This Week in Theatre: Dude, Bra, That's So Phat!

A couple of shows with big phatty hype open this week. So ph-ph-phatty, that we’re bringing back the word phat (with a p.h. homeslice!) just to emphasize how phatty it really is. PHAT. PH. AT.

Ok.

Our Austinist Pick of the Week is a toss-up. Red Cans is the show the press just can’t get enough of. Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope, the delightful duo behind Rubber Repertory – the company producing the project – got naked for the Chronicle cover a few weeks back, appeared in an interview here, and were profiled again in this weeks Chronicle – just in case we weren’t completely positive that the AC is behind the show.

On the other hand, Psycho Beach Party is the show the people can’t stop talking about – mostly because two theatre companies decided to produce it within a month of each other. (As far as we can tell, the productions are otherwise completely unrelated. Weird.) Potentially tricked by a genius marketing ploy, we’re now compelled to see both shows.

Red Cans is running at the Off Center as a co-production with the Rude Mechs – tickets and info here. Psycho Beach Party (this month’s production of it, anyway) is from Prairie Oyster Productions and runs at the Vortex. Check out our interview with PBP stars Kathleen Fletcher and Breanna Stogner here, or head over to the Vortex website for tickets and info.

In other news, running this weekend only is bad ass sketch comedy from Latino Comedy Project – already profiled and recommended in our This Week in Sketch and Improv column.

And lastly, over at the Austin Playhouse, they're offering up The Dead Presidents Club by Larry King (who we’re pretty sure isn’t the Larry King, but you never know). David Stahl plays Richard Nixon, Don Toner directs, and you enjoy clever political comedy from the highly professional Playhouse team. The show opens tonight, costs $22 to get in, and runs Thursdays thru Sundays until August 27th. For more info check out the Austin Playhouse website.

There’re plenty of shows running from last week. For all that info, check out the Weekend IST List or last week’s TWIT.

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By Jonathon Morgan in Arts & Entertainment on August 4, 2006 1:05 PM 0 Comments

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jessie

at the risk of raising the profile on this idiotic renaissance of burlesque... i beg someone on staff at the austinist to interview shrewd productions and ask them exactly what they mean with that summer camp postcard that's been floating around... is it supposed to be ironic? cause everyone i know has missed the irony. seriously, is it supposed to do anything other than make thinking people want to vomit? or is it just what it looks like - a bunch of women who want to suck dicksicles for money?

TRJ

You'd be correct. The author of DEAD PRESIDENT'S CLUB is Larry L. King- journalist, essayist, novelist, and sometimes playwright (he also wrote the book for BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS). The name is the only resemblance he bears to the CNN host. (As evidenced by King's published letters, which are great reading as opposed to the other King's elipses-fests that he passes off as writing.)