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Cécile McLorin Salvant
Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist who has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. Here she's joined by Sullivan Fortner (piano), Marvin Sewell (guitar), Alexa Tarantino (flute), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), and Keita Ogawa (percussion).Sat., Feb. 11, 7:30pm. $25. -
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PrintAustin: PrintExpo
This is the weekend of PrintAustin’s annual print fair, featuring 68 diverse booths of artists, galleries, editioning shops, and universities. Purchase original artwork from regional, national, and international talent to add to your art collection. (Pro tip: Experience live steamroller printing on Saturday, organized in partnership with Texas A&M University-Kingsville.) Basically, have yourself one hell of a fine, paper-powerful, ink-scented and eye-pleasing time.Feb. 11-12. Sat., noon-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm -
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Ballet Austin: Sarah's Songs
This collection of three dance works honors longtime Austin philanthropist, Sarah Butler and Dr. Ernest Butler, presenting the beauty of George Balanchine’s iconic neoclassical Serenade, the dynamic energy and vivid colors of Jessica Lang’s contemporary Garden Blue, and a world premiere of I Am the Monument by Stephen Mills.Feb. 10-12. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-99. -
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Boner Bizarre: Boner Walk With Me
This here's an erotic variety show featuring filthy performance art, pole dancing, neo-burlesque, aerials, contortion, sideshow, fire breathing, rope bondage, fetish play, comedy, drama, and "all things perverse, grotesque, and socially unacceptable." And this particular incarnation is a Valentine's Day tribute to the cinematic genius of David Lynch. Yes: Now it's dark.Sat., Feb. 11, 9pm-12mid. $20. -
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Estado Vegetal / Vegetative State
Zilker Botanical Garden is excited to present this play by Manuela Infante, directed by Khristián Méndez Aguirre and performed in Spanish and English. Equal parts ode to plant beauty, meditation of grief, virtuosic performances, plant philosophy, and Austin-grown weirdness, Estado Vegetal/Vegetative State tells the story of a neighborhood rocked by a disaster.Through Feb. 18. Fri.-Sat., 7pm. Donations accepted. -
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Feats of Clay: Sweetheart Market
Browse among a plethora of local vendors, DIY message heart ornaments, and a certified florist making custom bouquets. Bonus: Romantic adult beverages provided by the good folks at Still Austin.Sat., Feb. 11, noon-5pm -
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Fire In Dreamland
The Filigree Theatre presents Rinne Groff's new play that's set in Coney Island in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy and follows a young woman as she crosses paths with an illusive and charismatic Dutch filmmaker who's obsessed with telling the story of the 1911 fire that burned Coney Island’s "Dreamland" to the ground. With Kathleen Fletcher, Brough Hansen, and Allen Porterie, directed by Elizabeth V. Newman.Through Feb. 12. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $25-40.Factory on 5th, 3409 E. Fifth -
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In the Beginning
This "wild woman dum dum show" by CB Goodman reimagines the Genesis story from a new perspective in order to free the beginning from shame, rejection, and labels. Inflatable friends. Ballet. Apocalyptic disco. In the Beginning uses comedy, satire, nontraditional storytelling , dance, puppets, and a pool party aesthetic to joyfully queer a repressive narrative.Through Feb. 11. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $15-100. -
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Stephen Graham Jones: Don't Fear the reaper
BookPeople welcomes Stephen Graham Jones to Alamo's Highball lounge for a conversation with Kingcast hosts Eric Vespe and Scott Wampler to celebrate the release of Don't Fear the Reaper. The event will include a live podcast recording and a signing line.Sat., Feb. 11, 8pm
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Art for the People Gallery: Celebration
Experience the energy and beauty of featured wall artist Anne Shackelford’s geode resin art in this visual adventure of work by 38 Austin artists.Through March 24 -
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Artworks Gallery: Beautiful Disaster
Here's a show of deeply personal multimedia work in which artist Scott Leopold has utilized paint, objects, and text to create "layered, thick canvases of vulnerability." -
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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. -
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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. -
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Big Medium: There – Not There
Here's a collection of graphically powerful work by Marfa's Christina Moser that explores the in-between, a meditation on transition as a constant, exploring the shifting nature of the self and our various thresholds. "A multisensory experience designed to move us internally and physically through space, emotions, and environments," Big Medium tells us – and we concur.Through Feb. 25 -
