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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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Dimension Gallery: Infinity X Loop
Damn it, Dimension Gallery, can't you just let yourself be pigeonholed? But, no – and we blame Colin McIntyre's Resonant Lung for encouraging this sort of thing – you've got to offer up an intriguing wonderment that's partly a visual arts event and partly an experimental musical gig, as Portland's Randall "Amulets" Taylor surgically modifies cassettes to craft self-contained repeating units with configurations for longer loops, literally running the tape out of the housing and through the gallery space. "The loops surround the viewer with the magnetic tape itself in a ceaseless circuit, creating a sonic tapestry that stretches and degrades toward infinity." Recommended.Through Aug. 14 -
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Northern-Southern: Deliriums
Now here's a compelling thing: That maker of musical machinery, Matthew "Octant" Steinke, has a new solo exhibition in this intimate gallery (curated by the John-Pauls' own Phillip Niemeyer). We mean, who wouldn't want to experience the odd marvel of "three acoustic robots singing to each other, round-robin style, mimicking a group therapy session," right? And, oh, look – that Brenner fellow reviews the show right here.Through July 30. Saturdays, 3:30-6pm -
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Davis Gallery: Reflector
This is something to see, all right, as the gallery walls are filled with work by artists tasked with capturing either their whole self or an aspect of self. And most of the artists have depicted themselves via abstractions and symbolic representations. Note that Randall Reid, Jan Heaton, John Sager, Chun Hui Pak, and Caprice Pierucci are only some of the artists represented in this group show, and we reckon you'll be right there with us, viewing the array of wonders on display.Through Sept. 8 -
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Erik Bergstrom
The NYC-based comedian and cartoonist – you've seen him on Colbert's show, right? – comes to the Velv to lay the crowd to waste with laughs this weekend, rocking the storied stage after Ashley Overton opens. (No, this Bergstrom's not related to the airport. Well, except on his mother's side. And she acknowledges that it was a bad idea, a drunken spur-of-the-moment thing with an L-1011 at some college party, OK, so STFU, you don't know anything about it.)July 27-28. Fri., 9pm; Sat., 9 & 11pm. $10. -
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ICOSA: Are You Doing Your Part / In Your Life
Here's the ICOSA Collective's inaugural show at Canopy, featuring work by the collective's newest members – Leon Alesi, Amy Bench, Darcie Book, Rachelle Diaz, Sarah Hirneisen, Mark Johnson, Dameon Lester, Tammie Rubin, Lana Waldrep-Appl, and Carlos Carillo/Yevgenia Davidoff – as curated by Sean Redmond, editor of fields magazine.Through Aug. 25 -
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National Geographic: Symphony for Our World
Combining stunning natural-history footage with an original symphony and theme created by Bleeding Fingers Music, featuring composers Austin Fray and Andrew Christie, this event is a musical journey through some of the planet’s most incredible wildlife phenomena. You'll go from the depths of the sea, up to the coastlines, onto land, through mountains, and finally into the sky – with each environment accompanied by a different musical movement, performed live by the Austin Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Austin. Recommended.Sat., July 28, 8pm. $29 and up. -
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Recspec Gallery: The Indigo Show
This excellent emporium of art, design, and style within the Flatbed Press complex, still going strong while anticipating the eventual move to new digs, presents a new exhibition – curated by jewelry savant Holly Bobisuthi – of work by an array of artists from Austin and around the country. Listen: "Indigo is a spectrum, a transformation, a transition, a contradiction, a green plant that makes blues. The color of both day and night. The pale blue of high noon sky over Texas and the almost-black blue of the deep Pacific Ocean." Recommended, yes.But then, how could we not recommend a show that comes with its own Spotify playlist … ? And especially after Melany Jean said this about the collection of works?Through Sept. 8 -
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The Antipodes
It's the newest work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker – the playwright of The Flick, The Aliens, Circle Mirror Transformation, and more – and, because Hyde Park Theatre's Ken Webster has, like, connections in the industry, this is only the second production of it in the country. This one's about professional fabulators in pursuit of the ultimate yarn, and the cast – oh my, the cast! – features Lowell Bartholomee, Tom Green, Anne Hulsman, Maria Latiolais, Saurabh Pradhan, Blake Robbins, Mical Trejo, Shanon Weaver, and Dave Yakubik, all directed by that same Webster. Note: Do yourself a big favor and see this one.Through Aug. 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $22-26 (Pay what you can, Thursdays).
