We hope not!
Weird Sister Courtney Glenn recently wrote and published the following article about our upcoming play and the issues surrounding it.
Originally published on theexaminer.com June 29, 2011
A Midsummer Night’s Pipe Dream? Austin’s Weird Sisters Vie for Same Sex Marriage
“Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia.”
So speaks the character [...]

*Update, March 10 2011* We put the call out and you all helped us spread the word!  We are happy to announce that we just signed an agreement with Center Stage Texas to use their theater space in Central East Austin during the last two weeks of August 2011.  Make sure to mark your calendar [...]

Weird Sister, Rae Petersen’s one-woman performance of Crazy Bette was awarded the coveted “Best of the Best” slot in the Austin’s 2011 Frontera Fest.
A clip her the performance can be seen in this video.

Our very own Feliz Dia McDonald has been awarded a 2010 B. Iden Payne Award for actress in a supporting role for her portrayal of the spirit Ariel in our summer production of Susan Gayle Todd’s Sycorax.  This is McDonald’s second nomination, and a first for the Weird Sisters.  We are genuinely proud of her [...]

Student club aims to turn the world into a stage

And maybe Austin’s too! Just thinking back to 2006 when I played Pistol to Courtney Glenn’s Fallstaf, I couldn’t agree more. The Weird Sisters set the Merry Wives of Windsor in the 1950’s, Falstaff taking on an unmistakable bad-boy Elvis persona (sideburns and all). We had screaming audience members, groupies, possibly even fainting. We all had character envy that season, Falstaff was a deliciously fun, even complicated character to play. It was hard not to be enamored. I think we all carry a little bit of Shakespeare’s favorite foil inside us.

Monday, June 14th, 2010 at 11am Co-Director and Playwright, Susan Gayle Todd and Composer, Chris Humphrey appeared on Lisa Schneider’s show “What’s a Girl to Do?” on KOOP 91.7FM Schneider’s show centers around music written and performed by women, and focused on the original music of Sycorax, composed and assembled by Humphrey.
Listen to the radio [...]

As the Weird Sisters dive into our summer production, it’s encouraging to read that we are not the only ones taking another look at Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  Director Julie Taymor will be producing a film adaptation of the play starring Helen Mirren as the the sorcerer Prospera, a role originally penned for a man, as [...]

This article about Sherwood Forests Faire’s players originally appeared in the Hill Country News on February 25, 2010
Playing ‘faire’ with Shakespeare
by Kate Goeke, Hill Country News
Former Leander ISD superintendent Tom Glenn spent more than two decades ensuring the district’s students were ready for the future. How surprised he must have been when his own daughter, [...]

Musician and Actor, Chris Humphrey is lending her musical talents to Sleeping Beauty Playing at the Vortex:
Sleeping Beauty (multi-instrumentalist), April 2 – May 9, Vortex Repertory Company: http://www.vortexrep.org/