Adam Webster, a down-on-his- luck writer, in desperation to make the rent, has put a sign in his apartment window, “Psychic Readings $25”. The characters it draws in lead into a tangled murder mystery of sorts in this hilarious original comedy.  “The play’s clever, Pirandello-esque twists make for a pleasant divertissement… satisfyingly unpredictable” – LA Times.

Winner - 2011 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Awards - Best Play

Cast:

Directed by Kathleen Lovejoy

830-249-9166

Las Casas 2013 Performing Arts Scholarship Competition

Talented high school seniors will “give it their all” in an acting, singing and dancing competition performance. The Las Casas Scholarship Competition, now in its fifth year, is helping talented college-bound students move toward their dreams of careers in theatre and musical theatre by giving out thousands of dollars. Since 2009, Las Casas has awarded over $300,000 in scholarship money. All 2013 finalists will win some portion of the awarded $75,000 to be determined by a national panel of prestigious judges from theatre, TV and film and this year to include Joe Sears from the “Tuna Trilogy”. The emcee for the evening will be WOAI news anchor Randy Beamer. An additional $5,000 will be given to an overall winner and last year’s winner received a total of $10,000 used at his college of choice. 

Tickets go on sale Friday, April 5 and can be purchased at the Majestic Box Office, Ticketmaster online or by calling 800-745-3000 or at the Empire door the evening of the performance. For more information contact Lynn at 210-223-4343

Frank, Dean and Sammy are up in heaven, but God tells them they left some unfinished business back on earth. It seems Frank made an unfulfilled promise to Vic, the owner of the Rat Pack Lounge. Now he and the boys have one night to make things right.

No need for look-alikes or impersonators. Just a cast who can charm your audience with hits like “My Way,” “What Kind of Fool Am I?” and “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.” "It's a Wonderful Life" meets "Ocean's Eleven!" With over 30 hit songs, THE RAT PACK LOUNGE will leave you singing and savoring the days of highballs and high rollers.

"A delight from start to finish! " Boca Raton News

"A ring-a-ding-ding evening's romp that is both swinging and heartfelt" Palm Beach Post

"Heaven Help Us is a great musical for those fans who still are in love with the Rat Pack." Talkin' Broadway

Cast:

BRENT BEL-Frank Sinatra/William

DANIEL MITCHEL-Dean Martin/Jeorge

DEE BRANTS-Sammy Davis, Jr/Bobby

RYAN MURPHY-Vic Candalino

EMILY MOORE-Angie Dickinson/Katherine Kerr

The Live Band

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SpareWorks.dance responds to the installation The Human Face and Form with a medley of stories and images. Choreographer Amber Ortega-Perez and fellow dancers mine the poses and gestures of McNay sculptures and celebrate the human form through modern dance.

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Cast:

Please call (830) 438-2339 for reservations

Cast:

Ike Amador
Esmeralda Hernandez
Victoria Villasenor
Kristina Watikins
Jorge Espinoza 
Omar Hilario
Marlowe Romero
James Dold
Siouxi Silva Veracruz
Zana Ivy Perez
Adrianna Ayala
Madeline Ramos

Joel Settles

210-212-8666

Vaudeville and Commedia Dell' Arte are seamlessly woven into an uproarious fable of scheming lovers, mistaken identities, and clownish greedy servants.  Balancing on a delicately taut tightrope of mischief and revenge, the crafty servant Scapin promises to help two pairs of wide-eyed lovers while juggling an array of elaborate disguises to keep their wealthy fathers from discovering the truth. Remaining true to Moliere's classic farcical tale from the seventeenth century, this fresh and side-splitting adaptation adds a late twentieth century spin to the language and hilarious non-stop action. This production features some of San Antonio's most talented actors including recent Juliard School of Drama graduate Brendan Spieth in the titular role. 

Cast:

Geronte - John O'Neill
Leander - Rusty Thurman
Scapin - Brendan Spieth*
Zerbinette - Julya Jara
Argante - Wade Young
Octave - Tyler Keyes
Sylvestre - Dru Barcus
Hyacinth - Christie Beckham
Nerine - Allie Perez
George (pianist) - Darren Newhardt
Guard/Messenger - Sam Weiner
Interns (multiple roles) - Ray, Renelle and Jalyssa

* - The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

$25 for General Admission; $20 for Seniors (+65), SATCO, ATAC, MIL w/ID; $10 for Full time students with ID.  For group rates please call 210-589-8450. For tickets call 1-800-838-3006  (There is no charge for using our ticket service!!) 

Come meet our Newest Addition!

We NOW have an Adult Professional Acting Troupe at the LOV! Enjoy A VERY Family Friendly and Comical adaptation of this Classic Tale!

