Home Events Arts

for Sat., Sept. 24

  • Romeo y Juliet

    A bilingual adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most cherished works, Romeo y Juliet recounts the tale of two star-crossed lovers, daughters from the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague, reimagined in Alta, California in the 1840’s prior to the annexation of California to the United States.
    Apr. 10-21  
    get tickets
    UT Theatre and Dance

  • Gabriele Galimberti - The Ameriguns & Toy Stories: Artist Talk & Reception

    Internationally acclaimed Gabriele Galimberti’s first US exhibition of “Ameriguns” & “Toy Stories” comes to Austin! The people in these images are from all walks of life, with no particular political party, race, culture, or gender in favor. Ameriguns and Toy Stories deliver striking images exploring the timely issues of gun culture and the impact of modern inequalities on children.
    Fri. Apr. 12, 6pm-9pm  
    get tickets
    Lydia Street Gallery
Recommended

  • Arts

    Theatre

    Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral: Andares

    Andares is a theater creation about the lives of indigenous youth in México, devised collectively through personal anecdotes, ancestral myths, as well as traditional music and art forms – performed in Spanish and Indigenous languages with English supertitles, presented by Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral.
    Sat., Sept. 24, 7:30pm. $10-50.  
    Direct Link for Tickets
    McCullough Theatre
    • All Events

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      ACC Art Galleries: Quotations from Daily Life

      This exhibition brings together the work of seven ACC Studio Art faculty members – Jill Bedgood, Jonas Criscoe, Melanie Hickerson, Brian Johnson, Haydeé Victoria Suescum, David Thornberry, and Gary Webernick – who work in a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, assemblage art, and sculpture.
      Through Oct. 27  
      Click Here for Details
      ACC Highland

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      ACC Art Galleries: Sam Coronado's Serie Project

      This new exhibition, "Cultivating Community through Art: Sam Coronado’s Serie Project and Its Continuing Legacy," provides a fine, curated look at exactly what the title says, touching on Coronado Print Studio today, while also demonstrating the new opportunities that can be cultivated through persistence and dedication to the arts.
      Through Dec. 8
      ACC Highland

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Art for the People Gallery: Spectacular

      New art, new artists, new show – a group exhibition (more than 30 local artists) supercharges the interior of this popular South First Street venue. Bonus: This is also the debut of curator Hallie Rae Ward's own "Classical POP" show.
      Through Oct. 21
      Art for the People

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Artworks Gallery: Conjunctions

      This is an exhibition of Les Satinover's "unapologetic" and monumental paintings that portray male figures in vast landscapes. While it may seem confrontationally nude, the artist assures us that the purpose here is to "produce an emotive sensual evocation of skin, muscle, and form with a subconscious connection to beauty as truth."
      Through Sept. 24
      Artworks Gallery

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery: A Sense of Place

      Our own sense of place informs us that this venue's out in Buda, actually. But damned if a trip to the ACCG isn't always worthwhile – especially with the bold landscapes and botanicals of painter Debbie Carroll being celebrated there.
      Through Sept. 30
      306 S. Main #106, Buda

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios

      The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"
      Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5.  
      Click Here for Details

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Austin Art Space: Artistic Intentions

      Here's the new group show from the Austin Visual Arts Association.
      Through Oct. 1
      Austin Art Space

    • Arts

      Dance

      Ballet Austin: Classes

      Learn your way to physical grace with a dance class at Ballet Austin. There are so many varieties to choose among – ballet, barre, contemporary dance, hip-hop, tap, cardio dance fitness, Pilates, and more – and all taught by professional instructors. See website for details.
      $3-7 per class.
      Ballet Austin

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Big Medium: Yo Trabajo Con La Tierra/I Work With The Earth

      This multimedia, multivalent, multifantastic exhibition features five women artists – Melissa Aguirre, Alexa Capareda, Paloma Mayorga, Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM), and Alejandra Regalado – who explore movement and place in relation to landscape, geological bodies, and other nonhuman intelligences. Using their own bodies as medium, the artists share ecofeminist sensibilities through video, installation, sculpture, photography, and performance works.
      Through Sept. 24  
      Direct Link Right Here
      Big Medium

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Butridge Gallery

      The Bliss of Solitude Saul Jerome E. San Juan presents his plein-air paintings, featuring new watercolors painted in Wimberley and the Big Bend region of West Texas in July 2022. Fragments of the Landscape Tiffany Heng Hui Lee utilizes shape, color, and texture to create mixed-media collages, paintings, and sculptures to capture segments of the natural landscape. Nature in Vogue Neena Buxani’s vibrant paintings of flora and fauna highlight the glamour of the natural world.
      Through Oct. 15
      Dougherty Arts Center

