Monroe finds herself knocked up, and since abortions are illegal in the United States, she throws a surprise abortion party with her best friend Jade. …

SUNNY DAYS begins in Kosovo, where two representatives from a beloved children’s television program pit the magic of puppetry against centuries of war. It moves to …

Thrive, Or What You Will, offers an epic voyage encompassing stories of self-discovery, love, botany, and Latin taxonomy through a feminist lens. Thrive blends the style and language …

A bilingual adaptation of a celebrated & beloved picture book for all ages. Maebelle and her friend, a migratory bird, teach one another how to …

Join us for a FREE staged reading of this new play by local playwright Rita Anderson, directed by Tobie Minor. Featuring: Eva McQuade, Adam Rodriguez, …

 The Violet Crown Players and Diverse Space Dance Youth Theatre present False Starts, Falls, Fouls, or The Art of Making Mistakes, a new dance piece exploring …

The VORTEX and Fusebox Present The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body World Premiere Choreopoem by Lisa B. Thompson April 12-May 4, 2024  In …

Bridging with Mother is a Nature Immersion - Conceptual Theatre Performance Based on the Music of Tyagaraja - with Performances in Classical/Contemporary Indian Dance Dance …

14/48 The World's Quickest Theatre Festival comes to Austin for its third year of wildly unexpected live performance!  The festival, which began in Seattle over fifteen years …

Connor Hopkins' original historical play Undark tells the story of America’s WWI-era “Radium Girls.” Trouble Puppet Theatre Company produces with the support of a Workshop …

Austin draglesque star World Famous *BOB* presents AMAGING! Age Is More Than Just A Number ~ It’s A Story, a theatrical storytelling show, at The …

En esta segunda edición "CABAREX 2: RevoLUZiones", el elenco navega los tiempos desde el virreinato hasta el siglo XX, desmenuzando épocas de castas sociales, luchas …

     The Mutt-Cracker (SWEET!) provides the most extraordinary original, holiday entertainment in Austin for the holidays at The VORTEX. A holiday, family-friendly, circus extravaganza featuring dogs! For …

After the collapse of the civilized world, people are struggling to survive. Technology has failed. Food is scarce. Rabbits have grown huge in size and …

In small town Wisconsin, we meet Lulu Bett, the 34-year-old unmarried sister of Mrs. Ina Deacon. Lulu is a servant in the family home, earning …

  The B. Iden Payne Awards Council invites the theatre-makers and theatre-goers of Austin to a convivial gathering as we announce and celebrate the nominees …

ProyectoTEATRO, en colaboración con The Vortex, Escándalo!, y un elenco fenomenal de artistas escénicos, los invitan a echarse un brinquito al pasado con mucho sentido …

At the Green New Theatre Symposium at The VORTEX, artists, scholars, students, and activists will join together to build networks of collaboration, exchange ideas, and …

Set in the broken worlds of war-torn Kosovo, the Texas migration crisis, and the climate-ravaged future. We look forward to a rolling world premiere of …

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 …

Courageous Cadence centers the utilization of spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice. Courageous Cadence is a six-week program in addition to a …

This sharp satire parodies the merry-go-round of governmental bureaucracy in communist Czechoslovakia yet remains relevant to our lives today. Václav Havel wrote The Memo in …

Different Stages continues its 2022-2023 season with The Art of Martyrdom (A Comedy) by Rita Anderson. Born 500 years before Shakespeare, the first female playwright of the …

A fundraiser featuring a one-evening performance showcasing the work of first-time puppetmakers in a Trouble Puppet Workshop in Building and Performance. Exploring elements of American …

“The eyes are not used for knowing God…therefore a veil is whatever keeping people from knowing God or experiencing His power and presence.”Bedside tells the …

 A musical comedy experience -- one woman, 9 hilarious characters.

