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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 5  
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    Navasota Theatre Alliance

  • Affordable Art Fair Austin

    Affordable Art Fair Austin will launch in May 2024, showcasing original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming a whole host of local, national and international exhibitors, their spectacular first edition is set to be unmissable!
    May 16-19  
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    Palmer Events Center
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  • Arts

    Dance

    Blue Lapis Light: Belonging Part One

    These performances by Austin's astounding gravity-defiers feature aerial and ground dancers and digital media highlighting the planet's beauty and the impact our actions have on the environment.
    Through Oct. 1. Thu.-Sun., 8:15pm. $45-60.  
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    Seaholm District Plaza, 211 Walter Seaholm.

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    Kids

    Child's Play

    Rattletree Marimba debuts their new fully-immersive show Child’s Play with an all-ages festival-style weekend of Glow Parties.
    Fri.-Sat., Sept. 22-23. $5-20.
    Rattletree School of Marimba

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Dimension Gallery: About Us

    Shea Little? Oh, just the guy who co-founded Bolm Studios, Big Medium, the East Austin Studio Tour, the West Austin Studio Tour, the Texas Biennial, and Cantanker magazine, that's all. Just one-third of the legendary Sodalitas trio of artists. Just a tall local feller with a complex creative agenda. Just taking a little break (Get it? A Little break?) from the relentless moving-and-shaking to present his first solo exhibition.
    Through Sept. 30
    Dimension Gallery

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Hump! Film Fest

    A traveling festival that celebrates sexuality of all kinds, and curated by syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage, this is porn for the people, made by the people.
    Thu.-Sat., Sept. 21-23  
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    Ironwood Hall

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Lora Reynolds gallery: Kay Rosen + Hubbard/Birchler

    Kay Rosen makes paintings, drawings, videos, prints, and collages of words. Small, monumental, whatever the scale, her compositions in Jumbo Mumbo can feature just a single word in unexpected ways. Video artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's Night Shift comprises four one-sided conversations between Sam (an older police officer) and four rookie cops.
    Through Nov. 11
    Lora Reynolds Gallery

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Carpinteros (2017)

    Lates: A love triangle develops between inmates in a Dominican Republic prison in this wonderful (and brutal) film. Lars Nilsen approved.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 4:30pm  
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    AFS Cinema

  • Arts

    Theatre

    Henry IV

    Shakespeare? Of course. But this kingly classic is directed by Beth Burns for the Hidden Room, is based on a new adaptation by Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen, and features a cast worth shouting about infused with a rowdy glam-rock aesthetic. Which means that this ain't your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's Henry IV, this is your chance to see the Bard's work presented with incomparable theatrical power and style. Bonus: live music from Shoulders' Todd Kassens.
    Through Oct. 1. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $15-30.  
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    York Rite Masonic Hall, 311 W. Seventh.

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Maurice (1987)

    Newly Restored: In turn of the century Edwardian England, two men fall in love in college at Cambridge and must navigate the strict conformity of the time while coming to terms with their sexual identity. This is a new 4K restoration.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 7:30pm  
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    AFS Cinema

  • Music

    Moon Taxi, Los Coast

    Nashville indie spectacle.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 8pm
    Emo's

  • Community

    Sports

    NAMIWalks

    This 5K walk raises awareness for mental health issues. Activities include a photo booth, petting zoo, zumba, live music, and more.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 7:30am. No registration fee but every walker is encouraged to raise at least $100.  
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    Long Center for the Performing Arts

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    No Borders Film Screening and Fundraiser

    Black Rose host this screening of No Borders: Social Struggles Across the U.S.A. with the first two episodes of this web series, followed by a fundraiser, raffle prizes, a DJ, and more.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 5pm  
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    1209 E. Cesar Chavez

  • Community

    Civic Events

    Over the Lege Part 2: The Governor Strikes Back

    Stephanie Chiarello Noppenberg's satire comedy variety show inspired by the shenanigans of the Texas Legislature returns. Special guests include ATPE’s Monty Exter (Sept. 22) and Sen. Kirk Watson (Sept. 29).
    Through Sept. 30. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. $15.  
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    Institution Theater

  • Music

    Papa Mali, Carolyn Wonderland

    Longtime local now calls NOLA home, so Malcolm Welbourne raggas are now fewer and farther between.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 7:30pm
    One-2-One Bar

  • Music

    Pecan Street Festival

    The fall edition of this venerable two-day street-shutter packs plenty on three stages. Saturday features familiar melodies tweaked with quick right turns from shadowy bop-poppers Très Oui, remarkably fluid blues guitar from current Gary Clark Jr. tour opener Jackie Venson, and raggedly earnest rent party epics from onetime Zykos frontman Michael Booher. Complete lineup at www.pecanstreetfestival.org.
    Sat., Sept. 23, noon
    Sixth Street between Brazos & I-35

  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Pump Project: We Were There

    There's photography, and then there's … photography. Especially these days where everybody's got some kind of camera on hand and, like, seven Instagram accounts, it takes a person of magisterial skill and raptor eye to capture the world in ways worth paying attention to. Sandy Carson, frequent Chronicle contributor, is who we're talking about – and this exhibition features a decade's worth of the man's images of Austin concert crowds from 2007 to 2017, shot from the pit, exploring the symbiotic relationship between rock concert fans, the bands, and the photographer at music festivals.
    Through Sept 23. free.
    Pump Project

  • Music

    Red River Family Festival

    Extreme local imprint Red River Family Records debuted its fest last year with all things blackened and headbanging. This year, controversial Colombia-to-Seattle duo Inquisition headlines Friday, still spreading cosmic waves from last year’s masterpiece Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith. Support comes from a dozen locally, plus nationally sourced like minds, including Portland’s Uada, L.A.’s Arizmenda, and Philadelphia’s Krieg. Saturday night features Portland’s Ævangelist, Santa Fe supergroup Vanum, and San Antonio’s Crawl, alongside New York’s Yellow Eyes, Portand’s Panzergod, and eight more. Corpse paint and spiked wristbands not required, but they couldn’t hurt.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 5pm
    Barracuda

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Repo Man (1984)

    Tough Guy Cinema: Punk rock sentiments amiably collide with a science fiction scenario in this instant cult classic produced by former Monkee Mike Nesmith.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 1pm  
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    Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz

  • Arts

    Dance

    Revolve: A Movement Display

    NunaMaana and H/BABRI Arts present the second annual iteration of this dance, theater, and art festival, with more than 16 performance groups filling the rooms and outside lawns of the Johnson house, providing an array of shows throughout the venue, offering a choose-your-own wandering smorgasbord of kinetic delights. And here's what Chronicle reviewer Jonelle Seitz thought of last year's experience.
    Sept. 22-23. Fri.-Sat., 7:30pm. $25.  
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    Charles Johnson House, 404 Atlanta St.

  • Music

    Roger McGuinn

    Byrds frontman invented jangle-pop.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 8pm
    Paramount Theatre

  • Music

    SuperJoint, DevilDriver, King Parrot, Cane Hill, Child Bite, Disfigured

    When Phil Anselmo & co. christened Come & Take It Live in January, homegrown metallurgists thanked gods down below for a new Back Room on East Riverside. Outsized NOLA swamp thrashing via third Superjoint platter Caught Up in the Gears of Application will elicit repeat gratitude in the company of Devildriver, Aussie screamers King Parrot, etc.
    Sat., Sept. 23, 5:30pm
    Come & Take It Live
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