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Hyde Park Theatre is holding auditions for a role in Running Bear, a new play written by Raul Garza and directed by Rosalind Faires, to be staged in June and July. They're seeking seeking actors for the role of Emily, a 17-year-old dreamer and risk-taker, who should be of Afro-Latin, Latinx, or Black heritage; performances will be compensated. Auditions will be a reading from the script; sides will be sent in advance. Email the director for appointment.

This is, yes, the highly acclaimed, soul-stirring, kinetically spectacular, elaborately costumed, omg-we're-running-out-of-adjectives stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning 1994 film from Walt Disney Pictures.

"In a dystopian near-future, birds have returned from their recent extinction to carry a teenage boy off into the sky, leaving his father, girlfriend and twin brother searching for answers." This Charlie Thurston play is directed by Elizabeth V. Newman and features James Lindsley, Madison Palomo, and J. Kevin Smith for Filigree Theatre.

Directed by Liz Fisher, starring Diego Arroyo Aceves as Mozart and Kareem Badr(!) as Antonio Salieri, this Tony Award-winning play (as scripted by the brilliant Peter Shaffer) features musical interludes with Mozart's beloved compositions. Listen: For one performance only, the music will be performed live by 40 members of the Central Texas Philharmonic; in the remaining performances, audiences will be treated to a "Mozart remix" by local composer Michael Morét. Because, as we've noticed, the Penfold Theatre Company likes to do things 1) right and 2) big.

This new musical by Rembert Block is equally whimsical and profound as its iconic characters – Ugly Selfie Girl, Dude Face, Chasing Sunsets – grapple with identity, image, and narcissism in our hyped-up times. Directed by Bonnie Cullum for the Vortex and Ethos, the show features live music by Brooklyn-based band Rembert and the Basic Goodness.

This new Lauren Gunderson play is intelligent, warm, and witty af in its behind-the-headlines relevance. Listen: Virologist Nathan Wolfe, named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work tracking viral pandemics, has hunted viruses from the jungles of Cameroon to the basement of the CDC. Hear his story as he tracks the threats that come from without and within. Directed by Don Toner and starring Ben Wolfe for Austin Playhouse.

Here's ZACH Theatre's spin on the Richard O'Brien cult classic, a full, spectacular production complete with party-packs and audience participation, directed by Dave Steakley.