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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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Co-Lab Projects: Good Mourning Tis of Thee
Alyssa Taylor Wendt and Sean Gaulager have curated up a conceptual group show that addresses grief, loss, death, architecture, and urban development, wrangling more than 65 artists and performers from Texas, New York, Detroit, and Seattle. "The show is especially relevant as the building is slated for subsequent demolition to make room for a planned development on the site."Through Nov. 25721 Congress. -
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Davis Gallery: The Afterlife of Artifacts
We could probably just mention that this exhibition (featuring a quintet of assemblage artists) contains work by Steve Brudniak and watch the smarter crowds gather for some deep gawking … but we wouldn't want to diss the talented likes of Barbara Irwin, John Sager, Larry Seaman, and Steve Wiman – whose complex three-dimensional creations are also well worthy of your time.Through Nov. 25
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A Christmas Carol
The Dickens, you say! Indeed, ZACH’s adaptation of the holiday classic is a musical sleigh ride through rhythm and time, infusing the traditional Victorian story with a musical score that spans all genres and eras.Nov. 22-Dec. 31. Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $25 and up. -
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A Tuna Christmas
No, no, Jaston Williams – who created this wacky small-town wonderment with Joe Sears and Ed Howard – that Jaston ain't in this version, now, hon, but he sure 'nough directs it and brings "the third smallest town in Texas, where the Lion’s Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies" back to hilarious holiday life with just three actors playing all 25 of the Tuna citizens.Through Dec. 31. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $25 and up. -
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Art on 5th: Bill Mack
He's the renowned creator of metal sculptures in which dynamic figures threaten to escape the bond of their frames, and you can meet this Minneapolis-based artist here tonight.Through Dec. 6 -
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Big Medium: Skin Thick
Big Medium presents the inaugural Tito's Prize exhibition, featuring winner Zack Ingram.Through Dec. 16 -
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Blanton Museum: Dancing With Death
Celebrate the dance, citizen, celebrate the danse macabre. This new Blanton show, curated by Elizabeth Welch, features works on paper spanning from the 15th to the 20th centuries, highlighting the visual tradition of bringing death to life, showcasing both the fear of mortality and the fun in life.Through Nov. 26. -
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Bob Khosravi: Nite, Nite!
In which funnyman Khosravi hosts a handful of Austin's acclaimed comedians sharing stories from their youth, pulling back the curtain on the mythos of The Comic's Tortured Childhood™.Wed., Nov. 22, 8pm. $7-12. -
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Camiba Art: Speechless
Margaret Smithers-Crump, an artist whose career spans 37 years, renders her chosen base materials – Plexiglas and polycarbonate – so that they take on a natural, organic, and living quality. Coral reefs? You may believe you're among them.Through Dec. 2 -
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Carver Museum: State of Ascension
Mixed-media vessel works by Rejina Thomas, featuring art she created during the past two decades, with themes positioning the womb as a metaphorical looking glass from which viewers experience and understand the world.Through Feb. 28 -
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Comedy Sellers Underground
Andrew Horneman and Colton Dowling host a stand-up showcase featuring Norah Franklin, Chris Hills, Ky Krebs, Joe Tullar, and Avery Moore.Wed., Nov. 22, 9pm. Free – gratis – yours for a smile.213 W. Fourth -
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De Stijl: you i i i everything else
In which Elizabeth McDonald Schwaiger and Seth Orion Schwaiger exploit the original function of the gallery building – a modest bungalow – and create a domestic environment, a painting-filled home, a hypothetical household that reflects our current anxious times. "Human behavioral science, psychological theory, geo-political power structures, scientific and technological experiments, and the history of art and of science are just some of the subjects both artists mine and explore."Through Dec. 161004 W. 31st. -
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Flatbed Press: Moments in Movement
Taiko Chandler’s monotypes and monoprints are energetic explorations investigating the transience and ephemeral nature of day-to-day life.Through Dec. 30 -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: Sounds in Time/Marks in Space
The painter Tony Saladino has always "felt a deep connection between music and what emerges from his creative process." The artist explores this connectivity in a series of 12 new works on canvas.Through Nov. 22 -
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Harry Ransom Center: Mexico Modern
The rise of modernism in Mexico was activated by artists, museum curators, gallery owners, journalists, and publishers both in Mexico and the United States. This exhibition explores two decades of dynamic cultural exchange between the two countries, featuring important artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Oroxco, and others.Through Jan. 1 -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Diego and Frida
Mexic-Arte celebrates the 110th anniversary of Frida Kahlo’s birth with "A Smile in the Middle of the Way," an exhibition that takes an intimate look at the relationship between Kahlo and Diego Rivera, as seen through the lens of notable photographers of that time, including images by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Ansel Adams, Guillermo Kahlo, Leo Matiz, Nickolas Muray, Edward Weston, and Guillermo Zamora.Through Nov. 26. $5 ($4, senior citizens, students). -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Light and Shadow
Contemporary oils by Debbi Smith Rourke; recent photographs by Bill Oakey and Jack Marshall.Through Dec. 6. free. -
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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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The Contemporary Austin: John Bock + Wangechi Mutu
Bock's Dead + Juicy exhibition centers around a newly commissioned film that was shot in and around Austin, blending classic Westerns and dark comedy with spooky thriller and horror aesthetics. Mutu offers a new, site-specific edition of Throw, 2017, a painting created by the artist throwing black paper pulp against the wall, resulting in an abstract composition that dries, hardens, and then degrades over time.Through Jan. 14 -
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The World Goes 'Round
Here's a tribute to Broadway legends Kander & Ebb, featuring songs from Chicago, Cabaret, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and many more. Austin Theatre Project's David Blackburn has reimagined the show and set it in the Paradise Cafe, a "typical coffee shop with a live five-piece band."Through Dec. 2. Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 5:30pm. $15-30. -
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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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Visual Arts Center: First Fall Show
UT's immense gem of an exhibition space showcases what's what in the local student arena and the greater realms of the whole damn world of visual arts. Check out Larry Bamburg's BurlsHoovesandShells on a Pedestal of Conglomerates installation, the "Fool’s Romance" collection of artists' books from Mexico City's Aeromoto, Riel Sturchio and Amber Shields' "Body is a Bridge" exhibition, and more, in celebration of this latest VAC renascence. And here's what our reviewer thought of that "Fool's Romance" collection. And what of that "Kind of About Michigan" installation? Here's what Melany Jean had to say.Through Dec. 9. Free. -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Low Places
Color, you say? You want a wealth of color brightening your people-forward compositions? Patrick Puckett's large, boldly painted canvases explore the human figure, inspired by the artist's life in the American South.Through Nov. 25 -
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Women & Their Work: Good Days & Bad Days on the Internet
In which Rachel Stuckey, inspired by the creepy content generated on dark corners of the web, dissects the emotional pull of technology – with performative video, projection mapping, signal manipulation, and custom software. And this is our reviewer's reaction to the show.Through Jan. 11 -
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Yard Dog: Lost Souls
A vivid section of new work by the Mekons' Jon Langford adorns the Yard Dog walls, flooding the intimate SoCo space with phantasmagorical paintings and monoprints.Through Nov. 28