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Camiba Gallery: Entangled

      Collected and respected for her experimental approach to painting, Charlotte Smith is well established as royalty in Texas contemporary abstract art; this is an exhibition of her most recent paintings.
      Through Sept. 24
      Camiba Gallery

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Cloud Tree: Pinnacles

      This new series of paintings by John Mulvany weaves together events – remembered, recounted, or directly experienced – into an allegorical narrative documenting a singular imagined event set over a 24-hour period in the desert and mountains along the border of Texas and Mexico. "When I took my first trip to Big Bend," says the artist, "the heat, the extraordinary light, the intense silence, the long blue shadows – it was the most exotic and intense landscape I had ever experienced." And now you can know that experience, too, citizen – via visions from the eyes and mind of this talented man, as rendered in meticulous pigments on paper, on canvas, on the heart of the world.
      Closing reception with the artist: Sun., Oct. 9, 2pm
      Cloud Tree

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Co-Lab Projects: How Soon Is Now?

      This multimedia installation by Adrian Aguilera consists of found videos exploring a single year, 1997, projected on a cone-shaped screen, along with an assemblage of playlists, light-based work, human-scale text, and print works. "Together, these pieces might function as non-explicit information retrieval systems."
      Through Oct. 29
      Co-Lab Projects

    • Arts

      Comedy

      ColdTowne Theater

      ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold.
      ColdTowne Theater

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Collection Rert: Super Saturday Surprise

      Take a trip to this eruption of fun junk and art, this convenient gift shop buffet for everyone in the universe – where you can create your own prices.
      Sat., Sept. 24, 9am-5pm
      2608-B Rogers

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Davis Gallery: Beyond the Western Sky

      The newest group show at this excellent venue features works by B. Shawn Cox, Faustinus Deraet, Garrett Middaugh, Dana Younger, Julie Davis, and Felice House.
      Through Oct. 15
      Davis Gallery

    • Arts

      Comedy

      East Austin Comedy Club

      Founded by comedians Raza Jafri and Andre Ricks, this club that operates out of Tiger Den on the Eastside is the city's only BIPOC-owned comedy venue.
      Tiger Den

    • Arts

      Theatre

      Edit Annie

      The Vortex Repertory Company launches their 35th season with this world premiere by Mary Glen Fredrick, a "dark, comedic, psychological, queer, rom-com, social media thriller" that explores what it means to be authentic when everything we do is edited for public consumption. Directed by Will Detlefsen and starring Alaithia Velez, Jacqui Calloway, Erin McNellis, and Dane Parker.
      Through Sept. 24. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 6pm. $15-37.  
      Click It For Tickets & Details
      The Vortex

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      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.
      Elisabet Ney Museum

    • Arts

      Comedy

      Fallout Comedy

      This hotbed of local performance is carrying on even more than usual, with an eclectic mix of live, mind-rocking comedy from some of Austin's best, all week long. Hey! The place is our cover story, as reported by Valerie Lopez! And, srsly, who would ever disagree with the sentiment of Monday night's Fuck This Week show? Check the website for details.
       
      Click It For Tickets & Details
      Fallout Theater

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Flatbed Press: Everyone

      Here's an exhibition of prints created by Connie Arismendi during her residency at Flatbed during 2021-2022, centered on words that carry multiple meanings. This showcase includes 18 large monoprints and a suite of three etchings (featuring monoprint patterns printed as chine collé with the etched image/word).
      Through Oct. 16
      Flatbed Press

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Goodluckhavefun Gallery: Superposition

      Quantum forces have conspired to entangle Austin’s Goodluckhavefun Gallery with San Antonio-based collective Motherling. The resulting phenomenon brings artists with a focus on geometric abstraction into spatial proximity, reflected up and down the I-35 corridor from their primary locale. Works from seven San Antonio artists will occupy the Austin venue for the run of the show, while works from artists from the Geometric Abstraction Group of Austin will reside in San Antonio.
      Through Oct. 29
      1207-B Enfield

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      GrayDUCK Gallery: Delivered and Discarded

      Yoonmi Nam, an artist born in Seoul, South Korea, works in traditional printmaking processes such as mokuhanga (Japanese-style water-based woodblock printing) and lithography to make imagery and explores other materials – clay, glass, and paper – to make three-dimensional still lifes. Well, to be precise, to make gorgeous three-dimensional still lifes.
      Through Oct. 16  
      Direct Link Right Here
      grayDUCK Gallery

    • Arts

      Theatre

      Hadestown

      This darkling, Tony-winning spectacle by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin intertwines tales of two mythic couples — Orpheus and Eurydice, King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.
      Sept. 20-25. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $35-160.  
      Click Here for Tickets
      Bass Concert Hall

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Hyde Park Grill: Ernie Gammage

