A dumbshow presented by Mr. Bonetangles and Picklehead the Clown. A puppet-clown collaboration by Will Schutze and Zac Carr. A dull spectacle of the state …
Nason has worked at a Dubai hotel for several months and realizes, unhappily, that there's a discrepancy between Anglo staff and those of color. While …
DAMMIT LOLA is experimental DIY stand-up shenanigans inspired by Andy Kaufman and Amy Sedaris. Idiot comedy duo, Roz Mandola and CB Goodman poke fun and …
Tortured by a sadistic warden, prisoner Darrell Standing is locked away in solitary confinement, sealed in a straitjacket for days at a time. In order …
Clown Show Explores Gender Binary
Come dive into the absurdity of gender with Transhumance at FronteraFest
Join NYC-based circus artist Ania Upstill for their new …
Bad Neighbors, by Ava Love Hanna (ScriptWorks Commission). The five members of the HOA board in Westdale are here to help protect your property values and …
Possibilities - Storytelling with Poetry, Improv, and Song, by Jennifer Bloom & In Our Prime Jennifer Bloom shares poetry, songs, and stories to weave a tapestry of …
A Child’s Guide to Schopenhauer, by Marla Porter. Kids explore philosophy. Written and directed by Marla Porter and starring Skylar Ewing, Aidan O’Brien, and Tara …
With Tyler Jones, Leslie Rodgers, Rick Roemer, Lara Wright & Ann Pittnan Zarate.A song cycle about the ups and downs...the joys and sorrows...and the victories …
Science Fails: The Human Side of Science, by Nichole Bennett et al. Our science textbooks are filled with “Eureka!” moments of triumph and discovery. But science …
Rita Anderson’s LIGHTNING GIRL is a surreal fictionalization of how 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke, in 1971, survived a plane crash after her craft was struck …
14 Si!, by PoetKen Jones. This play is a dark satire of recent trafficking and abuse scandals involving underage victims. The pedophile protagonist Jesus “Ju …
Austin Still In Denial, by Stuart Hersh. In his 12th FronteraFest play, Stuart connects what he learned about slavery with his recent family trip to Eastern …
The Silo Effect and The Medium, by Jay DiPrima. Two ten-minute plays that explore the interaction of "Alexa" with seniors that are discovering its pseudo capacity …
Medea, by Euripides, translation by Ian Johnston. In this performance, the Sacred Clowns Theatre Project presents their interpretation of Euripides' two-thousand-year-old play about a woman …
Not All Men, by Joy Cunningham. While having drinks with the gals, listening to their stories of sexual molestation, raper, or near-rape, writer/performer Joy Cunningham …
Urine Trouble, by James E. Burnside. A late middle-aged man discusses his prostate.Still Me, by Pelita Dasalla. Donna is a fifty year-old woman who recently lost her …
The Closet Scenes from Fumbling for the Knob, by James Dean Jay Byrd. A staged reading of two scripted chapters from the recently completed memoir Fumbling for …
SPINE SOUP, by Nina Di Leo. Spines in the streets, nothing in the fridge. An absurdist recipe for feeding strangers, making something out of nothing, and …
Outrageous. Funny. Unapologetic! This one-woman show takes you to 10th century Sweden for a Norse RED Talk. Think TED Talks with a Viking twist. Ingrid …
"DOG PLAY, PUG TO WOLFHOUND: Patty to Beatrice, Bitch to Bitch" by Michael Michaelian, is a tribute celebrating the human-canine relationship.Starring JUDE HICKEY and JUSTIN …
Jim Loucks’ new show Booger Red was created as part of an Artist Residency in Madisonville, KY, and premiered at their first-ever Bacon Blues and Big Stories …
Hush??, by Jenny Burch, Istvan Gulyas, Jack Kilduff, Neal Ormsbee and Mo Romero. Hush?? improvises an array of correlated scenes in order to highlight the strange relationships and …
SETLL (Suspected Extra-Terrestrial Landing Location) is a new play that questions what lies beyond the limits of what we know. The play explores the world …
