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Testify: The Winter's Tale
Cool down with this month's Testify stories of closing an office in Romania, an ice storm's impact on a sports writer's career, a Christmas journey, a brutal first winter in New York, and a true identify revealed over time.Thu., July 26. $5-6.
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The Audience
This is Federico Garcia Lorca’s El Público, as powerfully reimagined by Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, who infuses Lorca’s unfinished play with details from his life and his murder. This is a show about the military coup in Spain in 1936, in which Lorca was captured and murdered in his hometown of Granada. This is history – where, as too often obtains in the present, personal freedoms and self-expression can get you killed. Co-directed by that same Doss and Lisa Laratta for paper chairs. And this, this is the Chronicle's Robert Faires' reaction to the show.Through Aug. 11. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $15-35.
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Alabama Story
This Kenneth Jones play is based on true events: In 1959, a famed author and illustrator creates a children's book about a black rabbit and a white rabbit getting married. Citizens and a senator demand the state librarian ban the book. The librarian refuses. Now see what consequences ensue, as directed by Kat Sparks for Southwest Theatre Productions.Through July 28. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $15-22. -
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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
You just know Zach Theatre's gonna do this fabulous sockdollager of a crowd-pleasing Broadway show up right, with Abe Reybold at the helm and Allen Robertson handling music direction. Hell, you could attend just to hear that hilarious "Gaston" song performed live, couldn't you?Through Sept. 2. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $25 and up. -
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Grease
You know, right? High school in the Fifties. The Brylcreem'd antics of juvie gangs, an adolescent love story, all of it set to finger-snappin' music reminiscent of those times. And this TexArts version is directed by Kasey RT Graham.Through July 29. Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $43-53. -
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Playhouse Creatures
April De Angelis’ new play relates how, in 1663, King Charles II reopened England's theatre playhouses and, for the first time, women were able to take the stage. This is the story of those first actresses, the "playhouse creatures" whose ambitions, talent, and risk for artistic equality made their lives truly uncertain. Directed by Lindsay McKenna for City Theatre.Through Aug. 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25. -
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Summer Stock Austin: The Music Man
Yup, it's that Meredith Willson musical classic of long-con chicanery and how a librarian turns a chiseler's calculating heart to sweet honey in the crock. "76 Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," and so on, as you surely know. Here directed and choreographed by Ginger Morris. Note: You'll have to get to the show by car, bike, scooter, or some other such conveyance, as this town of ours – gasp! – has no monorail.Through Aug. 11. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2 & 7:30pm. $33 and up. -
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Summer Youth Theatre: She Kills Monsters
This is Qui Nguyen's play about a young badass’s journey into the world of Dungeons & Dragons to connect with her late sister, here directed by Teresa Cruz for the Vortex.Through July 28. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35 (free for deaf or hard-of-hearing). -
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The Antipodes
It's the newest work from Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker – the playwright of The Flick, The Aliens, Circle Mirror Transformation, and more – and, because Hyde Park Theatre's Ken Webster has, like, connections in the industry, this is only the second production of it in the country. This one's about professional fabulators in pursuit of the ultimate yarn, and the cast – oh my, the cast! – features Lowell Bartholomee, Tom Green, Anne Hulsman, Maria Latiolais, Saurabh Pradhan, Blake Robbins, Mical Trejo, Shanon Weaver, and Dave Yakubik, all directed by that same Webster. Note: Do yourself a big favor and see this one.Through Aug. 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $22-26 (Pay what you can, Thursdays). -
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Zilker Summer Musical: All Shook Up
There's an Elvis-celebratin' spectacle of live performance rocking the hillside stage for the 60th anniversary of this midsummer entertainment.Through Aug. 18. Thu.-Sat., 8:15pm. Free.