Long, long ago, and far away, the Ovo ruled the magical Faery Realm of Ovona. We journey with Princess Mala as she rides Xéphyra the …

“Hey little black girl, feeling invisible and all so visceral. Staring up at the heavens, as vast as your potential. i see you. you’re seen”.  …

Experience the ride of your life as an unethical slut penetrates lies, STDs, triads, orgies, and love in her musical journey to becoming an Ethical …

The VORTEX proudly presents the premiere of Ride the Wave, a new multimedia performance telling the story of 3 bros searching for an epic surf …

  “Evil stretches for miles and miles on end.In Texas there is no escape when the fields run red–”   This October 30th, 2022, for …

   Join VORTEX family and friends in Austin to celebrate the excellence of the past three Covid-disrupted seasons with The VORTEX’s Fire and Brimstone Awards …

  Review by Joni Lorraine, Austin Broadway World, October 4, 2022 Review by Courtney Thomas, Sightlines magazine, October 3, 2022 Review by Bob Ableman, Austin …

From Rita Anderson: You are invited to the first Staged Reading of my award-winning play, FRANTIC IS THE CAROUSEL. (It won the National Partners of …

Agoraphobic video editor Annie finally meets Clara, the #influencer she’s been editing remotely for years. As their relationship blossoms, Clara seems to be the salvation …

Austin’s own Erotic Muse, Whore, and PhD sex educator, Charla Hathaway, takes it off for you in her one-woman show about sex work, Naked at …

The VORTEX, La Fenice, Crown Theatre, and Tooth & Claw present Austin for Ukraine, Round 2An evening of staged readings to benefit Ukraine For two …

The VORTEX Summer Youth Theatre presents Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, a dark American comedy by Anne Washburn. Mr. Burns unfolds the story of a group …

A choreopoem told with humor, dance, and music, Tales of a Blerd Ballerina centers the Blerd (Black Nerd) superhero delving into cultural pride and yearning …

When Ellie Dunn joins a house party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for …

Trouble Puppet Theater Co. announces UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play, telling the story of America’s WWI-era “Radium Girls”, produced with the support of a Workshop Grant …

Different Stages presents a reading of the first play by a woman to win the Pulitizer Prize -- Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale.   In small …

Peckin the Crown is what happens when you combine witchcraft, puppetry, psychedelic drugs and infuse it with imagery from the dark fairy tale Little Red …

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX for the next performance of Malum Malus, new burlesque performance …

 Ah, Thanksgiving, that most American of holidays: when families gather to bask in the bounty of the harvest, football, giant balloons — and a legacy …

***performed outiside & inside*** A ritual performance by Eva Margarita. Obituary is an invitation to grieve. This performance ventures to unveil the layers of loss that, …

When COVID 19 locked down the world in 2020, cancelling live performances, Chad Salvata retreated to his BlackSun Studio and created a response with the …

The VORTEX presents a new production of Rap Unzel by Jeremy Rashad Brown. This new “back-to-school” production about Black Boy Joy and Rap’s amazing hair …

Darrell Standing, prisoner in solitary confinement, spends days at a time bound up in a straitjacket by command of his sadistic warden. In order to …

Following the events that take place in Shakespeare's Macbeth, the character of Macduff has exiled himself, overcome with grief and bordering on madness. Once a …

Now in its 29th year, this award-winning, tuition-free program for young professionals will engage in workshops with theatre professionals in June and July to develop …

 A choreo-poem of stories told with humor, dance, and music, Tales of a Blerd Ballerina centers the Blerd (black nerd) experience, embracing diverse communities and …

Wildcraft is a one-person show, devised and conceptualized by Bottle Alley Theatre Company, and starring Miki Johnson. The play takes the form of an interactive …

Romeo Tran and Katrina "Trina" Batiste live on different sides of the Mississippi River. Romeo is a blue-collar Vietnamese American mechanic from Westbank New Orleans. …

With situations that feel ripped from the headlines, good friday renegotiates the intersection of gun violence and sexual assault. The one-act play takes place inside an …

