Next: The Tempest

Sat, 07/31/2010 - 14:16 — robert
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Visit an island of Mystery, Love, Beauty, Comedy, Revenge and Forgiveness. Austin Shakespeare, the only professional classical theatre company in Central Texas presents Shakespeare’s Romance The Tempest, in a professional Actors’ Equity production with a Q&A to follow each performance. Share an enchanted island in the Mediterranean with a sorcerer, who is a deposed duke, and his brilliant beautiful young daughter, a delightful sprite and a lecherous native. This fantastic jaunt is filled with suspenseful surprises, drunken invaders, and some of Shakespeare’s most gorgeous language … Come to the heart of theater experience.

When:Sept 9–26: Thurs–Sat, 8 p.m; Sun. 3 p.m. Wed, Sept 8 preview at 8 p.m.; September 22: Student-friendly group event at 11 a.m.
Where: The Rollins Studio Theatre at The Long Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets: $23-29, with special pricing for the Sept. 8 preview; $15 for students. Available on the web at http://thelongcenter.frontgatesolutions.com/search.php?s=tempest or by calling 512-474-LONG.  Additional tickets can be purchased at http://nowplayingaustin.tix.com/Schedule.asp?ActCode=53675

Shakespeare Acting Studio

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:30 — robert

Austin Shakespeare is currently accepting actors into the professional Shakespeare Acting Studio. The Fall semester will focus on scenes from King Lear, including cross gender casting. Focusing on interpretive tools, voice and diction, and intense physicalization, we believe that sharpening your skills in expressing Shakespeare's work, you will be a stronger actor in any endeavor.

The Shakespeare Acting Studio will run from 7 pm-9:30 pm Mondays Oct. 11- Nov. 22 in 8 sessions. $35 per session or $200 for all 8 sessions. The studio will include a final showcase performance for professional agents, directors and supporters.

To apply, contact: swan@austinshakespeare.org.

Ann Ciccolella Profiled in L Style G Style

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 22:10 — robert
Ann C. on the set of The Dream in Zilker Park

The latest issue of L Style G Style (July/August) includes a profile of Austin Shakespeare Artistic Director titled "Center Stage: Ann Ciccolella Is Helping Audiences Fall In Love With the Bard of Avon and Elevating Theater In the Process." The article describes how Ms. Ciccolella came to be interested in the Bard as a student at an all-girl's Catholic High School in New Jersey and how she turned that passion into a career in the Arts, culminating with taking over as Artistic Director of Austin Shakespeare.

To read the article, go to http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/57e5d96d#/57e5d96d/47, or go to http://lstylegstyle.com, and click on the link to read the entire issue.

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