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Gabriele Galimberti - The Ameriguns & Toy Stories: Artist Talk & Reception
Internationally acclaimed Gabriele Galimberti’s first US exhibition of “Ameriguns” & “Toy Stories” comes to Austin! The people in these images are from all walks of life, with no particular political party, race, culture, or gender in favor. Ameriguns and Toy Stories deliver striking images exploring the timely issues of gun culture and the impact of modern inequalities on children.Fri. Apr. 12, 6pm-9pmLydia Street Gallery -
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Romeo y Juliet
A bilingual adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most cherished works, Romeo y Juliet recounts the tale of two star-crossed lovers, daughters from the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague, reimagined in Alta, California in the 1840’s prior to the annexation of California to the United States.Apr. 10-21UT Theatre and Dance
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Mirando Hacia Arriba [Looking Up]
This new collaboration between Aurelio Planes, Chamacos Dance Company, and ProyectoTeatro uses Cuban contemporary dance to explore a new vision of the human experience, inspired by the apocalypse. Ah, that ol' apocalypse!April 20-22. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 4pm. $10-20. -
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Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest
Oh, this? Yeah, it's, tbh, it's kind of a big deal. Because there's a panoply of nationally renowned comedians swarming over Downtown this weekend, taking stages and slaying audiences in those diverse styles that have so endeared them to stand-up aficionados everywhere. The Paramount on Congress is the epicenter for this multipartite takeover – see right here for our continuing coverage.April 18-21 -
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Sixth Street Gallery: Soul of America
"Some say the America of today is unexpected, surprising, and unforeseen; while others say they saw it coming long ago." In an effort to facilitate conversation on where America is today and where we're headed, Sixth Street Gallery has partnered with Artists 916 to present a show featuring art in a diverse range of styles and mediums, all exploring the theme.Through May 20 -
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TEMP: Complaints Through the Ages
The Texas Early Music Project's musical exploration of complaining brings an eclectic array of from Medieval times through the Baroque: Scottish ballads, French chansons, Dowland madrigals, selections from passionate Italians (Monteverdi, Carissimi, and Sances) and more, with lots of beauty, some sadness, and a few laughs. Bonus: Ryland Angel, countertenor.April 21-22. Sat., 7pm. Sun., 3pm. $5-30. -
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The Book of Mormon
This nine-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Note: Contains explicit language. Explicit … ? Oh, right, the whole hilarious thing was dreamed up by South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker with Robert Lopez.April 17-22. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $30 and up.
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A Night in Rio
In which Austin Samba serves up an electrifying evening of Brazilian drum and dance with more than 80 performers, a bright and kinetic spectacle exploring the culture of the world's famous Carnaval celebration in Rio de Janeiro.Sat., April 21, 2 & 7:30pm. $23-31. -
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AgavePrint: Furlong
The photographer Raymond Meeks, often inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of image and text, presents a collection of works that play with memory and place and the ways in which a landscape can shape an individual.Through May 6 -
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Art on 5th: Rick Steinburg
An exhibition for which the artist and singer-songwriter has combined painting with found objects such as old keys, horseshoes, or fragments of musical instruments.Reception: Sat., April 21, 7-9pm. Free, but RSVP required for reception. -
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As You Like It
City Theatre presents their staging of Shakespeare's most famous romantic comedy, as directed by Levi Gore.Through May 6. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $10-25. -
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Atelier 1205: Japonisme À Trois
David Lamplugh, Jeffrey Primeaux, and Valérie Chaussonnet show their drawings, paintings, and sculpture inspired by Japonism, the historical French art movement itself inspired by the aesthetics of Ukiyo-e. Hell, we'd recommend solo shows from each of these artists; this three-in-one deal is unmissable!Through April 29 -
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Austin Art Garage: Whimsy & Wonder
Whimsy and wonder, indeed: If anyone can evoke those feelings in a show of new paintings, it's gonna be that Lauren Briere with her sci-fi-inflected "Robots & Rowboats" series. -
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Austin Latino New Play Festival
This eighth annual festival unites playwrights and audience members in conversation surrounding four new works of Latino theatre, with playwrights Augusto Amador, Victor Cazares, Ramon Esquivel, and Dania Ramos teaming up with local talent for staged readings.April 19-21. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 3 & 8pm. Donations accepted. -
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Austin Weird Homes Tour