Come join the TGQ Social community for opening night of the VORTEX's presentation of"The Hands That Feed You", created by San Francisco Bay Area-based transgender …

Spectrum Theatre Company proudly presents a special Black History Month program Scenes, monologues, and music featuring Judy Arnold and the Spectrum Singers, Mattie Robinson, Music …

Rob Nash’s 12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Part 5, This Time, It’s PersonalHis first new play in 9 years, Rob Nash revisits the first cast of …

One click, and the world changes. One click, and your life falls apart. One click, and you take back control. The VORTEX presents the Regional …

Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and ambitious young student, discovers the secret of creating life from the remains of the dead. But elation at his triumph …

Glass Half Full Theatre: Puppetry of Objects & Ideaspresents Show Us Your Titeres: New Latinx Puppetry featuring “Our Lady of the Sacred Part” by Marina DeYoe-Pedraza …

Part of the amazing FUTURX 2nd Annual Festival of new and avant-garde Latinx performance. Presented by Avante Theatre Project with The VORTEX.

Flagship show for Futurx Festival 2019, Más Cara by Krysta Gonzales is  a world premiere.   It stars Florinda Bryant, Martinique Duchene-Phillips, Michael Galvan, Olivia Jimenez, …

In an American dystopia, women suffer endless harassment, and right-wing politics wrench away women's control over their own bodies; in response, American women heed the …

Regulated is a play by Cressandra Thibodeaux, directed by Bonnie Cullum. The play involves the plight of women in Texas in the year 2025 when …

Ethos, in association with The VORTEX, is proud to present the return of :Humpty, a twisted nursery rhyme pantomime and winner of the 2012 B. Iden …

Meet one of the many Syrian female fighters that sacrificed everything for liberty.

  From the award-winning writer of Single Black Female, Underground, and Monroe comes a new play about the exhilaration and exhaustion that comes from being a black single mother …

This tale of the Donner Party is rife with the privilege, entitlement, and hubris that leads to nation building, and sometimes cannibalism. “Remember, never take …

Alice’s Wonderland by Ingrid Oslund presents a musical re-telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. With opportunities for singing and dancing, this dark adaptation travels from Dinah’s …

GREAT AMERICAN DREAMERS consists of two plays, LULU’S CHARMS IN THE DARK and RIVERVIEW RITZ. Set decades apart in the same employee boarding house located …

The play is an historical drama that portrays the lives of a group of strong, independent women living in the all-black town of Nicodemus, Kansas, …

The VORTEX and  The Generic Ensemble Company  present black girl love:  an adaptation project By Al(aina) L. Monts adapted from the book black girl love by …

A visceral text and movement conjuring of Latina archetypes and the women who embody them – past, present, and future.Más Cara will be the flagship …

  Set in Pittsburgh, Chickens in the Yard explores three days in the life of a family as they grow, stumble, and fall into their future. The …

With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you …

In La Botana's debut comedy show at The Butterfly Bar @ The Vortex, the party hosts, Lilli Lopez and Ben Bazán, and their guests celebrate …

The VORTEX presents the World Premiere of Last: An Extinction Comedy Devised by the Ensemble Directed by Rudy Ramirez The VORTEX proudly presents the world premiere …

This show isn't like anything you've seen before.   Rachel Martin and Suze Kemper, AKA Hard Women create and perform Dog Magic: Woman’s Best Friend, an original new work exploring the profound …

  The VORTEX is proud to present the Austin debut of international touring poet and published author, Jason Bayani with his critically-acclaimed Locus of Control, a compelling mix of …

Click to view feature by Beth Sullivan in the Austin Chronicle, February 14, 2019

  The dance-poetry of two black, out-lesbian women in a committed relationship.  Brooklyn-based artists return to The VORTEX after their stand-out performance at last year’s …

