Beat the heat this summer...
...by plunging into cool theater with the 9th annual
Festival of Independent Theatres (FIT) at the
Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake!

July 13 - August 5, 2007

This summer's Festival of Independent Theatres invites patrons to "Take the Theater Plunge" for a play line-up that will include nine local theater companies performing ten plays - each about one hour in length. The festival appeals to lifelong theater fans as well as newbies wanting to experience something a little different on hot summer weekends. Last year, Lawson Taitte of The Dallas Morning News ranked FIT in his "Tope Five" favorite theater events for 2006.

Throughout it history, FIT has been praised for its inclusion of plays that have never been seen (or rarely seen) in North Texas. This year's line-up is no exception with Thornton Wilder's The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five and the regional premiere of David Hare's The Blue Room (rated NC-17).

The summer fest also offers several works by local playwrights including David Goodwin's The Ylla (a new stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles), Vickie Caroline Cheatwood's Home Front, Valerie Brogan Powell's Sidhe, Robin Armstrong's Smoldering Embers and Christie McFadden's I'm Not Here.

2007 FIT Theater Companies and Plays Act I Productions Unexpected Turnings: Smoldering Embers by Robin Armstrong I'm Not Here by Christie McFadden Bootstraps Comedy Theater The Boxer by Matt Lyle Echo Theatre Home Front by Vickie Caroline Cheatwood Project X Ylla by David Goodwin Performed with permission of the author. YLLA (c) 1949, renewed 1977 by Ray Bradbury. Risk Theater Initiative The Blue Room by David Hare RATED NC-17 for adult situations, nudity and strong sexual content Theater Fusion The Mystery Plays: The Filmmaker's Mystery by Roberto Aquirre-Sacasa Second Thought Theatre Line by Israel Horowitz Theatre Quorum The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five by Thornton Wilder Wing Span Theatre Company Sidhe (pronounced shee) by Valerie Brogan Powell

Buy Your Tickets!

3-Week Festival Passes, only $49 *
4-Week Festival Passes, only $69

VIP festival pass holders receive preferred seating at all performances. No need to make reservations. Just show up at the theater 15 minutes before the curtain, show your pass and be seated first.

* The 3-Week festival passes (new this year) valid for July 13-29.

Single tickets:
$16 - Fridays and Saturdays (8 PM)
$12 - Wednesdays and Thursdays (8 PM)
$12 - All 2 PM and 5 PM matinees

To purchase your tickets, call the
TITAS Box Office at 214-528-5576.

FIT was created in 1999 as an outlet for smaller companies without a permanent performance space to give them an opportunity to produce seldom seen, new, or avant-garde works. FIT exists to promote awareness and growth of Dallas area theatre through collaboration, participation and cultivation.

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