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Honoring Our Truth Teller
This showcase of music, video, and the performance of passages from the works of Toni Morrison is the inaugural performance for the new SpiritHouse Theatre Company. Featuring actors Florinda Bryant, Crystal Bird Caviel, Justin Humphrey, and Carla Nickerson, with music by J. Christian King of Hello Lovers.Sat., Sept. 21, 6pm. $10.
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:Humpty
The Vortex is gonna rock your brain's cradle with this "twisted nursery rhyme pantomime" conjured up by that irrepressible Melissa Vogt, featuring an all-star cast grooving to an original score by Chad Salvata, and the whole fractured fairy-tale spectacle of it directed by Bonnie Cullum. Note that this darkling narrative from Ethos – it's funny and disgusting, charming and startling – is alive with adult aesthetics and not appropriate for children. And here is Trey Gutierrez's review of the show.Through Sept. 28. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-35. -
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Just in time for the start of the school year, Joshua Harmon's ripped-from-the-headlines show, presented here under the direction of David Jarrott, takes a satirical look at the things some people will do to get their child into the right university. Starring Tim Blackwood, Beth Burroughs, Rebecca Robinson, Tucker Shepherd, Jennie Underwood, and the spectre of white liberal privilege.Through Oct. 6. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $23-25. -
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Holmes and Watson
"It’s been three years since Sherlock Holmes went over Reichenbach Falls and was declared dead. When Dr. John Watson receives a cryptic telegram stating that three asylum patients are each claiming to be the late Sherlock Holmes, Watson is compelled to investigate. Could Holmes really be alive after all this time?" Jeffrey Hatcher's fine tribute of a play is directed here by Don Toner for the start of Austin Playhouse's 20th(!) season, and our Robert Faires reviews it right here.Through Sept. 29. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $32-38. -
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Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower
"What kind of parent knits their daughter a wool swimsuit? Or gives her a briefcase for her 11th birthday? Or keeps her in the dark about where she came from?" British actor and comedian Maggie Gallant – a longtime FronteraFest favorite – shares her childhood embarrassments and adulthood discoveries as she unleashes a Pandora's Box of hope, lies, and un très magnifique French Papa, in this hilarious and heartwarming one-woman show, as directed by Ken Webster for HPT.Through Oct. 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $22-28. -
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Instructions for a Seance
Part DIY seance, part historical cabaret, this is one woman's attempt to contact and resurrect the escape artist Harry Houdini. Inspired by the Houdini archives at the Harry Ransom Center, this show by Katie Bender is "a funny, haunting, and haunted exploration of ambition, legacy, and familial responsibility."Through Sept. 29. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-30. -
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Jump
This is Charly Evon Simpson's whimsical new play about the connections we all share, in which "lights flicker, hearts heal, and a young woman finds solace on a bridge." It's Shrewd Productions' 16th world premiere (!). it features a cast of Chelsea Manasseri, Allegra Jade Fox, Trey Deason, and Kyron Hayesby, and it's directed by Shannon Grounds for that same fierce company. (And – our own Robert Faires reviews the show right here.)Through Sept. 29. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $15-25. -
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Over the Lege Part 4: The House Awakens
This annual political satire show, focused solely on the Texas Legislature, returns to the Long Center for another skewering that brings together political insiders, improv actors, and comedy writers to expose the shenanigans of our Lone Star lawmakers. Bonus: Host Stephanie Chiarello interviews a Texas political celebrity, then welcomes a panel of “colleagues” – aka those improvisers – to yes-and the hell out of that material. Tom Booker directs; Denise Hudson provides the music; Janet Maykus and Amy Lowrey lead the troupe.Through Sept. 29. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $21.50. -
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Plano
Paper Chairs co-founder Dustin Wills returns to Austin to direct this new Will Arbery play that seems like, according to The New Yorker, “a David Lynch script performed as screwball comedy.”OK, and listen: "Three sisters are suffering from strange household plagues. The men in their lives keep disappearing or doubling; time keeps leapfrogging; and the slugs just won’t go away. Plano, Texas, seems to be not just a nearby city but also a malevolent existential state."Yeah, we like the sound of that. And those "three sisters" are played by Elizabeth Doss, Heather Hanna, and Hannah Kenah, so we're already lining up to get tickets. And Janelle Buchanan and Harold Fisch are in the show, too, FTW. And that newly returned-to-Austin Rubber Rep duo (that's Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope, yes) are also part of a don't-you-miss-it theatrical event.Recommended? Well, here's an update: We saw the show since we originally wrote this blurb. Our response? First: FUUUUUUUCK. Second: You know how they – whoever they are – say "If you only see one show a year, then see this one," right? Well, that. But, regardless of how many shows you see, don't miss Plano.Bravo and brava, Paper Chairs, what a freaky-ass masterpiece of stagecraft.Through Sept. 28. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $20-30. -
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Saints, Sinners & Thieves
This is an evening of three one-act plays – Soldier of the Cross and A Fool and His Money, by Sally Seitz, and I Am Not the Person You Have Made Me Out to Be by Marianne Serene – with characters exploring salvation, redemption, survival, and parental misconceptions of identity. Note: "Each play will be introduced and observed by Trudy, the character from Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe." Directed by Sally Seitz and Barbara Abbate for the Paradox Players.Through Oct. 6. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $10-20. -
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The Waverly Gallery
Babs George stars in this Kenneth Lonergan tale of the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty woman's battle against Alzheimer's disease. The show, a powerful work that "captures the life force of a woman and the humor and strength of a family in the face of crisis," is directed by Michael Cooper for the Alchemy Theatre. Look: Trey Gutierrez reviews the production right here.Through Oct. 5. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $32-45.
