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Artist-owned and operated Cultural Arts Center
MISSION
- To create and present new, innovative performances
- To transgress conventional theatrical forms
- To cultivate new relationships between artists and audiences
- To generate new audiences through outreach to special constituencies
- To nurture diversity of VORTEX artists
- To foster educational programming
- To anchor The VORTEX, a dynamic and cherished home for the arts
of the 21st century.
HISTORY
VORTEX Repertory Company, formerly the Planet Theatre,
was incorporated in October 1988 to create innovative productions of
original work. Since 1990, VORTEX has operated in various performance
venues and today owns its own facility in East Austin, providing an
intimate venue for the Vortex Repertory Company as well as other local
and national theatre companies, musicians, dancers, and performance
artists.
A pioneering leader in Austin's alternative theatre scene,
the VORTEX has successfully produced over 200 performances in the last
16 years. As a haven for alternative performance the VORTEX seeks to
enrich and expand both spectators and artists. The VORTEX creates and
produces vital, ground breaking performances that generate thought and
discourse on the issues of our time.
Over the years the VORTEX has become revered around the
world as a haven for alternative performance producing original cutting-edge
work by nationally-recognized guest artists including: Heather Woodbury,
Rob Nash, Karen Finley, Quentin Crisp, Pomo Afro Homos, Deborah Hay
are among of our recent visiting artists.
HIGHLIGHTS
| World Premieres of Music Theatre
Despair's Book of Dreams & the Sometimes Radio*
Beauty Vultures*
Lucifa
Faustus
Summer Youth Highlights
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Conference of the Birds
Machinal*
Frogs*
Moby Dick*
Animal Farm
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities*
World Premieres of Collaborative Works
Vampyress*
Sleeping Beauty
Pythia Dust
Dark Goddess*
The Deluge*
Wisdom of the Crone
Metamorpheus
New Plays by Austin Playwrights
Aaron Brown
Barry Pineo
Wayne Alan Brenner
Kirk Smith
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Cybernetic Operas
Triskelion
Panoptikon*
The Black Blood
X and Y Trilogy*
Austin Premieres of New Works
Wake for the Dark Poet: The Antonin Artaud Project*
Fur
The Pitchfork Disney
Temptation
Beirut
The Baltimore Waltz
Steel Kiss
Unidentified Human Remain
Medea*
Vibrant Productions of Classics
Coriolanus
Twelfth Night*
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
King Lear
* Indicates award winning performances. |
COMMUNITY
Creating and presenting world premiere, cutting-edge,
plays, ritual theatre, musical theatre, and opera, the VORTEX continues
to expand its artistic professionalism, arts education programming,
and community outreach.
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