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Buda Art Brawl: A High-Speed Painting Competition
Over three 20-minute rounds, eight artists will battle it out along to funky, psychedelic cumbia grooves from Money Chicha. Live and silent auctions will benefit free art education for the community.Sat., Feb. 11. $10-25. -
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Camiba Gallery: Existencia
Be dazzled by recent work from artists Daniel Rodríguez Collazo and Edgardo Kerlegand in this exhibition that showcases both artists’ forms of expression as they relate to the human existence — one on the internal and physical forms of the human figure, the other on the forms that humans create and exist in. Bonus: The opening reception features videos of the artists discussing their practice and process.Through Feb. 25 -
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Cap City Comedy Club
That's right: Cap City Comedy Club, the longtime cornerstone of Austin's comedy scene for nearly four decades is at a new venue in the Domain. And here's Valerie Lopez with a closer look at what's in store for the scene via the venue. Click for details! -
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Cloud Tree: I.C.U.
Yes, Heyd Fontenot's back in town, however briefly after all these years. The artist's stylized nude portraits are prized for their beautiful draftsmanship and unexpected humor, his figurative artwork's been widely exhibited for more than two decades, ever combating religious dogma and conservative hypocrisy to celebrate humanity in all of its lovely imperfection. In this new exhibition, part of 2023's OutSiderFest, the paintings and drawings "present a political argument in favor of bodily autonomy as the artist lays claim to territory for queerness."Through Feb. 26 -
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Co-Lab Projects: To Have and To Hold
Here's an exhibition of new work by Virginia Colwell, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, investigating the ambiguity of truth and fiction in history and archives, using the romanization of the South to examine the deliberate obfuscation of the deep history of enslavement and racism.Through April 1 -
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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. -
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Davis Gallery: Bouff! The Big Tease
New work by B. Shawn Cox is always a delight for the eyes (and a few other senses), and here the masterful painter and arch wit brings a bounty of pop philosophy with a tinge of irony (and much big hair) – inspired by lore, social identity narratives, and childhood memories of his West Texas roots. This show includes the artist's most recent explorations, including oil on fabric, paper cuts, folded paper, and digitally created lenticular collages.Through Feb. 25 -
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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. -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: The Mother the Witch the Hysteric
Printmaker Annie May Johnston often uses new technologies alongside traditional practices. Here, in collaboration with Elisabet Ney's sculpture of Lady Macbeth, Johnston is considering gendered traits, the supernatural, and pseudoscience, reflecting agency (or the lack thereof) in the processes that generate the works in this show. -
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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. -
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Field Order 15: And Other Broken Promises
Carver Museum ATX presents an exhibit examining the paradox of American exceptionalism and the call for reparations, with film, sculpture, and two-dimensional work from 11 artists who were asked to consider what is required for America to atone for the continued denial of full citizenship to Black people, and what repair would feel like in the body.On view throughout Black History Month. Free. -
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Flatbed Press: Splintered Breath Between the Teeth
In this new solo show, the innovative prints of Kim Kei – the Los Angeles-based artist whose practice spans sculpture, printmaking, painting, and photography – draw on interrelated biological and geological forms that are embedded in every scale of existence.Through Feb. 25 -
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FronteraFest 2023
Austin's longest-running and most beloved performance festival returns after a two-year pandemic hiatus, presenting the work – maybe cheesy, maybe brilliant, maybe goofy, maybe badass, always unique – of actors, artists, poets, dancers, and performers of all types from Austin and Texas and beyond. This final week is reserved for Best of the Fest, the very cream of the theatrical crop. NOTE: See Brenner's FronteraFest feature right here (and of course the Fest's website) for more information.Through Feb. 18. Tue.-Sat., 8pm. $20 and up. -
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grayDUCK Gallery: In the Water You Become