SPECTRUM THEATRE COMPANY, Austin’s only African-American theatre company, will present a special Black History Month program, “Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of African-American Literature.” This …

The VORTEX presents the  National New Play Network  Rolling World Premiere of Heartland A new play by Gabriel Jason Dean Directed by Rudy Ramirez  Dr. …

After her beloved doll Trudy breaks in an unfortunate accident involving Squirrel the dog, Clara lashes out at her friends. With some holiday magic and …

Different Stages opens its 2018 – 2019 season with Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, adapted by Barbara Field. Dickens’ classic work centers around the adventures of Pip, the orphaned …

From Pulitzer Prize finalist, Dael Orlandersmith comes an extraordinary theatrical event that explores the reactions of the St. Louis region to the shooting of Michael …

Killingsworth examines the complicated dynamics of an African-American family living in a small Texas town in the 1970s. Although the family has prospered because of …

How do you discover yourself when searching can result in imprisonment or death? Mawlana, a Monodrama by Fares al Zahaby Music by Bernard Legros Directed/Performed by …

Color Arc Productions presents its first Work-In-Progress Concert Reading of ROMEO & KATRINA, a new American musical set during New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina. …

Spectrum Theatre Company, Austin’s only African-American theatre company, will present the Austin premiere of a reading of two short plays, Shadow Boxer, by Glenn Towery, …

Ethos teams up with The VORTEX to re-create its magnificent and inventive Puppet Opera, Atlantis, which made its world premiere at The VORTEX in 2016. …

With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you …

 She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, a dramatic comedy that debuted Off-Off Broadway in 2011, has received national attention as a warm and moving play about …

 There's a party at the end of the universe, and all you need to get in is a kiss... Claire Leverrier, a poet haunted by …

A dark comedy for adult audiences featuring puppetry of objects, physical theatre, and trash art: Just around a bend in spacetime, the Earth’s oceans overflow with …

Some cats will do anything to catch the perfect wave. In a sleepy beach community on the eastern seaboard, a gang of unruly teens is …

30 Years of Truth and Thunder at The VORTEX continues with the urgent, unashamed art of Madison Young for 4 nights only, February 22-25, 2018. The VORTEX presents this new, …

  I’m Very Into You is a stage adaptation of the published email correspondence between legendary feminist punk author Kathy Acker and Australian media theorist …

    The way to make a person make a decision is to convince everyone around that person / Maybe that's what I'm doing / …

An actress walks into an empty theatre and picks up a script-- a script full of survivors and ghosts, women and men who have witnessed …

  Playwright/Performer, Rob Nash in conjunction with Tony Award Nominated Director, Jeff Calhoun present Holy Cross Sucks!, a comic journey through those unforgettable years of high school, …

    Different Stages opens its 2017 - 2018 season with Carson McCullers' beautiful adaptation of her novella The Member of the Wedding.  It's 1945 in …

 INTERACTIONARAMA: Viewer Discretion Advised by Linda Mary Montano and Austin-based artists will explore the theme of death.

P3M5 Plays is a series of five-minute plays about privacy in the digital age. The project will be curated by Dr. Heather Barfield, and the Goethe-Institut …

MAD & A GOAT is a two-woman show about one woman who, to free herself from college debt, joins a Wyoming goat farm she inherits …

Salvage Vanguard Theater Announces Three Headed Festival three weekends, three solo performances, three curators Curated by co-producing artistic directors Florinda Bryant, Jenny Larson, and Diana Lynn …

"somewhere in an archive, i am burning soft and youngi am pages of testimonies, receipts, report cardscase numbers making up the limbs i lack on …

For Halloween 2017, Ethos and The VORTEX proudly announce a new production of Vampyress. This Gothic opera is a tale of horror, mysticism, blood, and magic, …

  The VORTEX proudly presents the world premiere of Gabrielle Reisman’s Storm Still this September outside on our outdoor stage. Three daughters gather in the backyard at …

