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Cast Set For CLYDE'S at Ground Floor Theatre


by Stephi Wild - April 11, 2024

Ground Floor Theatre has announced casting for Lynn Nottage’s critically acclaimed comedy Clyde’s directed by Lacey Cannon Gonzales and Carl Gonzales. ...

Ground Floor Theatre Launches Queer Camp 2024


by Stephi Wild - March 19, 2024

Ground Floor Theatre has announced Queer Camp, a youth summer camp for 2024. A tuition-free and devised performance-centered program for LGBTQ+ youth ages 14-17, GFT's Queer Camp focuses on building connections, skills training, and the arts as social justice advocacy. ...

Review: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS at City Theatre Austin


by Joni Lorraine - February 21, 2024

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Review: ALWAYS A BOY at Ground Floor Theatre


by Joni Lorraine - February 21, 2024

A positive testament to a family’s capacity to love and affirm their transgender child. Austin Theatre is currently providing us with some interesting and informative LGBTQ+ perspectives on which to marinate. At Ground Floor Theatre, director Lisa Scheps has taken on Jo and Jeremy Ivester’s ALWAYS A...

Review: BACK TO YOU at Austin Rainbow Theatre


by Sabrina Wallace - January 18, 2024

Austin Rainbow Theatre (ART) brings a poignant tale of friendship, love, and the challenges of growing up gay in the Texas Valley with Back to You. The script is simple yet profound and delivers likable and relatable characters through the brilliant performances of Joe Montoya (Mateo) and Chris Rive...

Cast Set For World Premiere of ALWAYS A BOY at Ground Floor Theatre


by Stephi Wild - January 11, 2024

Ground Floor Theatre (GFT) has announced casting for the world premiere of Always A Boy written by Jo Ivester and Jeremy Ivester and directed by Ground Floor Theatre Co-Artistic Director Lisa Scheps. ...

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Austin Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 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!...

2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Austin Awards; MATILDA THE MUSICAL, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, Bastrop Opera House & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 18, 2023

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Austin Awards; MATILDA THE MUSICAL, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, Bastrop Opera House & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 11, 2023

It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Review: JACK & AIDEN at Ground Floor Theatre


by Joni Lorraine - December 05, 2023

“Go see this wonderful production, and go see it now.” You’ll be disappointed in the future that you weren’t among those of us singing its praises today....

Past Shows

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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