Zilker Theatre Productions delights families every summer with free musical theatre in Ausin's Zilke Visit our website for more information: zilker.org
Zilker Theatre Productions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides free and award-winning entertainment every summer to an audience of over 40,000 people.
Operating as usual
While you have to wait 'til summer for musical fun with ZTP, we've been enjoying all of the JOYFUL musical productions here in Austin this season. We're feeling the holiday spirit by watching productions at ZACH Theatre, Austin Scottish Rite Theater, Texas Performing Arts, Ballet Austin, Georgetown Palace Theatre, and more! Drop a comment with your suggestions for where to find festive theatre & song this month and help spread cheer to our arts community.
This , we extend a heartfelt thank you for any donations -- big or small -- that will help us continue the tradition of presenting the summer musical in Zilker Park for the entire community to enjoy! https://zilker.org/donate/
ZTP only exists because of YOU!
Your generosity and dedication have helped bring the magic of musical theater to the people of Austin and Central Texas for generations.
This GivingTuesday, please consider giving generously to keep organizations like Zilker around for many years to come.
As a bonus, anyone donating $200 or more will be invited to the catered Donor Preview performance of "Matilda," our 2023 Zilker Summer Musical!
zilker.org/donate
We’re so thankful for all of you! From everyone at Zilker Theatre Productions, Happy Thanksgiving 🍁
Congratulations to the cast and crew of Disney’s Newsies on their two B. Iden Payne awards this evening! We are so honored to have won Outstanding Movement Performance, and we are so beyond proud of our wonderful stage manager, Aly Redland, on winning Outstanding Stage Management. Thank you for such a special night. 🗞️
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Thank you for honoring Newsies with 7 B Iden Payne nominations!
Thank you so much Austin PBS for having us for Community Day this past weekend! Our performers had a wonderful time singing a ZTP show medley at the event. Here’s a little sneak peek if you missed us!
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Come out and join us today for Austin PBS Community Day!! Zilker Theatre Productions will be performing songs from The Wizard of Oz, All Shook Up, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors, and Newsies! Our performance is at 4:30pm, and the whole event runs until 6pm! And the best part? It’s free!
View from the wings✨
Photographer: Taylor Smith ()
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A little throw back Thursday, and behind the scenes look at our cast backstage right before going on for Carrying the Banner. Thank you to photographer, Taylor Smith, for capturing the friendships and the fun that our newsies had off stage.
Photographer: Taylor Smith ()
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YOU are invited! Join us this Saturday, August 27th, for Austin PBS Community Day, a fun filled event at the brand new Austin Media Center. Meet PBS KIDS characters, listen to live music, enjoy food trucks and watch a special Zilker Theatre Productions performance featuring ZTP alumni, Dani Kaigler, Andrew Tran, Shane Scandurra, Steve Williams, Coty Ross and Alyssa Muir, singing songs from The Wizard of Oz, All Shook Up, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors, and Newsies! The event runs from 10am to 6pm, and we take the stage at 4:30pm! Free and open to all! See you there!
Did you know that for every performance of Disney’s Newsies, we had a wonderful band of extremely talented musicians playing for us?! Here are the faces that you didn’t see ON stage, but were creating musical magic backstage! All of them were lead by our fabulous music director, Dr Beth Everett.
Photographer: Taylor Smith ()
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Raise your hand if you miss Disney’s Newsies on the Hillside✋
Photographer: Taylor Smith ()
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Did you love Disney’s Newsies and can't wait for next summer's production? Here's some ways to stay involved!
1) Sign up for the ZTP email list to stay in the know about any special events, workshops and audition info to come.
2) Donate to help keep the summer tradition alive and strong. Didn't make it out to the show this year? We get it, it was HOT! But you can still help ensure future productions by making an easy online donation.
3) Get your workplace involved! ZTP is grateful for corporate sponsors and small businesses that lend support. See how to get your ads in next year's program or have a fun company night out at the show!
4) Follow our social media accounts. We love your likes and shares! All theatre lovers are welcome in our social community.
Photographer: David Truong
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Don’t ya know that we’se a family🗞🤍
Photographer: Taylor Smith ()
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“Soon your friends are more like family”
A clip of our cast watching their show for the first time yesterday! Not only are they an extremely talented group of people, but they’re also the most supportive cast and crew anyone could want. Just listen to them!!
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That’s a wrap on ZTP’s 63rd Annual Zilker Summer Musical, Disney’s Newsies. Congratulations to our outstanding cast, crew, and production team, for a fantastic run this summer, and a HUGE thank you to everyone who came out and supported us on the Hillside the past couple months. What an unforgettable show.🗞🗞
Photographer: Taylor Smith
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Newsies forever. Second to none.