This show, says the multidisciplinary artist Renee Lai, "exhibits traces left behind by my body — silhouettes, records of movements made while swimming, a doubling of myself in a painting. These drawings and paintings render my body legible: the exact contours of my frame have been traced onto the material. In the video work, my physical body is more fully present as I swim back and forth, dragging and sinking paintings of my own body."Through Feb. 19 -
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Harry Ransom Center: Drawing the Motion Picture
Explore the beauty and complexity of moviemaking through sketches, storyboards, and designs that illuminate the creation of motion pictures from the silent era to the present day in this new exhibition, featuring production art from iconic movies like Rebel Without a Cause, Raging Bull, Apollo 13, and Lawrence of Arabia, many connected with innovative directors Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Mike Nichols, Michael Powell, Nicholas Ray, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Spielberg, King Vidor, and more.Through July 16 -
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ICOSA: Lovebroke
In which Annie Bissett, Curlee Raven Holton, and Roger Shimomura address romance from the perspective of those who have been historically excluded from Hollywood-style happy endings, each artist invokes traditional printmaking techniques to upend cliches of courtship.Through Feb. 18 -
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Field of Light
Illuminating 16 acres in the Texas Arboretum at the Wildflower Center, Field of Light is Bruce Munro's stunning display of 28,000 subtly lit, solar-powered spheres that showcase the intersection of art, technology, and nature.Through May 1 -
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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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Last Day of the Eureka Room!
Austin's most absurd and fun attraction will have its last day on September 24th, so visit while you still can! It's the Eureka Room, a participatory experience where visitors engage with curious and playful programming within a unique 100-square-foot room filled with light and sound.See website for reservations. $25. -
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Link & Pin: PrintAustin’s 5x5 Exhibition
This new show, in collaboration with PrintAustin, features prints by Myles Calvert, Julia Curran, Mehdi Darvishi, Enrique Figuerdo, and Timothy Pauszek – as presented by curator Annalise Gratovich and juror Holly Borham.Through Feb. 11 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Cut Up
Here's an exhibition of new photographic prints by Mariah Robertson, the artist's second presentation at LRG.Through Feb. 18 -
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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. -
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Neill-Cochran House: Signs and Symbols: The Trees are Talking
This exhibition features more than 40 works of glass and oil on canvas that explore artist Reji Thomas’ understanding of the way signs and symbols constantly surround us in both the natural and built environments.Through Aug. 13 -
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Northern-Southern Gallery: Going Down
This new exhibition "delves passage to counterplaces and underworlds. In painting, photography, sculpture, taxidermy, and games the artists seek to rebalance the spirit and the flesh, to synthesize myth and experience." Yes, it's an art show about hell holes, featuring works by Alyssa Taylor Wendt, Charles Degeyter, Christos Pathiakis, Emma Hadzi Antich, Jamie Zuverza.Through Feb. 18 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Walking In My Shoes
Starting out in February to highlight African-American art during Black History Month, closing in mid-March, this new exhibition features the art of Robert R. Jones and explores, yes, the notion of walking in someone else's shoes.Through March 18. Free. -
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PrintAustin 2023
The PrintAustin Collective was co-founded in 2013 by local printmakers Cathy Savage and Elvia Perrin to bring attention to the vibrant printmaking scene in Austin. The festival they started has since grown to include more than 60 print-focused events all across the city, with returning and new participants each year. See the website for the full schedule of events and galleries.Through Feb. 19 -
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PrintAustin: The Contemporary Print Exhibition
What's going on in the world of printmaking, like, in general? This year's survey of traditional printmaking techniques and innovative approaches in contemporary work was selected by the University of Michigan's Rashaun Rucker. Bonus: You'll get a good look at the galleries of ACC Highland, too.Through March 9. Free. -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: Descendency
New work from Austin-based Amy Scofield, best known as a photographer and a sculptor working with leftover and found materials. In this show, she's taken images of discarded manufactured goods and evidence of consumerism and arranged each into a kaleidoscopic grid.Through Feb. 16 -
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RichesArt Gallery: American History Vol. 2
RichesArt Gallery has partnered with Fansub for their annual show spotlighting Texas artists and their interpretation of Black people’s contributions to American history.Through March 26 -
