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Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar
Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.Apr. 19-May 5Navasota Theatre Alliance -
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Hip Haven's Moving Sale plus Estate Sale
Austin decor maker Hip Haven will be downsizing and moving to a new location. They'll have loads of great Hip Haven merchandise discounted from 15-50% off, plus 2000 square feet of vintage and antique items from multiple estates. Cash, card, or Venmo accepted. (Doors open promptly at 11--no earlybirds!)Sat. Apr. 27, 11am-5pmHip Haven Inc.
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Guzu Gallery: Strange Beasts V
That poptastic gallery located in the Center of Austin Fandom teams up with Matt Frank to present "Shin Beasts," this latest in their vivid series of creatures beyond the usual fauna of our mundane trappings. With 13 artists (Bob Eggleton among them!) and one fearless tag team challenging the King of the Monsters to a face-off of gargantuan proportions, you know the show's gonna be an eye-sizzling phantasmagoria of fang and fin. Reception:Fri., July 28, 7-10pm
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A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline
Featuring more than 20 of the singer’s unforgettable hits, this staged tribute traces her career from the early days of singing in honky-tonks, through her rise to fame at the Grand Ole Opry, to her triumph at Carnegie Hall. Directed by Megan Richards Wright for TexARTS and starring Christina Stroup as Patsy Cline.Through July 30. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $40 and up. -
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Art.Science.Gallery.: Jennie Tudor Gray
July's monthly trunk show at this sharp gallery in the Canopy compound features the Austin-based artist with a variety of gifts, prints, and original works inspired by astronomy and nature in general. Bonus: recycled, altered book art.July 28-30. Fri., 6-9pm; Sat., noon-6pm; Sun., 4-8pm -
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August: Osage County
Tracy Lett’s dark comedy centers around the Weston family, who come home to Oklahoma after their patriarch and world-class poet father disappears. Directed by Andy Berkovsky for City Theatre.Through Aug. 13. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25 ($10, Thursdays). -
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Austin Classical Guitar: i/we
This is a musical journey exploring commonality, struggle, and perseverance through stories of refugees currently settling in central Texas, based on interviews with refugees from Syria and Iraq who have recently settled in and around Austin. Featuring music composed by Joseph V. Williams II, performed by an ensemble featuring Conspirare's Craig Hella Johnson.July 28-29. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. $27-57. -
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Crave Blue
A mermaid exhibition. A strange lake in the middle of West Texas. Ice cream in multiple flavors. MouthRadio presents a new play by Sarah Loucks – part roadside attraction, part dark comedy – we mean the play, of course, but that might work for Loucks as well – directed by NYC guest artist Ann Marie Dorr. See what happens when three minimum-wage mermaids risk everything to uncover the secrets within their lake.Through Aug. 5. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 6 & 9pm. $15-20.MastroGeorge Theatre, 130 Pedernales. -
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Forklift Danceworks: Bartholomew Swims
That Allison Orr's been up to her usual fierce industry, and now here's the first performance of My Park, My Pool, My City – a multiyear collaboration with Austin's Parks and Recreation Department, focusing on East Austin city pools. You probably wanna see what happens when aquatic choreography is embodied by City of Austin lifeguards, maintenance staff, and neighborhood residents. And this time it's in the park right down the road from the Mueller development.Through 29. Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10pm -
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HP Lovecraft's Call Of Cthulhu
Well, who else's "Call of Cthulhu" would it be? But know that Mercurial Theatre goes right to the source – HPL's original short story – to "distill the sprawling investigative story and condense it into a single sequence of moments of heightened tension and drama … culminating in an ending that’s as challenging as Lovecraft’s work can be." Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, we reckon, sure 'nuff.Through Aug. 13. Sun., 6pm. $20 ($17.50, in advance). -
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I Scream Social
This reading series at Malvern, hosted by Annar Veröld and Schandra Madha, features young women poets and fiction writers from Austin – this week, Nicole Cortichiato and Maris Finn – and free cool confections from Amy’s Ice Cream & Sweet Ritual.Fri., July 28, 7pm -
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It's … subterranean!
