The Overtime Theater is seeking play submissions for our 2014 season. Devoted to original work, we are particularly interested in new plays that are innovative in form and bold and moving in content. San Antonio’s “Theater for the People” — the Current readers’ favorite theater for four years in a row — creates a wide range of plays, from scrappy nerdcore to weird fringe, from heartwarming to hilarious, and has a loyal following. Located near the blossoming Pearl Brewery complex at 1203 Camden Street, we are at the heart of the city’s most exciting arts district, right next to the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Museum Reach of the Riverwalk, and the South Broadway renaissance.

We are seeking original experimental and devised work, film and novel adaptations, translations and adaptations of classics, musicals, genre parodies, political pieces, community-based plays, science-fiction and superhero epic adventures, broad comedy, gritty realism, and especially that which we haven’t seen and can’t be categorized. We are looking for unique local and national voices, visions, characters, and worlds that could only be live theatrical events, although they may (and are encouraged to) engage other media.

In all the plays we select, we are looking for work charged with a sense of now, pieces that wake the audience up to the present moment.

Please submit all completed plays or inquiries to BOTH the Literary Manager, Rachel Joseph at rjoseph@trinity.edu and the Artistic Director, Kyle Gillette at kgillett@trinity.edu no later than August 1, 2013. We only accept electronic submissions on a .pdf or .doc file. Please include contact information, cast requirements, and technical aspirations. We will acknowledge receipt of work and inform playwrights of their submission status by the end of November 2013.

*Because all of the work at the Overtime is indeed created “overtime,” artists receive compensation through our “love bucket”–audience donations split with the cast and crew. To be honest, it isn’t a lot, but that has never stopped us from surviving and thriving as a truly unique independent theater.

We look forward to reading your work!

Sincerely,

Kyle Gillette, Artistic Director
Rachel Joseph, Literary Manager
and The Overtime Theater

June 7th-July 28th

Directed by: Scott McDowell, Kyle Gilette, Bryan Ortiz, Matt Cassi and Chris Champlin

Tickets here:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/392349

Nominated for a Tony Award (Best Play, 2004), Frozen is set in present-day England and involves three main characters: a serial killer named Ralph, who kidnaps and murders a young girl; the murdered girl’s mother, Nancy; and a New York psychiatrist, Agnetha, who travels to England to examine Ralph. The three lives slowly intersect — and the characters gradually change and become “unfrozen” as they come to terms with the idea of forgiveness. Presented at The Overtime Theater by Derek Berlin Productions FROZEN stars Christie Beckham, Derek Berlin and Belinda Harolds and is directed by John O’Neill.  For both performances of the weekend of  April 12^th and 13^th all ticket sales will benefit the HEIDI Search Center for Missing Children. 

Cast and Crew:

Ralph- Derek Berlin
Nancy- Belinda Harolds
Agnetha- Christie Beckham

Guard – Jon McEwen

Director – John O’Neill

Stage manager- Martha Dolgner

Sound Design – Rick Malone
Lighting Design Chris Champlin

Showdates: April 5, 2013 – April 27, 2013. 8pm Fridays, and Saturdays

Ticket Prices: $14 general admission, and $10 for teachers, students, seniors 65+, active military, and SATCO members.  Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/361041

Set in an independent comic shop and on a drag show runway, Masquerade tells the story of an unlikely group of friends that develops when the worlds of comic book cosplay and drag collide. Masks, alter-egos, and secret desires both hide and reveal the truth about each of them.

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/361035

Jan 18th – Feb 16th – The Cabinet of Dr Caligari adapted by Sophia Bolles

This “silent theatre” adaptation of the 1920 German expressionist film, arguably the first horror movie, follows the disturbing murders in a small German town after a visit by the mysterious Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist Cesare. Filled with shadows, warped scenery, and bizarrely slanted scenes ranging from the annual fair to a madhouse, this staged classic film is haunting, beautiful, moody, and absurd.

Mar 1st – Mar 23rd – Sex Party by Noah Finn

Concerning an online music critic, the test-writing pianist pining for his love, an economist, an amateur distiller and their exchanges regarding – among other things – the quest for soulmates, sex change leftovers and black metal, Sex Party approaches the indulgent pure potential of confessional eroticism to either cultivate the best in them all, or else leave them something worse than gracefully handicapped.

Apr 5th – May 4th – Masquerade by James Venhaus

Set in an independent comic shop and on a drag show runway, Masquerade tells the story of an unlikely group of friends that develops when the worlds of comic book cosplay and drag collide. Masks, alter-egos, and secret desires both hide and reveal the truth about each of them.

May 17th – Jun 15th - Henchmen by Rob Barron and Directed by Michael Burger

It’s 2012 and the biggest superhero/super villain battle of all time is taking place out on the streets. But, inside the warehouse on the corner of 18th and Figueroa, Brian sits alone watching the captured superhero Captain Courage as he is tied unconscious in the corner. Brian is a henchman left behind on guard duty and all he has to do is sit in the warehouse and not let anything bad happen….

