Theatre Action Project: A birthday bash for your inner grownup

The arts organization serving youth marks its 10th year with a party for the adults among us

"...It started as a class project by University of Texas graduate students trying to address..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Gobotrick Theatre Company: Keeping the Soul Happy

Naomi Wallace's drama One Flea Spare is the latest venture from Gobotrick Theatre Company

"...city. It received its American premiere at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays; won..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

As Theatre for Children Matures

In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too

"...has been studying, creating, and teaching others to create theatre for children and youth. It's a field that has..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Theatre Mecca?!?

Honest, Some Folks Move to Austin for the Theatre

"...country, particularly if one has an ear to the theatre grapevine. My college advisor, when I asked her about..."

July 18, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

To Preserve and Project

Moving image archivists in action

"...Moving Image Archivists, whose jobs are to preserve, to project, to educate, and to inspire – and if I..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Capital T Theatre's I and You

Lauren Gunderson's play uses Whitman's "Song of Myself" as a vehicle for two teens on the cusp of adulthood to explore identity

"...evening after a basketball game to work on the project, due the next morning...."

April 13, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Never Coming to a Theatre Near You

Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies

"...would be no films, just film trailers, no coming attractions, just previews of them. Heresy, perhaps, but not without..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Review: The Filigree Theatre's Fire in Dreamland

This compelling drama ignites but doesn't blaze

"...given a low-budget but highly compelling production by Filigree Theatre – is the three disasters that have taken place..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Alchemy Theatre's Pipeline

Weak choices undermine the hard-hitting angst that drives this play

"...York City's Lincoln Center and currently onstage at Alchemy Theatre...."

Sept. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Gibney Dance Community Action Residency

Training dancers to help victims of abuse

"...a choreographer and senior lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University, has focused the..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Bringers of Joy

20,000 Austin kids are happily learning to make positive change in their lives through Creative Action

"...Or maybe you have heard of Creative Action, formerly Theatre Action Project, most likely from its afterschool..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

First Night Schedule

"...Groundwork Music Project – Family Jam, Plaza Stage, Austin City Hall, 301..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature

'Best of Times'

Sara Hickman rounds up a few pals to help raise funds for Theatre Action Project

"...children in Texas?" – has sprawled into a major project for musician Sara Hickman, one encompassing a 2-CD set,..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hideout Improv Marathon

Eight players improvise for 40 hours straight to help save their artistic home

"...love to make shit up, swing by the Hideout Theatre this weekend. Eight committed players will be improvising right..."

June 26, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

A new theatre company gets Broadway vets to teach teens in Austin, and an older one gets a new artistic director and a new name

"...• Aspiring musical-theatre performers ages 13-18, take note: Auditions for Making It..."

May 30, 2008 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Magic Time

Oh, the sights you'll see at First Night Austin

"...a dance with a bus, a colossal jackalope, and theatre under a bridge, plus more wonders from 60-plus artists..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

First Night 2009 Schedule

"...HBMG Theatre, under the First Street Bridge (south end)..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Arts Feature

Arts Bullets

It's the Changing of the Bard, from Dietz to Swanson, and Tina Marsh plays it cool for CO2. Artists talk techniques, and teens tell you where to find Good Love.

"...you're a teen, but there's some at Hyde Park Theatre this weekend. Good Love is the title of a..."

July 9, 2004 Arts Feature

Art Aid

In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help

"...have held a steady hand during the hurricane shake-up. Theatre Action Project, which uses theatre games and exercises to..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Graduating, With Honors

Local awards are nice, but Austin artists are being recognized nationally all the time now

"...The grant was one of only 12 awarded to theatre projects this year. This is on top of Kirk..."

June 1, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Celebrate This City

Dave Sullivan provides new direction for First Night Austin

"...Night Alive is an outreach program we've created with Theatre Action Project. It's been going on since September in..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

New curatorial directions, a new drama getting around, and a new way for theatre to change lives

"...• Austin Theatre Project received a $103,600 grant from Impact Austin to..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Food Events

Cultivate your culinary tastes, from the gluten-free to the bug friendly

"...› Elementary school children participating in Theatre Action Project will present a puppet pageant and parade..."

June 22, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Food Events

Eating out to help the homebound and the Big Hair County Fair in this week's helping of food events

"...Lick Pavilion near Driftwood (18300 RR 1826) benefits the Theatre Action Project. Get a custom hairdo from Birds Barbershop,..."

March 23, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Food Events

A cupcake throwdown, gluten-free pies and muffins, Hungarian feasts and gypsies

"...› Theatre Action Project and Central Market (4001 N. Lamar) present..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

PeopleFund East Night Summit

Learning how to make Austin's creative success pay off for you

"...wondered what that actually means for you and the theatre production/alt-classical concert/apartment gallery/site-specific installation/graphic novel that makes up your..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...Festival. The heralded A Ride With Bob, a musical theatre production about a mythic meeting with Bob Wills, remains..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

Mi Casa Es Su Teatro: Home is where the art is

Time again to get your theatre outside the theatre and inside someone's home, via FronteraFest's one-day, site-specific fiesta, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro

"...You know, in Austin, home theatre isn't just big-screen TVs and surround-sound speakers. Once a..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Event Menu

Fun with foodies for June 16-23

"...• The Theater Action Project hosts its annual Summer Pageant in the Park..."

June 17, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

James Devery: In Memoriam

Theatre artists gather to celebrate a dear friend's life

"...Sometimes the people who give the most in the theatre aren't the ones onstage. So it was with James..."

April 13, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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