It's that underground space Downtown, swarming with improvisers and stand-up comics and sketch artists and sexual misconduct allegations. Monday nights feature Fuck This Week, wherein your moans, groans, gripes, and complaints are turned into comedy gold. They let Rob Gagnon do his Sandbox thing on Tuesdays at 9pm, Wednesdays get some work done in the Garage, Thursday brings that twisted look at dating apps – Fuck. Marry. Kill. – and Friday returns you to the Stoned vs. Drunk vs. Sober shenanigans. Saturday, there's the Megaphone Show, and – ah, see website for details. -
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Million Dollar Quartet
This rocking show with pro-level entertainers brings to life the night in 1956 that Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins joined forces at Sun Studio in Memphis for the greatest jam session ever.Through Sept. 3. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $25 and up. -
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Nomads: Latin Roots, Winds, and Strings
Here's an evening of traditional Latin melodies in a classical setting, with Alison Baker and Eduardo Cassapia on winds and percussion, accompanied by string quartet.Fri., July 28, 7pm. $15. -
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Revel Solstice Fest: The Soundtap Project
Revel's revelations continue with this debut of the Soundtap Project, featuring saxophonist Sunil Gadgil, cellist Liz Lee, and pianist Carla McElhaney joining forces to unleash reimagined masterworks by a few of their favorite living composers.Fri., July 28, 8pm. $20. -
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SouthPop: 50 Over 50
This exhibition accompanies the venue's oral history project from 50 artists over the age of 50 who have played pivotal roles in the evolution of Austin from a sleepy Texas town to the Live Music Capital of the World.Through Sept. 30 -
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Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
This is the workshop Hannah Kenah led for Rude Mechs while they were creating their Field Guide. Together, you'll write, you’ll share – and there'll be a mic and a stool. Sign up now for this one-day class that's low-pressure, high-fun, and makes the last Sunday in September worth waking up for.Workshop date: Sun., Sept. 30, 3pm. $20. -
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Summer Stock Austin: Monty Python's Spamalot
And now for something completely theatrical. The musical comedy “lovingly ripped off” from the film classic, Monty Python & the Holy Grail. You know, citizen: "It's only a flesh wound," "airspeed of a European swallow," "shrubbery," and so on? As staged by the high school and college students of Summer Stock Austin? Right – off you go, then.Through Aug. 12. Wed.-Sun., 7:30pm; some matinees also available. $27 and up. -
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The Moors
Jen Silverman's dark and satirical comedy is, well, ah, it's like the Brontë sisters – but with American accents. No? OK, then imagine a large dog falling in obsessive love with a small bird. Right? You understand "obsessive love," yes? Now imagine Lindsay Hearn Brustein, Crystal Bird Caviel, Catherine Grady, Jess Hughes, Katie Kohler, and Dave Yakubik directed by Ken Webster for HPT.Through Aug. 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $22-26 (pay what you wish, Thursdays). -
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Tiskettasket
This is a one-act, full-sensory show from the Frank Wo/Men Collective, offering a series of vignettes that channel absurdity in many forms and "allow the audience to engage head-deep in fruitful, full-bodied episodes of goof."July 28-30. Fri.-Sun., 8pm. $10-20.4902 Gladeview. -
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Top Comedy Spot on Airport
Yes, there's Sugar Water Purple on Wednesday nights. And this Thursday features Friends For Now, a daring supergroup of improv, and then the sketch shenanigans of Pendulum. Friday brings Movie Riot and the laugh-inducing ladies of Loverboy and that Live at ColdTowne stand-up showcase hosted by Carina Magyar. Then there's Saturday, with the Dave Buckman-directed Roast of St. Nick and the love-stinks larking of Missed Connections ATX, followed by a gathering of that mysterio-hilarious Midnight Society. And Sunday's got a Stool Pigeon spieling up the laughs for you, and – see website for more. -
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Vortex Summer Youth: It Can't Happen Here
Matthew Patterson directs this year's Vortex student cast in a rendition of Sinclair Lewis' classic dark satire about a demagogue who – get this – becomes the President of the United States. Who'd'a thunk it, right?Through July 29. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35 (two-for-one with two cans of food for SafePlace, Thu. and Sun.). -
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Works Progress Austin: Cooler Bodies
Austin's grayDUCK Gallery is a perfect setting for this Salvage Vanguard Theatre reading of a new play by Diana Lynn Small, a story that explores the question: Are people born special or does creativity evolve from our sufferings? Directed by Hannah Kenah.Fri., July 28, 8pm. Free – but make you a reservation, citizen.