      The Austin-based author and musician displays his artwork on the walls of this popular eatery.
      Through Oct. 10
      Hyde Park Bar & Grill

    • Arts

      Theatre

      I Love HPT

      This show's a fundraiser for Hyde Park Theatre, written and performed by HPT's artistic director Ken Webster, and it's about Hyde Park Theatre – the highs and lows of the company's long history, the ins and the outs, the day-to-day humdrum and (until we see this show we can only imagine) the truly fucking weird. Fascinating from a local perspective, even if you've never been (how?) to HPT, and – as manifested by Webster, live onstage – well worth seeing. He's fierce, funny, obsessive, a true powerhouse of professional passion. And, yes, he was our cover story back in 2007.
      Through Oct. 8. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. $25.  
      Click Here for Tickets
      Hyde Park Theatre

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      ICOSA's Window Dressing: Canopy

      Jamal Hussain's new media installation investigates the shapes and patterns of three majestic trees in Austin that hold unique significance: Sorin Oak, Homeless Memorial Tree, and the Dada Lab Home Tree.
      Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 23, 7-9pm
      ICOSA

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Ivester Contemporary: Pulp Alchemy

      This is a solo exhibition by Jenn Hassin – the artist’s first show of new work since completing her MFA at Columbia University. The work in "Pulp Alchemy" features military uniforms from all six branches of service, medical uniforms, children’s clothing, blue jeans, carved bone, and porcelain, meticulously transformed into beautiful, raw memorials to the survivors of trauma.
      Through Oct. 15
      Ivester Contemporary

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      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
      Laguna Gloria Amphitheater

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      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.
       
      Click Here for Details

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Link & Pin Gallery: Beyond

      This exhibition comprises new works by Rama Tiru and features digital, mostly surreal paintings, both full color and monochrome, with augmented reality elements added to some of the images.
      Through Oct. 1
      Link & Pin

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Lora Reynolds Gallery: Lost Pines

      This exhibition of new photographs is the gallery's first presentation of work by the Austin artist (and musician and husband and father and professor) Barry Stone. You want to see images that are beautiful and often a little eerie? You want to witness photos with backstories that can inspire something like awe? Find yourself among these "Lost Pines."
      Through Dec. 3
      Lora Reynolds Gallery

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Lydia Street Gallery: SUM of the Parts

      Valerie Fowler, that acclaimed painter of natural phantasmagoria, returns with a new show. Says the artist: "I began this body of work feeling scattered, a little spent and rudderless, then walloped by unrelenting heat, the worst in my memory, and I’m a lifelong Texan… Beyond the walls of my studio, fires and floods were happening seemingly everywhere, and the Arctic ice cap was melting four times faster than scientists had previously understood. I felt exhausted from the challenge to maintain hope. I decided to just keep at the work, following curiosity, making pieces that reflected my scattered consciousness." Suggestion: Give your eyes a glimpse of the wild sublime and soak in the glory of what Fowler's brushes and pigments so vividly capture.
      Through Oct. 30. Free.
      Lydia Street Gallery

    • Arts

      Theatre

      Macbeth

      Take a trip into the 19th century with this new production of the Bard's blood-soaked tragedy from the Archive Theater. The haunting strains of Scottish-American melodies from live musicians, magic, dancing, brutal fighting, deadly passions, and the ghosts of memories breathe new life into this legendary drama. Can the Scottish play be more terrifying than when it's directed by Garrison Martt and performed at Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms? See for yourself, theatre-lover.
      Through Sept. 25. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35.  
      Click Here for Tickets & Details
      Pioneer Farms

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get

      Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it.
      Martha's

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Martha's Contemporary: True Romance

      The paintings here are a reflection of Brach Tiller's lived experience in Detroit over the past year, an expression of his romantic relationship and the city of Detroit. Bonus: Crystal Topcoat by Payton McGowen and Adam Linn.
      Through Oct. 15
      Martha's

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      MASS Gallery: Jonathan's

      Listen: "Since the closing of Spegetto Warehouse, Jonathan’s has taken the lead to become the Men’s Warehouse of restaurants. For one night only, you’ll have a chance to see and taste it for yourself." Cooked up by Elissa Ussery and Nicole Levasseur – the creators of Chuggy’s Christmas, Monchichi in Space, Hellchug, Tassy’s bedroom bar, and Poachers Bar – chef prepped by FFTwin Beth Schindler – it's a sensational attempt to bring you the terrible but familiar hometown Italian restaurant experience.
      Through Sept. 24. Saturdays, 6-11pm
      MASS Gallery

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Modern Rocks Gallery: Fifty Years in Exile