Dr. Ramone and Dr. Truffledina must find the defect in a "female" robot acting erratically. Ola Mae Baartman, Director of Liaisons for Hephaestus Enterprises Inc., …
LIMBOTASTIC, by Rita Anderson. Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Amy Winehouse meet up in the afterlife in limbo. When Winehouse suggests that they create a …
In Bloom, by Robin Anderson. An original short play about a woman struggling to find her footing after divorce who finds unexpected support from a young …
Jomo & The Possum Posse: New Directions, by Jomo & The Possum Posse. This sardonic honky-tonk band will show you something they've never shown anyone else …
One Woman, 57 Boyfriends, by Krissy Olson. A solo monologue with vocal performance, written and performed by opera singer/actress Krissy Olson.You Ain't No Sissy, by Jack Darling. …
Dog Joggers, with Mary Kahle, Laura King, Mary Henderson, Timo Xzavier & Mike Topel. Long-form improv creating a scenic journey of absurdity, sweetness, and torment fueled …
Amazon, by Cortney DeAngelo. An original piece about an Amazon performer in a world that worships the feminine petite. Written and performed by Cortney DeAngelo. Directed …
There's Light Through a Keyhole, by Recovering Addict. East Austin resident Cameron reveals how he conquered drug addictions. Based on a true story.Into the Light, written and …
The Puzzler, by Will Holcomb. A two-person play where Blanch, a woman with affluenza (inflated self-worth), is doing community service in a nursing home due to …
First Day, written and directed by Rhonda Roe. Based on a short story I wrote about my first day of kindergarten.My Bags Are Packed, by Laura Freeman. …
Mister Starbuck, by Raymond V. Whelan. Mrs. Flanagan jumps out of her bedroom window the day Astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth. Her daughter Michelle and …
Based on Johanna Spyri's novel set in 19th-century Switzerland, Heidi is a new musical by Anne Adams Notario featuring an orphan girl who is taken to live …
Burr, story by Laura Maxwell-Scott, lyrics and music by Eric Scott. A hip-hop musical about yet another white man wrestling with his relationship to his country …
Louiseland, written and performed by Louise Richardson. Poems and songs of joy, identity, longing, existence, and survival by Louise Richardson.This Asian American Life, by Yola Lu, Kim …
Removal, by Susan Mack. A story of discovery, separation and renewalMeat, by Sean Sweeney. A man cooks meat for his girlfriend who refuses to eat it.Pleasers, by Tristan …
The Living Room Storytime for Grownups, in association with Dillo Arts and Associates, present . . . STRIP THE MUSICAL. Strip takes the true stories of Candy Barr, …
Little Art Table, written and directed by Marla Porter. Creativity can help overcome one's insecurities and smallness and children give a master class!The Performers of Bad …
Do You Feel Safe Yet?, by Tyler Kosmak. A collection of scenes on the theme of safety, directed by Megan Weaver.BRINE VII: Austin for Whom, written and …
The future is uncertain in this black-and-white world. Only lateral movement will help us survive.Starring Brian Bonnet, Nhaila Hendrickse and Cassadie Peterson, with original music …
La Gattina, by Raymond V. Whelan. New York Police Department Lieutenant Murray reveals untold details of a horrific crime to Kitty, the victim's ghost.The Chair, written and …
Texas Book of Beasts, by Jeff Irvin. Series of extremely short skits dealing with gnats, gnus, bats, okra, raccoons, quail, pickups, skinks, javelina, daddy-long-legs, burghers, toads, …
Join the Ney in celebrating FronteraFest 2017, Hyde Park Theatre and Scriptworks’ world-renowned performance festival!From 11am to noon, the Ney and its grounds will be transformed into …
Bitches Anonymous, by Gloria C. Adams, Jennine "DOC" Wright, and Teresa Johnson.
Bitch (n): a woman who doesn't give men what they want. Three Austin poets …
Loaded Gun Theory presents Death's Exit Interview, by Loaded Gun Theory (Loaded Gun Theory).
