Akimbo Bubble Scuttle Ruckus
by Topping Haggerty (Da Foundry) (60 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Akimbo Bubble Scuttle Ruckus is the dark adorable sketch comedy extravaganza you've been waiting for from DA Foundry. Do all puppets have a violent nature? What do rocks feel? Why are suicidal zombies so easy to empathize with? How did you really learn about sex? And why, oh, why is Evil so verbally incontinent? Come experience this hilariously touching, disturbing, raucous display of comedy-licious-ness.
Jan 29th 2012 at 6:45pm, Jan 31st 2012 at 7:00pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 1:00pm, Feb 5th 2012 at 3:00pm




The Alien Baby Play
written by Nicholas Walker Herbert, directed by Gary Jaffe
(Tutto Theatre) (90 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Bethany is 15 months pregnant with an alien baby, and she's invited you to the birth! Kathleen Fletcher returns to Austin for the world premiere of Nicholas Walker Herbert's The Alien Baby Play, an interactive theatrical experience from Tutto Theatre Company which will leave you clutching your womb with joy and terror. www.TuttoTheatre.org
Jan 24th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 1:00pm, Jan 29th 2012 at 8:45pm, Feb 5th 2012 at 7:15pm




The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985
by Max Langert (Punchkin Repertory) (90 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985 centers around Allison, a young woman who’s fascinated by charts, leading her to chart her emotional life since age 9. She shares the ups and downs, focusing on her love life, displaying a pattern of one disappointing relationship after another. Her only hope lies in two love songs from the 80s, which have a seemingly karmic convergence.
Jan 25th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 3:15pm, Feb 3rd 2012 at 7:00pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 10:00pm




The Crapstall Street Boys
written by Connor Hopkins (Trouble Puppet Theater Company ) (45 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
The Crapstall Street Boys uses Czech marionettes to tell the story of You Lad, a workhouse boy who assembles anti-monster security devices and enormous amounts of packaging in a city clogged with garbage and infested with boy-eating monsters. As hunger and desperation get the better of You Lad, he discovers the connection between the monsters, the garbage, and the dwindling number of boys.
Jan 24th 2012 at 9:15pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 11:00pm, Jan 29th 2012 at 3:15pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 6:45pm




Don't Go in the House
written by Lowell Bartholomee & Dan Dietz (the dirigo group) (75 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
The dirigo group presents Don’t Go in the House, a collection of four short, dark plays, including the regional premiere of Dan Dietz’ Heideman-Award-Winning "Lobster Boy," Lowell Bartholomee’s 2011 Best of the Fest "They're Coming to Get You!", and a couple of players to be named later. Starring Ellie McBride, Robert Faires, Robert S. Fisher, and Lowell Bartholomee. Directed by Lowell Bartholomee.
Jan 27th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 29th 2012 at 4:45pm, Jan 30th 2012 at 7:30pm, Feb 2nd 2012 at 8:30pm




Drawing A Paycheck
by Annie La Ganga (90 minutes)
Blue Theater
Wedding cakes, greeting cards, pysanky, kirigami, and crochet. Oils, watercolors, charcoal, and collage. Museums, workshops, church basement craft fairs and prisons. Jack of all trades, master of living off her boyfriend, writer, comedian, and monologist Annie La Ganga draws portraits of volunteers from the audience while telling funny stories about her love of arts and crafts and her many misguided entrepreneurial adventures.
Jan 26th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 5:00pm, Jan 30th 2012 at 7:30pm, Feb 2nd 2012 at 8:45pm




Foursquare
by Manuel Zarate (90 minutes)
Blue Theater
What is love? It's everything and nothing. It's funny and awful. It's the "till death do us part" and the one night stand. For three strangers in Austin, Texas, one night will change their lives forever. Each will face the myth of their past and the reality of their present. Love is not what we thought it was.

Jan 27th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 29th 2012 at 4:15pm, Feb 1st 2012 at 7:00pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 9:15pm




Getting Betta
by Don Fried (Paradox Players) (70 minutes)
Blue Theatre
In this touching futuristic comedy, Michael is a technologically challenged senior and Betta is a virtual computerized assistant assigned to him against his wishes. As Betta continually acquires technology upgrades, she becomes paranoid and schizophrenic. Crystal, Betta’s programmer, arrives and it soon becomes clear she’s no more in control of Betta than Michael is. Getting Betta premiered simultaneously in California and Colorado in March 2011.
Jan 24th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 31st 2012 at 9:15pm, Feb 2nd 2012 at 7:00pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 1:15pm




