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GROUND FLOOR THEATRE

979 Springdale Rd
Austin, TX 78702

Falsettos
Falsettos
12/5 - 12/21/2024


Falsettos explores the complexity of love, family, and identity with humor and heart. Set against the backdrop of 1970s and 1980s New York, the story ...


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Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards; LEGALLY BLONDE at Zilker Theatre Productions Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 16, 2024

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Review: FALSETTOS at Ground Floor Theatre


by Sabrina Wallace - December 12, 2024

GroundFloor’s production of Falsettos masterfully walks the fine line between comedy and tragedy, presenting William Finn and James Lapine’s poignant musical with a bold, albeit occasionally polarizing, emphasis on its absurd humor....

Ground Floor Theatre Reveals 2025 Fellows for GFT Writes


by Stephi Wild - December 11, 2024

Now in its second year, the program brings a group of four playwrights to include Mia Gomez-Reyes, Anikka Lekven, Briandaniel Oglesby, Jessica L. Peña Torres. ...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Austin Awards


by BWW Awards - December 09, 2024

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First Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Austin Awards


by BWW Awards - December 02, 2024

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B. Iden Payne Awards 2023-24 Nominees Revealed - See the Full List


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 25, 2024

Join the B. Iden Payne Awards Council at the Austin Scottish Rite Theatre to honor excellence in Austin theatre, recognizing achievements across various genres. Learn how to attend....

Cast Set for FALSETTOS at Ground Floor Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 23, 2024

Ground Floor Theatre has revealed the cast for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Falsettos directed by Trace Turner with musical direction by Trey Shonkwiler and choreography by Richard Cerato. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets....

JANE EYRE Comes to Austin Shakespeare Next Month


by Stephi Wild - October 11, 2024

Austin Shakespeare will be the first American theater company to stage a new version of Jane Eyre, recently developed by the National Theatre of Great Britain and The Bristol Old Vic Theatre. It will run Nov. 9-24 at the Long Center’s Rollins Theatre with a low-priced preview Nov. 8. Regular tickets...

DANCE CAROUSEL 2024 Announced At Ground Floor Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - October 01, 2024

This November, 20+ artists will come together for Dance Carousel at the Ground Floor Theatre. ...

Glass Half Full Theatre To Remount YAMEL CUCUY In Austin


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 25, 2024

Glass Half Full Theatre will remount Yamel Cucuy, for a limited engagement at Austin’s Ground Floor Theatre. Yamel Cucuy blends sophisticated puppetry with live actors and draws upon frightening folk tales and modern horror movies. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....

Past Shows

Falsettos
Falsettos
12/5 - 12/21/2024


Falsettos explores the complexity of love, family, and identity with humor and heart. Set against the backdrop of 1970s and 1980s New York, the story ...

Waiting for the Bus
Waiting for the Bus
11/14 - 11/23/2024


Art Spark Texas will present a new work by James Burnside, Waiting for the Bus, Nov. 14-23 at the Ground Floor Theater. The world premier ...

Yamel Cucuy
Yamel Cucuy
10/11 - 10/19/2024


Yamel Cucuy, an original play award-winning play by Glass Half Full Theatre, returns to Austin before heading to Los Angeles. Yamel Cucuy is the story ...

The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart
9/6 - 9/21/2024


Larry Kramer's landmark play about the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the fight for a public response.

Getting in Bed with the Pizza Man


Fresh from her Los Angeles premiere and back by popular demand, Katie Folger returns to Austin with the one-woman show, Getting in Bed with the ...

Clyde's
Clyde's
5/16 - 6/1/2024


At Clyde’s, the truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit


With no rehearsals, no director, a star who doesn't know the showt, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White ...

14/48
14/48
3/8 - 3/9/2024


Seven world-premiere plays are written, cast, directed, rehearsed, scored, designed, and performed in 24 hours. Then we do it all over again the next night ...

Always A Boy
Always A Boy
2/15 - 3/2/2024


Always a Boy follows Joshua and his family during his gender transition

Back to You
Back to You
1/12 - 1/20/2024


The REGIONAL PREMIERE of Chris Rivera’s riveting play about navigating queer relationships in modern culture, told from a Latiné perspective. This play will be performed by the ...

