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A Midsummer Night's Burlesque
S & S Productions shimmies up a Shakespearean shindig with this take on the classic, featuring a fine array of pole dancers, aerialists, contortionists, and other performance artists sure to put the sex-rated Merle in your Oberon, if you get our drift. Like, mmmmmmmrowl, baby.Sat., July 22, 9:30pm. $25-500. -
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Hotter Than Hell Burlesque
Ruby Joule and Diamond Burlesque present a new show starring the Burlesque Hall of Fame's 2016 Queen of Burlesque – New York's own Poison Ivory – with Bella Blue of New Orleans and a stageful of tantalizing local favorites.Sat., July 22, 8pm. $20-44. -
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Tangerine
This is Ryan Layden's show, a personal exploration of grief and recovery, that uses film, much live music – 10 songs, to be precise – dance, and visual art to deliver to deliver a universal message of "love beyond the tangible."Sat., July 22, 7pm. Free.
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Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage
Out in ol' Bastrop, the Lost Rabbit Collective presents this Jane Martin comedy that skewers the traditions of Spaghetti Western romance and rustles up a heap of bloody trouble on a widow's about-to-be-foreclosed property. Directed by Charlesanne Rabensburg.Through July 22. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm. $20-25.The 1832 Tavern, 809 Main, Bastrop. -
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Rose University: First Semester
Whatsinthemirror? presents Tarik Daniels' new play exploring the lives of five black students, descendants of "Black Wall Street," at a historically black college in Oklahoma. Directed by Delanté G. Keys.July 21-22. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. $10.
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A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline
Featuring more than 20 of the singer’s unforgettable hits, this staged tribute traces her career from the early days of singing in honky-tonks, through her rise to fame at the Grand Ole Opry, to her triumph at Carnegie Hall. Directed by Megan Richards Wright for TexARTS and starring Christina Stroup as Patsy Cline.Through July 30. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $40 and up. -
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August: Osage County
Tracy Lett’s dark comedy centers around the Weston family, who come home to Oklahoma after their patriarch and world-class poet father disappears. Directed by Andy Berkovsky for City Theatre.Through Aug. 13. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25 ($10, Thursdays). -
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Crave Blue
A mermaid exhibition. A strange lake in the middle of West Texas. Ice cream in multiple flavors. MouthRadio presents a new play by Sarah Loucks – part roadside attraction, part dark comedy – we mean the play, of course, but that might work for Loucks as well – directed by NYC guest artist Ann Marie Dorr. See what happens when three minimum-wage mermaids risk everything to uncover the secrets within their lake.Through Aug. 5. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 6 & 9pm. $15-20.MastroGeorge Theatre, 130 Pedernales. -
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Summer Stock Austin: Monty Python's Spamalot
And now for something completely theatrical. The musical comedy “lovingly ripped off” from the film classic, Monty Python & the Holy Grail. You know, citizen: "It's only a flesh wound," "airspeed of a European swallow," "shrubbery," and so on? As staged by the high school and college students of Summer Stock Austin? Right – off you go, then.Through Aug. 12. Wed.-Sun., 7:30pm; some matinees also available. $27 and up. -
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The Moors
Jen Silverman's dark and satirical comedy is, well, ah, it's like the Brontë sisters – but with American accents. No? OK, then imagine a large dog falling in obsessive love with a small bird. Right? You understand "obsessive love," yes? Now imagine Lindsay Hearn Brustein, Crystal Bird Caviel, Catherine Grady, Jess Hughes, Katie Kohler, and Dave Yakubik directed by Ken Webster for HPT.Through Aug. 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $22-26 (pay what you wish, Thursdays). -
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Vortex Summer Youth: It Can't Happen Here
Matthew Patterson directs this year's Vortex student cast in a rendition of Sinclair Lewis' classic dark satire about a demagogue who – get this – becomes the President of the United States. Who'd'a thunk it, right?Through July 29. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35 (two-for-one with two cans of food for SafePlace, Thu. and Sun.).
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Auditions: The Member of the Wedding
Different Stages will be presenting the stage version of this Carson McCullers classic at the Vortex this fall, under the direction of Karen Jambon. They're casting the roles of a boy (ages 7-10), two girls (ages 10-14), one woman (ages 20-24), one man (ages 20-25) one Caucasian man (age 40-50), and two African-American men (ages 40-50). Send email for appointment.July 24-25. Mon.-Tue., 6:30-9:30pm
