Half and Half Productions is a brand new theater company, but its artistic directors have been working in Austin for years. Before starting Half and Half, Julianna E. Wright and M. Scott Tatum studied together in college, taught together at the McCallum Fine Arts Academy, and worked together on a number of other theater projects in town. So the company may be new, but the partnership is a decade old. For their debut as Half and Half, Wright and Tatum are staging Passing Strange, a comedy/drama rock musical by Stew. It's a coming-of-age piece and a tale of the self-discovery of a young artists. With a live band and music that spans genres from soul to gospel to punk, the energy of the show is something like a rock show crossed with a stage play. The show will be staged at Half...
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A decade ago, A Chick and a Dude Productions burst onto the Austin theater scene with their play HIT, directed by the chick (Melissa Livingston-Weaver) and written by the dude (Shannon Weaver) of the company's name. Now, to celebrate their ten year anniversary, they're restaging the show, with a mostly new cast and a few tweaks to the script. When the play was first staged, first-time playwright Shannon Weaver was still young and fresh-faced enough to play both the teenaged and adult versions of the character Asher. Now that a few years have gone by, he'll still be playing the adult Asher, but he's passing the role of teen Asher down to actual teenager Gary Livingston-Weaver, who happens to be the son of the chick and the dude....
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