It's our tenth anniversary, and FronteraFest is now the oldest and largest theatre festival in the Southwest! Whether it's the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro or Bring Your Own Venue -- FronteraFest is 5 weeks of new, alternative, offbeat, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre.
Featuring over 800 performers from all over Austin, the State of Texas, and the United States, and encompassing almost 100 original works -- FronteraFest is viewed annually by over 6,000 audience members and is growing in attendance every year! Presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works, the festival runs in multiple venues around town for 5 weeks from January 14th through February 15th.
Join the party and help us celebrate over 10 years of original, thought--provoking, and completely unexpected performance!
The schedule is extensive and varied. Call or visit the website for details. For reservations, call 479-PLAY. For a complete listing of performers, show times and locations, visit Hyde Park Theatre at www.hydeparktheatre.org>.
About Hyde Park Theatre
Hyde Park Theatre develops writers, designers, directors,
and actors from within the Austin community, while at the same time
producing works by exciting new and established voices of the alternative
theatre scene. We work with a broad and diverse base of local artists to
produce theater that confronts, challenges, and entertains. We have a
strong commitment to paying local writers, actors, and designers a decent
wage for their work, and to expanding the base of working artists in
Austin. We hope to diversify and expand the audience for theater in
Austin, making theater accessible
and essential across lines of income, class, race, gender, and sexual preference.
Our goals include:
- Producing Southwest and world premieres of the best of the world's new alternative theatre, as well as those classic works of alternative theater that still have the power to challenge modern audiences.
- To add to the canon of American theatre by creating, developing, and producing new plays by local and national writers.
Both a playwright--driven service organization and a theatrical producing company, Austin Script Works was founded to:
- Create a home for dramatic writers that stimulates imagination.
- Develop new dramatic works to their fullest potential and feed them into the local and national markets.
- Produce and encourage the production of new work that lends dignity to the playwright's vision Network and enhance the visibility of the diverse community of playwrights in the Central Texas area.
Funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission.
A white gardenia
sweetens her cottage
night of exhibitionist moon
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