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Opening Reception of "Tenfold" Exhibition
McLennon Pen Co. Gallery is proud to announce its move to a new, expanded home at 1114 W 5th St in Clarksville. The inaugural exhibition titled Tenfold will debut the art gallery's first official artist roster including artists based in Austin, New York, Los Angeles, and Kansas City.Thurs. June 5, 6pm-9pmMcLennon Pen Co. Gallery
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Mean Girls
You've seen the movie, right? It's funny because it's true, it's true because it's vicious. Now Broadway in Austin invites you to witness the harrowing social hierarchies of young women in this hit musical version from an award-winning creative team – including scripter Tina Fey, composer Jeff Richmond, lyricist Nell Benjamin, and director Casey Nicholaw.Aug. 2-7. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $55-125. -
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Summer Stock Austin: Alice's Wonderland
This is a regional premiere co-written and directed by J. Quinton Johnson (of Broadway’s Hamilton), revealing the story of a brilliant, passionate teen coder who dreams of changing the world with her new video game. Featuring an original score inspired by hip-hop, pop, gospel, and contemporary musical theater.Through Aug. 8. $15-35. -
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Sunflower: The Musical
Vocal powerhouse Guy Forsyth stars as Vincent Van Gogh in an inspiring musical telling the story of a girl who magically travels through a painting to meet the artist. Young viewers will learn about courage, kindness, and the power of art to lift others up.Through Aug. 14. Fri.-Sat., 7pm; Sun., 2pm. $15-25. -
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testsite: Feel Noise
Kate Newby’s first solo exhibition in Texas since moving to Floresville in 2020 showcases the artist’s ongoing commitment to materiality, process, and perception through site-responsive installations.Through Aug. 21. Sundays, 3-5pm
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Art for the People: Abundance
This show is called "Abundance" because that's what it represents: an abundance of bright new works from a plethora of local artists.Through Aug. 26 -
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Art4Water: Sacred Springs Kites
Art4Water’s inaugural program (now on view at Downtown's gorgeous library) is a collaboration between the Watershed Association, Terry Zee Lee, and more than 30 national artists in the creation of dozens and dozens of water-inspired art kites.Through Nov. 30. Free. -
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Banned Camp
Austin Public Library and BookPeople present a series of free events for citizens to "engage with books that have been banned or challenged, and be part of the conversation around the freedom to read."Through Aug. 28 -
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Be Brave: Ukrainian Art Show
Young, contemporary Ukrainian art: Bright and eloquent works from more than 30 artists who are creating right now in the epicenter of a terrible war.Through Aug. 14 -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Eve
This is a new exhibition by documentarian photographer Cindy Elizabeth, featuring an outdoor installation that is immersed within the museum’s native landscape. There are large-scale photographs inside the building, too, interwoven amongst Elisabet Ney's own neoclassical sculptures.Through Oct. 30. Free. -
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GrayDUCK Gallery: Animalia
Says the photographer Henry Horenstein: "As subjects, animals are close to perfect for a photographer, especially if they live in zoos and aquariums. Animals give no attitude, and they also require no model releases. Actually, strictly speaking, animals (even domestic pets) do need to be model released if you’re using their image commercially, because the law considers them property." Right? So: "I never shot in a jungle or underwater. Only where there was a food court, bathrooms, and WiFi."Through Aug. 14 -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour
Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am. -
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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition
"This special collection of the artist’s renowned ceiling frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is reproduced in a format that allows viewers to get face-to-face with the [copies of the] masterpieces." Note: See how the promotional image is of a person taking a photo of the reproduction of the famous artwork? Baudrillard, we reckon, wept. YMMV.Through Aug. 8. Tue.-Sun., 10am-6pm. $20.20 ($14.14 for kids). -
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Neill-Cochran House: The Hope Suite
Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite is a series of forty-four collages inspired by the theme of global unity. Each 24-by-18-inch work on paper consists of a background monoprint or a digital photoprint, overlaid with collage, calligraphy, and mixed media. Note: The originals are part of the permanent collection of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago; the works on display here are limited-edition prints of those originals.Through Dec. 16. Free. -
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Pet Dick: The Found Tapes
