2008 Out of the Loop Festival

A 10-day celebration of theatre, dance, music and art, the Out of the Loop Festival features performances by WaterTower Theatre as well as other arts organizations from the local area and region. The Festival will run March 6 – 16, 2008. Performances will be held at the Addison Theatre Centre, which contains three performance venues: the Festival Main Stage (seating approximately 180), the Studio Theatre (seating approximately 70), and the Stone Cottage (seating approximately 50).

The 2004 Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum awarded the Out of the Loop Festival with a special citation for providing performance opportunities to new works and new production companies. Attendance for the 2007 Festival reached an all-time high of 4,500 patrons over 10 days.

Festival passes are available for $50 each and include one admission to each performance. Tickets will go on sale February 19 and for a festival pass or tickets, call the WTT Box Office at 972-450-6232 or purchase online.

Click here for a complete festival schedule. Here are the performances, and you can click on a title for more info on dates, times, and plot:

• Dixie Longate stars in Dixie's Tupperware Party
• Alan Pollard presents "Not To Be Out-Done..."
• American Actors Company presents The Unseen
• Bill Bowers presents It Goes Without Saying
• Inevitable Theatre Company presents Surface TENsion: Ten Minute Plays (and then some...)
• Jackson Ross Best, Jr. presents I Wish You Would Just Get the Hell Out of My Life, You Sorry Motherf*cker: Reflections on Love and Romance
• Jordan Fuchs Company presents Thicket & Retroactive Ambiquity
• Lacy & Shade with Gablin, Keller & Scott present Moving Portraits: Four Women, About Women
• Lee Trull presents Rum and Vodka
• Martice Enterprises presents Heaven Forbid(s)!
• Michael Guinn & the Ft. Worth National Poetry Slam Team present Finding Our Voice
• Muscle Memory Dance Theatre presents Sea Movement: Making Waves with Dance
• Out on a Limb Dance Company presents She Drew a Picture of a Whale & If It Were Not So Sweet
• SceneShop presents SceneShop: Stories We Can Tell
• Spike Gillespie presents The Dick Monologues
• Spirit Expressing presents Miss Witherspoon
• The Victims present Your Mom...
• Valdosta State University presents Holler Me Home
• WaterTower Theatre presents Blackbird

Plus, there is also a Playwriting Workshop with Debra Fordham.

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