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Bathhouse Bette
The very night after her Austin debut in John Cameron Mitchell’s Origin of Love world tour, Amber Martin brings her own hit show to Rude Mechs' Crashbox with this hilarious, loving tribute to early, bathhouse-era Bette Midler. Bonus: Drew Brody on piano – as Bette's real-life accompanist, Barry Manilow. Now? Now. Ohhhh, now!Sat., Feb. 8, 9:30pm. $20. -
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FronteraFest: Mi Casa es Su Teatro
This event, one of the most popular components of the yearly FronteraFest, is a day of site-based performances in local homes and other surprising locales, starting off at the Elizabet Ney Museum, moving down to 34th Street, then jumping just east of the highway to the Cherrywood/French Place neighborhoods. Featuring 17 new works, including a little girl becoming a pirate ship captain, a print/fiber installation about gentrification, flamenco, film, a phone call at the end of a long day, and much more, as curated by Anna Eisley and Marina Weikel Ramirez. Bonus: Afterparty with the artists and performers at the last location.Sat., Feb. 8, 11am-6pm. $15 for an all-day pass.
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Gliders
In Rita Anderson’s Gliders, three generations of seemingly ordinary women begin to uncover secrets about themselves, even as the extraordinary events of the Apollo 11 mission unfold overhead in the summer of 1969. This premier production is directed by Karen Jambon for Different Stages.Through Feb. 29. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-30.
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Click
A techno-thriller that begins when a young woman is raped at a fraternity and ends in a future where corporations promise a new body with the swipe of a screen, this new Jacqueline Goldfinger play follows a hacktivist who turns industrial espionage into high art. Directed by Rudy Ramirez for the Vortex, it's "a cyberpunk drama for the #metoo era."Through Feb. 8. Thu.-Sun., 8pm
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(Un)Documents
In his first original solo show, award-winning actor and poet Jesus I. Valles journeys across both sides of a river with two names, moving between languages to find his place as a son, a lover, a teacher, and a brother in a nation that demands sacrifice at the altar of citizenship. Directed by Rudy Ramirez.Through Feb. 16. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $11-21. -
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A Night with Janis Joplin
In this show, written and originally directed by Randy Johnson and starring Mary Bridget Davies, the legendary queen of rock & roll explodes onto the stage in a concert experience that celebrates the Texas musical marvel and shines a spotlight on the trailblazing female blues and soul vocalists who influenced her.Through March 8. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $30 and up. -
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Arden of Faversham
Hidden Room Theatre presents the lamentable and true tale of Master Arden, his wicked wife, her insatiable lover, and the bumbling ruffians the illicit pair hire to kill him. No one's sure if Shakespeare (or Kyd? or Marlowe?) had a hand in writing the script back in the day, but we know that the show is here directed by Beth Burns and embodied by a fine and vigorous cast.Through March 1. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $18-37. -
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Bonnie & Clyde: A Musical Comedy
Texas Comedies presents this "mostly true" musical send-up of the deadly duo and the man obsessed with hunting them down, based on arresting deputy Ted Hinton's memoir and media stories of the 1930s.Through Feb. 15. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $12-25. -
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Man of Destiny
Who was Napoleon before he became an emperor? Find out in this comedy by George Bernard Shaw, presented out at Pioneer Farms by an Archive Theater cast under the direction of Garrison Martt and Jennifer Rose Davis.Through Feb. 29. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $25-35. -
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The Turn of the Screw
Jeffrey Hatcher's stage adaptation of the Henry James novella (that tale of horror and repressed sexuality) is presented by Austin's Filigree Theatre for your wintertime appreciation and unease. Directed by Elizabeth V. Newman, and starring James Lindsley and Paulina Fricke-Fox. (But – what does the Chronicle's own Robert Faires think of the show? That's featured right here.)Through Feb. 9. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. $20-25.Romy Suskin Photography, 2617 S. First