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Alabama Story
This Kenneth Jones play is based on true events: In 1959, a famed author and illustrator creates a children's book about a black rabbit and a white rabbit getting married. Citizens and a senator demand the state librarian ban the book. The librarian refuses. Now see what consequences ensue, as directed by Kat Sparks for Southwest Theatre Productions.Through July 28. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $15-22. -
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AVAA: Summer Show
Here's the much-anticipated summertime exhibition from the Austin Visual Arts Association, featuring a diversity of local artists.Through Aug. 4 -
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Big Medium: Hyper School
This is a five-person exhibition, featuring artists Denise Burge (OH), Jessica Cannon (NY), Michael Henderson (TX), Jessica Simorte (TX), and Sean Sullivan (NY). The show, curated by Max Manning, highlights work by artists making strong contributions to the fields of painting and drawing and "sheds light on a shared aesthetic that crosses generational, geographical, and social boundaries."Through Aug. 18 -
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Camiba Art: Source Material
Here's a two-person exhibition featuring William T. Carson and Rebecca Rothfus Harrell, two artists with a common interest in geology, natural materials, and the environment – yet their artistic techniques and approaches are distinct. Light, pattern, color, texture: All communicate our planet's basic elements in this visually fluent dialogue.Through Aug. 11 -
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Collection Rert: The Bill and Leah Show
Bill Jeffery presents his latest drawings (inspired by memories of all the dogs he has loved and lost over the years) and Leah Smith unveils a few multinational conceptual pieces. No, wait, that's multimedia conceptual pieces. Although, internets, so who knows?Sat., July 28, 7-10pm2608-B Rogers -
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Comanche Motion: The Art of Eric Tippeconnic
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.Through Jan. 2. $9-13. -
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Debby Schriver: Whispering in the Daylight
The author presents her book about the late Tony Alamo and the children who escaped from his religious cult.Sat., July 28, 1pm -
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Digging Deep: From the Flatbed Flat Files
This salon-style exhibition offers a wide array of prints – etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and painterly prints known as monotypes – printed by hand from copper plates, stone, and carved wood on Flatbed’s presses. After two decades in the current location, the inky powerhouse has organized this show with its upcoming move in mind, digging deep to present a selection of works priced perfectly for collecting, featuring contemporary and vintage prints by artists Julie Speed, Ann Conner, Frank X Tolbert 2, Teresa Gomez-Martorell, David Everett, Francisco Delgado, Sharon Kopriva, Joan Winter, Celia Muñoz, Ken Hale, and many more. Recommended.Through Aug. 25 -
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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
You just know Zach Theatre's gonna do this fabulous sockdollager of a crowd-pleasing Broadway show up right, with Abe Reybold at the helm and Allen Robertson handling music direction. Hell, you could attend just to hear that hilarious "Gaston" song performed live, couldn't you?Through Sept. 2. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $25 and up. -
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Flatbed Press: New Editions 2017-2018
Etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, monotypes, and monoprints published over the last year, by Richard Amendariz, Taiko Chandler, Michael Ray Charles, Suzi Davidoff, Annalise Gratovich, Tom Huck, Gareth Maguire, Winston Mascarenhas, Bob Schneider, Howard Sherman, Jill Wilkinson, Danny Williams, and Joan Winter.Through Aug. 25 -
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Grease
You know, right? High school in the Fifties. The Brylcreem'd antics of juvie gangs, an adolescent love story, all of it set to finger-snappin' music reminiscent of those times. And this TexArts version is directed by Kasey RT Graham.Through July 29. Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $43-53. -
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Laurie Filipelli: Book Launch
The author of Elseplace and head honcho of Mighty Writing now presents Girl Paper Stone, her newest collection of poetry.Sat., July 28, 7pm -
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Link & Pin Gallery: I Found You
Here's a new show in which Dana Brown, Larry Goode, Christopher Hynes, Amy Scofield, and Laura Sturtz have used found objects to create mixed-media works exploring humor, whimsy, dreams, and our connection to nature.Through July 29 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Xavier Schipani
Here's a striking exhibition of murals, paintings on canvas, and a sculptural installation masquerading as a public bathroom – all by that acclaimed Schipani, voted Austin's Best Muralist in 2016. This new show is, we're told, "largely a reckoning with masculinity. What is manliness? What has it meant in the past, what does it mean now, and what are its shortcomings?" Could be our review provides a few answers.Through Sept. 1 -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Young Latinx Artists 23
Now in its 23rd year, the annual exhibition continues to shed a spotlight on talented Latinx artists across the U.S. This latest iteration, "Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges," curated by Rocha-Rochelli, is inspired by the significant social changes that have taken place along the U.S.–Mexico border over the last 20 years. And here's our review of the show.Through Aug. 24 -
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National Dance Day