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Romeo + Juliet
Revenge, love, and a secret marriage force Shakespeare's young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly — and fate causes them to commit suicide in despair. And this? This is an LGBTQ+ adaptation of the play, set in the 1990s.Through Feb. 19. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $12-18. -
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Soco Modern: Paintings from Pan-demon-ium
Ethan Woods' Soco Modern glorifies its already well-furnished walls with an exhibition by Jennifer Balkan, featuring a brilliant array of portraits created in inks and oils while most of us were baking bread or binge-watching something on Netflix during the height of COVID lockdown. "I’ve juxtaposed painterly voluminous figures and faces of real humanity with bits of narrative, flat two-dimensional and illustrative lines of comic, graphic contours that provide context," says the artist. "Some of the figures exist within the environs of nature and natural events – some cataclysmic, some threatening, and some predatory – yet rendered in carnivalesque color, leaving the viewer with feelings of comfort and hope."Through March 4 -
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Southwest Theatre: The Poetry Shift
In this new play by Daniel Born, co-workers at a 1990’s walkie-talkie factory make a pact to avoid HR when one of their own falls.Through March 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $28-32. -
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Story Circle Network
Nonprofit organization for women, offering monthly reading and writing circles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin. -
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The Blanton: Las Hermanas Iglesias
Sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias present related textiles, collages, and sculpture that explore caregiving as part of a complex network of social issues, melding melds cultural references to the Dominican Republic and Norway (their parents’: home countries) with personal experiences – most recently their navigations of fertility, pregnancy, loss, and birth.Through July 9. Free on Thursdays. -
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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 -
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The Department of the People + Process
This interactive art exhibition examines questions of authority and the sovereignty of the human journey; it features works by Moyo Oyelola, an interdisciplinary artist known for his photography and large multimedia installations.Through Feb. 25 -
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The What of Whom: Daniel & Marjory Johnston
This exhibition includes numerous artworks: from the collaborations of siblings Marjory and Daniel Johnston, and pieces from Marjory's collection of Daniel's early work that show the evolution in character development and unique images.Through March 19 -
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Tin Whistle Art Gallery: Cacophonic Beauty
Group photography show and more – with artists Anthony Maddaloni, Valarie Campbell, and David Hunter. Music by Thunderstars.Sat., Feb. 11, 6-9pm -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Seance
Will Klemm's glorious new exhibition of works is organized into two contrasting sections: the monochromatic and the brightly colorful. The painter's careful creations are either filled with allusions and quotations from 19th-century painters, or are subjects taken from his daily life.Through Feb. 26 -
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What's The Worst That Can Happen?
Premise: Put a bunch of people in a room with a group of comedians who get on stage and find funny shit to talk about, only by interacting with the crowd. What's the worst that can happen? That's exactly what this show is all about.Sat., Feb. 11, 10pm. $20. -
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Women & Their Work: Wayfinding
In her large-scale installation, Jade Walker uses color, weaving, rope, tools, notions of signage, and found objects to articulate questions around how we engage with our environment and the effect that the relationship has on our society. This solo exhibition includes architectural interventions along with embellishments of familiar tools and natural elements.Through Feb. 23 -
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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 -
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Yard Dog: Bob Schneider
Were you accustomed to the graphic immediacy of the man's many collages? This collection of new oil paintings by Austin artist/musician Bob Schneider offers "vague, dreamlike tableaux that are strange and surreal."Through Feb. 12 -
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ZACH Theatre & Deaf Austin Theatre: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Performed simultaneously in English and American Sign Language, this new production of Cinderella showcases favorite tunes including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible,” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” in "a funny and modern adaptation from the Broadway revival."Through March 5. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $25 and up.