THE VORTEX

An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. What follows is ...

To celebrate his 25th year in magic, Rudy Reynoso brings Austin a magic show unlike anything before. The Roundtable is a dazzling mix of fun ...

National New Play Network rolling world premiere play by Rachel Bublitz. Since abortions are illegal in the United States, Monroe throws herself a surprise abortion ...

The VORTEX presents the world premiere of Sunny Days, a play by Reina Hardy.

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX for the next performance of Malum Malus, new Burlesque performance ...

The VORTEX’s award-winning Summer Youth Theatre presents the regional premiere of Thrive, Or What You Will, an epic new play by LM Feldman and directed

To celebrate his 25th year in magic, Rudy Reynoso brings Austin a magic show unlike anything before. The Roundtable is a dazzling mix of fun ...

The VORTEX presents Child of Aphrodite, a new work-in-progress by Blaise Ricin, VORTEX Green New Theatre Resident Artist and Artistic Director of Malum Malus.  As ...

La Maleta de Maebelle is a heartwarming bilingual journey inspired by Maebelle’s Suitcase by Tricia Tusa, brought to life for audiences of all ages in ...

La Maleta de Maebelle is a heartwarming bilingual journey inspired by "Maebelle’s Suitcase" by Tricia Tusa, brought to life for audiences of all ages in ...

Glass Half Full Theatre produces a warm, funny adaptation of Tricia Tusa’s tale of the love between 108-year-old Maebell and her dear bird friend, Binkle....

Open-Mic Poetry hosted by Ebony Stewart

SOBRE EL ESPECTÁCULO ProyectoTEATRO, en colaboración con The Vortex, presenta el 3er y último capítulo de CABAREX , una trilogía escénica que toma las características ...

Dance performance produced by Diverse Space Dance Theatre, with choreography by Toni Bravo...

The wheel of the year inspires Malum Malus, an occult burlesque chantry of witches. Beltane heralds the arrival of summer. This is an auspicious night ...

The VORTEX and Fusebox Festival present the world premiere of The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a new choreopoem by Lisa B. Thompson

Bridging with Mother is an artistic call to “conjoin,” to “merge,” or to “become one with nature.” Experience live music, classical Indian dance, multimedia art, ...

Trouble Puppet Theater Company presents the world premiere of UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play, telling the true story of the “radium girls”.

The annual renewal of The VORTEX garden and butterfly sanctuary featuring live music, a petting zoo, and gardening activities for all ages...

Black Box Stage:...

The tenth anniversary of OUTsider takes place at The VORTEX across four days of queer transmedia, with performance art, music, and more. Festival badges are ...

Austin’s premier transmedia nonprofit OUTsider is having their 10th annual OUTsider Fest, happening Feb. 15 - 18, 2024, mainly taking place at The Vortex (located ...

Workshop performance by drag queen World Famous *BOB*...

Austin draglesque star World Famous *BOB* presents AMAGING! Age Is More Than Just A Number ~ It’s A Story, a theatrical storytelling show, at The ...

Ages 18+ The VORTEX presents LAMAN HAYWAN , an immersive biohacking performance installation by mirrored fatality, on February 2, 2024, at 8:00 p.m., and a ...

ProyectoTEATRO, in collaboration with The VORTEX, returns to the stage with their most recent project, CABAREX, a cabaret trilogy that explores Latin-American history through theatre,

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Poetry Open Mic  Hosted by Ebony Stewart...

Honor the spirit and memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on our national holiday. Join host Ebony Stewart and the community onstage at ...

" Hell Oh Earthlings! all you beautiful souls gathered under the cosmic spectacle tonight, welcome to  TheleMagick - Bowie !  I am thrilled to stand ...

Different Stages presents Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale, the first woman playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, for this play, in 2021.

Different Stages opens its 2023-2024 season with Miss Lulu Bett (An American Comedy of Manners) by Zona Gale. Lulu lives with her sister's family and does ...

The wheel of the year inspires Malum Malus, an occult burlesque chantry of witches.

Recommended Audience Attire:  Cocktail party hats, furs, jewels, and retro (or nothing at all). Salvador Dali’s Naked Feast  is  not  a traditional seated event. Audience ...

ProyectoTEATRO, in collaboration with The VORTEX, Escándalo! and a butt load of other Latinx artists, invite you to jump back in time with this comedic ...

ProyectoTEATRO, in collaboration with The VORTEX, Escándalo! and a butt load of other Latinx artists, invite you to jump back in time with this comedic ...

