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May 15, 16, 17: The fringe festival
What the heck’s a fringe festival, you ask? Well, it’s an amazing weekend of brand-spankin’-new theatre, film, performance art, music, and whatever else we can get our hands on, produced and performed by individual artists and some of the coolest groups on the Houston arts scene, such as Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company, Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre, Melusine Theatre, Six of One Productions, Brazosport Lazer Panthers, and more! So come join us on May 14, 15, 16 and 17 at various locations in the Westheimer/Taft area. This year a percentage of the festival’s profits will be donated to Writers in the Schools and a percentage of the profit will be returned to the festivals participating artists.
Let’s have a festival!
December 11, 12 and 13 at 8PM:
Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company and Fan Factory Theatre Present:
The Museum of Dysfunction: Family AlbumHouston, TX- Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company and The Fan Factory Theatre team up to present you with a fun (and frightening) night of snapshots family dysfunction. Hosted by Avant Garden, one of the leading supporters of alternative art in Houston, These two companies provide you with a museum tour guide, who will take you to the nooks and crannies of the ‘museum’ where you will be able to take a peek into the dark crevices of family life. You might recognize some of these scenarios, hopefully, not others.
We will explore motherly love, brotherly love, crazy love and hate, all within the confines of family relationships in a multi-media format that includes film, puppet shows, live actors, and interactive media for a little over an hour of diverse entertainment.
Collaborators include actors from Mildred’s Umbrella, Fan Factory and the theatre community and puppeteers from Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre.
Who? Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company and the Fan Factory
What? The Museum of Dysfunction: Family Album
When? December 11, 12, 13, 2008 at 8pm
Where? Avant Garden, 411 Westheimer at Taft
Ticket Prices? Pay as you like ( suggested donation $5- $10).
For Reservations Call: 832-418-0585 or info@mildredsumbrella.com
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Presents:
Les Chansons Macabres
Halloween Night
Start your Halloween at AvantGarden with Opera Vista's Les Chansons Macabres with special guest actor Mischa Hutchings from Nova Arts Project. Come listen to a night of fantastical tales and howling arias. The "night wind" will howl as we "bewitch, bother, and bewilder" you with arias by Menotti, Rogers, and Sondheim, to name a few. Opera Vista performers will include Joe Carl White, Shelley Auer, John Weinel, Kinga Skretkowicz, Michael Walsh, Lynelle Rowley, and Misha Penton, with Roger Keele accompanying.
Come dressed up: prizes will be awarded for the best costume!
Opera Vista was founded in 2007 with the aim of bringing “modern music to modern
audiences”. Led by Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman, Opera Vista has already made a name for itself with its critically-acclaimed fall productions at Bayou Bend and its annual Opera Festival in May. Opera Vista is a 501(c)3 organization.
Houston Fringe Festival
May 16-18
The Houston Fringe Festival is a collaboration between many theatre groups in the Houston area and is breathing life into eleven new plays!
All profits the festival makes will go to benefit Workshop Houston, a local non-profit organization.
On the Docket
Eleven brand new plays, including:
Haunt of Flies
iBango!
Scatter!
Pride Goeth Before a Fall
Notes of a Serial Monogamist
Lamb
Superauthor
The Man Who Knows
Divided by Two
Bagatalia
Juxtaposing the Mule
Click here for more info about each show