UPDATE: FronteraFest 2007 Kicks Off Tomorrow Night

From the good folks at Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works: White stuff coming out of the sky has got the best of us; we're canceling tonight's performance of FronteraFest. The five shows originally set for tonight will be rescheduled throughout the week.
Here's the new schedule--get tickets at 479-PLAY (7529) or at
www.hydeparktheatre.org

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works.

For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro, and to purchase tickets, visit the FronteraFest website.

IMPORTANT WEATHER NOTE FROM HYDE PARK THEATRE: We will determine whether or not to cancel this evening's performance by the time the box office opens at 1pm today. To find out whether we're up or not, call 479-PLAY (7529) any time after 1pm.

Short Fringe - Tue Jan 16 8:00PM at Hyde Park Theatre, $12
The Short Fringe comprises five shows nightly, each up to 25 minutes

Anniversary Special by Bree Perlman.
All’s fair in love and war.

A Genuine Plea to My Insides by Kelli Bland.
A hypothetical dialogue between the writer/performer and her body.

Happy Town, Happy People by Don Fried.
The citizens of Hradec, a small village in formerly communist Eastern Europe, seem to be contented with their lot. But just how stable is their happiness?

Bliss by Steven Paul Laing.
A ten-minute play employing Brechtian alienation techniques along with theatre of cruelty tactics to assault bourgeois notions of happiness.

Riverview Ritz by Candyce Rusk.
For most of the 20th century, Chicago’s Riverside Park was a premiere cultural and entertainment destination for the masses. Next to the world’s largest amusement park, circa 1949, sits a ramshackle rooming house filled with Riverside’s underbelly: the employees. Tough, colorful and tinged with sorrow, this play looks in at the lives of LaFayette, target man for the African Dip dunking game, and Jacek, a Polish immigrant, as they navigate the rocky waters of a changing America. Riverview Ritz briefly exposes the lives of those charged with helping others to “laugh your troubles away."

Austinist is an official media sponsor of FronteraFest 2007

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