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The Green New Theatre Symposium, September 14-17, 2023, centers environmental justice over four days of performances, panels, walks, and gardening. The event ...

8:00 p.m. Free Admission ABOUT THE SHOW Join us on Wednesday August 30 (full moon, blue moon) through September 2 to get a first taste ...

A workshop of a new play by Reina Hardy.  Inspired by the actual Sesame Workshop that develops new versions of Sesame Street for other nations ...

A workshop of a new play by Reina Hardy.  Inspired by the actual Sesame Workshop that develops new versions of Sesame Street for other nations ...

The VORTEX presents two nights of staged readings of this dynamic play by Reina Hardy featuring people and puppets, set in the broken worlds of ...

The VORTEX presents a one-night-only staged reading of a new choreopoem by Lisa B. Thompson. This new theatre piece offers a spiritual mixed tape, praise ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX for the next performance of Malum Malus, new Burlesque performance ...

The wheel of the year inspires Malum Malus, an occult burlesque chantry of witches. Lammas, also known as Lughnasad, is a pagan holiday that marks ...

THE MEMO BY VÁCLAV HAVEL JULY 21-29, 2023 Summer Youth Theatre 8:00 p.m. | Sunday 6:00 p.m. ASL Interpretation Saturday July 22, 8:00 p.m. ABOUT ...

Now in its 31st year, The VORTEX's Summer Youth Theatre program presents The Memorandum by Václav Havel. Directed by Jelena Stojiljkovic Rhynes. This 1966 Czech modern ...

Born 500 years before Shakespeare, the first female playwright of the Western world, Hrosvitha, wrote from behind the walls of a convent, under the disapproving ...

Different Stages continues its 2022-2023 season with The Art of Martyrdom (A Comedy) by Rita Anderson. Born 500 years before Shakespeare, the first female playwright of ...

Trouble Puppet presents a one-night-only fundraiser performance showcasing the work of first-time puppet-makers. Exploring elements of American Blood Song , Trouble Puppet's 2019 operetta about ...

Award-winning poet and performance artist Ebony Stewart presents an open mic poetry night honoring the Black queer community during Pride month. She will be joined ...

SPRITES AND SPIRITS MAY 18-21, 2023 Performed by Diverse Space Dance Theatre Original Music by Victoria Schwarz Choreography by Michael Jahoda, Toni Bravo, and DSDT ...

MALUM MALUS BURLESQUE - BELTANE MAY 4-6, 2023 8:00 P.M. Created by Blaise Ricin and Anastasia Arsenic Presented by The VORTEX The wheel of the ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX for the next performance of Malum Malus, new Burlesque performance ...

A “choose your own adventure” musical comedy experience, starring Rachel Pallante . What if Bette Midler and Jerry Garcia had a love child? Hop on ...

The VORTEX hosts Earth Day , a unique event in celebration of our 35th Coral Season, with special guests the Guy Forsyth Band. 5-7 p.m. ...

As one of the highlights of our 35th Coral Season, The VORTEX proudly presents a sweeping musical tale of magic, power, and transformation with an ...

As one of the highlights of our 35th Coral Season, The VORTEX proudly presents a sweeping musical tale of magic, power, and transformation with an ...

"Hey little black girl, feeling invisible and all so visceral. Staring up at the heavens, as vast as your potential. i see you. you’re seen”.  ...

World Premiere Written and Performed by Oktavea LaToi Directed by Simone Raquel Alexander “Hey little black girl, feeling invisible and all so visceral. Staring up ...

OUTsider is an Austin transmedia nonprofit that celebrates the bold originality and creative nonconformity of the LGBTQ+ communities through the presentation of provocative, overlooked and ...

An original one-woman cabaret-comedy show by Brooke McCarthy.  The show follows the protagonist, Blake Valentini, as she struggles between dating the socially acceptable way -- ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX for the next performance of Malum Malus, new Burlesque performance ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX in welcoming Malum Malus - Imbolc , an exciting Burlesque ...

The VORTEX proudly presents the premiere of Ride the Wave, a new multimedia performance telling the story of 3 bros searching for an epic surf ...

The VORTEX proudly presents the premiere of Ride the Wave , a new multimedia performance telling the story of 3 bros searching for an epic ...

Join your friends at The VORTEX to celebrate the Lunar/Chinese New Year and enter into the Year of the Rabbit—the Water Rabbit. Fire and new ...

CONSOLATION OF CHAOS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE BY CORPS MULTIPLE. Presented by Corps Multiple & The VORTEX Choreography by Sandie Donzica Live Music by Key Hole ...

