Photo Flash: Georgia Clinton in RED HOT PATRIOT, Opening 8/18 at Addison Theatre Centre

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced the co-production of Red Hot Patriot: the Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins with Stage West, running August 18 -September 29, 2013 in the Studio Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre. Georgia Clinton reprises her performance as the well-known Texas journalist Molly Ivins. Check out a first look below!

Tickets on sale now. Tickets range in price from $20 to $27.50 and are available online by visiting www.watertowertheatre.org, by phone at 972-450-6232, or in-person at the WaterTower Theatre box office located inside the Addison Theatre Centre.

There will be one preview performance on Sunday, August 18 at 7:30 pm. The opening night performance is August 19 at 7:30 pm.

Dana Schultes is the director of Red Hot Patriot. The creative team includes Jessica Pettit (Production Stage Manager), Jim Covault (Set Design), Jim Covault and Peggy Kruger-O'Brien (Costume Design), Jason Domm (Lighting Design), Lynn Lovett (Décor and Props Design), Eliot Haynes (Sound and Video Design).

Molly Ivins is best-known for her pithy and often colorful prose, something which earned her the admiration of many and the rabid enmity of others. Born into an affluent family, she spent most of her undergrad years at Smith College, later earning a Masters Degree from Columbia University. Her journalistic career took her from the Houston Chronicle to the Texas Observer, and then on to the New York Times, where her signature, earthy language often had her at odds with her management. She later returned to Texas, where her formidable wit found an abundance of targets. She died of cancer in 2007. Red Hot Patriot, written by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel, follows Ivins' journey, from her early battles with her authoritarian father to the one battle she was unable to win.

Photos Courtesy of Stage West

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