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The City Theatre is the city's theater, a world class performing arts venue established for Austin directors, designers
and performers who have one goal: the continued excellence in stage performances and the desire to bring that quality,
committment, and service to the central Texas theatrical community.

Summer Acts! Austin
July 10 - 20 Application and Information

White People
by J. T. Rogers

Now-right now-what does it mean to be
white in America?
“What are white people thinking when they
smile so politely? Mara Lynn, Martin, and
Alan are perfectly normal people on the
surface, the kind you meet every day. But
as they casually talk about their lives, they
disclose, layer by layer, the racial fears
and paranoia which lie behind their
facades. By turns hilarious and
harrowing, White People breaks one of
America’s most taboo subjects wide open
for discussion."

Through heart-wrenching confessions,
they wrestle with guilt, prejudice, and the
price they and their children must pay for
their actions. White People is a candid,
brutally honest meditation on race and
language in our culture.

Now Playing June 12 - July 6

With Austin B. Iden Payne award winner's Wray Crawford, Breanna Stogner, and Charles P. Stites

In brutally honest confessions that eat through protective layers like acid from a battery…the piece
never strikes a false note…Rare plays like this one help lift the veil.” —LA Times. “WHITE
PEOPLE is remarkable. The play seems less written than merely transcribed; there’s not one
false turn of phrase in it.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. “This play by J.T. Rogers is a sobering,
unsettling but deeply rewarding look at a combustible issue many of us prefer to
sidestep…WHITE PEOPLE is not easy to sit through. It raises questions as it challenges our
assumptions about race.” —Salt Lake Tribune.

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Death of a Salesman 2007

Wray Crawford has performed in over 70 productions spanning the
last 15 years. Originally from Norwich, NY, he came to Austin in 2006 to
serve as the Technical Director for Zachary Scott Theater. Prior to that
he was the Technical Director for Angelo State University and Angelo
Civic Theatre both in San Angelo, TX. Always considering himself "an
actor acting like a Technical Director"...Wray's love of acting eventually
brought him back to the stage. He was most recently seen in Austin
Shakespeare's presentation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About
Nothing, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot with City Theatre. In April
of 2007, he performed in City Theater's production of The Boys Next
Door in which he received the B. Iden Payne award for Outstanding
Featured Actor in a Comedy, for playing the role of Lucien P. Smith.

Breanna Stogner has a BFA in Acting from Texas State University, and
has been acting here in Austin for the past four years. She has been
seen in Yellow Tape's Come Home and I Love My Dead Gay Son; Arts
on Real's Psycho Beach Party, Mambo Italiano, and most recently Matt
and Ben; and The Search Party's production of Valaparaiso. She won
the Austin Critics Table Award for best actor 2007, and won the B. Iden
Payne award for Best Ensemble with Kathleen Fletcher in the City
Theatre's production of Parallel Lives, the Kathy and Mo Show.

Charles P. Stites is a twenty-year veteran of Austin theatre. He has
been seen in numerous productions: Something's Afoot, A Flea in Her
Ear, and Hamlet the Dane (B. Iden Payne nominee) at Capitol City
Playhouse; The Wild Duck, The Hasty Heart, Arms and the Man, and
The Hollow at Different Stages; The Cherry Orchard at Hyde Park
Theatre; Fools (B. Iden Payne winner), Art (B. Iden Payne nominee), and
Arcadia at Sam Bass Theatre. This production marks his fourth
production at City Theatre, having appeared previously in The Boys Next
Door (B. Iden Payne nominee), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and
Lone Star. White People is Charles' debut as a director and producer.

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