“Mother. Ocean. Home”.   Ebony Stewart returns to The VORTEX with the world premiere of her new play, Ocean, August 25-September 4, 2017. Weaving her evocative …

TwentyEight is a play based on the Malcolm X Grass Root report Operation Ghetto Storm that states in 2012 a black person was murdered by a …

Written during the rise of fascism in Europe, Lewis’ darkly satirical It Can’t Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes President of the United …

   ‘Sir’, the last of the great but dying breed of English actor managers, is struggling to keep a grip on his sanity and complete …

SCHEHERAZADE center​s collaborators of Middle Eastern descent​, ​​us​ing the​ Arabian Nights​ stories​ as a basis for exploring Islamophobia, terrorism, detention, and the "Muslim Ban​."​​​​​ ​I​n an …

The VORTEX presents The Island of Dr. Moreau: A Fever Dream Steeped in Blood   Adapted, Directed, and Performed by Charles P. Stites   A mysterious man known only …

Brothers and sisters and siblings of all genders, one queer Latino city boy from central Texas has seen the Promised Land, and it only took …

Cast off your self-loathing and celebrate the wonderful being you are! Welcome to the No More Diets Club!  Founded by former failed dieter, Marianne McGonigle, …

Choreography by Toni Bravo

In a small cannery town ruled by The Founder and The God, Jobey and Katherine were lovers. Jobey went away to sea many years ago, …

The VORTEX proudly presents the world premiere of Lisa B. Thompson’s new drama Underground for 3 weeks only, March 24-April 8, 2017.Underground reunites Kyle and …

Electronic Planet Ensemble  Presents its 20th Anniversary Production Robot Daddy   —I’m a robot, dreaming that he is a man, imagining that he is a robot. …

'She understands who you are, who you could be. A companion that is there for you- You deserve the best.'      The VORTEX presents …

Set to the music of Kanye West, TWENTYEIGHT is the story of six Black people separated from their homes in search of outer space. As …

The VORTEX proudly presents four nights of Hunger, the award-winning one-woman production written and performed by Ebony Stewart and directed by Zell Miller III. Stewart won …

Woody: a New Fairy Tale is written by Nolan Doran and John Carden, and is directed by Andrew Hatcher with music direction by David Blackburn. …

Glass Half Full Theatre is in the midst of our reimagining of Don Quixote, set in the crumbling future borderland between Mexico and Texas.  This …

Different Stages opens its 2016-2017 season with Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 is a gripping tale at once disturbing and poetic about a firefighter, Guy …

Phenomena of apocalyptic proportions are tearing the world apart, and only one couple can stop it: 2nd overall draft pick for the Cleveland Steamers, Chad …

On October 24, 1936, theatres across the United States simultaneously staged the original play based on Sinclair Lewis’ novel. Now 80 years later, spearheaded by …

On the eve of one of the most important elections in history, The VORTEX presents a world premiere of Ballot Eats the Bullet written and directed by …

14/48 The Worlds Quickest Theatre Festival comes to Austin for its third year of wildly unexpected live performance!  The festival, which began in Seattle over fifteen years …

Join us for an open reading of this new work by playwright Christine Hoang and Color Arc Productions inspired by songs by award-winning singer/songwriter BettySoo. …

Theatre en Bloc is proud to present the regional premiere of The Drowning Girls, a modern interpretation and poetic retelling of the “Brides in the …

Silent Navajo is a multigenerational tale about a Navajo woman who loses her hearing and embarks on a spiritual journey to get it back. As …

The VORTEX is buzzing with excitement about Atlantis, Ethos’ world premiere Puppet Opera. Ethos Artistic Director Chad Salvata creates a mythic world of powerful warring religious zealots who …

    We're thrilled and honored to announce that Gabriela Pedraza will be playing the title role of Salomé. Gabriela is an actress, dancer, choreographer, and theatre …

