Appeal: The Story of Mexican American Civil Rights Attorney Gus Garcia

A Symposium

ACC will be hosting a symposium September 12-14 at our Highland Campus.  ACC is a proud Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and we are excited about bringing this symposium to the community. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from Humanities Texas and kicks-off the college’s Hispanic Heritage Month festivities.

This year, the ACC Drama Department is producing the world premiere of a brand new musical APPEAL: The Story of Mexican American Civil Rights Attorney Gus Garcia by ACC faculty Amparo Garcia-Crow.
Show runs October 11-27 and will close out the festivities.

Thursday, September 12: CELEBRATE: Noche de cultura. 6-9pm
Friday, September 13: UPLIFT: Appeal Day 12p-5pm
Saturday, September 14: CREATE: Community Workshops / Platicas 9a-4pm

See accompanying image for more details!

The Austin Community College Drama Department is proud to present 

Appeal: The New American Musical of Mexican Descent

Based on a true story

Books and Lyrics by Amparo Garcia-Crow
Music and additional lyrics by Arthur Shane
Director: Carl Gonzales
Music Director: Julian Gamez-Arizola
Choreographer: Dawn Davis Loring

HLC2 Black Box Theater
October 11th- October 27th
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM

Appeal

October 2024

Curtain Fall

December 2024

The Long Christmas Ride Home

February 2025

Curtain Call

May 2025

Please consider making a donation to the ACC Drama Department Scholarship fund at the link below. Your contribution will help ACC Drama students pay for their tuition, books and course materials. Donate here

Batboy the Musical

The Black Box Theater

October 13th – 29th

Curtain Call

The Black Box Theater

December 7th

Red

The Black Box Theater

February 23th – March 3rd

Fiend’s Folio

The Black Box Theater

April 5th & 6th

Curtain Call

The Black Box Theater

May 9th

Hearts Like Fists

The Black Box Theater

June 6th – 30th

Please consider making a donation to the ACC Drama Department Scholarship fund at the link below. Your contribution will help ACC Drama students pay for their tuition, books and course materials. Donate here

Fade

The Black Box Theater

October 13th -30th

Curtain Fall

The Black Box Theater

December 8th

Spring ’23

The Snow

The Black Box Theater

February 16th – March 5th

Curtain Call

The Black Box Theater

May 11th

Summer ’23

The Mad Ones

The Black Box Theater

June 8th – 25th

Please consider making a donation to the ACC Drama Department Scholarship fund at the link below. Your contribution will help ACC Drama students pay for their tuition, books and course materials. Donate here

Everybody

HLC Black Box Theatre Grand Opening

February 17-27, 2022 @7:30, 2PM Sundays

The Glass Menagerie

HLC Black Box Theatre

April 14-24, 2022 @7:30, 2PM Sundays

radiopidemic season 3 & season 4

Curtain Call

Fall & Spring

Lonely Planet

Broadway on Demand

October 14-24

Iphigenia at Aulis

The digital Green Room and ACCTV

December 2-12

The Sightless

by Maurice Maeterlinck

ACC Drama presents The Sightless, a play that was written in 1890 by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck and this production was directed by Perry Crafton, ACC Drama Professor. The story follows a group of blind travelers as they wait in a remote wooded area for the return of their guide they fear has abandoned them and features several ACC Drama students in the performance inaugurating the ACC Highland’s Phase 2 new Black Box Theatre.

Premieres May 27th at 8:00pm on ACC/TV and the Digital Green Room YouTube Channel.

radiopidemic

Season 2:

Under Thirty Minutes

If you think about it, pizza delivery is a peculiar phenomenon. A stranger travels to an unknown place to meet an unknown person, who, in turn, opens their door to an unknown visitor.

Sometimes it works out well… radiopidemic is a 8-part weekly series of short audio plays written by ACC creative writing and local professional playwrights.

Season 2 premieres Wednesday, April 7th and new episodes will be released weekly on our

Digital Green Room YouTube Channel!

radiopidemic

Season 1:

Tales from The Congress Avenue Bridge

This fall, the Austin Community College Drama Department presents rradiopidemic , a new program of short audio plays written by ACC creative writing students and local professional playwrights.  In Season, one we’ll bring you tales by, about, and around, The Congress Avenue Bridge.  The 12-part weekly series imagines this landmark at the center of Austin as a backdrop for stories about the people crossing it.  Bridges are magical places, holding secret the stories of those who cross them.  

New episodes available every Wednesday on The Digital Green Room.

Curtain Call: A Showcase of Work from Students in the Drama Department. The ACC Drama Dept. will host an end-of-semester digital showcase in December 2020 that highlights the work done in performance and technical theater classes.