Here's your chance to finally poke around that crazy-looking house you've been driving by forever. Here's your chance to explore so many of the oddities of architecture and design and home-transmogrifying maker culture in glorious evidence all over the city and along its ragged borders. Do we recommend this event? Oh yes, we fucking love this thing. Note: This is a self-paced, self-driving tour. See website for the particulars.Sat., April 21, 10am-6pm. $30.Various awesome residences -
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Ballet East: Bajo La Luna
This springtime production features new works by Raices de Arte Español from San Antonio, the UT Mariachi Ensemble, Ballet East's own Folklorico group, Hip-Hop Crew from Killeen, and Lotus Contemporary.April 20-21. Fri.-Sat., 7:30pm. Donations accepted. -
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Big Medium: Behind The Mask
Join textile artist Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya – that's Akirash, mononymically – for the debut of his newest show, featuring works exploring masquerades and costumes, inspired by Nigeria's Egungun Masquerade festival.Reception: Wed., April 18, 6-9pm. Final performance: Sun., April 22, 4pm -
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Camiba Art: Alluring View
Rachel Kalisky’s second solo exhibit with the gallery is an array of fused-glass artworks, works that beg to be touched. And the artist says, "Go ahead and touch them!" Well, be gentle.Through May 12 -
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Carver Museum: Punk Noir
Behold this new series of large paintings by Dawn Okoro, exploring the black punk spirit. You already knew black is beautiful; with this exhibition, black may be even more beautiful – and punk AF. And here's what our reviewer thinks of the show.Through July 21 -
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Catherine Lee: The Ney Project
A retrospective of Texas artist Catherine Lee's work in diverse media will be anchored by her monumental sculpture Hebrides #6: Clach An Trushal, on loan from the Contemporary Austin.Through May 6 -
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Chorus Austin: Stabat Mater
The orchestra supports this company of voices in bringing Haydn's masterpiece to life, with guests Janeene Williams (soprano), Keely Rhodes (mezzo-soprano), Steven Brennfleck (tenor), and Austin Siebert (bass) adding to the power and glory.April 21-22. Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $25. -
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Comanche Motion: The Art of Eric Tippeconnic
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.Through Jan. 2. $9-13. -
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Dimension Gallery: Inevitable Reckoning
It's the second solo exhibition for the Texas-born-and-bred Nick Schnitzer at this excellent gallery, with a new series of work combining craft, science, and storytelling that appeals to our most basic sense of survival. Climate change? Noted, illustrated, made vividly manifest in the construction of this show.Through May 5 -
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Flatbed Press: Pine
The crux of Jill Wilkinson’s work is drawing: Drawing from trees, drawing from the memory of trees, drawing from the muscle memory, drawing the void, drawing from the drawing. Now witness a fine selection of those original drawings – and the monoprints created from them.Through April 27 -
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Flatbed Press: Vasculum
Spencer Fidler’s practice is to collect plants from his property in Las Cruces, N.M., and draw them daily at four times their scale. Read our review right here, then see what such devoted work means for your floratropic eyes, in this new show at Flatbed.Through May 19 -
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Fusebox Festival
Here's the annual festival of live performance and music and film and all manner of vibrant presentation, from the popular to the arcane and many sizzling points between, as curated by a wide-ranging team of cultural instigators, and featuring artists local and national and from across the globe. Many of the gigs are already booked solid, mind, but there are still a few shows available for the art-hungry public.April 18-22 -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: The Pink Bow Project
Presenting a large-scale multimedia work by Karen Hawkins, displaying more than fifty nine-foot-tall fabric panels, each covered in 1000 pink hair bows, the bows representing the number of substantiated female child sexual-abuse cases reported annually to Child Protection Services agencies.Through May 12 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Weave
This new exhibition from Elizabeth Chiles begins with a central question of how to visually express various points of intersection of our lives and the breath, light, and time that holds them. The works on display here include collages and natural pigment paintings made from wild flowers and grasses.Through May 20 -
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Grounded
Listen: When a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force gets unexpectedly pregnant, her superiors reassign her, post-maternity leave, from flying F-16s to the "chair force," as a reluctant drone pilot. Street Corner Arts presents George Brant's compelling drama, starring Sarah Danko, directed by Benjamin Summers. Our reviewer, a military brat himself, had this reaction to the show.Through April 21. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $15-20. -
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Harry Ransom Center: Vaudeville!