Different Stages continues its 2022-2023 season with Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer winning play Water by the Spoonful. Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and ...

The Pact is a play about family, pizza, climate change, dating apps, and fringe religious sects...in that order! Directed by Will Gibson Douglas, the play ...

The VORTEX launches its 35th Season with the world premiere of Edit Annie by Mary Glen Fredrick, directed by Will Detlefsen, an NNPN directing fellow ...

Austins own Erotic Muse, Whore, and PhD sex educator, Charla Hathaway, takes it off for you in her one-woman show about sex work, Naked at ...

For two evenings, August 20th and 21st, 2022, The VORTEX, La Fenice, Crown Theatre, and Tooth & Claw present staged readings by Ukrainian playwrights with ...

Created by Blaise Ricinpresented by The VORTEXThe wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX in welcoming Malum Malus: ...

MR. BURNS, A POST ELECTRIC PLAYJULY 29 - AUGUST 6, 2022By Anne WashburnScore by Michael FriedmanLyrics by Anne WashburnDirected by Jennifer Jennings. The VORTEX Summer ...

TALES OF A BLERD BALLERINAJULY 8-23, 2022Written and performed by Valoneecia TolbertDirected by Florinda BryantPresented by The VORTEXA choreopoem told with humor, dance, and music, ...

Written/performed by Valoneecia Tolbert and directed by Florinda Bryant, Tales of a Blerd Ballerina is a choreopoem told with humor, dance, and music, Tales of ...

Live stream filmed from INSIDE the theatre on the Eloise Brooks Cullum Stage!The VORTEX presents the world premiere of Tales of a Blerd Ballerina written ...

Different Stages returns to live performances with George Bernard Shaws Heartbreak House. When Ellie Dunn joins a house party at the home of the eccentric ...

Different Stages returns to live performances with George Bernard Shaws Heartbreak House. When Ellie Dunn joins a house party at the home of the eccentric ...

An original historical play by Connor Hopkins, telling the story of Americas WWI-era Radium GirlsPresented by Trouble Puppet Theater CompanyUsing extensive shadow puppetry and its ...

Trouble Puppet Theater Co. announces UNDARK: A Radioactive PuppetPlay, telling the story of Americas WWI-era Radium Girls, produced with the support of a Workshop Grant ...

Some cultures are more systematic than others. Some systemic problems can only go, if the system is redone, or gone.Believe is the wrong word to ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX in welcoming Malum Malus - Beltane, a new Burlesque performance ...

Written and performed by Oktavea LaToi. Directed by Simone Alexander. Assistant Director Clarissa Smith. Choreography by Michael Love. A solo look at Oktavea LaToi’s personal ...

This whimsical and profound new musical by Rembert Block, directed by Bonnie Cullum, grapples with identity, image, and narcissism. Featuring live music by the Brooklyn-based ...

Different Stages presents a reading of the first play by a woman to win the Pulitizer Prize -- Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale. In ...

Peckin the Crown is what happens when you combine witchcraft, puppetry, psychedelic drugs and infuse it with imagery from the dark fairy tale Little Red ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX for the next performance of Malum Malus, new Burlesque performance ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art ensemble. Join The VORTEX for the next performance of Malum Malus, new Burlesque performance ...

Written and performed by Valoneecia Tolbert. Directed by Florinda Bryant. Choreography by Sad M. Jones. A choreopoem of stories told with humor, dance, and music, ...

Circus Chickendog returns to The VORTEX with The Mutt-Cracker(SWEET!). For the 10th year, our favorite canines and circus artists transform The VORTEX for the holidays ...

This years production once again stars brilliant and talented rescue dogs and a talking scarlet macaw (Lauren MaCaw). Darren Peterson brings his masterful juggling and ...

Ah, Thanksgiving,that most American of holidays: when families gather to bask in the bounty of the harvest, football, giant balloons and a legacy of genocide ...

Done through a conjuring practice, Eva Margarita will make activated charcoal as a means for creating an ink that acknowledges the personal and social stains ...

The Austin Puppet Incident is a joint creation of Glass Half Full Theatre and Trouble Puppet Theatre Company to highlight short works of puppetry for ...

When COVID 19 locked down the world in 2020, cancelling live performances, Chad Salvata retreated to his BlackSun Studio and created a response with the ...

The wheel of the year inspires this occult-based burlesque performance art with a small ensemble. Created by Blaise Ricin and Carmen Takeit.The show will also ...

The VORTEX and Brown Boy Productions present Rap Unzel, A Story of #BlackBoyJoy and a Journey of Hair and Self-Care, with outdoor October matinees on ...

