45 stories from Cambiare Productions
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 a …
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.…
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 m…
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…
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…
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…
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 experienc…
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 bea…
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 and asi…
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…
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 Tis…
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 summ…
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…
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 available…
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've trav…
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…
- 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 …
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. It'…
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 Deep …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 volunt…
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 you real…