Jun 28th – Jul 27th – The Adventures of Captain Cortez and the Tri-Lamda Brigade: the Movie by Scott McDowell

The Overtime’s beloved sci-fi serial gets the big screen treatment – on stage. In a full length stand alone play the Tri-Lambda Brigade must face the galaxy’s greatest evils in order to save the day! Also, they solve the Jack the Ripper murders. Seriously.

Aug 9th – Sep 7th – The Screen Dreams of Buster Keaton by Rachel Joseph

This play explores the work of vaudevillian comic and filmmaker Buster Keaton through two of his most famous endeavors: his short film Sherlock Jr. (1924) about a film projectionist who dreams himself into a movie to solve a crime and his collaboration late in his career with Samuel Beckett on the short film Film (1964). Using two Buster Keaton figures, one older and one younger, the work takes on two canonical films that are meditations on the relationship of the live to the reproducible, the human to the machine.

Sep 20th – Oct 19th – TBA

Oct 4th – Oct 19th – The Haunted House by Plautus, adapted by Tom Jenkins

Adapted from the ancient Roman comedy Mostellaria, a farce about drunken carousing, crafty slaves, and slapstick tricks. When Theuropides returns early from his business trip, the only way to keep him from finding what a dissolute mess his son Philolaches has made of his home is for Tranio, the slave, to convince him the house is haunted.

Nov 1st – Dec 7th – At the End of the Bar by the Lavens

This original musical is a tapestry of songs, scenes, and memories by the Laven family. It interweaves regulars and new characters, joys and heartbreaks, inner monologues and daily life at the end of the bar at San Antonio’s own Cove, where the Lavens have played weekly for 12 years. The stories are united by the character of a young singer who sings lonely solos and threads herself through the crowd, and the space of the bar, layered with memories, haunted by those who’ve passed, and saturated with the family’s soulful music.

SPECIAL STUFF

Feb 7th – Feb 23rd – The Aesthetic of Weekend by the Aesthetic of Waste

Featuring Fatboy, an absurdly obscene play about insatiable hunger and profane greed, We Stole This, 30 short pieces in an hour, and a range of sketches, performance art, and installations from the Wastrels who’ve been bringing us dangerous comedy and bloodshed since we’ve moved in here.

Jun 7th – Jul 28th – Port Cove by Scott McDowell and 8 directors

New weekly serial ala David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. This supernatural soap opera follows the characters of the hotel coffee shop at the center of a small New England town where mysterious murders have taken place. The FBI agents brought in discover that everyone is a suspect and something odd lurks out there in the cove…

’5′ by rinear       

Five dramatic works by Sheila Rinear. Come see one of San Antonio’s most prolific playwrite’s hand picked selection of her own works!

Do I Look Like Anyone?

You’re Killing Me Here!

Cries That Bind

Chasing The Blues

Bringing Sons To Glory

Thursday November 29

Friday November 30

Saturday December 1

8pm in the Gregg Barrios Theater

Born in the rhythm pounding depths of San Antonio, J “Jail Bird” Blues II and Elwood Jr. Blues II have fulfilled their destiny and have created a musical, comedic, and epic rhythm and blues revue show.

As children of the great musician Elwood Blues they spent their growing years honing their skills needed to rock your collective rhythm and blues SOUL. Harnessing the power of voice and harmonica, backed up by the great Marco Cholo Jazz Quintet,  their performance can only be described as SUPER NOVA IMPREGNATINING AMAZING with a side order of GUT PUNCHING AUDIOABLE STEREO-PHONIC IN YOUR FACE ENTERTAINMENT!!! Does that make sense? IT DOESN’T HAVE TO THEY’RE ENTERTAINERS!!!!

The Brothers are BACK!!!! The S.A. Blues Brothers, from their LONG European World tour, are coming home to BLOW your mind and create a whole new generation of BLUES babies with their amazing rhythm and blues revue show.
Grab your friends and family and join us for a night you will never forget of music, dance, and off the wall fun.

Band The Marco Cholo Jazz Quintet featuring Roosevelt Bradley  / Pistol Pete
Directed/Produced by Bryan Ortiz
Join us:

Nov 16 – 17 @ 8pm

The Overtime

1203 Camden Street San Antonio, TX 78215

(210) 557-7562

Tickets $12

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/248872
If you missed our show last time then head over to our YouTube page and check it from beginning to end.

For more info and behind the scenes photos check out our Facebook page. Facebook.com/sabluesbrothers

In our fourth installment, “Hell and Back” a year has passed since the events of “All Good Things”. Detective Winters has quit the force and is now scratching out a living as a private investigator and solving cases with his dead partner, Blake. When a mysterious woman hires them to find a strange object, they find themselves in over their heads and targets on their backs.

Opens Dec 7th and runs through Jan 5th