Melissa Vogt; music: Chad Salvata; dir: Bonnie Cullum....

Lisa B. Thompson; dir: Rudy Ramirez....

Color Arc Productions, in collaboration with The VORTEX, presents the world premiere of award-winning playwright Lisa B. Thompson’s new satirical comedy about black, unmarried, middle-class ...

From the award-winning writer of Single Black Female, Underground, and Monroe, comes a new play about the exhilaration and exhaustion that comes from being a ...

The Eloise Stage: Ensemble ; dir: Rudy Ramirez....

The Eloise Stage: Suze Kemper, Rachel Martin....

The Eloise Stage: Jason Bayani; dir: Kat Evasco....

The Eloise Stage: Ness , Nia ....

Gabriel Jason Dean; dir: Pirronne Yousefzadeh. Fielding Stage:...

Darren Petersen, Melissa Vogt; music: Tyler Mabry....

In its premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse, the audiences and critics cheered this new adaptation of one of the greatest novels in the English ...

Fares al Zahaby....

Black Box Stage: Chad Salvata; music: Chad Salvata; dir: Bonnie Cullum....

Black Box Stage:...

Black Box Stage: Rona Munro; dir: Jamie Goodman....

Bonnie Cullum, The Ensemble; dir: Bonnie Cullum. Black Box Stage:...

dir: Elvie Underwood. Black Box Stage:...

music: Electronic Planet Ensemble, Sergio R. Samayoa. Black Box Stage:...

adapt: Annie Sprinkle from Madison Young; dir: Sophia LaPaglia. Black Box Stage:...

Black Box Stage:...

Daria Miyeko Marinelli; dir: kt shorb. Black Box Stage:...

Isaac Gomez; dir: Laura Baker. Black Box Stage:...

Jade Esteban Estrada....

Gabrielle Reisman; dir: Rudy Ramirez. World Premiere...

book: Chad Salvata; lyrics: Chad Salvata; music: Chad Salvata....

Tyler English-Beckwith; dir: Matrex Kilgore. World Premiere...

Sultan Shahriyar, believing in the cunning women, every day he took a wife, young girl, and the next day executed her. This continued for three ...

Ebony Stewart. World Premiere...

Lorella Loftus. World Premiere...

dir: Toni Bravo. World Premiere...

Lisa B. Thompson; dir: Rudy Ramirez. Black Box Stage:...

dir: Sergio R. Samayoa. Black Box Stage:...

Andrew Goldenhersh. Black Box Stage:...

Sarah Saltwick; dir: Rudy Ramirez. Black Box Stage:...

Zell Miller III; dir: Zell Miller III. World Premiere...

Zell Miller III; dir: Zell Miller III. World Premiere...

Chad Salvata; dir: Bonnie Cullum....

Chad Salvata; dir: Bonnie Cullum....

dir: Katherine Wilkinson....

dir: Katherine Wilkinson....

Heather Barfield; dir: Heather Barfield....

There could scarcely be a more provocative start to the season—or a more vivid way to experience Shakespeare’s beloved final play. Unique staging that transports ...

book: Mick D'arcy; lyrics: Mick D'arcy; music: Tyler Mabry; dir: Matthew Patterson....

the Ensemble, kt shorb; dir: kt shorb....

Gabriel Jason Dean; dir: Rudy Ramirez....

dir: Zell Miller III....

Chelsea Manasseri, Zell Miller, III....

Two women share the same man and the same recipe in Hunger. Helene Kvale directs this immersive performance piece featuring wine, chocolate and the desire ...

The Ensemble; dir: kt shorb....

dir: Katherine Wilkinson....

Enda Walsh; dir: Karen Jambon....

Electronic Planet Ensemble....

dir: Rudy Ramirez....

dir: Bonnie Cullum....

book: Chad Salvata; music: Chad Salvata; dir: Bonnie Cullum....

Reina Hardy; dir: Rudy Ramirez....

Circus Chickendog; dir: Asaf Ronan....

David DeMaris....

Katie Green....

dir: Darren Peterson....

Reina Hardy; dir: Rudy Ramirez....

Chad Salvata; music: Chad Salvata....

Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, ...

The VORTEX: - Gabriel Jason Dean; dir: Rudy Ramirez....

The VORTEX: - dir: Rudy Ramirez....

The VORTEX: - Bonnie Cullum; dir: Bonnie Cullum....

The VORTEX: - Zell Miller III; dir: Zell Miller III....

The VORTEX: - Lorella Loftus; dir: Lorella Loftus....

The VORTEX: - Darren Peterson....