PRESS RELEASE: THE DINNERBOX SERIES CONTINUES:

San Antonio, Texas - The Company Theatre is happy to Announce the NEW season! Celebrating 17 years of touring throughout Texas!  We have teamed up with your favorite local restaurants to present the Dinnerbox Series - Dinner and show in your favorite local eateries!  In addition, we have our Educational Outreach Touring Program that brings live theatre to schools & community centers all over Texas!

 

The Company Theatre has announced the 2010-2011 Dinnerbox -  partnering with various local restaurants, The Company is offering dinner/show combos, with family-friendly comedies in your favorite local eateries at a very affordable price!

SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE:

Or call 800-848-3006

THE DINNERBOX SERIES INCLUDES:

THE GOOD DOCTOR  - SUMMER 2010
- By Neil Simon - This Broadway hit will have you rolling in the aisles as it tells the story of a man helplessly consumed by his love for writing. His stories come to life as vignettes on the stage and provide the audience a rare and comedic glimpse into the mind of creative genius. "The humor infectious and the fun unending."

(FALL 2010)  Back by popular demand This Complete Works of Shakespeare is all 37 plays in 97 minutes, by only 3 actors!
"Their performances are laugh out loud funny all the way through!"  --San Antonio Express News

 (Christmas. Not "Holiday" yes, I said  CHRISTMAS, 2010)  Now in its 8th year!  Join Award winning actor Damian Gillen as plays it all from Scrooge to Tiny Tim, in Charles Dickens classic tale of hope & redemption!   He will break last years record of 30 shows in 30 days with an amazing 40 SHOWS IN 40 DAYS!

A TEXMAS CAROL - (Christmas. Not "Holiday" yes I said  CHRISTMAS 2010)  It's Charles Dickens classic tale, this time with a TEXAS twist!  Annie Oakley as Ghost of Christmas Past, John Wayne as  the Ghost of Christmas Present wackiness ensues!

OLIVER TWISTED! - Damian Gillen does it again with another Charles Dickens classic condensed by one actor!  "Please, sir we want some more!"

It's Monty Python meets Young Frankenstein with The Company's most requested show!  It's a family-friendly, horror-comedy with Vampires, Werewolves and an archeologist with MUMMY issues!  Great fun for the whole family!!!
ACTORS EXTRAORDINARY IN 'IRMA VEP'-- SA Express News

THE BIBLE  The Complete Word of God (abridged!)
The bad boys of abridgment are back with the good book in their sights, can bolts of lightening be far behind!?  
"It's wacky, it's zany and a little bit profaney!

THE 39 STEPS  - Alfred Hitchcock's spy-murder-mystery- thriller where four actors play 150 characters!  Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have THE 39 STEPS, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance!

Join The Company as they guide you through a historical, hysterical, hyperactive, hypothetical, hayride through through 500 years of the history of the Lone star state in 5000 seconds!!!!  After numerous sold out performances in SA, this show tours to theatres AND schools throughout Texas! 
"Innovative" & "a lot of fun!" --Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express News

 

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS:

 

Now in its 7^thseason, our Educational Outreach Program brings delightful adaptations of classics and new plays to elementary, middle & high schools all across Texas. Featuring some of San Antonio’s finest professional actors and directors, and specially created study guides about each show along with onsite workshops and “talk backs” with the actors, ignite the spark of theatre appreciation in young minds. Educational Outreach Touring Program

 

• Shakespeare on the road!

• Charlotte's Web

• Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe

• Bah Humbug! - A one-man Christmas Carol

• History of Texas...in one darn easy lesson!

• ALL The Great Books!

   

 

SHAKESPEARE on the road! - withThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged!) All 37 plays in 57 minutes by only two actors! What better way to learn about the greatest of all English-speaking playwrights!

Our program brings performance workshops to middle and high schoolstudents across Texas, with the goals of making Shakespeare’s words spring to life. Our Complete Works touring show is a dynamic way to introduce Shakespeare to youth.

Charlottes Web - Based on E.B. White's loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte. Wilbur has a problem: how to avoid winding up as pork chops! Charlotte, a fine writer and true friend, hits on a plan to fool Farmer Zuckerman -- she will create a "miracle." Spinning the words "Some Pig" in her web, Charlotte weaves a solution, which not only makes Wilbur a prize pig, but ensures his place on the farm forever. This treasured tale, featuring madcap and endearing farm animals, explores bravery, selfless love, and the true meaning of friendship.

 

 

 

 

Based on C.S. Lewis timeless adventure, The Chronicles of Narnia, one of the greatest masterpieces of fantasy literature. This remarkably imaginative adaptation created by The Company Theatre's professional touring program for young audiences follows characters of Peter & Lucy, as they recount their travels through a magical wardrobe, to the land of Narnia. There they join with the great Lion Aslan to defeat the evil White Witch! This epic story is filled with themes of friendship, courage and the eternal struggle of good vs. evil.

 

BAH HUMBUG - A one man Christmas Carol

 

500 years of Texas in 50 minutes! The first in show in our Edu-tainment series. A zany, mad cap rollercoaster ride through history of the lone star state, that you will not want to miss!

ALL THE GREAT BOOKS

The Literary Canon explodes as the bad boys of abridgement unleash a brand-new comic outrage on an unsuspecting public. The Company takes you on a 90 minute roller-coaster ride through its compact compendium of the World's Great Books. Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? Then buckle up and hop aboard as the three cultural guerrillas of The Company zip through everything you didn't get around to reading in school!

 

OLIVER TWISTED! -Coming soon!