A collection of non-fiction plays   Better Butter returns to Jump-Start Theater featuring two new ensemble members and all new plays!    Better Butter is a live …

SCREAMING INTO THE VOID: Dear Earth and River Spirit Our Third Annual Screaming Theatre Festival Jump-Start company member Holly Nañes stages another round of original …

Jump-Start Performance Co. announces this season's INKubator artist Fred Himes and his new work, Devil at the Crossroads - Storytelling in Blues. Himes unveils a classic …

This year, Tejana Atómica will bring together four of San Antonio’s most powerful storytellers, including las cuatas Sarah and Lilith Tijerina, la única Florinda Flores Brown y la jefa Ruby Nelda Pérez, …

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SENIOR PLAY follows four residents and their art therapist in an assisted living facility as they each navigate frailties, frustration and love. Jump-Start Performance Co. …

  A story about a secret artist, immigration, bilingual education, and the ripple effects of trauma between mothers and daughters. Jump-Start presents The Yellow Notebook, …

 It’s back, baby! This year the eight foot Cube features 8 eight-minute creative performances back on the Jump-Start stage. The show will take place on …

Growing old ain't for sissies! SENIOR PLAY is set in a senior living facility, and deals with the trials, joys, and realizations that come from …

Screaming into the Void Theater Festival: Pandemic Diaries Jump-Start brings a new theater festival for the new year with new dramatic and poetic works from …

Better Butter is not only a show, but also a multi-cultural ensemble of writers and performers who share stories and glimpses of their real life experiences …

MARISELA BARRERA as RICARDO FLORES MAGÓN in REGENERACIÓN: SAN ANTONIO REGENERACIÓN: SAN ANTONIO is a new work in progress performance inspired by the life of …

Jump-Start Performance Co. presents MODEL TALKS Written and Performed by Pamela Dean Kenny.   Ever wonder what goes on inside the mind of an Art …

    Tejana Atómica features unique multimedia performances by Marisela Barrera, Anna De Luna and Amalia Ortiz.    Anna will perform excerpts from her new …

Jump-Start Performance Co. presents two actos about the on-going US-Mexico border crisis:  "Payasa USA" and "Frontera Frontier" by Marisela Barrera .featuring Holly Nañez and 14 …

  For decades Gaylord Kaiser, appearing as chanteuse Dina Simone, has hosted happy hour at the Gilded Cage. Advancing age and an alcohol-related mishap prompt …

Jump-Start Performance Co. presents Semana de Sueños, a collection of three stories that focus on border issues, civil rights and migrant stories, written and directed …

Inspired by true events, Tejana Rasquacha chronicles Barrera’s Tejana life, from a small town in the Rio Grande Valley, to Dallas and finally her home in San …

Maybe… You know about Jesus and Judas and Samson and Delilah. You read Waiting for Godot once. You’ve listened to Willie Nelson sing “Pancho and Lefty.” Okay. …

  Better Butter is a live show written and performed by an ensemble of artists who do not create stories, but rather tell the stories …

Daniel Jackson directs an ensemble-devised experience that will weird you out.  Feature by Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, July 24, 2018

Casbeer's, Los Padrinos, the ol' Mirador, Tacoland and Earl Abel's.  Y'all 'member!  Late nights, San Anto blues, greasy-cheesy enchiladas.  Loud and proud drag queens mixing …

"Gen and Mabel," is about two women who like each other. A whole lot. So why can’t this relationship seem to get off the ground? …

MotherSecrets: You Know her. Real. Bitter. Sweet celebrates the diversity of mothers through performative memoir. Created by a smart six-member ensemble that includes four with …

From panzas to prisons, from street theatre to large-scale multimedia performances, from princess to chafa - Virginia Grise writes plays that are set in bars …

A time-traveling storyteller returns to the days of her great-grandmother in the early 1900's and to the settlement of the Shaddai Community deep in the …

Eight 8-minute performances are presented in an 8-foot cube.  Anything goes (as long as the "8" limits are respected)!

 Meet the real Donkey Lady and Lechuza, live in the flesh, in this intimate workshop performance based on Marisela Barrera's short stories. Written and performed …

Sol Luna secretly enters her family in a contest to be the first Latino familia in space.  When they win, they prepare to travel to …

Join twelve female writers and performers as they tell stories of love, politics, hope, and Virgens. The prompt is this: Tell a true story you …

R.E.M. "Rapid Eye Movement" is an original theatrical showcase evolving and unwinding by the realms of the unconscious mind. Multiple dreams lead the journey and …

ASKING FOR CHANGE is a glimpse into the unspoken cycle of our society's attitudes toward our “invisible” neighbors, the homeless. Six characters are highlighted, each one …

8X8 is theatre for short attention spans!Jump-Start will present eight 8-minute performances in an 8-foot cube.  At 8 pm.  For 8 dollars.  Each evening brings a different …

Chato's Bridge is set in San Antonio's present-day West Side and addresses issues of love, loyalty, and revenge. It is a gritty but not gratuitous look …

Experience music, theatre, dance, poetry, the beautiful and the strange!

This bilingual play is funny, sad, and courageously honest. It's about the experiences of a daughter who takes on primary caregiver responsibilities for her mother …

Marisela Barrera’s new play, “Cuero, La Ruby Red, y El Big Bird” explores life along the U.S.-Mexico border through three distinct, swift-moving stories Click to view …

We've turned the popular children's game Shoots and Ladders into a late-night TV game show for mature audiences only. Watch as a psychic Mistress of …

Off Limits is a new play that recalls events from 1973. Just in time for Fiesta, a new gay bar opened near downtown on the …

Chale and Simon are life-long West Side camaradas bound by a tragedy that happened 30 years ago. Their loyalty to each other and their lost …

Terrible things breed in broken hearts. Malinalli is an interpreter, advisor, healer, mother and intermediary for Hernan Cortes. For the sake of Cortes, she's left …

Directed by Marisela Barrera and developed by Jump-Start Performance Co., "Oscuridad" explores the darkness lying just beneath the surface of everyday life. Set in a …

The San Antonio Latino/a Theatre Alliance (SALTA) continues its support and advocacy of San Antonio’s burgeoning theatre community and the region’s Latino culture through its …

Cafe du Jump:8 x 8 - Eight 8 minute performances on an 8 foot by 8 foot stage eight nights in June, 2014. Tickets, eight dollars. …

What is the secret elevator code that allows access to the series of ancient tunnels beneath the Tower of the Americas? At just what address …