2023-2024 Season, Vortex Repertory, Austin
The VORTEX 2023-24 Season
Magic to Heal Broken Worlds
[Austin, TX] The VORTEX announces a new season of urgent, unashamed art for 2023-24. This year, our 36th season, we dive into Green New Theatre, embracing Environmental Justice through our theatrical art, activating our cultural harbor en español and ASL, and creating magic to heal broken worlds.
Green New Theatre Symposium
September 14-17, 2023
Centers environmental justice over four days of performances, panels, walks, and gardening. Inspired by Symposium (Ancient Greek)–a convivial party with music, dance, poetry, and conversation in a free interchange of ideas. Featuring Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens, Glass Half Full Theatre, Proyecto Teatro, and dozens more. Plus Vegan Brunch and Climate Change Theatre Action play readings. ASL-interpretation available for some performances.
Proyecto Teatro
Cabarét September 23-October 8, 2023
TBA January 12-28, 2024
TBA May 25-June 8, 2024
Proyecto Teatro celebrates their 20th Season as the 2023-24 Resident Ensemble Theatre @The VORTEX.
En español.
Salvador Dali’s Naked Feast
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Surreal Cocktail Costume Party Fundraiser
Live music, performance, interactive crafting, naked platters.
ASL-interpreted
Malum Malus
Samhain October 26-28, 2023 (ASL-interpreted October 27)
Beltane May 9-11, 2024
Lammas August 8-10, 2024
Occult Burlesque curated by Blaise Ricin.
Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale.
November 17-December 9, 2023
First play by a woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1920.
Produced by Different Stages Theatre
The Mutt-Cracker (SWEET!)
December 15-30, 2023
Circus Chickendog’s holiday dog and circus show.
World-class juggling and acrobatics.
ASL-interpreted December 20 and 23.
MLK Jr. Day Poetry Open Mic
Monday, January 15, 2024
Hosted by Ebony Stewart.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
AMAGING: age isn't just a number it's a story
February 8-11, 2024
A Workshop featuring World Famous *BOB*
OUTsider Fest
February 14-18, 2024
A Queer Transmedia Festival
Produced by OUTsider Fest
UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play
February 29-March 16, 2024
The Radium Girls’ Story.
ASL-interpreted March 7.
Produced by Trouble Puppet Theater Company
Garden Party
March 10, 2024
Annual Renewal of our urban Butterfly Sanctuary
ASL-interpreted.
The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body by Lisa B. Thompson
April 11-May 4, 2024
World premiere Choreopoem
Directed by Rudy Ramirez.
Dramaturgy by Virginia Grise.
Music by Guthrie P. Ramsey, lyrics by Lisa B. Thomspon.
Movement Direction by Sadé M. Jones
Featuring Nadine Mozon, Hayley Armstrong, and Sadé M. Jones.
A spiritual mixed tape, praise dance, community guide, self-help book, lullaby, road map, collective diary of prayers and lies, and love song for Black women and girls.
ASL-interpreted April 20.
Co-Commissioned through the National Performance Network (NPN) with Fusebox Festival, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and Pyramid Theatre.
False Starts, Falls, Fouls or The Art of Making Mistakes
May 16-19, 2024
Choreography by Toni Bravo.
ASL-interpreted May 16
Produced by Diverse Space Dance Theatre.
Queer Black Emancipation Open Mic
Hosted by Ebony Stewart.
Monday, June 17, 2024
Maebell’s Suitcase
June 14-29, 2024
A warm, funny adaptation of Tricia Tusa’s tale of the love between 108-year-old Maebell and her dear bird friend, Binkle. All ages.
Produced by Glass Half Full Theatre
Funny, Like an Abortion by Rachel Bublitz
July 6-20, 2023
ASL-interpreted July 13
Since abortions are illegal in the United States, Monroe throws herself a surprise abortion party. A Comedy of unfortunate choices.
NNPN Rolling World Premiere
Summer Youth Theatre
July 26-August 3, 2024
Directed by Sarah Hogestyn
Sunny Days by Reina Hardy
August 22-September 14, 2024
NNPN Rolling World Premiere
ASL-interpreted August 29.
Directed by Rudy Ramirez.
Puppet Design by Caroline Reck.
A play for people and puppets set in the broken worlds of war-torn Kosovo, the Texas migration crisis, and the climate-ravaged future. Everyday Activism. All-ages storytelling events.
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In Development
MotherTree
Conceived and Directed by Bonnie Cullum
Choreography by Toni Bravo
Syntax Error
Conceived and Directed by Heather Barfield
Another Kind of Silence by LM Feldman
NNPN Rolling World Premiere
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The VORTEX Mission:
We conjure urgent, unashamed art to create action in a shifting age. We embrace diverse communities, break down barriers, and elevate inclusive discourse from our cultural harbor in Austin, Texas. We enliven humanity with magical green new theatre at our Butterfly Bar and Sanctuary.
The VORTEX Core Values:
Our core values are encompassed by the Pentacle of Integrity–
Transformation, Magic, Community, Diversity, and Earth.
Integrity lives at our core.
We engage in radical transformation through edge-walking artistic creations and innovations.
Magic emanates from our cultural harbor, engaging Spirit.
Our space and our culture support expanding circles of inclusive community.
Our art reflects diversity of people and voices from the global majority.
Sustainability and environmentalism center Earth at our foundation.
The VORTEX is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Six Square Austin’s Black Cultural District, and ATX Theatre.