Our production is created to inspire a love of theatre to those who have never seen a Play, as well as thrill those who have loved theatre their whole life. Join Us!

Please join us for this Fabulous Production! This well loved classic fairy tale is set in the forest where the father is out of work due to the recession and the children are taken to where some rich people will find them, deep in the forest they meet a witch who lives in a candy house with her talking cat, Tiberius.

You will want to see this more than once! This and ALL LOV productions are, and will always be, appropriate for your ENTIRE FAMILY, so BRING EVERYONE and we'll see you there!

Cast:

Hansel - Rodman Bolek
Gretel - Tamara Brem
Harry Hoffberger/Tiberius - Robert Gonzalez
Stepmother/Witch - Diane Diego

William Inge's beautiful story of love, regret, and the courage to pursue one's dreams in 1950's small-town America.

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Shakespeare in the Park and The Magik Theatre Present

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

at the San Antonio Botanical Garden – 555 Funston

May 29 – June 1

Gates open at 6:30 p.m.  |  Show begins at 8 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION.

No outside food or drink - food, beer and wine will be for sale at the event.

Bring blankets or lawn-chairs for outdoor seating.

About the show

The lines between dreaming and waking are deliciously blurred in Shakespeare’s comic tale of love and magic!

More about the event

Shakespeare in the Park is  an annual event by The Magik Theatre that brings free, full-scale productions of Shakespeare’s work to our community. Hosted by the San Antonio Botanical Garden, Shakespeare in the Park brings San Antonians of all ages together in the balmy summer twilight to experience the joys, sorrows, trials, and triumphs of Shakespeare’s characters and stories.

Since 2005, Shakespeare in the Park has played to over 50,000 people, with vibrant, exciting productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and Othello.  The festival has also provided employment for more than 50 local artists and technicians.

For more information visit magiktheatre.org/events or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a young actress who's too kooky by half; finally comes Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney's best friend.

Cast:

Barney Cashman - Martin Vidal
Elaine Navazio - Sanseria Murray
Bobbi Michele - Loretta De La Torre
Janette Fisher - Lisa Valle

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An innovative, fearless, hard rock look at teenage sexual awakening in the spring of their lives, and the disastrous consequences brought about by the ultra-conservative, repressive society in which they live.  Set in 1891 Germany, Spring Awakening is as current as Roe v. Wade and as American as apple pie. 

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Fiesta, Fête, Festival moves from San Antonio to Seville, Venice, Versailles, St. Petersburg, and other cities to celebrate some of the world’s great festivals. Scene and costume designs from the Tobin Collection reveal that San Antonio’s own Fiesta—from NIOSA and Charreada to the Coronation of the Queen of the Order of the Alamo and Cornyation—belongs to a rich tradition of popular and court celebrations.

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210.824.5368

Directed by: Jim Mammarella

An otherworldly musical satirization of sci-fi, b-grade movies set to the sounds of rock-n-roll, doo-wop, and mo-town.Seymour, a down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon “Audrey II” grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite.  In the Vex version, Audrey II comes alive as a seductive woman.

 “a gleeful 1960’s- pastiche score” - New York Times

Cast:

Byrd Bonner
Sara Brookes
Morgan Clyde
Amanda Golden
Sarah Hamilton
Belinda Harolds
Brandi Hollsten
Scott Leibowitz
Vicky Liendo
Leilani Long
Allison Newsom
Meghan Ollivant
Ben Scharff
Taryn Toth
Steven Valdez
Robby Vance
Carrie Winebrenner

FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY THE MUSICAL, based on the beloved New York Times Best Selling book by celebrated Julianne Moore, teaches us all to learn to love the skin we're in. Freckleface Strawberry will do anything to get rid of her freckles - from scrubbing them with soap, to covering them up with makeup and even wearing a ski mask to school! Will her schoolmates realize it's her under her the mask? Freckleface learns that everyone is different - and that's what makes everyone special.

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It’s 2013 and the biggest superhero/super villain battle of all time is taking place out on the streets. But inside the warehouse on the corner of 18^th and Figueroa Brian sits alone, watching the captured superhero Captain Courage as he is tied unconscious in the corner. Brian is a henchman left behind on guard duty and all he has to do is sit in the warehouse and not let anything bad happen….

As the second part of its CHRONICLES OF NERDOLOGY, The Overtime is proud to present Rob Barron’s HENCHMEN.  Directed by the award winning Michael D. Burger HENCHMEN promises entertainment for everybody who loves – or hates – superhero stories. 