The Heart You Were Born With
by Drew Julian (75 minutes)
The Blue Theater
The play opens with the unexpected arrival of Bobby's old college roommate, Will, who is suffering from the recent death of his girlfriend. Complications occur when Will falls for Kelli, the current girlfriend of Bobby. These friends come to face the fragility of their loyalty for each other when their sense of desperation sets in.
Jan 24th 2012 at 8:45pm;Jan 28th 2012 at 7:00pm;Feb 4th 2012 at 2:30pm;Feb 5th 2012 at 8:30pm




Here's to You
by A. John Boulanger (Imagine That Productions) (75 minutes)
Blue Theater
Newlyweds Steven and Ellen Gellar pop into a psychic parlor to see what lies ahead for them as husband and wife. Skeptical Steven fears the worst, as eager Ellen awaits the arrival of Madame Orida Mozelle, psychic extraordinaire (and stage star of yesteryear). With each card (and after a few cocktails) Madame O reveals devastating predictions for a marriage that might not last its first night.
Jan 28th 2012 at 9:15pm, Feb 1st 2012 at 9:15pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 7:15pm, Feb 5th 2012 at 4:15pm




Holier Than Thou
by Bastion Carboni (Poison Apple Initiative) (60 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Comprised of candid interviews taken after the expiration of a non-disclosure agreement, Holier Than Thou centers around a reality tv show wherein the contestants compete to possess the powers of Jesus for a week. A dark comedy about what we want and why we need it.
Jan 26th 2012 at 9:00pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 5:30pm, Jan 31st 2012 at 9:00pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 8:15pm




Internet Casanova: The Reboot
by Bill Bauer (Weird City Theatre) (75 minutes)
Blue Theater
What if, instead of blocking an online scammer, you tried to see how far you could string them along? Weird City Theatre presents this expansion of Bill Bauer's 2011 Short Fringe comedy based on chat transcripts. Javier Smith, Carrie H. Stephens, and Minerva Villa return from the original show, joined by Callie Barrons, Tammy Cox, Renei Brown Sims, and Kathryn Tait.
Jan 25th 2012 at 9:15pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 3:00pm, Feb 3rd 2012 at 9:15pm, Feb 5th 2012 at 6:30pm




Jack & Coconuts
by Corey Kwoka (3-D Productions ) (90 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
A wedding in paradise disintegrates into madness. When cousins mistakenly make love, ex-flames appear, and family reconnects-- it’s better to ask, “What could go right?”
Jan 27th 2012 at 9:00pm, Jan 29th 2012 at 1:00pm, Feb 1st 2012 at 9:00pm, Feb 5th 2012 at 5:00pm




Life and Other Terminal Maladies: Short Plays for the Long Fringe
by Trey Deason (Purple Crayon Theatre) (90 minutes)
Blue Theater
"Every life must end, Eden. And that is a truth you should celebrate. Why else would someone like you, who's had so much pain and disappointment in her life, treasure it so?" A collection of darkly comic and deeply moving short plays by acclaimed and two-time BIP nominated playwright Trey Deason, about life, its cure, and other plagues of mankind.
Jan 26th 2012 at 9:15pm, Jan 29th 2012 at 6:30pm, Jan 31st 2012 at 7:00pm, Feb 5th 2012 at 2:00pm




Precious Little Talent
by Ella Hickson (Capital T Theatre) (90 minutes)
Blue Theater
The US premiere of the latest breakout hit from London, Precious Little Talent follows two twenty-somethings--one American, one British--and their struggle to arrive at adulthood during a time when the rules seem to be shifting and the ground is unsteady. "The play is refreshing, honestly and strongly about now. Ask no more” - ★★★★ The Times www.capitalT.org

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Jan 25th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 27th 2012 at 9:15pm, Jan 29th 2012 at 2:00pm, Feb 3rd 2012 at 7:00pm




Somewhere in Utopia
by Jared J. Stein (Out of Context Productions ) (60 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Some·where·in·U·to·pi·a [suhm-whair in yoo-toh-pee-uh] - a travesty - (1) A theatrical calamity, see chaos. (2) An omniscient narrator deprives 2 characters of the little moments: no farting, no burping, and the mail does not arrive. (3) What may or may not be the most relevant event of your life.
Jan 25th 2012 at 9:15pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 7:15pm, Feb 3rd 2012 at 9:15pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 3:00pm




Southern Fried Chickie
written and performed by Christy McBrayer (75 minutes)
Salvage Vanguard Theater
Southern Fried Chickie is a one-woman play about a struggling actress returning from Hollywood to her hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi. Without ever leaving stage, McBrayer narrates while becoming ten characters with the help of musicians called her “Red Neck Greek Chorus.” The show was called “clever, funny and beguiling” by New Orleans Times-Picayune and “an impressive array!” by Variety. www.southernfriedchickie.com
Jan 26th 2012 at 7:00pm, Jan 28th 2012 at 9:00pm, Feb 1st 2012 at 7:00pm, Feb 4th 2012 at 4:45pm