      This new exhibition reveals a collection of rare, previously unseen, and vintage photographs from The Rolling Stones’ 1972 session with legendary photographer Norman Seeff. Photos from the late-night shoot were ultimately used to produce the set of postcards included with the original pressing of the band’s masterpiece, Exile on Main St.
      Through Sept. 30. Free.
      Modern Rocks Gallery

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      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.  
      Direct Link Right Here
      Neill-Cochran House Museum

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Northern-Southern Gallery: Outer Middle

      Brad Tucker has made some amazing new works: cheerfully complex, savvy, funny, reflective, and beautiful. Transmountain's design work is Italo-modern by way of El Paso, embedding critical reflections into luxurious forms, using material as grammar. Together, this pairing soars.
      Closing reception: Sun., Oct. 23, 3-4pm
      Northern-Southern

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Prizer Arts & Letters: Wilhelmina Weber Furlong

      Witness now the works of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878-1962), a German-American artist and teacher, the forerunner of modern impressionistic and expressionistic still life painting.
      Closing reception: Sat., Oct. 1, 6-9pm
      Prizer Gallery

    • Arts

      Books

      Punspoken: A Pun and Spoken Word Competition

      And how well can you warp the living lingo, verbal wonderling? Not, we suspect, as badassedly as the bravos stage center in this night of spoken word, hip hop, and comedy, where wordplayers vie to be numero uno in a hardfought battle of brain-bending braggadocio.
      Sat., Sept. 24, 8pm. $20 and up.
      Last Stand Brewing Company

    • Arts

      Theatre

      Shining City

      Longtime Austin theatre company Different Stages opens a new season with this complexly haunting play by Conor McPherson, in which a man is visited by the ghost of his dead wife. Directed by Norman Blumensaadt, with performances by Rick Felkins, Sam Grimes, Weston Smith, and Adrienne Gilg.
      Through Oct. 9. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $25 and up.  
      Click Here for Tickets & Details
      Trinity Street Theatre

    • Arts

      Books

      Story Circle Network

      Nonprofit organization for women, offering monthly reading and writing circles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin.

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      The Contemporary Austin: In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

      Explore the works of eight female artists – Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Adriana Corral, Ellie Ga, Juliana Huxtable, Tala Madani, Danielle Mckinney, Wendy Red Star, and Clare Rojas – in this new exhibition that explores how narrative and storytelling shape our senses of self, community, history, and identity.
      Through Feb. 12
      The Contemporary Austin

    • Arts

      Classical Music

      The Innocents

      This work of performance art features a variety of found-object and home-made instruments, electronic soundscapes, and spoken texts in an hour-long dramatic performance that explores wrongful imprisonment and exoneration in the American criminal justice system. Created and performed by Allen Otte and John Lane.
      Sat., Sept. 24, 8pm. Free.
      Crashbox

    • Arts

      Theatre

      The Swiftlet: An Immigrant

      Here's a free screening of The Swiftlet: An Immigrant, an experimental dramatic play created by the Nepali actor/director, Subash B. Thapa, based on the poem “The Swiftlet”, written by Nepali poet Keshav Raj Gnawali.
      Sat., Sept. 24, 6pm. Donations accepted.
      Greater Austin Nepali Community Center, 1251 CO 138

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Tomboy Femme Art Show

      Paper-folding artist Amanda Witucki of the this venue at least once.
      Through Sept. 30
      Medici Roasting

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Wally Workman Gallery: Monochromes

      Carol Dawson draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring the life cycles of flowers from their buds, infancies, blooms, and deaths, allowing herself to use at most three pigments in her works.
      Through Oct. 30
      Wally Workman Gallery

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Western Gallery Pop-Up: Legends of the SMS

      Witness, pardner, 13 new works by West Texas artist Lucile Wedeking – and a selection from the Western Gallery Impermanent Collection, which represents 20 artists from across the American West.
      Opening reception: Fri., Sept. 23, 6-8pm
      2307 Thornton #112

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Women & Their Work: The Future Is Behind Us

      Rachel Wolfson Smith focuses our attention on the essential and grounding effect of beauty in nature, portraying constructed, intricate, and imagined landscapes, creating "an antidote to the imbalance many of us experience as we lurch from impulse to impulse in our tech-laden, consumer-driven, modern existence." Yes – an antidote to that, and a paean to the possibilities of graphite wielded by a brilliant hand and mind.
      Through Sept. 29
      Women & Their Work

    • Arts

      Visual Arts

      Wyld Gallery

      This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.
      Call for appointment
      Wyld Gallery
Copyright © 1981-2024 Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved.
CONTACT • PRIVACY POLICY • ADVERTISE WITH US • INTERNSHIPS & JOBS • SUPPORT US • STORE • SITE MAP

Information is power. Support the free press, so we can support Austin.   Support the Chronicle