Cast:

Brian- Robert Jerdee
Fear Girl – Suzanne DeMarkova
Alex – Justin Bankston
Darby – Ashley Hamilton
Captain Courage (and a bunch of others) – Joshua Torres
The Lizard King (and a bunch of others) – B.K. McKee

Director – Michael D. Burger

Stage manager – Kori Hamm
Set - Chris Champlin  
Costumes- Susy Acosta

210-557-7562; info@theovertimetheater.org

In the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights.

Cast:

Featuring the band Bombasta!

Grab your boots and spurs and head on down to the Carmack Performing Arts Complex for a six gun salute to Country music. With everything from Honky Tonk to main stream C & W, this show celebrates Country classics of yesteryear combined with hot, contemporary Country hits! Bring the whole family to dance on stage to the “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”, sing along to songs from the Grand Ole Opry, and hoop and holler having a good old Texas time.

210-655-CPAC (2722)

A tribute from Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, The Fox On the Fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with… golf. 

Cast:

Directed by Keisha McFerrin

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Set sail on the high seas with the original pirate story about a boy, Jamie Hawkins, who is taken by a band of pirates in search of lost treasure. When Jamie learns of the pirate plans for mutiny, he discovers he must pick a side, forcing him to grow up and do the right thing. Climb aboard and experience the tale that became the model for all of the pirate films that followed.

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ALL SHOOK UP is a burnin' musical comedy that tells the story of a small town girl who dreams of hitting the open road, and the mysterious guitar-playing stranger who brings romance, rebellion an rock'n roll into her life.

Featuring such classics as "Heartbreak Hotel™", "Burning Love™," "Love Me Tender, "Can't Help Falling in Love™," "Jailhouse Rock," "Blue Suede Shoes™," "A Little Less Conversation," "Hound Dog™," "Don't Be Cruel™," and of course the title song, ALL SHOOK UP is shaking up Cameo Theatre this summer!

The irresistible story is written by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change), with direction by Tony Award® nominee Christopher Ashley (The Rocky Horror Show). Music direction and arrangements are by Stephen Oremus (Wicked, Avenue Q), orchestrations are by two-time Tony nominee Michael Gibson (Cabaret, The Boy From Oz), and choreography is by Ken Roberson of the Tony Award®-winning production of Avenue

Cast:

NATALIE HALLER (Early 20's): a mechanic.
CHAD: a great-lookin', motorcycling, guitar-playing, leather-jacketed roustabout.
JIM HALLER (mid 40's-50's): Natalie's widowed father.
SYLVIA (mid 40's): the no-nonsense, African-American owner of SYLVIA'S HONKY-TONK.
LORRAINE: Sylvia's 16 year-old daughter.
DENNIS: a young, awkward, aspiring dentist.
MISS SANDRA: the beautiful, intellectual caretaker of the town's museum.
MAYOR MATILDA HYDE (mid 40's-50's): the town's conservative mayor.
DEAN HYDE: Matilda's 16 year-old son. He has grown up at a military boarding school.
SHERIFF EARL (mid 40's-50's): the law in town. A man of not many words.

CHORUS

In the End the couple end up being: Chad & Natalie; Jim & Sylvia; Lorraine & Dean; Dennis & Sandra; Matilda & Earl
MINOR CHARACTERS: Henrietta, Female Customer, Female Clerk, Bus Driver, Warden, Fella, Guy #1 & #2

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One of The Magik Theatre's favorite musical, this show tells the tale of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks."

Don't miss a show about the power of friendship, loyalty, family and community, set to a beautiful and lively score.

210-227-2751

A true musical theatre phenomenon, JEKYLL & HYDE attracted legions of loyal fans even before the show began its smash-hit Broadway run.

An evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil, JEKYLL & HYDE is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart. Convinced the cure for his father's mental illness lies in the separation of Man's evil nature from his good, Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde.

Cast:

Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde
Lucy Harris
Emma Carew
John Utterson
Sir Danvers Carew
Simon Stride
Lord Savage
Bishop of Basingstoke
Lady Beaconsfield
The Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald Proops
General Lord Glossop
Spider
Nellie
Poole

210.212.5454

What the F@#k Was That?

That's what people all over San Antonio, Austin and South Texas will say after seeing Evil Dead The Musical... the only musical in the world with a splatter zone.

This hilarious stage show features elements from the classic cult horror films "Evil Dead 1," "Evil Dead 2," and"Army of Darkness" combined into one night of blood-spattering, zany, zombie fun.

Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods, and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It's all up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons are telling bad jokes... and all to music.

The songs in the show are completely off the wall as well. Titles like "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons" and "What the F*@k was That" will have you rolling in your seats, and screaming for more and more blood.

You don't need to be a fan of Evil Dead to love this show. You don't need to be a fan of horror to love this show. You don't even need to be a fan of musicals to love this show. As long as you like having fun... this show is for you.