Jack & Aiden
Jack & Aiden
11/30 - 12/16/2023


When Aiden first meets Jack, it’s through the transactional world of gay male hookup apps– Aiden’s first exploration since transitioning. But as the two spend ...

'Art'
'Art'
11/2 - 11/18/2023


When Serge purchases an all-white painting for a small fortune, his longtime friendship with Marc and Yvan is put to the test. As the arguments ...

Sordid Lives
Sordid Lives
10/6 - 10/14/2023


Austin Rainbow Theatre, Central Texas’ new home for LGBTQIA+ theatre, presents their inaugural production of Del Shores’ raucous Texas comedy Sordid Lives at Ground Floor ...

It’s About Time … To Celebrate


The Austin Gay Men’s Chorus (AGMC)  present their Fall Fundraiser: It’s About Time … To Celebrate It’s about time: time to raise our voices, time ...

Jenna & the Whale
Jenna & the Whale
8/10 - 8/26/2023


Jenna, a young surfer, is swallowed by a whale after getting pulled out to sea by a rip current. Inside the belly of the whale ...

Box
Box
6/23 - 7/8/2023


Written by Jarrett King and directed by Simone Alexander Experience the harrowing story of Henry Box Brown, the abolitionist lecturer and early magician who escaped ...

Sanctuary City
5/19 - 6/3/2023


In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she ...

Sanctuary City
Sanctuary City
5/19 - 6/2/2023


In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she ...

Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson


Jarrott Productions ends their 22/23 Season with Jane Anderson’s  Mother of the Maid  at Ground Floor Theatre from April 21st thru May 6th! Mother of ...

Vincent
Vincent
3/23 - 4/8/2023


Vincent intimately relates the life story of the iconic painter, Vincent Van Gogh, from the perspective of his brother Theo. Based on actual letters between ...

PAGEANT: The Musical Comedy Beauty Contest


Like no beauty pageant you’ve ever seen before, six contestants (all played by men) vying for the title of Miss Glamouresse compete in swimsuit, talent, ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit starring p1nkstar


Staring the amazing pop star p1nkstar. With no rehearsals, no director, a star who doesn't know the showt, and a script waiting in a sealed ...

14/48
14/48
2/24 - 2/25/2023


After 2 years of missing your lovely faces we are thrilled to have y'all join us for the 7th annual quickest lil theatre festival in ...

Memphis
12/31


n the electrifying world of Memphis the Musical, get ready for a powerful story set against the backdrop of the 1950s rock and roll revolution. ...

The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years
12/2 - 12/18/2022


An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five ...

The Caldera
The Caldera
10/25


A benefit reading of a new play by Sarah Saltwick. Lizzie and Maggie hit the open road in search of health care. Up in the ...

Matt & Ben
Matt & Ben
10/6 - 10/8/2022


In 1994, before Jason Bourne or Bennifer, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were just two struggling actors trying to make it in the movie business. ...

Tick, Tick...Boom!
Tick, Tick...Boom!
9/2 - 9/17/2022


If you love RENT, you'll love this raw, hilarious, genre-cracking muscial. Before he electrified the world with RENT Jonathan Larson was a young man struggling ...

Anna in the Tropics
Anna in the Tropics
8/11 - 8/27/2022


ANNA IN THE TROPICS (winner of the 2003 Pulitzer) is a poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929 in a CubanAmerican cigar factory, ...

A War of the Worlds
A War of the Worlds
6/2 - 6/18/2022


Both comic and gripping, A War of the Worlds re-imagines Orson Welles and his radio troupe, The Mercury Theatre, as a group of Black artists ...

Dot
Dot
5/13 - 5/28/2022


The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than ...

The Voices of Donny Hathaway
The Voices of Donny Hathaway
4/22 - 4/23/2022


On January 13th, 1979, the world lost Donny Hathaway, one of its greatest musicians and singers. In Robert King Jr.'s new thought-provoking musical, he introduces ...

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
3/24 - 4/9/2022


Music. Power. Jealousy.When a rowdy young prodigy named Mozart arrives in Vienna determined to make a splash, the court composer Salieri is awestruck by his ...

Drag Queen Story


Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds likedrag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination ...

Unexpected Joy
Unexpected Joy
12/3 - 12/19/2021


In modern-day Cape Cod, Joy, a baby boomer and proud hippie, is holding a memorial concert for the other half of her popular musical duo, ...

