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Jul.03-25, 2009
COMING SOON
R.U.R. Rossum’s
Universial Robots (Summer Youth)
Jul.31-Aug.08, 2009
CAFE NEWS & EVENTS
5pm Wed-Sun.
Expanded food menu, large beer selection, shady deck.
AUDITIONS
None Scheduled
BOX OFFICE
512-478-LAVA
LOCATION
2307 Manor Road
Austin, Texas 78722
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MISSION
- To create and present new, innovative performances
- To transgress conventional theatrical forms
- To cultivate new relationships between artists and audiences
- To generate new audiences through outreach to special constituencies
- To nurture diversity of VORTEX artists
- To foster educational programming
- To anchor The VORTEX, a dynamic and cherished home for the arts
of the 21st century
HISTORY
VORTEX Repertory Company was incorporated in 1988 to create innovative
productions of original work. Since 1990, VORTEX has operated in
various performance venues and today owns its own facility in East
Austin, providing an intimate venue for the VORTEX Repertory Company
as well as other local and national theatre companies, musicians,
dancers, and performance artists.
A pioneering leader in Austin's alternative theatre scene, the
VORTEX has successfully produced hundreds of original productions
since 1989. As a haven for alternative performance, The VORTEX enriches
and expands both spectators and artists. VORTEX creates and produces
vital, ground-breaking performances that generate thought and discourse
on the issues of our time.
Creating and presenting world premieres, cutting-edge, plays,
ritual theatre, and opera, VORTEX continues to expand its artistic
professionalism, arts education programming, and community outreach.
Awards
The VORTEX has received dozens of awards with hundreds of award
nominations for excellence... (View
Our Awards Listing)
The VORTEX Repertory Company Ensemble
With resident artistic director Bonnie Cullum leading
the way, our ensemble creates living works of art... (Learn
More About Our Ensemble Members )
Summer Youth Theatre
Since 1991 the VORTEX's educational programming has provided teenagers
tuition-free instruction in all aspects of creating
and performing theatre in a fully designed production... (Learn
More About Our Summer Youth Program)
Guest Performers
Over the years the VORTEX has become revered around the world
as a haven for alternative performance producing original cutting-edge
work by nationally-recognized guest artists including: Zen Miller
III, Heather Woodbury, Rob Nash, Karen Finley, Pomo Afro Homo,
Deborah Hay... (Learn
More About Our Guest Performers)
Outreach
We believe ourselves to be part of the larger community and reach
out to serve and connect to our world...(Read
More)
HIGHLIGHTS
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Premieres of Music Theatre/Opera
Troades
Vampyress*
Sleeping Beauty
Pythia Dust*
The Music of Erica Zann
Despair's Book of Dreams & the Sometimes Radio*
Beauty Vultures*
Lucifa
Faustus*
World Premieres of Collaborative Works
Trickster
Vampyress*
Wake for the Dark Poet*
Dark Goddess*
The Deluge*
Wisdom of the Crone
Kassandra
Metamorpheus
New Plays by Austin Playwrights
St. Enid and the Black Hand by Molly Rice*
My Child, My Child, My Alien Child by Zell Miller III*
Ring Rip Rent by Martha Lynn Coon
In Chains by Barry Pineo
Summer Youth Highlights
School for Scandal
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Conference of the Birds
Machinal*
Frogs*
Moby Dick*
Animal Farm
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities* |
Cybernetic Operas
Elytra*
Triskelion*
Panoptikon*
The Black Blood*
X&Y Trilogy*
Austin Premieres of New Works
A Thought in Three Parts*
4:48 Psychosis
Ghost From a Perfect Place*
Shopping and Fucking*
Fur*
The Pitchfork Disney
Temptation
Beirut
The Baltimore Waltz*
Steel Kiss*
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Jerker
Free Will and Wanton Lust
Vibrant Productions of Classics
Hamlet*
Coriolanus
Medea*
Twelfth Night*
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
King Lear*
Romeo & Juliet
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