Hurrah for the belly! Acclaimed belly dance performance artist Z-Helene takes the stage at The VORTEX this November 14-16, 2024 with her powerful and playful …

Charla Hathaway will surprise you. Becoming a sex worker at 55 was not in the cards! Fraught with difficult choices, her willingness to explore the …

Funny, Like an Abortion is a surreal new comedy, set in the near future in a United States of America where abortion is illegal nation-wide and …

SUNNY DAYS by Reina Hardy begins in Kosovo, where two representatives from a beloved children’s television program pit the magic of puppetry against centuries of …

As we enter the boudoir of Aphrodite, we hear Homeric and Orphic Hymns to Aphrodite and Eros, as well as Sappho’s Ode to Aphrodite,.Blaise Ricin takes us into …

 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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”.  …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This whimsical and profound new musical by Rembert Block, directed by Bonnie Cullum, grapples with identity, image, and narcissism. Featuring live music by the Brooklyn-based …

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 …

***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, …

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 …

  The VORTEX presents a workshop performance of How to Heal, When the World is Killing you Harshly, a solo work-in-progress that tracks Oktavea LaToi’s …

  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 …

  Annie Jump is a 13-year-old science genius whose alien-obsessed father is the laughingstock of Strawberry, KS. One night in August, a meteor falls, and Annie meets Althea, …

 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 …

“This is the day the Goddess has made. We don’t take shit from nobody.”   We welcome Marina DeYoe-Pedraza's reverently irreverent ceremony celebrating the feminine to …

For three weekends, November 6-21, 2020, The VORTEX, Teatro Vivo, ProyectoTEATRO, and Avante Theatre Project present our third annual FuturX Festival of new and avant-garde …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

It's the 70's, there's music and make-outs, and freedom is just out of reach. A savagely-funny play about a threshold summer that forever alters an …

 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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 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, …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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