We are thrilled to announce the cast of our Our Town by Thornton Wilder! We feel very privileged to have secured permission to produce this beautiful play and will do our best to be worthy of that honor.

Today, a star-studded revival of Our Town is opening on Broadway. You should go see it! And then come back and see ours. And then let’s dish!

Called “one of the finest achievements of the current stage…a hauntingly beautiful play.” by The New York Times, Our Town is thought to be a microcosm of the life cycle.

The Gibbs Family is represented by Florinda Bryant, Rommel Sulit, and Eric Ramos. The Webb Family is played by Liz Fisher, Noel Gaulin, Kira Small and Chandler Collins. The Stage Manager will be played by as many Rude Mechs Co-Producing Artistic Directors as we can gather any particular evening. The remaining cast members will be announced at a later time…

Co-Producing Artistic Director Shawn Sides will direct. The production team also includes design by Aaron Flynn.

Tickets on sale October 1st!

Running November 1 – 24 at Crashbox

PERFORMANCE! BODY! SELF!

a performance & talk by Tim Miller

Friday, Sept 20 at Crashbox

doors at 6:30 p.m. (free refreshments)

performance / talk at 7:30 p.m.

tickets are FREE, reserve your seat here

Internationally acclaimed solo performer Tim Miller will present excerpts from his work and discuss the role performance plays in constellating identity, emboldening communities, engaging social change, and connecting people with one another.

Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller’s performances have been seen all over the world. He is the author of Shirts & Skin, Body Blows and 1001 Beds. His theatre texts are published in the collections O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance (1998) and Sharing the Delerium – Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances (1993).

Sponsored by Oscar Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism/Performance as Public Practice, LGBTQ Studies, Jesse H. Jones Regents Professorship in Fine Arts, and Rude Mechs.

Rude Mechs is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov