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  • Affordable Art Fair Austin

    After a hugely successful first edition, Affordable Art Fair Austin returns May 15-18, 2025 at the Palmer Events Center, showcasing thousands of original contemporary artworks ranging between $100 to $10,000. Welcoming 55 local, national and international exhibitors, the second edition will be unmissable.
    May 15-18, 2025  
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    Palmer Events Center

  • The Juilliard String Quartet with pianist Anna Petrova

    With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.
    Sat. May 17, 7:30pm  
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    Riverbend Centre
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  • Arts

    Visual Arts

    Sev Coursen: “Portable Objects”

    For the 45th in their ongoing Window Dressing series, ICOSA pretties up their outward facing exhibition space with the work of Austin-based artist Sev Coursen. Viewable from this coming Monday until next Sunday are Coursen’s many foldable objects, created by him to be “self-contained sculptures” which may collapse, travel, and expand at the whims of their presenting environment. These expansion and collapsing points come from multiple features, including hand-milled wooden articulated hinges. Swing by to see these wonders through ICOSA’s front window, or pop in on May 16 to meet the artist at his reception, 7-9pm. – James Scott
    May 12-18
    ICOSA

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    Theatre

    Austin Shakespeare presents Julius Caesar

    Friends, Texans, Austinites, lend your ears and eyes to Shakespeare’s classic coup, as tortured and brutal as tactical Brutus can offer. Or shall I say bodacious Brutus, since Austin Shakespeare’s production of Julius Caesar offers a tantalizing twist – Caesar’s inner circle is mostly women, adding what might be seen as righteous rage to raw revolution. This Caesar’s served with a cunning corporate aesthetic. No need to clutch your pearls though. There’s still the mired malaise of what best serves the collective good. Grab your friends and family, and “get-tu” Zilker for this free show. – Cat McCarrey
    Through May 25
    Beverly S. Sheffield Zilker Hillside Theater

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Cine Las Americas

    Newly in the news as one of many Austin arts organizations impacted by the National Endowment of the Arts’ slash-and-burn of arts funding, Cine Las Americas deserves our support now more than ever. But hey – we’re getting plenty in return: namely, a top-flight film festival celebrating Latine/x, Indigenous, and Latin American voices. But wait, there’s more!This year, Cine is launching its first ever concurrent conference, with fireside chats, workshops, and more taking place May 16-17. See some terrific movies, learn from industry vets like Elizabeth Avellán and David Blue Garcia, and feel good about supporting a community thrown under the bus by the Trump administration. Them’s wins all around. It all kicks off Wednesday with opening night film Take It Away, Adrian Alejandro Arredondo and Myrna Perez’s documentary about Johnny Canales, the Tejano singer and taste-making host of The Johnny Canales Show.
    Wednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18
    AFS Cinema, Austin PBS, and City of Austin PDC Center

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    Theatre

    Dirty Gold Theatre Presents: Venus in Fur

    A seductive reconsidering of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s original novella, David Ive’s play gets reimagined once more by local theatre company Dirty Gold, who describe their work as “dynamic, provocative, character-based theatre that comments on contemporary society and our shared humanity.” What comments can they generate via Venus’ discussion of sexual power plays? You’ll just have to step into the metaphorical boudoir to find out. Special bulletin for Austin’s theatre pros: Wednesday, May 14, is Industry Night with promised ticket discounts both for presale and door tix. – James Scott
    Through May 17
    Sterling Stage

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    Visual Arts

    Friends Fair

    Gallery supergroup FOG started in 2023 with Jill Schroeder from grayDUCK Gallery, Phillip Niemeyer of Northern-Southern, Kevin Ivester of Ivester Contemporary, Jill McLennon of McLennon Pen Co. Gallery, and the team of Ricky Morales and Meredith Williams at Martha’s Contemporary. Their shows, many highlighting local artists, open up a world of contemporary art to Austin. Enter: the Friends Fair, which runs from this Thursday, May 15, through Saturday, May 17. The fair covers two floors of the Loren Hotel by Lady Bird Lake, with 12 rooms dedicated to displays. FOG’s fair isn’t just about collecting. It’s about Austin coming together to spotlight how revolutionary this grassroots art scene is. - Cat McCarrey
    May 15-17
    The Loren

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    Hail Satan? (2019)

    Every time a god botherer starts talking about “religious freedom,” it’s a no-brainer that they mean “… for evangelicals, preferably Southern Baptist or some kind of wacky prosperity gospel megachurch.” But what if they were forced to take those words literally? That’s exactly what happened when the Satanic Temple told the Oklahoma Legislature, “OK, you can have the Ten Commandments on the Capitol grounds, but only if we can have a statue of Baphomet.” Catch director Penny Lane’s brilliant examination of political pranksterism in the name of the First Amendment. Presented by Serpent Tattoo and Occult Shop. – Richard Whittaker
    Thu., May 15
    Hyperreal Film Club

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    Theatre

    I Wanna Be a F*cking Princess

    This show scores one point for an extremely cathartic title, one that seems ridiculously fun to scream across the room. It scores five more for tackling the emotional pressure cooker of bridal parties and – brace yourselves – bachelorettes. Let’s add 10 points for putting that within a fractured fairy-tale format. I’m picturing something as fiercely fanged as the recent gal pals in White Lotus, but maybe with literal wolves? And finally, heap on about a hundred points for integrating this into the peri/menopausal exploration of HOT: the Exhibit, adding a whimsical performance aspect to an already-informative examination of an overlooked ordeal. Let’s talk about the changes women go through! Whether literally transformative, or just emotionally so! – Cat McCarrey
    Through May 24
    Ground Floor Theatre

  • Film

    Special Screenings

    National Theatre Live: Vanya (2024)

    On film and stage, he’s played Hamlet, Ripley, Moriarty, and Hot Priest; here, he adds eight more roles to the canon, all within the same show. Andrew Scott plays the entire cast of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya – including the urbane Serebryakov, his much younger second wife Yelena, his dowdy daughter Sonya who’s been stuck running the family estate, the doctor Sonya loves unrequitedly, and poor old Uncle Vanya. This radical rethink – adapted by Simon Stephens, directed by Sam Yates – first ran in 2024 in London, which is where this live taping derives from. An Off-Broadway stint concludes May 11, so the film version is almost certainly the closest you’ll get to the swooningly received production. – Kimberley Jones
    May 9 & 15
    Alamo Drafthouse Mueller

  • Arts

    Comedy

    Nikki Glaser

    Nikki Glaser killed at the roasts of Rob Lowe, Bruce Willis, and Alec Baldwin years before her set at Tom Brady’s 2024 lampoon went viral, and rightfully so: Her put-downs punch up, critiquing celebrities’ biggest blunders – from Alec Baldwin’s voicemail to Ann Coulter’s everything – without swiping at low-hanging fruit. Plus, she throws it back to herself plenty, too. Also a seasoned podcast host and actor, the stand-up’s Alive and Unwell solo tour rolls into Austin with a 7 and 9:30pm show at the Moody. – Carys Anderson
    Thu., May 15
    ACL Live at the Moody Theater

  • Arts

    Comedy

    PGraph

    Austin’s reputation as an improv comedy town has a lot to do with the trio of Kareem Badr, Kaci Beeler, and Roy Janik, aka Parallelogramophonograph (or PGraph, if you’re nasty). With over a thousand unique performances under their combined belts, they’ve taken just about every award possible for their approach to improv, which is a lot more than just zany sketches. With their longtime residency at the Hideout coming to a close later this year when the beloved Downtown coffeehouse/theatre closes, catch this Austin comedy royalty in their throne room every Thursday until then. – Richard Whittaker
    Every Thursday
    Hideout Theatre & Coffeehouse

  • Arts

    Books

    Torch Wildfire Reading Series: Kendra Allen

    Nonprofit Torch Literary Arts publishes and promotes the creative writing of Black women both emerging and experienced. This week’s subject of their new BookWoman-partnered reading series definitely falls into the latter category, with Dallas-born author Kendra Allen already having two published tomes to tout. Her most recent is poetry/prose hybrid memoir Fruit Punch, which treks through her Aughts-era coming-of-age and all the hard truths she’s learned. Thursday’s event promises a reading, Q&A, booksigning, and conversations around what generational trauma does to a body. – James Scott
    Thu., May 15
    BookWoman
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