Happy closing to the cast and crew of Disney’s Newsies🗞
Photographer: David Truong
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We are so very proud to call Zilker Park our home for so many years! We're incredibly grateful for the support of the entire Zilker Collective including: Zilker Botanical Garden, UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin Nature & Science Center, Rowing Dock, Austin Parks and Recreation Department, Austin Parks Foundation, Barton Springs Conservancy, The Trail Foundation, Austin Sunshine Camps & all of the wonderful organizations that make Zilker Park such a gem of Austin.
Come dance like a newsie ONE LAST TIME! Tonight at 7:00pm, dance captain .grace.harper will be teaching part of Seize the Day on the Zilker stage! Come carry the banner with us this evening for our final newsies dance lesson🗞🗞
Photographer: David Truong
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Tonight, Once and For All, our Newsies are taking on the Zilker stage, and striking one final time🗞
Photographer: David Truong
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Less than an hour until places for our second to last night of Disney’s Newsies! Who’s in the audience??
Photographers: Henry Huey ()
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Just two more chances to catch Disney’s Newsies on the Zilker Hillside Theatre this summer! Join us tonight and tomorrow to see this truly incredible cast and our wonderful show. We promise you won’t regret it!
Photographers: David Truong, Henry Huey, and Peggy Keelan
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Thank you to Latham & Watkins! We couldn't continue this summer tradition without our wonderful sponsors!
Wow! What a wonderful audience tonight! Thank you so much for showing your support to our newsies, and for your generous donations! Only two more chances to catch this incredible show🗞
Photographer: David Truong
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Big thank you and shoutout to our sponsors Norton Rose Fulbright for support of this year's show!
Bring a blanket, bring some friends, and we’ll see you on the Hillside tonight at 8:15pm🗞
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Me trying to decide if I’m gonna come see Disney’s Newsies this week for the 6th week in a row
Correct answer: yes!
Photographer: David Truong (.moogul)
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There’s change coming Once and For All starting tomorrow at 8:15pm, for our final weekend of Disney’s Newsies🗞
Photographers: Taylor Smith () & David Truong (.moogul)
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Loud and clear, Brooklyn’s here! BUT, just for one more week! See you guys on the Hillside this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:15pm for our final 3 shows🗞
Photographer: David Truong
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That’s a wrap on week 5 of our annual Zilker summer musical, Disney’s Newsies! Just one more week left on strike! If you haven’t come out to the Hillside yet this summer, now is the time!! See you next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for our closing weekend🗞🗞
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One more chance to catch Disney’s Newsies this weekend! Will we see you tonight?🗞
Photographer: David Truong
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Check out dance captain, Ella Harper, and Jack Kelly, LJ Salinas on CBS Austin This Morning!
Extra! Extra! Save the dates!! Tonight, 8/6 and next Friday, 8/12, will be ASL nights for our audiences!! We will have ASL interpreters at the show on those dates, and we hope to see you there!
Photographer: David Truong
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Our wonderful sponsor, HEB, was back on the Hillside last night and had a blast!! Huge shoutout to them for being amazing sponsors as always!
10 minutes until places! Who’s in the audience tonight?? Comment ‘🗞’ if you’re here supporting our newsies this evening!!
Photographer: Taylor Smith ()
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We love getting fan art each year from some of the talented artists that come see our show! Today we want to shoutout for this beautiful Newsies poster that she designed for her final project last semester! She even brought all the cast and crew mini versions of the poster! Thank you so much for the art, we absolutely love it!
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HUGE thank you and shoutout to Community Impact Newspaper for sponsoring our show this summer. Did you catch their CEO in the show last night as a walk on?
Big shoutout to Dart Construction for being such wonderful sponsors this summer!!
