In case you haven’t heard, dystheatre & Make Every Media have been busy these last two years collecting and preserving memories, artifacts, and 360º photos & videos of beloved Austin Arts Venues gone by, namely Salvage Vanguard Theatre, The Off Center, and the old home of The Institution Theater. We’ve been using these assets to create a podcast series (Make Every Media) about the preservation of arts spaces in Austin, and an immersive virtual reality app (The Preservation Station) that will allow people to revisit those venues right on their phones, with or without a VR headset.

It’s an exciting project (if a bit heartbreaking sometimes, because it’s still sad that these wonderful theaters are gone), and we’re making solid strides in the development of the app, releasing podcast episodes all year long about the arts landscape in Austin, and teaming up with local developers and artists to make it all happen. But as you might imagine, production and development requires a LOT of time and effort... and we would like to PAY our local talent for this time and effort.

Cue #AmplifyATX #AmplifyAUSTIN pitch! Till 6pm today, we’re accepting contributions to help our efforts as part of this city-wide push to raise funds and awareness for ALL the arts in Austin, TX. Click those hashtags if you’re curious about all the local talent taking part in this event. Or click right here if you’re interested specifically in supporting our project and guaranteeing your spot to beta test our app:

https://amplifyatx.ilivehereigivehere.org/preservationstation

For more info about Make Every Media:
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Join me in giving back to the community we love right here in Central Texas with a donation of $25 to your favorite cause! #AmplifyATX

Make Every Media #9, our first episode about how to get involved in the theatre / film acting scenes in Austin, features Jenny Lavery of Austin Creative Alliance & Theatre en Bloc!

For many, the 2018 Unified Auditions is a great place to start or build up to... this year it's on Feb 11th and the deadline to register is Monday (Tomorrow!) at noon. Additional year-round auditioning resources within.

On SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/michael-ferstenfeld/memcast009

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Tonight Salvage Vanguard Theater presents WPA: Cooler Bodies by Diana Lynn Small! And TODAY, we present to you the first episode of the Make Every Media Podcast about the preservation of arts spaces in Austin, TX. Featuring an intro to the venue formerly known as SVT, a totally relevant (we swear) tangent about Not This American Life! (a show which originated at SVT), and there's the most perfect Southpaw Jones song / cherry-on-top at the end! We love that guy! ... See more

Introducing EPISODE 7 of Make Every Media, which is Episode ONE of The Preservation Station, featuring Salvage Vanguard Theater, Not This American Life, the voices of Jenny Larson, Shannon McCormick, Michelle Dahlenburg, Asaf Ronen, and Connor Hopkins. With music curation by Wyatt Tall. Also, see what SVT is up to TONIGHT at WPA: Cooler Bodies by Diana Lynn Small!

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https://soundcloud.com/michael-ferstenfeld/memcast007

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As rents for residents and businesses continue to climb, Austin City Council has approved a plan to help the city’s artists afford to keep their venues and

Need some Shakespeare for your Sunday? Try Something for Nothing Theater!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1310561042385124/

Note the real dates: June 8-24, Thursday-Saturday, 8 pm.

Two armies, two lovers, two hours! This June, find out what William Shakespeare can do with the story of ancient Troy. Troilus and Cressida is Homeric fan fiction from Shakespeare’s pen. The play has a siege, battles, and the famous final showdown between Achilles and Hector. But there’s also a love story! Cressida (Becca Musser, in her farewell Austin theatre performance) is in love with Troilus, son of the king, but she can’t tell him. Then her uncle Pandarus makes a plan to bring them together. All seems to be going well until the war gets in the way. The tradition of Shakespeare in Ramsey Park (4301 N. Rosedale Ave Austin TX 78756) continues with our 2017 summer show. Our company produces the plays with minimal props, costumes, and lighting, focusing on storytelling and the wonderful language of Shakespeare. For this production, the script has been cut down to less than two hours, so it will be a snappy experience, unlike the epic you may have read in school! Bring a blanket or chair, pack some snacks, and join us on this Trojan journey!

Cast:
Becca Musser: Cressida, Prologue, Paris's Man
Joseph Clingan: Troilus, Menelaus
Mary Beyer: Cassandra, Boy
Andy Bond: Pandarus, Myrmidon
David Boss: Agamemnon, Priam
Corinna Browning: Helen, Aeneas, Myrmidon
Robert Deike: Ulysses, Myrmidon
Taylor Flanagan: Thersites
Nathan Daniel Ford: Diomedes, Bastard
John Gonzalez: Hector, Calchas
Nell McKeown: Ajax, Andromache
Kevin Moxley: Paris, Nestor
Sanjay Rao: Achilles, Alexander
Jonathan Vineyard: Patroclus, Myrmidon ... See more

These people are all amazing. Shrewd Productions. Every single person involved in this. We will be seeing it as soon as possible. Yes, a revolutionizing is imminent!

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By Lauren Gunderson

It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection that ends in a song and a scaffold. Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, loose their heads, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in revolutionary Paris.

This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, feminism and terrorism, art and how we actually go about changing the world.

Shrewd is proud to present the Austin premiere of The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, directed by award-winning director, Rudy Ramirez, featuring Sarah Marie Curry, Valoneecia Tolbert, Gricelda Silva, and Shannon Grounds with costume design by Jennifer Rose Davis, lighting design by Patrick W Anthony, set design by Chris Conard and sound design by Tortuga Malo.

The REVOLUTIONISTS
by Lauren Gunderson
June 9-25, Thursdays - Sundays at 8pm
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It's not to be missed!

"A show that is not to be missed" - Austin American-Statesman

Must close June 17th.

Hearts racing. Minds reeling. Knees buckling. Connie and Tristan have palpable chemistry—or is it a side effect of a new super-antidepressant? They are volunteers in a clinical trial, but their sudden and illicit romance forces the supervising doctors to face off over the ethical consequences of their work.

Capital T Theatre is proud to present the the funny and gripping regional premiere of Lucy Prebble's award-winning explorations of love and the chemicals that make us believe in it. The award-winning cast includes Sarah Danko, Delante Keys, Rebecca Robinson, and Rommel Sulit and is directed by Lily Wolff.

Running Time: 2 hours with a 15 minute intermission ... See more

Tomorrow night at 8pm! The first Not This American Life! episode in over three years also happens to be the very first live taping of the Make Every Media podcast and our very last performance on the mainstage of The Institution Theater before they are forced to shut it down due to parking zoning regulations. So many of our shows have happened on this stage! We want to do all that we can to preserve its memory! ... See more

Art is fleeting. Art spaces even more so in this city that we love. Not This American Life will address this with Episode 23: Home Is Where the Art Is.

In the last night of The Institution having their main building, Not Ira Glass and a slew of guests are going to send off the space by looking at what makes a space and how space informs art. Most importantly, where does it go when the space is lacking.

The show will feature musical performances from Fragile Rock, Craig Kotfas, Ann Flynn-Terrell and Kazki Watanabe, improvised thought experiments from Happiness is a Choice, an “audio tour” with the teaching staff of The Institution and snippets of past Institution performances such as The Source and Hurlyburly throughout the building and beyond. ... See more