Wait, is this even theatre? Should it be listed somewhere else? The facts are: It's a professional audio performance accessed through the internet; it's dramatically funny (or funnily dramatic); it's from theatre powerhouse Jarrott Productions. Especially because of that last thing, here is where we're pimping this Carlo Lorenzo Garcia-scripted work about how "in 1969, in rural Illinois, private investigator Labinowicz documented on micro-cassette tapes his investigations into a series of unexplained pet deaths over the course of 20 years."Available through Aug. 31. $15-18. -
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Poetry on Tea Leaves
This is a workshop and open mic to bring the BIPOC and LGBTQA+ community together to read poetry, write, discuss, and perform their own works, led by hosts Ayjshane and Raphaella the Swan.Sun., Aug. 7, 6pm. Donations accepted. -
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Previews of Departing Attractions
Austin Playhouse opens its new season – in a new space! – with this collection of witty, poignant short plays tied together by a theme of loss. Sound depressing? Fear not, because the man who wrote and is directing all of them is that arch raconteur Lowell Bartholomee, some of whose scripts will (intentionally) make you laugh even while they amplify your sense of late-stage weltschmerz. The knockout cast includes Kareem Badr, Zac Carr, Marina DeYoe-Pedraza, David Dubose, Sarah Chong Harmer, Robert Fisher, and Juleeane Villareal – ably abetted by (and sometimes embedded within) a wealth of video production.Through Aug. 20. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $30 ($15, students).Austin Playhouse, 405 W. 22nd -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: These Walls
This is a collection of paintings, photograms, videos, books, and installation works from artists Mark Menjivar and Rickey Cummings. The two men have been working collaboratively for the past six years as Cummings fights for his freedom from Texas' death row.Through Aug. 20 -
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Really Small Museum: Melissa Chapman
Through her work as a metalsmith, Chapman explores the conflictual duality of American life: On one hand, continued senseless gun violence; on the other, the desire we all share for our children (young and adult) to grow up safely and carefree.Through Aug. 31. Free.3509 Banton -
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Summer Stock Austin: In the Heights
Summer Stock Austin presents Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about family, community, and life in a vibrant neighborhood in New York City's Washington Heights.Through Aug. 8. $20-50. -
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The Blanton: Fantastically French! Design and Architecture In 16th- to 18-Century Prints
Drawing primarily from the Blanton’s extensive holdings of French prints, this exhibition invites you to look closely at exquisite details, marvel at fantastic forms, and take delight in ornate embellishments that celebrate the creativity of imagination across three centuries.Through Aug. 14 -
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The Full Monty
This – the Americanized musical stage version of the 1997 British film, in which a group of unemployed steelworker dudes try to make some quick cash by working as strippers – is the newest production from TexArts, and we've reviewed it right here.Through Aug. 7. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $45-60. -
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Stuffed
Austin's own Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation presents a literary homage in which stuffed writers display original work and new takes on old classics. Savor flash fiction, essays, and poetry from some of "the most talented stuffed authors of this generation." For instance: Virginia Wolf. Yes, that's W-O-L-F.Through Aug. 282825 Hancock #111 -
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Venus in Fur
Here's the David Ives classic about a director and an actress trying to work through a script based on Sacher-Masoch's erotic Venus in Furs, blurring the line between play and reality, entering into an increasingly serious game of submission and domination that only one of them can win. The Way Off Broadway Players present this show out in Leander, with Jonathan Marmon and Randi Prudence West directed by Nick Wigg and Johnny Revicki.Through Aug. 7. Fri., 7pm; Sat., 3 & 7pm; Sun., 3pm. $35. -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Spacious
Julie Maren expands upon her use of negative space for this show, exploring boundaries and ideas of infinity, her paintings and installations heavily layered and simultaneously heavily redacted, with actual pieces of the canvas cut away. Gorgeous, yes, and unforgettable.Through Sept. 4 -
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Zilker Summer Musical: Disney's Newsies
Based on the 1992 motion picture, Disney’s Newsies features a score Alan Menken and Jack Feldman and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Inspired by the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway “newsies” on a two-week action against Pulitzer, Hearst, and other powerful newspaper publishers, this adaptation is high-energy and replete with eight new songs – in addition to many of the beloved songs from the film version. Directed by Joey Banks, with musical direction by Beth Everett.Through Aug. 13. Thu.-Sun., 8:15pm. Donations accepted.