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Different Stages
Presents
Stage Blood
By
Charles Ludlum
June 26-July 11, 2026
The Vortex
2307 Manor Road
Austin, Tx 78722
A family acting company continuously tours Hamlet in the U.S. Carlton Stone Sr., once a great Hamlet, is now dissolute and playing the ghosts. He tries to make his reluctant son the Hamlet he once was. Here is a Hamlet within a Hamlet within a Hamlet and a murder mystery for people with stage blood in their veins.
Directed by Norman Blumensaadt, Stage Blood features Ev Lunning as Stone Sr and Will Douglas as Stone Jr. Also in the cast are Kelsey Mazak, Griffin Gardner, Tim Blackwood, Zachary Gamble and Allie Carnero.
Performances are Wednesdays – Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 6 PM. There is no performance on Saturday July 4, 2026. Ticket prices are $15-$39 pick your price.
Different Stages
Presents
A Free Staged Reading of
A Woman of No Importance
By
Oscar Wilde
June 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The Vortex
2307 Manor Road
Austin, Tx 78722
Directed by Jamie Michael Rogers
With Karen Jambon, Katherine Schroeder, Steve Fay, Lucky Cantu, Beau Paul, Shanaya Dixon, Reed Syzdek, Kristin Fern Johnson, Pablo Munoz-Evers, Suzanne Balling.
Wilde’s play is a satirical comedy that critiques the moral double standards of the Victorian era. The plot centers on Mrs. Arbuthnot, a single mother raising a son, Gerald, in secret. Gerald gets a job offer from the wealthy and cynical Lord Illingworth—who is secretly Gerald's estranged father. When Lord Illingworth tries to take Gerald under his
wing and attempts to seduce a visiting American guest, the past unravels, exposing Illingworth's utter lack of remorse for abandoning his former lover.