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Virtual Theater Box Office Open!

That’s right. We’ve gone virtual! Because our little theater is too small to allow for social distancing, we are bringing theater straight to you! Through a wonderful platform called ShowTix4U we are able to share our productions online, both past and new shows. We are particularly excited about our new offering, Overtime Cabaret: From Home, which will feature area performers in comedy, music, dance, poetry and more!

Here are all of the shows in our virtual theater line-up this summer:

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Overtime Cabaret: From Home

The Overtime Cabaret is an amalgamation of music, dance, comedy, poetry, and whatever else we can think of! Check out our fabulous line-up!

Saturday, Sept. 19

  • Music — Jules Vaquera and Matt Legare
  • Poetry — Dyhanara Rios and Jason Shaggy Gossard
  • Dance — Stephan Gaeth
  • Comedy — Jake Yarbrough

Saturday, Sept. 26

  • Comedy — Jake Yarbrough
  • Poetry — Mandy Lynn Lara and Joyous Windrider
  • Dance — Ann Almonte
  • Music — Bethany Schwartz and Nick Lewis

Saturday, Oct. 3

  • Poetry — Joyous Windrider and Mandy Lynn Lara
  • Music — Alaia Brown and Dyhanara Rios
  • Comedy — Jake Yarbrough
  • Dance — Priscilla Isaac

Saturday, Oct. 10

  • Poetry — Joyous Windrider and Dyhanara Rios
  • Belly dance — Karen Barbee
  • Music — Alaia Brown and Jules Vaquera
  • Comedy — Jake Yarbrough

Please consider a Cabaret Show Donation

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Derek Berlin as Edgar Allan Poe

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe: the Man, the Myth, the Legend by Derek Berlin who portrays the tortured artist shortly before his tragic death in this award-winning production. Almost a week before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found wandering the streets of Baltimore, delirious and incoherent.  Derek Berlin takes us inside Poe’s dream state where he narrates his life’s journey. From his purgatorial state, Poe spins his last haunting ghosts of thought: a personal tale of pain, sorrow, and the desire for his soul’s redemption. Rediscover Poe’s Gothic and macabre glory in this one-man show starring Derek Berlin.

“Like Harry Houdini himself, what audiences might find most alluring is the opportunity to see this eclectic take on a feat few performers would endeavor.” – Jade Esteban Estrada, San Antonio Sentinel
48 hour rental stream

(l-r): Marie Warren Bunch, Caitlin Palmer and Dorianna James in Nightingale.

(l-r): Marie Warren Bunch, Caitlin Palmer and Dorianna James in Nightingale

Nightingale by Jules Vaquera and Dan Timoskevich is an original award-winning musical loosely based on the Hans Christian Anderson tale.

It’s Penny Virtue’s last night at the Cauldron, the hottest jazz and blues venue in the city and now her husband Luther is faced with a dilemma: find a new lead act or quit the business.  When a new “nightingale” Ayla lands on the scene the Cauldron threatens to boil over. What will happen? Take a seat and find out. Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale, this musical proves that old stories never die…they just find hotter venues
48 hour rental stream | Trailer donation stream (Saturday nights at 7:30)

Amie Rose and Robert Moritz in Ride the Musical

Amie Rose and Robert Moritz in Ride the Musical

Ride the Musical, by Rachel Roth and Dan Timoskevich, also an award-winning musical, is the story of a taxi driver named Stockton (Robert Moritz) who’s underwater on his taxi medallion due to competition from rideshare companies. He and his daughter, Jess (Amie Rose), are struggling to make ends meet. She wants to go to acting school and he’s trying to keep them from being evicted.
48 hour rental stream

We need your help

AdoFrom The Overtime Theater’s Executive Board to our supporters,

Thank you for everything you’ve ever done for us, from seeing our shows, talking with our actors, having your favorite writers and directors, to generously paying for tickets and donating to our Love Bucket. You are both what makes our work possible and why we work as hard as we do to bring you quality in return for your patronage.

Here is our honest truth: we depend on the profits of a month’s shows to pay for the next month’s shows, which means the lights stay on, we can paint the stage floor, we can print posters and programs, and everything else that goes into making a show happen. Not one of us makes money from what we do at the theater – no writer, no director, no actor, no one working front of house.

By closing the theater for two to three months, foregoing the income from shows, it will be a true hardship to re-open our doors.

The Overtime is the only theater in San Antonio dedicated to actually producing new work by local playwrights. This means that our work is not tried and true – and that it is unencumbered by prior productions and the expectations those engender; it is daring, risky, timely, modern, reflective of our times, culture, and lives. We give an opportunity to new voices and assist emerging theater artists by giving them a place to actually see their work produced, valued, and celebrated.

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We do not do this work because we want to be wealthy or even profitable. We want to break even and you can help us do that. We have a goal to make $15,000 to keep doing what we do.

We understand that these are difficult times on every level, including financially, for everyone. If you could donate $5 or $10 it would make all the difference in us weathering this time and emerging – when we’re all able – funded and ready to continue being your community theater for new local works.

Thank you for your time reading this and your consideration.

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