Monthly Archives: February 2007

UPROOTED: THE KATRINA PROJECT

March 30 & 31, 2007 Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.  From March 25th thru March 31st, an ensemble of a dozen displaced actors, poets, dancers and musicians from the Gulf Coast will be in San Antonio for a week-long residency hosted by Jump-Start. Under the guidance of John O’Neal, Artistic Director of New Orleans’ [...]

W~I~P in February

Wednesday, February 28 at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $5 regular and $3 for students and senior citizens No reservations required. W-I-P is funky fresh for February! W-I-P is a collaboration between Jump-Start Performance Co. and San Antonio Dance Umbrella.  It is a supportive laboratory space for movement-based work that is either in progress or very [...]

OTHERWISE OCCUPIED

Written by Dianne Monroe Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Pay-what-You-Wish on Sunday, March 11 What is it like to live, love and resist in a contested country? Playwright Dianne Monroe collaborates once again with visual artist Salwa Arnous on updating and reworking this timely and popular play, built out of [...]

FENCES

By Pulitizer prize winning playwright August Wilson Directed by Antoinette Winstead February 9 – 25, 2007 Fences presents a slice-of-life in a black tenement set in the late 1950s through 1965. Troy Maxson is a garbage collector who has taken great pride in keeping his family together and providing for them, while searching for fairness [...]