Loaded Gun Theory is running their original new work The Automat at the Dougherty Arts Center. One word: Robots! 3/6-8, 12-15 @8pm & 3/9 @ 5pm. [tickets] // Austin darling Joe Hartman brings his Overwhelming Underdogs to Arts on Real. Thru 3/16, Th-Sa @8pm / Sun @5:30. [tickets]...

Image from www.loadedguntheory.comThe holidays are a busy time for theatre in Austin, with too many seasonal shows to choose from. As the glut looms, several fine shows are closing. Get to these while the gettin's good! Much-lauded director Karen Jambon helms Loaded Gun Theory's Little Murders. You can't judge a show by its artwork, but we think theirs is the best we've seen all year. This dark comedy about an overbearing daughter—played by the always-delightful......

*The views expressed in The Laurie Show are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole.* -ed. note My apologies for my absenteeism, kids! It's been awhile since I've set my babblings online at the Austinist. I've either been taking nights of from The Laurie Show on KUT or sitting in for Jeff McCord on Left of the Dial, which is on earlier than my show. It'll feel great to......

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works. For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su......

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works. For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro,......

Overheard at Austin High: Like, holy crap, guys. OMG! LYLAS! Listen up! Jenny told Tommy that Marcy told Lucy that Genie let Sally read Susie Tanner’s notebook, in which it is totally written that some kids in the cafeteria are performing High School Musical and that Will Andastaphonopolus is big time G-A-Y. G…A…whoa. Wait. What? Did you say High School Musical? Fer sure, biz-natch. Totally fer sure. I’ve already friend-requested the show on Myspace.......

In the spirit of Halloween, we're happy to give away not only two tickets to any night of Loaded Gun Theory's reopening of Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey at Arts on Real, starting this Thursday 11/2, but also a copy of the CD Just One Bite, songs from The Unbearables' Bitten: A Zombie Rock Odyssey. Mumble that three times fast, zombie fans! Prefer to know some finer, zombie-musical plot points before entering to win......

Welcome to the Halloween edition of This Week in Theatre, and the first time since we’ve been in Austin that some company hasn’t produced a play about mystical and spooky stuff to commemorate this festive occasion. So, in lieu of seeing a “horror” play this weekend—an event where busty blondes disappear for no reason, only to return later after a highly unfortunate series of events has stripped them down to their underwear; or, you......

Ah, cest du teatro magnifique-ant roost en la vida! Hooray! Theatre kicks ass! Hooray! It’s a life-affirming and suck-the-goo-from-your-eyeballs life-ending week ahead, folks. Brace yourself. This mothaf**r’s gonna hit you hard where it counts. Huzzah! Holla! Etc! Let’s go! Because we haven’t been hiding in a cave these past few days, our Austinist Pick of the Week is the interweb’s new undead phenoms – Bitten: A Zombie Rock Oyssey. With an original score from......

Publicity shot from Loaded Gun Theory and The Unbearables' Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey, opening this Friday at the Dougherty Arts Center. Prepare yourself as Zombies appear in a small Texas town. Is it divine intervention, a government plot, or something more sinister? Is true love giving your Zombie boyfriend the first bite? Find out and rock out with Will, Amelia, Dallas, and Flora as they attempt to single handedly thwart the Zombie Menace!......

FRIDAY [18] music • Benefit party for Loaded Gun Theory's new zombie rock opera with Midori Umi, The Lord Henry, Golden Bear, and the Zombie Rock Orchestra (The Unbearables, members of Tammany Hall Machine, a choir and horn section) -- snacks provided, too -- at Red's Scoot Inn (8pm-2am, $5 or $3 with zombie costume) ® film • Sinus Show: Point Break at Alamo Downtown (7 & 10pm, $10) ® theatre • The Sweetest......

