Monday, June 22, 2015

Take Your Cuts by Travis Bedard

Playwriting is as unrewarding as anything Sisyphus could possible have an application in for. Success in playwriting is getting your text into a theatre good enough that you’d care to see …

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 02:38PM
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Whispers and Thoughts by Travis Bedard

Tonight we begin a quick jaunt into the world of Stephen Spotswood‘s ‘In the Forest, She Grew Fangs‘. I’ve been trying to get a reading of this show together forever.…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:43PM
Thursday, January 29, 2015

100 Heartbreaks by Travis Bedard

There was no way I was going to miss 100 Heartbreaks. Even in the midst of the respiratory mayhem the season and the run of Changelings has wrought and the few nights my schedule allows me,…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:40PM
Friday, November 14, 2014

Austin Needs a Place by Travis Bedard

Making art is a grind. As with child birth we tend to forget to the gross majority of the creation process isn’t magic, it’s a slog. So when we see an artistic birthing process w…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:13PM
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Austin is a Place by Travis Bedard

I have been toiling away in the puppet mines on a show called Cruel Circus for the last little stretch, right on the heels of assaying John of Gaunt and and the Bishop of Carlisle in Richard…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 05:26PM
Monday, February 18, 2013

A subject speaks… by Travis Bedard

On Thursday you have the opportunity to not only see the opening night of a play, but an opening night of a company as Poor Shadows of Elysium open their doors to the tune of a coin-flip Ric…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:11PM
Monday, February 11, 2013

All About a Video by Travis Bedard

Word is in and we are chagrinned to announce that All About a Boy will not be reprised for Frontera’s Best of Fest. You missed it. We’re not bitter though. This show was a blast to exper…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:35PM
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Is there a Doctor in the house? by Travis Bedard

Last week I closed a four week run of Doug Wright’s Quills with Austin’s Different Stages and I wanted to jot down a few things I learned that will be helpful to me going forward. Please…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:26AM
Thursday, January 17, 2013

All About… someone else by Travis Bedard

Tonight is preemptively one of my favorite nights. As I’ve been annoying everyone with for weeks, I’m… busy. The busiest I have been in my entire life. It’s terrifying and glorious a…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:04PM
Monday, December 3, 2012

The First Rule of Fight Club by Travis Bedard

Will, Amanda and I decided after Orestes to stop pretending a company without plentiful resources or a building could (or should) operate the same way that a $5M theatre with 15 full time st…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:09PM
Thursday, July 26, 2012

The hip bone’s connected to the… by Travis Bedard

Rose Rage opens this very night and it’s been a slog personally. Coming on the heels of Tis Pity She’s a Whore I came to this process tired and sort of emotionally roiled. We had a great…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:42PM
Monday, July 16, 2012

Time is a blockhead by Travis Bedard

There are shows you survive through like 8th period Western Civ class… watching the clock and hoping that the teacher forgets you’re there. And then there are shows that you miss like su…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:18PM
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Voice by Travis Bedard

Nothing is more certain in those pursuing any field with serious intent than that a nagging voice that lives in the back of their heads telling them over and over again what a failure they a…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 03:19PM
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Once More Into the Breach by Travis Bedard

I am up to my neck in revenge tragedy, fully immersed in the schlagobers und blud of Tis Pity She’s a Whore for 7 Towers Theatre Company at the Cathedral of Junk. [Good seats still availab…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:10PM
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tabled by Travis Bedard

I’m proud to announce that our production of Messenger No. 4 has been nominated for 2 Austin Critics’ Table awards. The first is for Production of a Comedy… which is amusing if you’v…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:34PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Delivering by Travis Bedard

I have a lot of ideas. A lot. A lot a lot. Friends and loved ones learn to listen, or sort of surf the never-ending flow, for things I truly invest in… or spend a second thought on. In ret…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 03:14AM
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Missing the magic, Missing the moment. by Travis Bedard

- That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighborhood - Joe Dowling, the AD of the Guthrie is getting crushed by what he considers small fish in the dripdripdrip of social media over …

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:33PM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

While we wait… by Travis Bedard

We’re in a holding pattern on a few things before I write out  the final post-mortem on Messenger No. 4 (and get myself a tattoo) so I’d like to get a jump on our next little thing.…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 02:08AM
Monday, March 12, 2012

LIBATIONS! by Travis Bedard

No good evening out is complete without a quality beverage and the rep productions of Messenger No. 4 and the 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm featured a partnership with Austin’s own Dee…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:54AM
Thursday, March 8, 2012

After the Curtain by Travis Bedard

  So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Forgive a proper New Hampshire boy for default to Robert Frost? Messenger No. 4 (v 1.0) has been stripped out of the Blue Theatre, rol…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:58AM
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Philip Olson by Travis Bedard

Name: Philip Olson Where are you from originally? I was born in Pasadena California, just down the street from the famous Hollywood Graveyard (where Michael Jackson lives). I spent much of m…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:46PM
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Karina Domiguez by Travis Bedard

Name: Karina Dominguez Where are you from originally? El Paso by way of southern Arizona by way of northern Mexico. How long have you been in Austin? Since 1997, with a 1 1/2 year stint on t…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:34PM
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Jessica Allen by Travis Bedard

Name: Jessica Allen Where are you from originally? Devine, TX It’s a town consisting of 4,000 people south of San Antonio, and yes, the name says it all. How long have you been in Aust…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:26PM
Monday, February 6, 2012

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Rachel Wiese by Travis Bedard

Name: Rachel Wiese Where are you from originally? I’m from Arkansas. For the first 10 years of my life, I lived at the Heifer Project International learning and livestock center where volu…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:36PM
Friday, February 3, 2012

You and you and nothing but you. by Travis Bedard

Well I hope you’ve been reading along as we’ve been introducing the cast of our upcoming Messenger No. 4 (Or…. How to Survive a Greek Tragedy). If you haven’t been following along yo…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:01PM

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae –Joey Melcher by Travis Bedard

Name: Joey Melcher Where are you from originally? Houston, TX How long have you been in Austin? 1 year Who are some of the the folks you’re playing in Messenger No. 4? Rogue Messenger,…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:00PM
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Messenger No. 4–Dramatis Personae–Vanessa Marroquin by Travis Bedard

Name: Vanessa Renae Marroquin Where are you from originally? Oh, just the best place in Texas to eat incredible Mexican Food, and it’s only 20 minutes north of the border!  McAllen, Texas…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:21AM
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Camille Latour by Travis Bedard

Name: Camille Latour Where are you from originally? I was born in a beautiful house here in Austin.  I’ve been a Southie pretty much my whole life. How long have you been in Austin? …

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:22PM
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Andrew Rodgers by Travis Bedard

Name: Andrew Aleri Rodgers Where are you from originally? I was born in Colorado Springs, but quickly emigrated (not of my own accord, I was two) northward to Loveland, Colorado.  The Sweet…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:18PM
Friday, January 27, 2012

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Daniel Sawtelle by Travis Bedard

Name: Daniel Sawtelle Where are you from originally? I hail from the land Welch’s Grapes, the Brig Niagara Battle of 1812 Warship, and “That Thing You Do” – Erie, PA.…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 02:24PM

Messenger No. 4 – Dramatis Personae – Megan Minto by Travis Bedard

Name: Megan Minto Where are you from originally? That’s a difficult question… My dad was in the Air Force, so we moved around a few times. I was born in California, in the middle…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:17PM

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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
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Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
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Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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