If a Tree Falls In the Forest and Hits a Mime: This Week in Theatre!
As we scourged all the theatre listings this week, endlessly digging for all the dirt on all the shows in all the venues from all the companies in all of Central Texas, we realized…there is no spoon.
There’s also practically nothing opening this weekend. But never fear, dear theatre goer, there’s plenty, plenty of shows that are still running from previous weeks that – if you haven’t already seen them – will forever haunt you as those few, great productions that just slipped through your fingers.
We already talked about Fat Pig – the Austin premiere of Neil Labute’s latest by NKTOBs, The Vestige Group. Don’t forget A Brief History of Helen of Troy from Capital T Theatre (also new to the scene) – it was our Austinist Pick of the Week last week, and has received mixed reviews in the Statesman and the Chronicle.
You could also mosey on over to the Blue Theater for Salvage Vanguard’s current sci-fi radio trilogy (which we loved), The Intergalactic Nemesis – rumor has it there’s Broadway producers in the house this weekend, so you know, check it out before “the man” gets ahold of it. You could try and check out Yellow Tape Construction Co’s I Love My Dead Gay Son: The Musical! (full disclosure: we’re heavily involved with this show, but don’t let that stop you from reading our review) over at the Off Center, or, better yet, party with Austinist, Yellow Tape, and everyone else at the YTCC Birthday/Season Launch Party at Long Branch Inn on Saturday!
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin is celebrating its 30 year anniversary with a production of H.M.S. Pinafore that we liked very much; Different Stages brings Agatha Christie to the Vortex in The Hollow; Zach Scott is running its smash hit from last season, Crowns; The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas is over at the Austin Playhouse; check out news that’s absurd on purpose from Whirled News Tonight at the Hideout; and don’t forget everyone’s favorite “choreopoem”, The Apocalypse, from Real Eyes Theatre at the Austin Massage Clinic (no website, call 275.6088 for tickets).
Photo courtesy of Matthew Miller at Stock Exchange.