Photos from last week's zombie invasion of South Congress First Thursday, a promo stunt for Loaded Gun Theory's upcoming "Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey." Check out a few more photos after the jump, or head over to LGT's site for loads more. Also be sure to waste a few minutes on this nifty Zombie Infection Simulation. [Bitten! Blog] [Zombie Walk Gallery from Loaded Gun Theory] Bitten!, created by members of Stem and Leaf Records......

If you're hanging out at First Thursday tonight on South Congress, and you see a bunch weirdos in tattered clothes, wandering about, eyes sullen and stinking of rotting flesh, here's what to do: -Run -Play dead -Get behind something, anything -Throw steak or body parts to distract them They're zombies. Zombies of the musical theatre variety, in fact, hittin' the pavement to promote Loaded Gun Theory's September production of Bitten: A Zombie Rock Odyssey.......

Can you sing? Do you like to eat brains? Then Loaded Gun Theory needs you! We don't normally post audition notices, but (a) this show sounds like too damn much fun, and (b) a little birdie told us that LGT ran into a hitch getting their notice into the local press. So here's the deal. If you know someone who loves to sing -- who, as Tim Thomas says "you NEVER, EVER bring on......

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How's this for a recipe? To make Slapdash Flimflammery: (1) Toss six playwrights into a deserted theater at 10pm on a Friday night. Simmer all night long. (2) At 7am, add six directors. Blend for an hour with playwrights. (3) At 8am, remove playwrights and add eighteen actors. (4) Bake for 12 hours. Serve piping hot for $10/pop to an eager, curious audience. The wacky kids at Loaded Gun Theory start this process a......

Elizabeth Cobbe, our esteemed colleague over at the Austin Chronicle, has put together a great article profiling the top ten up-and-comers in Austin's "rebel" theatre scene. As you may have noticed, Austinist has a weak spot for rebellious types, so we were excited to find the new punks on the block listed in one handy, helpful spot. (And to give full disclosure we were indeed pleased the company co-helmed by Austinist's own Jonathon Morgan......

[Update: Lucky reader Margaret was quick on the trigger and snatched these babies up pronto! Better luck next time, theatre fans. -Ed.] Austinist Theatre Central is happy to announce a ticket grab! Be the first person to send us an email (as usual, be sure to take the () off the @) and we'll set you up with two free tickets to Loaded Gun Theory's Empty Bowl. This is for any of the remaining......

Ah, the theatre. Drenched in history, glory, shame, and the passionate pursuit of dreams. Wrought with the epitomic struggles of man – the epochal moments of our modern age – wrangling that which is humanity onto our most noble public platform – the stage. So yeah, just like every week there’s a manwich-size portion of performance going on in town this weekend. Beyond the kick-ass stuff that’s already going on, the new show garnishing......

You know, we just don’t go to the theatre nearly often enough. It’s one of those things – we really mean to, but like, other stuff happens and then plans get made and liquor is drunk and suddenly we’re stumbling into our apartment saying to ourselves, “Hey, we still haven’t been to the theatre and, um, where are our pants?” But fortunately for us, this weekend we saw The Grind, The Loaded Gun Theory’s......

: : FRIDAY : : [music] De La Soul & Rahzel @ La Zona Rosa, 9pm [music] Brian Jonestown Massacre @ The Parish, 10pm [in-store] American Momo CD Release Show @ End of an Ear, 6pm [comedy] "Charlie and the Non-Existent Biological Weapons Factory" by Gag Reflex @ Hyde Park Theater, 8pm - $10 [dance] "AZTLAN Underground" @ Santa Cruz Center for Culture, 8pm - $12 [theater] "The Three Cuckholds" by the Tongue and......

When we started college, everyone told us that we were going to graduate at the most opportune time, promising sign-on bonuses, stability, and the chance to apply our overpriced degree. Fast forward seven years later and there’s only one way to describe our current occupation: soul-crushing. Luckily, the folks at Loaded Gun Theory Productions can commiserate. Their newest play (written by Timothy Thomas, author of other LGT productions such as "Copyright Denied", "Spawn of......