Send CHOP to FringeNYC

  Be part of a solo show!

Audacity Theatre Lab member Brad McEntire has recently received news that his one-man show CHOP has been accepted into the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival. This is awesome news! Way over 1000 shows are submitted every year and only around 200 are accepted.

McEntire premiered CHOP in the DFW area at the Addison Watertower Theatre's 2010 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. He went on to perform the piece in Houston, Portland, New Orleans, Phoenix, Santa Fe (and soon Seattle, too). In August the show will make its New York debut.

And here's where you come in...

FringeNYC is expensive! It is a little outside the comfort zone of a small theatre like Audacity, where we generally pride ourselves on mounting engaging, funny, weird theatre on a very small budget.

Brad has launched a Kickstarter Campaign. Check it out. Any size contribution can help. Spread the word.

Please consider pledging to help a Dallas artist take his little show to the East Coast.

Here's a link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bradmcentire/send-chop-to-fringenyc

EYE IN THE SKY CD Release Party

 

In the winter of 2008 Audacity Theatre Lab commissioned playwrights from around the country for a unique radio theatre project. They were given unfettered freedom to respond to a simple phrase:
 
"For one week in the middle of the summer a giant eye appears in the sky over the city. At the end of seven days it disappears as suddenly as it had originally materialized..."

Audacity received submissions from members of 13P, New Dramatists, Austin Script Works, as well as from a host of local writers.

Pieces poured in from a host of cities all over the country including Dallas (Vicki Caroline Cheatwood, John Flores, Jeff Swearingen, Jeff Hernandez), Austin (Jason Tremblay, Zach Gonzales, Chris Humphrey), Chicago (Andy Eninger), Brooklyn and New York (Crystal Skillman, Gary Winter, Daniel Talbott, Ben Walker Sampson, Chris Alonzo, James Comtois, Ken Urban, Erin Courtney), Philadelphia (Greg Romero) and Evansville, Indiana (Mark Rigney).  All very original, idiosyncratic and wonderful.

Recording, engineering and posting of the six episodes lasted from 2009 to 2012. The project was puzzle-pieced in around other, larger projects and was a complete labor of love. ATL's Brad McEntire curated and directed the project. Kitchen Dog Theater member John Flores stepped in to record all the dialogue of each episode. Chris Humphrey of Austin, Texas' Red House Arts composed original music and engineered each episode. The Undermain Theatre very kindly donated space for recording.

Best of all, some of the most awesome actors in the Dallas area lent their vocal talents to the project. A small sampling would include Jeff Schmidt, Christie Vela, Bryan Pitts, Jeff Swearingen, Lydia Mackay, Oscar Contreras, Scott Milligan, Whitney Holotik and John Flores.

Now we want to release the pieces to the world. So we're giving out CDs. In the meantime, you can, of course, hear them online, too: http://soundcloud.com/audacity-theatrelab

Audacity, alongside Nouveau 47 Theatre, will host an official "CD Release Party" for the project. Come listen to some amazing works, celebrate this unique project and get a free CD.

EYE IN THE SKY CD RELEASE PARTY

WHEN: Monday, June 18 at 8 PM

WHERE: At Nouveau 47 Theatrein the historic Magnolia Lounge (Margo Jones Building), Fair Park, 1121 First Ave., Dallas, TX 75210.

COST: FREE! (Though a Pay-What-You-Can donation is always welcomed).

More information about the EYE IN THE SKY PROJECT visit: http://audacitytheatrelab.blogspot.com/search/label/Eye%20In%20The%20Sky

CHOP gets its own website

In preparations for a very active summer, Brad McEntire's solo show CHOP receives a stand-alone website.

Check it out HERE.

CYRANO A-GO-GO goes to Houston

McEntire performing his solo "oration" CYRANO A-GO-GO

Here at Audacity we are pleased as punch that some of the shows we've developed over the last few years are getting out to a variety of audiences at festivals around the country. We have just received word that Brad McEntire's solo "Oration" CYRANO A-GO-GO has been invited to the 5th Annual Houston Fringe Festival.

The festival runs August 30-September 15, 2012. More exact performance dates and times as details come in.

CHOP accepted to Seattle

Brad McEntire's CHOP has been accepted to the 2012 Seattle Fringe Festival! Hazzah!
Details to come...

EYE IN THE SKY ep 6

The final episode of ATL's epic (in length it took to finish) radio theatre project concludes with this episode.

Pieces by the wonderful Zach Gonzales, Mark Rigney and Vicki Cheatwood.