Ballet Austin joins with Dizzy Feet Foundation to celebrate dance and movement by offering a variety of dance classes all day for only $10 each. Proceeds benefit Ballet Austin's PINK PILATES program for breast cancer survivors. See website for details.Sat., July 28, 9:30am-3pm. $10 per class. -
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Off Center Teens: SummerShow
The students of Rude Mechs' acclaimed annual summer program for teens, led by directors Patrick Shaw and Megan Tabaque, take the stage and transform their autobiographical writing into powerful and personal public performances at Ground Floor Theatre.Sat.-Sun., July 28-29, 2pm. Free. -
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Playhouse Creatures
April De Angelis’ new play relates how, in 1663, King Charles II reopened England's theatre playhouses and, for the first time, women were able to take the stage. This is the story of those first actresses, the "playhouse creatures" whose ambitions, talent, and risk for artistic equality made their lives truly uncertain. Directed by Lindsay McKenna for City Theatre.Through Aug. 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25. -
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Refugee is Not My Name
This traveling art exhibition highlights photographic portraits, film, and stories of refugees from around the world who have resettled in Austin. Part of the Mayor's Book Club initiative? Indeed.Through Aug. 15. Free. -
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Samantha M. Clark: The Boy, the Boat, and the Beast
The debut author presents her YA novel that's been described as "The Graveyard Book meets Hatchet."Sat., July 28, 2pm -
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SouthPop: 14th Anniversary Exhibition
Almost a decade and a half of SouthPop already? Yes, and now the venue that celebrates all the long strange years of live-music Austin that have gone before, now that bastion of funky cultural puissance on South Lamar brings an eclectic show of works from the permanent collection to their storied walls.Through Sept. 29. $5. -
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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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Steve Treviño
You know this Treviño – he wrote on Mind of Mencia and on Pitbull’s La Esquina. And his first Showtime comedy special, Grandpa Joe's Son, knocked the Nielsens sky-high.July 26-28. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 7:30 & 10pm. $20-25. -
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Summer Stock Austin: The Music Man
Yup, it's that Meredith Willson musical classic of long-con chicanery and how a librarian turns a chiseler's calculating heart to sweet honey in the crock. "76 Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," and so on, as you surely know. Here directed and choreographed by Ginger Morris. Note: You'll have to get to the show by car, bike, scooter, or some other such conveyance, as this town of ours – gasp! – has no monorail.Through Aug. 11. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2 & 7:30pm. $33 and up. -
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Summer Youth Theatre: She Kills Monsters
This is Qui Nguyen's play about a young badass’s journey into the world of Dungeons & Dragons to connect with her late sister, here directed by Teresa Cruz for the Vortex.Through July 28. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35 (free for deaf or hard-of-hearing). -
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The Audience
This is Federico Garcia Lorca’s El Público, as powerfully reimagined by Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, who infuses Lorca’s unfinished play with details from his life and his murder. This is a show about the military coup in Spain in 1936, in which Lorca was captured and murdered in his hometown of Granada. This is history – where, as too often obtains in the present, personal freedoms and self-expression can get you killed. Co-directed by that same Doss and Lisa Laratta for paper chairs. And this, this is the Chronicle's Robert Faires' reaction to the show.Through Aug. 11. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $15-35. -
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The Blanton: The Distance I Can Be From My Son
In 2013, Lenka Clayton attempted to objectively measure the furthest distance she could be from her toddler son in three environments: a city park, the alley behind their Pittsburgh home, and in the aisles of a local supermarket. The trio of videos humorously underlines the challenging judgment calls that parents make about how much autonomy to give their children. (For more, see Marisa Charpentier's review right here.)Through Sept. 2 -
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The Contemporary Austin: Against a Civic Death
Rodney McMillian's social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power explores the changing symbol of the White House and the concept of civic death.Through Aug. 26 -
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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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Wally Workman Gallery: Diana Greenberg
This is the Workman Gallery's fourth solo show with the local painter – whose current body of work is influenced by Japanese calligraphy and kimonos, antique book covers, and music.Through July 28 -
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Yard Dog: Western Futurism
Assemblage artist Jimmy Descant, who calls himself a Severe Reconstructivist, uses parts from the golden age of American manufacturing to embody his vision of the West – its people, environment, and social/political conditions.Through July 31 -
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Zilker Summer Musical: All Shook Up
There's an Elvis-celebratin' spectacle of live performance rocking the hillside stage for the 60th anniversary of this midsummer entertainment.Through Aug. 18. Thu.-Sat., 8:15pm. Free.
