinary family who live a celebration of individuality. Like a string of firecrackers, this play unfolds with sparkling surprises and jewels of non-conformity, honoring the values of authenticity and uniqueness in life. You Can't Take It With You is a delightful comedy that tastes like a piece of “homemade Love Dream candy” and looks like “the most beautiful red fire in the world”. Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Featuring a Youth Company of teenagers including: Cooper Acord, Hayley Armstrong, Colin Ashby, Joshua Braun, Rio Esquivel, Anjelica Hymel, Anissa L. McVea, Hannah Newcomer, Felipe Ramirez, Martin Ramirez, Harley Roberts, Wyndham Shortt, and Cassidy Timms. Adult guest actors include: Steven Fay, Emily Fagan, Tyler Mabry, and John McNeil.
Directed by Mick D’arcy. Scenic Design by Ann Marie Gordon. Costume Design by Talena Martinez. Lighting Design by Patrick Anthony. Sound Design by Sergio R. Samayoa.
SYT 2010 provides students with experiences in all aspects of theatre including acting, technical theatre, and publicity. Rehearsals and workshops are free to all participants. The Austin Chronicle lauds Vortex’s Summer Youth Theatre (SYT) as “The Best Theatre for Kids That Treats Kids Like Grownups”. Now in its 19th year, SYT has mentored hundreds of Central Texas students, teaming them with adult professionals to create many award-winning productions of great world literature including R.U.R., The Visit, Vitriol and Violets: Tales from the Algonquin Round Table, Machinal, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, The Frogs, and Moby Dick.
About the Director: Directed by Vortex veteran actor and director, Mick D’arcy. Mr. D’arcy has been a member of Vortex Repertory Company since 1991 and has appeared in dozens of roles, including SYT productions of Cyrano de Bergerac, Moby Dick, and Animal Farm. In 2007 he directed Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters for SYT. Mick has recently returned from an acting stint in New York City.
Summer Youth Theatre is funded in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
(The Positively True Adventures of an AISD Special Education Teaching Assistant) by Rob Nash Presented by Vortex Repertory Company June 17 - June 26 Thursdays - Saturdays, 8 p.m. 2 weeks, 6 performances only! at the Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd Tickets: $30-$10 Available at 512-478-LAVA (5282) or www.vortexrep.org $30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission, $10 Starving Artists Thursdays 2-for-1 admission with donation of 2 non-perishable food items for SafePlace. Limited seating. Advanced purchase recommended.
Rob Nash is pleased to present the debut of his newest one-man comedy, Special Needs, a heart-warming, funny, compassionate, and rigorously honest account. Actor and writer Rob Nash explores the lives of Austin’s disabled students, as well as the roles of faculty, administrators, parents, group homes, politicians, and voters. He is grateful that these special education departments are strong and successful. Unfortunately, in the education system, it’s the regular ed kids whose needs aren't respected or adequately addressed by the system.
Nash has been writing and performing his own brand of one-man shows at The VORTEX since 1995, most notably the award-winning Holy Cross Sucks!Special Needs is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
The VORTEX Café now serves fabulous sandwiches, tamales, deluxe cheese plates, hummus and veggie plates, cakes from Chez Zee, and Ruta Maya Coffee, in addition to our exceptional assortment of beer and wine and homemade sangria. Come early, stay late.
Lorella Loftus and VORTEX Repertory Company present The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Adapted from Chaucer by Lorella Loftus and Shekhar Govind Directed by Karen Jambon
May 28 -- June 13, Thursdays - Sundays at 8 p.m. The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Rd. Tickets: $30-$10 Available at 512-478-LAVA (5282) or www.vortexrep. org $30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission, $10 Starving Artists Thursdays and Sundays 2-for-1 admission with donation of 2 non-perishable food items. Limited seating. Advance purchase recommended.
This fresh, bright adaptation of The Wife of Bath’s Tale from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales offers a modern twist on an old tale. The Wife of Bath’s Tale blends a contemporary character and setting with clever video, original illustrations and music, a splash of Middle English, and a sprinkling of time-travel. Insightful and humorous, and always surprising, it proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same. But what is the same for one, may not be the same for all
This one-woman show stars Lorella Loftus (last seen in Good Things). Also featuring Andy Agne (Sleeping Beauty). Directed by Karen Jambon (Eurydice). Lighting design by Patrick Anthony (Eurydice). Scenic Design by Elaine Jacobs (Good Things). Illustrations by Ann Marie Gordon (Sleeping Beauty). Video Design by Kell Condon (new to Austin from NY). Sound Design by David DeMaris (R.U.R). Costume Design by Talena Martinez (Oceana). This production is presented in honored memory of Shekhar Govind.
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The VORTEX Café now serves fabulous sandwiches, tamales, deluxe cheese plates, hummus and veggie plates, cakes from Chez Zee, and Ruta Maya Coffee, in addition to our exceptional assortment of beer and wine and homemade sangria. Come early, stay late.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
The Vortex Repertoryprovides, via Tweet and Facebook, six hours' advance notice that Kyle John Schmidt's
Fernando and the Killer Queen
will be presented as a staged reading TONIGHT, Tuesday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of Junk, 4422 La Reina Drive. Schmidt had earlier planned to do the show there in mid-April, but the City of Austin's code enforcement action got in the way.