What if the universe works just like your shitty day job?Before Breakfast, by …
Final Conversations, by Rita Anderson (ScriptWorks Commission).
Final Conversations explores a mother's wish to have one real conversation with her son before he's accidentally killed. One morning …
Final Conversations explores a mother’s wish to have one real conversation with her son before he’s accidentally killed. -- One morning before he leaves for school, …
Duck Duck Goose is back! Originally written overnight for the 14/48 Austin 2016 Festival by veteran playwright Max Langert, Duck Duck Goose will be featured in FronteraFest 2017!
Come out …
Duck, Duck, Goose, by Max Langert.
Noah Martin directs this piece about feathers, funk, and fame. Originally written, cast, rehearsed, staged and performed all in one …
Polly's Playhouse and the Uber Replacement, written and performed by Charley Devany.
The third installation of Charley Devany's one-man shows focusing on family history. EHD (2013) and All The …
The Anglers, by Sarah Loucks (ScriptWorks Commission).
A boy and the Devil philosophize, play video games, and eat Cheetos along the banks of the Mississippi.Hamlet in …
Fully Living, by Louise Gallup-Roholt.
The poignant, heart-rending, and often funny stories of a family. A very unusual family.The Storyteller, by Liz Delaney.
Actor relates and shares …
Red Sox by Raymond V. Whelan turns back the clock thirty years to study the intricate personal struggles of seven people while the Boston Red Sox baseball …
The Back Pack's favorite pieces pulled from their first full season of silent sketch comedy shows incorporating puppetry, dance, clowning, and all around whimsy.The Back …
Reversing the Shakespearean norm, this all-girl youth cast flips the genders in the story of JULIA Caesar. Performed as a site-specific piece for a small …
ChuTopp, by Topping Haggerty and Chuy Zarate.
ChuTopp is doing a fully improvised narrative show that tells the story of an awkwardly brilliant, and much too …
Mothering Apollo is a lecture-comedy-song-dance-anatomylesson-love story. While the performance is derived from mothering a medically fragile, chronically ill baby and a tender toddler, it is also …
Your Neighborhood Association, by Max Langert (ScriptWorks Commission).
Ripped from the headlines of your local Listserv. Hope you've paid your dues.Blue Spiral, by Nadine Mozon.
Girlhood song …
This show is a personal, experimental, and interactive mix of short plays written and performed by the Inner Picnic ensemble. Inspired by NeoFuturism and …
Lady in Red, a heavenly caffeinated tale, written and performed by Rhonda F. Kulhanek.
A one-woman performance.The Epidemiologist, by Ramon Carver.
The argument of the play is …
Fishin’ For Love, written and directed by Morgan Wendlandt.
Concerns the personal relationships discussed by a bus full of strangers after a man proclaims his love …
Body of Work, written and performed by Christine Hoang (ScriptWorks Commission).
An autobiographical, one-woman show that explores how a woman's views on body image, consumerism, cosmetic …
Body of Work, written and performed by Christine Hoang (ScriptWorks Commission). An autobiographical, one-woman show that explores how a woman's views on body image, consumerism, cosmetic …
Baby Bob Saget, by Linzy Beltran, Aaron Walther, AJ McKeon, Lindsey Moringy, Frank Netscher, Laura de la Fuente (Baby Bob Saget).
