Butterfly Bar
A non-profit theatre organization owns and operates the Butterfly Bar
What is The VORTEX?
The name of our annual replanting event
What is The Garden Party?
This lacey-barked tree moved from the old VORTEX as a sapling.
What is the Lacey Elm tree?
This show featured actors wearing large animal masks.
What is the wolf you feed?
Monthly Magic on the Eloise Stage.
What are Magical Mind Mysteries with Magical Mystical Michael?
Our youngest and largest poser
Who is Smokey?
Incorporated in this year
When is 1988?
Our cash DOG.
This unique feature of the Antique Bar comes from it's wild past
What is the bullet hole?
The Butterfly Garden has been home to this number of different butterfly species.
What is 30+?
This largest tree at The VORTEX has unique burls and was planted with the ashes of TJ Gaudette.
What is the Chinquapin Oak?
This Summer Youth play takes place in Austin in the not too distant future.
What is Summer Underground?
Performances en Español in a swimming pool.
What is Suspensivo?
Our late 17 year old kitty rests in peace under the Buckeye Tree.
Who is Radius?
The jewel of our educational programming
What is the Summer Youth Theatre?
This Lisa B. Thompson play sold out every performance in 2017.
The name of the bar before it became the Butterfly Bar
What is The VORTEX Cafe?
The Butterfly Garden is certified through this organization
What is The North American Butterfly Association (NABA)?
These large marble-sized seeds were gifted from Tillery St. Plant Co. and is the resting place of Radius, the "king of cats".
What is the Buckeye tree?
This upcoming production received funding from the Venturous Fund of the Tides Foundation, the TCA District Grant, and the National Endowment of the Arts.
What is Another Kind of Silence?
World Famous Eco-sexuals
Who are Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens?
Named after the place she was found eating meat scraps
Who is Smokey?
This original musical toured to New York in 2001
What is Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio?
This play by Reina Hardy pivoted to an outdoor production due to COVID and went on to win numerous B. Iden Payne Awards including "Outstanding Live Production" in 2021.
What is Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven?
The antique bar was on the San Antonio Riverwalk in this location
What is The Landing?
This plant is the host plant for the Buckeye, Crescent Spot, and the White Peacock butterflies.
What is Frogfruit?
This tree was gifted in 1994 and now greets Patrizi's customers.
What is the Crepe Myrtle?
The two primary languages in the play Another Kind of Silence.
What are English and ASL?
An internationally renowned performance artist who always took his clothes off. He will be returning to The VORTEX soon!
Who is Tim Miller?
Our reclusive green-eyed beauty
Who is Elmire?
The original name of our Manor Rd venue
These ritual theatre experiments conceived and directed by Bonnie Cullum graced the stage in 5 different sold-out productions from 2000-2006.
What is Dark Goddess?
This new satellite bar serves frozen purple margaritas.
What is the Disco Bar?
Don't eat this plant if you have allergies to shellfish
What is the Shrimp plant?
It's fruit has been used by the Butterfly Bar and Patrizi's and it continues to reproduce from it's own seeds. It was planted with the ashes of Dama Deer.
What is the Peach Tree?
The city where Another Kind of Silence takes place?
What is Athens, Greece?
Over the past year this outrageous clown burlesque has been rocking The VORTEX.
Who is Fou Fou Ha!?
The first VORTEX cat
Miss Kitty
The lesbian shakespeare that put The Vortex on the map
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Launched from a series of salons on the 20th century's most famous surrealist this event has gone on to delight thousands of patrons over the years.
What is Salvador Dali's Naked Feast?
The current show cocktail, The Happiness Gym is made with these and is bursting with joy.
What are bobas?
These flowers provided nectar for Butterflies in the colder months when other plants were dormant.
What are Pansies?
They Might Be Monkeys
Who are The VORTEX's long-time arborists? (taking care of our trees for decades!)
The Happiness Gym cast attends this university.
What is Texas State University?
This artist made her Austin debut of her solo show experience, Body Politics at The VORTEX. In our 38th season she stars in Another Kind of Silence.
Who is Shasparay?
These 2 have been captured by the paparzzi in the recent Austin Chronicle.
Who are Elmire & Smokey?
The VORTEX co-commissioned the world premiere of this new choreo-poem by Lisa B. Thompson with Fusebox, Pyramid Theatre in Des Moines, and Lorraine Hansbury Theatre in San Francisco.
What is The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body?
Ebony Stewart premiered these two original one-woman shows at The VORTEX, winning multiple awards.
What are Hunger and Ocean?