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| Shakespeare Acting Studio | 09/01/2010 | 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 first 90 minutes of each class will be working with movement master Jim Hancock. Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella is the instructor. The Shakespeare Acting Studio will run from 7 pm-10 pm. The first class begins Monday Oct. 11 and continues on Mondays through Nov. 9. The final two sessions (Nov. 16 and 23) will be on Tuesdays and will be a rehearsal for a showcase and a final showcase performance for professional agents, directors and supporters.
$200 for all 7 sessions. To apply, contact: swan@austinshakespeare.org. |
| Stage Crew Needed for The Tempest | 08/22/2010 | Join one of most professional and FUN backstage crews in town! AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE NEEDS ASM/Crew/Dressers/Board Ops - Austin Shakespeare - The Tempest - RollinsTheatre @ The Long Center. Paid positions. Stage Manager, Shannon Richey; production coordinator: Melinda Parr; Director, Ann Ciccolella |
| Next: The Tempest | 07/31/2010 |
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. |
| Ann Ciccolella Profiled in L Style G Style | 07/19/2010 |
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. |
| Cast Announced for This Fall's Production of The Tempest | 07/05/2010 | Ann Ciccolella, Artistic Director of Austin Shakespeare, has announced the cast and creative team for the opening production of the 2010 - 2011 season, The Tempest, which will be performed in the Long Center's Rollins Theatre starting September 9 and running through the 26th. The Cast Directed by Ann Ciccolella Creative Team Stage Manager Shannon Richey Poster Design Jeannie Lozano |
| "You Tube" - Check out Austin Shakes Actors & Directors & Audiences! | 07/05/2010 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream talk back with audience.. thanks to our Bottom, Michael Dalmon for putting this lil video together. |
| Volunteers Needed for The Merry Wives of Windsor | 06/16/2010 | Austin Shakespeare is looking for help for our upcoming production of The Merry Wives of Windsor by our teen company, Young Shakespeare. |
| Shakespeare on the Hill at St. Edward's University | 06/16/2010 | Be a part of one of Austin's most popular theatre workshops for high school and middle school actors. For the 11th year, Austin Shakespeare is teaming up with St. Edward’s University to bring its most comprehensive workshop ever. Workshop topics include acting, text analysis, stage combat, voice and Shakespearean history. The two-week workshop concludes with a performance at Mary Moody Northen Theatre. June 21 - July 2, 2010 Instructors: Ann Ciccolella, Artistic Director of Austin Shakespeare; Gwen Kelso, Company Member; Michael McKelvey, Artistic Director of SummerStock Austin; and many other guest artists. For enrollment information, email mikeem@stedwards.edu. |
| Next: Young Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor | 06/04/2010 |
Friday 7/2 - Tonight's show has been cancelled due to weather. Be sure to join us tomorrow for the final performance! WHEN: June 24, 25, 27, 30 & July 1-3, 2010 at 8 pm. No show Saturday, June 26. Austin Shakespeare presents its second production casting Austin’s best teen actors in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor at Richard Garriott’s Curtain Theater, a replica of an Elizabethan theater, on the shores of Lake Austin June 24, 25, 27, 30 & July 1-3, 2010 at 8 p.m. Austin Shakespeare has become known for their inventive twists on Shakespeare classics and The Merry Wives of Windsor is no exception. Set as a TV sitcom, a deep love triangle will unfold with a jealous husband in disguise and a wayward knight determined to win the love of two married ladies. "My inspiration came from great situational comedies like I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners," said Gwendolyn Kelso, director of Young Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. "We have taken elements from these (and other!) shows to create a sitcom twist to our teen production of The Merry Wives of Windsor." Teens who audition and are accepted to the Young Shakespeare program undergo an intensive month-long acting training program including voice, diction and movement. The program culminates in a professionally staged show.
The Merry Wives of Windsor is directed by Gwendolyn Kelso who has recently been accepted into the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre Company acting program in Washington, DC. Austin Shakespeare audiences have seen Kelso as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Hero in Much Ado about Nothing. She also manages, directs and teaches classes at the Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre. She directs and teaches classes at ZACH Theatre as well. Young Shakespeare is made possible by the generous sponsorship of Bill Dickson. |
| Auditions for The Tempest Continue | 05/09/2010 | Austin Shakespeare will be holding more auditions Tuesday May 25 for its fall production of The Tempest. Rehearsals will begin Saturday August 14, with performances running from Thursday September 16 through Sunday October 3 in the Rollins Theater in the Long Center. Artistic Director Ann Ciccolella will be directing. To schedule an audition time, please contact auditions@austinshakespeare.org. Austin Shakespeare alums will be scheduled to audition on Monday May 24. Equity contracts are available under SPT 1. Non-Equity actors are eligible for EMC (Equity Membership Candidate program). Auditions will be held at the ACOT office at 701 Tillery St. Auditioners are asked to prepare a 1-2 minute piece from a Shakespeare play (may be The Tempest). The piece may be memorized or read, but actors are encouraged to be familiar with the piece. |
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