For the 25th anniversary of The VORTEX’s Summer Youth Theatre, we are presenting the 20th-century classic, The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux. First performed in 1945, this …

Different Stages closes its 2015-2016 season with Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman.  It is the all too timely tale of a man who was once wealthy, powerful …

  The VORTEX Saturday Reading Series is proud to present UNDERGROUNDby Lisa B. ThompsonStarring Zell Miller III and Marc PouheDirected by Rudy Ramirez Kyle and …

What would you do if you had to choose between privacy and security? Who holds the master key to open the back door to your …

Staged reading of ROSETTA, a musical at the Vortex 2nd Saturday reading series. New script, new music. Lovingly based on the life of Rosetta Tharpe, …

Taking Shakespeare to new heights, Renaissance Austin Theatre in a unique collaboration with Sky Candy Aerial and Circus Arts Collective, presents a magical, fantastical journey …

Phenomena of apocalyptic proportions are tearing the world apart, and only one couple can stop it: 2nd overall draft pick for the Cleveland Steamers, Chad …

EXIT is a play by Debbie Gerstein and Heather Rossabout believing that things can be different.  It shares our stories of verbal, emotional, psychological, physical or …

Join us for a developmental reading of Crave Blue, a new MouthRadio play.The wrecked desert town of Jewel, Texas boasts a rare miracle—water. Presiding over …

Erica meets Vicki. Vicki marries Erica. Lives collide. Rewind. Pause. Fast forward.  Following on the heels of last year's award-winning COCK (BEST DRAMA, BEST DIRECTOR …

The VORTEX presents the world premiere musical Persephone by Mick D’arcy and Tyler Mabry. Opening Easter weekend at The VORTEX, this romantic comedy, directed by …

Set to the music of Kanye West, TwentyEight is the story of six Black people separated from their homes in search of outer space. As …

Star Party -- An emersion of live music, video, and dada epiphanies   Electronic Planet Ensemble presents Star Party, a new multi-media show inspired by Carl Sagan …

Zell Miller III is back with a new play, Oh Snap, My Alien Children are Trying to Kill Me. The finale of the trilogy that began …

Join us for the reading of a new work by Debbie Gerstein and Heather Ross made from the stories of those survivibg abuse in all its forms. …

The Mikado: Reclaimed  flips the Gilbert and Sullivan classic on its head, presenting an (almost) all-Asian American cast performing a devised theatre piece with select …

The VORTEX presents the world premiere of Terminus by Gabriel Jason Dean, directed by Rudy Ramirez. An intimate family drama haunted by the traumas of race and …

For a decade now, Mick D'arcy has been working on his script of a musical retelling of the Persephone myth, and it's finally nearing completion! Mick …

This new adaptation by Steven Dietz restores the suspense and seduction of Bram Stoker's classic novel to the stage. As Count Dracula begins to exert …

Be among the first to experience this brand new adaptation of a Shakespearean classic, adapted by Lorella Loftus with aerial acts directed by Andy Agne. …

Once again it's On! The return of the Hip-Hop Theatre Explosion for 3 nights only--on stage at The VORTEX. Curated and hosted by award-winning artist …

MERICA is a solo comedy cabaret that traverses the history of US pop culture one sitcom at a time. Featuring: Miss Piggy, Katharine Hepburn, Elmo, Pocahontas, …

14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival Nearly 50 Austin actors, playwrights, directors, designers and musicians will make 14 world-premiere plays in 48 hours as part …

In anticipation of our West Texas Tour and hot on the heels of FIVE!!! B. Iden Payne Award Nominations, we are delighted to reprise this …

Hands Up Hoodies Down is a protest song sung in the key of high octane spoken word stanzas exploding through tears and heartache; it's the …

 For years, Eller Freeman has raised her grandson, Jaybo, in the same ramshackle house by the railroad tracks where she grew up. Their love has …