Cast:

Ash
Cheryl
Annie
Shelly
Linda
Scott
Ed
Jake
Fake Shemp

(210) 212-5454

Victor Hugo’s epic tale of redemption is masterfully told through the robust and moving score of one of the world’s most notorious musicals.

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It is the late 1970s, a brothel has been operating outside of fictional Gilbert, Texas, (subbing for real locale La Grange) for more than a century. It is under the proprietorship of Miss Mona Stangley, having been left to her by the original owner. While taking care of her girls, she is also on good terms with the local sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd. When crusading television reporter Melvin P. Thorpe (based on real-life Houston news personality Marvin Zindler) decides to make the illegal activity an issue, political ramifications cause the place to be closed down.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas opened on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on June 19, 1978 and ran for 1,584 performances.

Cast:

Mona Stangley
Sheriff Earl Dodd
Melvin P. Thorp
Mayor Rufus Poindexter
Senator Wingwoah
C.J. Scruggs
Angel
Shy
Jewel
Doasty Mae
Band Leader
Edsel Mackey
Governor
The Girls Working for Miss Mona

210.212.5454

The stakes are high in this vibrant family classic as two gamblers bet their way toward the oldest established, permanent floating crap game in town…and love.

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The Denials, one of the city's best comedy troupes, commit adult-oriented improv every Saturday at the Overtime Theater. Up-close comedy in a relaxed setting, BYOB or beer and wine by donation. Come get your funny on with The Denials!

Please visit our website, email theovertimetheater@gmail.com, or call (210) 557-7562.

The Aesthetics of Waste do sketch comedy at high speed every Friday at the Overtime Theater. A unique blend of sketch comedy that you've never seen before!! BYOB or beer and wine by donation.

ComedySportz is the Alamo City's original fast-paced, family-friendly improvisational comedy, played as a sport. Two teams take turns making up scenes, playing games and singing songs – and the audience votes on which team they like the best. It's all presided over by a referee, who keeps things moving, calls the ComedySportz fouls and takes suggestions shouted out by the audience before each game.

If you've seen TV's Whose Line Is It Anyway? or Improv-A-Ganza, you've got the basic idea, although ComedySportz's two-team competitive format ensures a fast-paced, high-energy show - and seeing this live show is very different from watching a TV show.

Check out our website, call us at 210-338-0279 or email us at info@cszsa.com

Do not miss out on this hilarious improv show!

The Oxymorons perform improv comedy in San Antonio, TX. We've been making people laugh for over 20 years! Come out and catch one of our shows Tuesdays at Rivercenter Comedy Club. (Ages 16+)

The Woodlawn Theatre is venturing into the world of late-night cabaret with “Broadway Nights.” Intimate and filled with class, the show is hosted by the enigmatic Rebecca Trinidad and features a revolving door of San Antonio’s finest performers. “Broadway Nights” provides an opportunity for those wanting to showcase their individual talents, the number of available slots varying from week to week.

“Broadway Nights” plays every Saturday night at 10:30pm in the cozy lounge area of the historic Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredricksburg Rd. San Antonio, TX. Admission is free. Cash bar is available.  Come on over after whatever show you’re seeing, and enjoy some great local talent or get up and be part of the show.  People wanting to sing must come with their own sheet music and be prepared to perform. 

Sign-up spots for additional singers are available before the show.

Cast:

Host: Rebecca Trinidad

Sean Hagdorn

Rachel Pena

Melissa B. Gonzalez

Walter Songer

and pianist Darrin Newhardt

An erotic, powerful whisking away of that thinnest of veils between pleasure and pain, actor and character, writer and persona.

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The timeless struggle between freedom and intimacy comes alive through a series of playful and poignant vignettes featuring Robert, your typical New York bachelor, and the tempting, if imperfect, examples of love set by his married friends.

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A single house becomes the backdrop for provocative clashes about race, community, and gentrification in 1959 and 2009, forcing audiences to consider just how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. Clybourne Park, originally inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, proves that these themes are just as relevant today as ever.

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Sarah Ruhl’s brilliance at magic realism is brought to life (or afterlife) in this touching journey of one woman’s attempt to reconcile a dead stranger’s unfinished business with his family, friends, and coworkers without losing herself in someone else’s identity.

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From an original story by Miss Lennart. Ziegfeld Follies girl, Fanny Brice, reflects on her rise from being Henry Street’s beloved girl next door to an American vaudeville legend.

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A darkly humorous comedy exploring the dangerous lengths to which women throughout time have gone to catch, and keep, a man.

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This electrifying 1960s rock opera, told through the legendary music of The Who, chronicles one child’s “Amazing Journey” from boy to man and misfortune to fame.

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