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Thank you so much Austin PBS for having us for Community Day this past weekend! Our performers had a wonderful time singing a ZTP show medley at the event. Here’s a little sneak peek if you missed us! 🗞 @shanescandurra @andrewtranmusic 🌈 @kaigleroo 🧜🏻♀️ @atxlyssa 🐠 @andrewtranmusic 🐙 @ Coty Ross 🎸 @shanescandurra 🪴 @ Steve Williams @atxlyssa #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #zilkertheatre #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark #austintexas
“Soon your friends are more like family” A clip of our cast watching their show for the first time yesterday! Not only are they an extremely talented group of people, but they’re also the most supportive cast and crew anyone could want. Just listen to them!! 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
Bring a blanket, bring some friends, and we’ll see you on the Hillside tonight at 8:15pm🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
We want to send a HUGE congratulations to the wonderful Will Mallick for making his Davey debut last night! Will will be on for Davey tonight and tomorrow as well, and we would love for you to come out and support him and the rest of our incredible cast
A behind the scenes look at backstage of Disney’s Newsies…🗞📰 Come Join us this Thursday - Sunday @ 8:15pm for week 4! It’s FREE and no tickets are required! See you on the Hillside:) 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
Wow! Just look at these kids! Disney’s Newsies runs every Thursday through Sunday until August 13th, so you can come out and see this in person THIS weekend!! These newsies, and the whole cast, will absolutely blow you away with their insane amount of talent, and we promise this isn’t a show you want to miss! The best part? It’s completely free?? Bring a blanket, some snacks, and your friends and family, and come enjoy some of the best live theatre in Austin. See you on the Hillside🗞🗞 choreographer: Chris Shin videographer: David Truong dancers: Ella Harper, Evan Carlson, JD Martin, and Jackson Freolich 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
A behind the scenes look at backstage of Disney’s Newsies…🗞📰 Come Join us this Thursday - Sunday @ 8:15pm for week 3! It’s FREE and no tickets are required! See you on the Hillside:) 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! We asked one of our dance captains @evancarlson_ what his favorite dance number in the show is… “My favorite dance number in the show is King of New York! The actors really get to interact with each other while dancing, which creates a very fun, high-energy performance!” Come watch Evan along with our other extraordinarily talented newsies on the Zilker Hillside starting this Friday at 8:15pm🗞🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
Turning into opening weekend with dance captain Ella Grace Harper! Only 3 more days!! 🗞🗞 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
Yesterday was sitzprobe day for the cast of Disney’s Newsies!! SO much talent in one room, and you’ll get to experience it for yourself starting July 8th on the Zilker Hillside Theatre🗞🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies #newsies #disneysnewsies #seeyouonthehillside #zilkerpark
This afternoon, the cast of Disney’s Newsies said goodbye to their rehearsal space, as well as air conditioning, as they head to the Zilker Hillside Theatre tomorrow! We could not be more excited!! 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies
“One for all and all for one”🗞🗞 Only 3 weeks until our newsies take the Zilker stage and bring you this fantastic show and its many iconic dance numbers! You’re going to be blown away by the talent of this cast, so save the date July 8th - August 13th🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies
Save the date to see the incredible LJ Salinas as Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies on the Zilker Hillside this summer! July 8th - August 13th🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies
When you’re famous, the woild is yer erster🦪 Catch Disney’s Newsies on the Hillside this summer, July 8th - August 13th to see these kings of New York sharing their talents with the Austin community🗞🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies
Take a look behind the scenes of a rehearsal for Disney’s Newsies at Zilker Theatre Productions! Our newsboys and newsgirls are working so hard to bring you an amazing show this summer, and they hope you all come out and see it! July 8th - August 13th🗞🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies Zilker Theatre Productions does not own the rights to this song. All rights belong to Disney’s Newsies.
Our newsies are hard at work learning all of their choreography, music, and blocking this week! We’re so excited to bring so many iconic dance numbers like Seize the Day and King of New York to the Hillside this summer! What’s your favorite dance number from Disney’s Newsies??🗞 📰📰 #zilkertheatreproductions #ztp #ztpsnewsies
All former ZTP actors, crew, and staff are invited to this Sunday's show! We are so excited to see you all again!
Good news! Due to overwhelming response, we are ADDING MORE WALK-UPS! Ticket-holders: We strongly advise arriving by 7:30 to snag a good spot! See the FAQ on our site for more info!
Know anyone who looks like plant food to you? Bring 'em with you to the second weekend of Little Shop of Horrors 👀 We're totally kidding. Or are we?! Either way, come down to @hillcountrygalleria this weekend! We have plenty of walk-up seating if you arrive early!
A special message to our Zilker family on what would have been opening night of Mamma Mia! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Important Message to our ZTP Family and Friends!
Hey Friday night, think you beat the size of this crowd we had last night?! Only a few hours til showtime - hurry and head down to the Hillside! #undertheseaonthehillside #ztp #thelittlemermaid
Thank you to the thousands of people who joined us and supported ZTP’s 60th anniversary show, 🔥All Shook Up!🔥 What a great ride! 🏍 Stay tuned to our social media all year long, and we’ll see you on the hillside, next summer! #ATX #ZTP #ZTP60 #ZilkerSummerMusical #ShookUpZTP #AllShookUp #zilker #summer #musical #musicaltheatre #theatre #zilkerpark #summer #park #austin
LAST CHANCE! Fall in ❤️LOVE❤️ with 🔥All Shook Up🔥 this weekend! Catch us before we ride off into the sunset! Show closes Aug 18th! 🎶“It’s now or never!”🎶 #ATX #ZTP #ZTP60 #ZilkerSummerMusical #ShookUpZTP #AllShookUp #zilker #summer #musical #musicaltheatre #theatre #zilkerpark #summer #park #austin
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