Baby Bob Saget features performers …
BERSERKER is the brainchild of duo Kari Floren (writer) and Michael McKenzie (director) and was recently presented at the Emerging Artists Theater's New Works series …
WILD CARD PERFORMANCE. Tonight we present staff picks from among the 2016 Short Fringe performances that were overlooked by the Best of Week judges. I Don't …
Playback is an improvisational theatre developed by Jonathan Fox in which the troupe elicits stories from the audience and uses a variety of forms to …
Through kick-butt music, theatrical clowning and the forlornness of emo/gothic melodrama, here comes the everyday life of what it means to be a punk clown. …
You show up at Hyde Park Theatre ready for another night of Fringe Fest Fantasticness. Probably an autobiographical monologue, an interpretive dance, and of course, …
Crying Room is a monologue play about Melissa, a nervous talker, who waits out a wedding for the funeral to follow--where she'll be a pallbearer. It's …
Sugar Water Purple is Austin's first and only all-black male improv troupe. We perform a high-energy, long-form show based closely on the famous "Harold" format. …
Megan Mowry, Laura de laFuente, Stephanie Ard, Jessica Vasami, Katie Cowan, and Lindsey Moringy are Sheshesheshe, an all-female improv troupe that performs and studies at ColdTowne Theater. …
On January 20th, 2015 Greg Abbott becomes the 48th Governor of Texas. Carmelita, student body president, will travel from Llano to Austin to witness the …
Choreographed by Ellen Bartel and Kelsey Oliver (Ellen Bartel Dance Collective). I am continuing to explore “non-fiction dance” in order to attend to profound personal …
Two women wait outside the ER and discover a surprising connection. A look at entanglement in the Tinder era. Directed by Cara Phipps with performers …
Craig Kotfas, Michael Joplin, Ace Manning and Lee Eddy are The Knuckleball Now, an Austin improv troupe dedicated to high speed, high risk comedy. With …
A religious revival combined with a philosophical, scientific, and humorist approach to imagine yourself living for 100 years and realizing your dreams through transcendent experimentation …
A one-person short play about three women in the exotic, glamorous, and tragic world of 1930s Shanghai.
Presented with no dialogue and and live songs …
On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 8pm, Christine Hoang & James Hughes (Color Arc Productions) will be performing an original work they wrote entitled "Two …
EVN Productions Presents: ANY NIGHTA Play Written by: Daniel Arnold & Medina HahnDirected by Elizabeth V. NewmanAny Night is a romantic mystery about privacy, trust, and …
Deathrattledotcom takes place in the near future when social security, Medicare, and Medicaid have been effectively eliminated in America. Corporations attempt to take their place with …
Cascade presents a poignant examination of the bond between two unique and complex characters, exploring their relationship with a flood of emotional moments in an improvised …
A collaborative experience in words, image, and sounds by W. A. Brenner, Roy Moore, Content Love Knowles, and Emily Breedlove. This round robin of inspiration began …
From "doing it all" to "leaning in," Mother Enough? takes a bold, funny, and occasionally absurd look at the expectations, clichés, and practices surrounding motherhood in contemporary …
Please join us in celebrating the world premiere of a beautiful new play...A terrorist turkey bomb attack on an Austin Thanksgiving Day parade violently disrupts …
IN SEARCH OF ‘FRENCH PAPA’ AT FRONTERAFEST LONG FRINGE 2016
Liberté Egalité Adoptée is a new solo show by British-born writer and performer Maggie Gallant. …
Featuring national poetry slam artists Christopher-Michael, Doc, & B-Fran. They represent the best that Central Texas has to offer in the world of Spoken Word.
It's the last day of Nebraska's unrestricted safe haven law, which allows parents to legally abandon children at state hospitals. But surely OCD teen Rob …
Stroller Blades is the result of iron-forged improv education straight from the legendary ColdTowne Conservatory. This group of students features actors, stand-ups, musicians, artists and straight-up …
A mind-boggling tale about a quirky bunch of actors who must confront a complex murder case. What will these actors discover as they experience trials …
Reasons You Should Stay, written and performed by Max Langert (ScriptWorks Commission). I know you've already made up your mind, but please, just listen one last …
Two best friends, whose romantic lives are careening in opposite directions, become untethered from reality as they relive the steps to a relationship ending while …
The Escorts, by Andreas Fabis, Lindsey Reeves, Aaron Saenz, and Shannon Dale Stott (The Escorts). We perform an improvised theatrical narrative inspired by an audience suggestion. …
A two-person show about one woman who, to free herself from college debt, joins a Wyoming goat farm she inherits from her occult-leader birth parents. …