American Fiesta

Awarded the Best New Play in Austin by the Austin Critics’ Table and the M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for Best New Play by an Emerging Playwright from the American Theatre Critics’ Association, American Fiesta – by Steven Tomlinson – masterfully tells of an inexplicable obsession to collect Depression-Era Fiestaware and a quest that leads the playwright to junk shops and estate sales, through e-Bay and cyberspace, and across the Red State/Blue State divide into America’s broken heart. “I saw in my family politics metaphors for the tensions that divide America; and I wanted to write generously, respectfully, seeking in my own family’s experience some hope for the country’s healing,” says Tomlinson. The nationally acclaimed play focuses on family dynamics, contemporary politics, neurochemistry and, of course, vintage dishware.

Doors open 30 minutes prior to each performance.