The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project
10/21 - 10/23/2021


Austin Rainbow Theatre presents their very first production, The Laramie Project.The play examines the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college student, through the ...

The Laramie Project
10/21 - 10/23/2021


In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of ...

rain falls special on me
rain falls special on me
8/26 - 9/4/2021


When it rains in Austin, Texas, the best place to stay dry through the night is behind the theatre. Weather and circumstance bring together Mikey, ...

Trans Lives/Trans Voices
Trans Lives/Trans Voices
1/28 - 5/27/2021


Trans and Non-Binary people telling their own stories from their perspective.New stories premier each Thursday night at 7pm starting January 28th. with a live intro ...

Anna in the Tropics
5/6 - 5/22/2021


It’s 1929 and we are in Florida at a Cuban–American cigar factory; cigars are still rolled by hand and “lectors” are hired to educate and ...

Abuelita's Christmas Carol


Shes no George Bailey! Shes no Ebenezer Scrooge. She is, however, spicier than the both of them. Her name is Rosita, aka Abuelita! Since 2006, ...

Curbside Cabaret, A Celebration of Black Musicals


Ground Floor Theatre is bringing together some of the top talent in Austin for virtual live performance -- Curbside Cabaret, A Celebration of Black Musical ...

Anna in the Tropics
9/10 - 9/26/2020


It’s 1929 and we are in Florida at a Cuban–American cigar factory; cigars are still rolled by hand and “lectors” are hired to educate and ...

Single Black Female
Single Black Female
2/13 - 2/29/2020


Single Black Female is a two-woman show with rapid-fire comic vignettes that explore the lives of thirty-something African American middle-class women in urban America as ...

Next to Normal
Next to Normal
12/5 - 12/21/2019


Ground Floor Theatre has teamed up with Deaf Austin Theatre for our December Musical In keeping with GFTs mission of producing ground breaking works by ...

NEXT TO NORMAL
12/5 - 12/21/2019


Next to Normal delves into the raw and complex world of mental illness, specifically focusing on bipolar disorder. The story centers around Diana, a wife ...

HANG
HANG
10/3 - 10/19/2019


A crime has been committed. The victim has a choice to make. The criminal is waiting. A shattering new play about one woman’s unspeakable decision. ...

TRANSom
TRANSom
8/15 - 8/31/2019


This play, devised by the all trans/non binary ensemble, tells the story of a 'found family' living together in the same house. Together, they experience ...

ROSETTA: A Musical
ROSETTA: A Musical
8/20 - 8/21/2019


ROSETTA is a musical in development in Austin, Texas. Exploring the legacy of Black musical pioneer Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) and embracing the musical styles of ...

ROSETTA: A Musical
ROSETTA: A Musical
8/20 - 8/21/2019


ROSETTA is a musical in development in Austin, Texas. Exploring the legacy of Black musical pioneer Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) and embracing the musical styles of ...

Dex & Abby
Dex & Abby
5/16 - 6/1/2019


Sean and Corey are enjoying the beginning of a relationship and their new home. Their dogs, Abby and Dex, are not. Abby, Seans young, excitable ...

black do crack (remount)


black do crack is an invitation to transform. It is an exploration of the mythology of the strong black woman. The mother who is not ...

Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
3/21 - 4/6/2019


As a police inspector investigates a gruesome murder, we journey through the mind of a criminal. What did he do? Why did he do it? ...

black do crack
black do crack
2/14 - 3/2/2019


black do crack is an invitation to transform. It is an exploration of the mythology of the strong black woman. The mother who is not ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
12/6 - 12/22/2018


One of the most groundbreaking productions ever to hit Broadway, Fun Home is the winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Based on ...

Nevermore
Nevermore
10/25 - 11/10/2018


Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a unique and wildly theatrical musical play combining haunting music, poetic storytelling, and ...

There and Back
There and Back
8/9 - 8/25/2018


World premiere of There and Back, by Austin playwright Raul Garza. This new work opens up dialogue about the current immigration crisis with an eye ...

White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
3/15 - 3/31/2018


WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT has been called a play. But it’s a lively, global sensation that no-one is allowed to talk about.   Its award-winning ...

Gibberish Mostly
Gibberish Mostly
9/21 - 9/30/2017


A young woman yearns to communicate with her parents as they struggle to understand what’s going on in her mind. Gibberish Mostly takes an unusual ...

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