season 32 | 2019-20
My Body, My Voice, My Vote
Burlesque
October 3-5, 2019 | Mistress of Musicality & VORTEX
Dionysus in America
October 11-20, 2019 | Canopy Theatre
By Jenny Pacanowsky, Directed by Karen Alvarado
American Dionysian Rites in the age of TSA checkpoints.
AVA Fest
October 18-20, 2019
Austin Veteran Arts Festival: city-wide celebration unifying veterans and their communities. Featuring Dionysus in America.
Salvador Dali’s Naked Feast: VORTEX Annual Fundraising Extravaganza
Saturday, October 26, 2019 (Adults only, please.)
Regulated More Than a Gun: VORTEX Reading Series
Sunday, November 3, 2019 | Lighthouses August 11 and September 29
Created by Cressandra Thibodeaux, Directed by Bonnie Cullum
A new play empowering women through personal stories and songs of Reproductive Justice. #YouKnowMe
Más Cara
November 1-16, 2019 | Avante Theatre Project & The VORTEX
By Krysta Gonzales, Directed by Rudy Ramirez
A new play exploring the complexities and contradictions of Latina womanhood through Goddesses who interweave the archetypes to create a vision for our daughters and all the women who come after.
FuturX Festival
November 6-10, 2019 | Avante Theatre Project & The VORTEX
2nd Annual Festival of new and avant-garde Latinx performance exploring intersections of Latinx identity in the 21st century. Featuring Más Cara.
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
November 22-December 14, 2019 | Different Stages
Adapted by Patrick Stanford, Directed by Norman Blumensaadt
What is humanity? Classic story of a young scientist and his unorthodox experiment. Every word in Patrick Sandford's vigorous adaptation is lifted directly from Mary Shelley's classic Gothic novel.
The Muttcracker (SWEET!)
December 19-January 5, 2020 | Circus Chickendog & The VORTEX
By Melissa Vogt, Darren Petersen, and Tyler Mabry, Directed by Melissa Vogt
9th Annual Holiday Family Fun Circus with talented rescue canines, world-class juggling, live music, and a talking macaw.
Click
January 17- February 8, 2020
By Jacqueline Goldfinger, Directed by Rudy Ramirez
One click can change your life. This fast, bright, darkly humorous play follows a group of college students involved in a frat rape that goes viral. It's a unique theatrical thriller that explores questions of consent, technology and identity. #metoo
MLK Day Poetry
Monday, January 20, 2020
The Hands That Feed You
February 13-15, 2020 | VORTEX Guest Artist
Written and Performed by Annie Danger
San Francisco-based, transgender artist Annie Danger reframes our current pivot point into energy and action.
OUTsider Fest
February 19-23, 2020
6th Annual festival celebrating the bold originality and creative nonconformity of the LGBTQ+ communities through provocative multi-disciplinary arts.
good friday
February 28-March 7, 2020 | New Manifest Theatre Company & The VORTEX
By Kristiana Rae Colón, Directed by Simone Alexander
#metoo feminism intersects with gun violence and sexual assault. Mature Audiences only.
Selfie!
POSTPONED | Ethos World Premiere & The VORTEX
By Rembert Block, Directed by Bonnie Cullum, Featuring Rembert and the Basic Goodness
A musical exploration of the Selfie on the edge. What do we find when we unwind the moments leading to a potential Selfie-cide...and can we reverse course before it’s too late? #metoo
Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven
POSTPONED | The VORTEX
By Reina Hardy, Directed by Rudy Ramirez
Inappropriate
POSTPONED | GenEnCo & The VORTEX
Written and performed by kt shorb, Directed by Katherine Wilkinson
Game on, Game off, Game over...
NOW VIRTUAL May 14-16, 2020 | Diverse Space Dance Theatre & The VORTEX
Choreography by Toni Bravo
Bite Me!
POSTPONED | CB Goodman Productions
Created by Aitor Basauri, Hilary Chaplain, CB Goodman
American Blood Song
POSTPONED | Trouble Puppet and Mother Falcon
An Original Puppet Operetta
Mr. Burns: a post electric play
POSTPONED | VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre
By Anne Washburn, Directed by Jennifer Jennings
Romeo and Katrina
POSTPONED | Color Arc Productions Workshop & VORTEX
A new musical by Christine Hoang and Tyler Mabry | Directed by Rudy Ramirez