Spoken-word artist Ebony Stewart examines Hunger in her new one-woman show, premiering for two weeks only at The VORTEX. With a decade of experience in spoken word, …

A marvel of art and technology, Mollybot is an almost perfect and affordable soulmate. When her creator goes off in search of the last missing …

What happens when hypocrisy is rewarded and lies become the language of power? When fallacy is the status quo and history keeps repeating itself, how …

Different Stages opens its 2014-2015 season with When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell. The story takes place between two worlds, between a prediction in 1959 and …

Voyager I and the Golden Record is a new multi-media project by Electronic Planet Ensemble.  NASA launched the Voyager I space probe on September 5, 1977 to …

 La Fenice, Austin's long running Commedia dell'Arte troupe, proudly returns to the Butterfly Bar in May and June to present their latest scenario The Lure …

Breda smears her lipstick, Clara waits for tea and cake, and Ada cans fish in the local cannery. Three sisters trapped in time endlessly relive …

WHORE, WITCH, OR SAINT? Whatever their source, Joan of Arc’s powers are undeniable. After Henry V’s death, one teenage girl leads the armies of France …

In a world where a handful of rich men control the government, where women fight to control their bodies, where immigrants escaping war and poverty …

In an attempt to escape the violence of their lives, a barren dairy cow and an ex-stripper set out across America with nothing but an …

Kill the Messenger combines elements of King Lear with The Game of Thrones. King Pantalone has decided to settle any potential squabbles over his throne …

A protest song sung in the key of high octane spoken word stanzas exploding through tears and heartache; it's the balled fist full of possibilities; …

The adventurous crew takes the audience on a journey through the galaxy aboard the Spaceship Pythia Dust. On their travels they encounter diverse planets and …

"When the light is on the river, and the moon is all a-sliver, and your marrow's all a-shiver, you're not alone." CHANGELINGS by Reina Hardy …

Based on the 1961 novella by Muriel Sparks, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the story of an uncommonly progressive schoolteacher at an uncommonly …

What makes a great tragedy? High hopes? Hard luck? Harrowing, inevitable fate? Gale Theatre Co. set out to explore the secrets of tragedy and, along …

Ask a question. Roll the dice. The answer may arrive in the form of a song, a shift, a letter from the otherworlds, or some …

Linda Mary Montano makes her triumphant return to Austin as Mother Teresa for three nights of endurance performance at The VORTEX. Wednesday-Friday, October 5-7 from …

Enter into the open expanse of the Temple of Spirit and immerse yourself in the paradox of Center and Circumference. SPIRIT transcends the body and …

On August 9, 1974 President Richard M. Nixon ceremoniously left the White House after he resigned the highest office in the country. Only in Austin, …

The VORTEX’s Summer Youth Theatre presents a contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. The timely environmental statement in An Enemy of the People focuses on …

King Pantalone of Westeros has decided to settle future squabbles for his throne by dividing his kingdom among his three legitimate daughters, but first, they …

Different Stages closes its 2013-2014 season with Pygmalion, Shaw's most popular modern masterpiece, perhaps best known as the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady. …

Cuchulain (pronounced Kuh-HOO-lin) is the bravest and fiercest of warriors and the Champion of King Connor of Ulster. In this cycle of stories, Cuchulain seeks …

RoBoVoX is a new multi-media project by Electronic Planet Ensemble with electronic sounds and experimental video created through collaborative improvisation and synergistic Dada epiphanies. Featuring alien …

In this performance, Diverse Space Dance Theatre explores the dream world of archetypes and stereotypes, and the eventualities of living with a promise.It includes the …

For Fear the Glass May Shatter explores the science and struggle around Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose personal crisis led him to Carl Jung as …

What’s Goin’ On? is a an ensemble-based, original performance based on Bertolt Brecht’s classic play, The Good Person of Szechwan, exploring binary notions of Good/Evil, Male/Female, Wealth/Poverty, …

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Vortex summer youth program