This exhibition reveals the story of where American entertainment all began, featuring photographs, manuscripts, and other documents and artifacts related to Harry Houdini, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Bert Williams, George M. Cohan, Burns & Allen, Tony Pastor, the Nicholas Brothers, Barbette, and others. Step right up, citizen, as our own Robert Faires tells you more about it right here!Through July 15. Free. -
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ICOSA: Chambers of Longing
New sculptural works by Andrea de Leon and Terra Goolsby use a variety of media including porcelain, glass, and metal to examine the phenomena of fetishism and object relations.Through April 21 -
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Interfaith Action of Central Texas: Love Concert
Classical Music for the World presents this concert in which the refugee students from Doss Elementary School will perform West African welcome drums and West Afghan songs.Sat., April 21, 7pm. Donations accepted.Oak Hill United Methodist Church, 7815 Hwy. 290 -
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LBJ Library Block Party: Get in the Game
Come and celebrate the opening day of the Library's new "Get in the Game: The Fight for Equality in American Sports" exhibition, with free admission and live music and, hey, play some basketball and soccer right there on-site! Bonus: Food trucks available.Sat., April 21, 10am-5pm -
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Link & Pin Gallery: Discovery
Dwain Kelley’s sculptural assemblages explore a palette of old wood, metal, gold leaf, cloth, glass, rocks, and other materials toward the unearthing of another time.Through April 29 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Black and White
The sixth show by Tom Molloy in this elegant space is an exhibition of new drawings and found photographs that explore race – the social construct central to much of the injustice and inequality in America. Bonus: Mariah Robertson in the Project Room.Through June 2 -
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MASS Gallery: MASS + 1
This is a group show of MASS members who've each invited a plus-one to show alongside or collaborate. So, who are the lucky additions? Who are the exhibition partners chosen by artists Ida Behjat, Andrea Calo, Ted Carey, Michelle Devereux, Erin Gentry, Jules Jones, Drew Liverman, Rick Mansfield, and Scott Proctor?Through April 29 -
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Northern-Southern Gallery: Michelle Marchesseault
Here's the first solo show from the NYC-based artist whose systematic abstractions bring steady patterning to a complex spectrum of colors. But, ah, what did our reviewer think of these works?Through May 5 -
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Performance Park
Bonnie Cullum and her diverse army of creatives present this immersive theatrical scavenger hunt that encompasses the entire Vortex compound with thematic games, riddles, music, dance, and mystery, featuring Tarot Major Arcana characters among your guides and gurus and puckish performers. Read more about it in this preview.Through May 12. Thu.-Sun., 7:15 (with different entry times until 8:15pm). $15-35. -
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Pump Project: Mi Feito
Here's a new show by Vladimir Mejia who works in installation, sculpture, photography, performance art, and more, to explore politics, race relations, generational divides, and the ever-evolving relationship between people and technology. Our reviewer tells you about more it right here.Through April 21 -
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Saadhana Sur Sang
Here's a Hindustani and Carnatic classical concert from India Fine Arts, featuring the acclaimed Shahid Parvez on sitar and Shashank Subramanyam on flute.Sat., April 21, 6:30pm. $15-50. -
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Shakespeare In Love
This is a new adaptation of the beloved, Oscar-winning film – and it's one of Austin Playhouse's biggest productions to date, in which a fine cast is directed by Don Toner and Lara Toner Haddock. And – did our reviewer love this show?Through April 22. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $20-44. -
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SouthPop: The History of Austin Aquafest
Here's a graphic tribute to the annual and much-beloved event that highlighted Austin’s cultural uniqueness from 1962-1998. -
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Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
This is the workshop Hannah Kenah led for Rude Mechs while they were creating their Field Guide. Together, you'll write, you’ll share – and there'll be a mic and a stool. Sign up now for this one-day class that's low-pressure, high-fun, and makes the last Sunday in September worth waking up for.Workshop date: Sun., Sept. 30, 3pm. $20. -
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The Blanton: Form into Spirit
Here's a show exploring the conceptual origins of Ellsworth Kelly's last great work, the 2,715-square-foot freestanding building called Austin – a monumental structure with colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and 14 black-and-white stone panels in marble and granite – the opening of which coincides with this Carter E. Foster-curated exhibition.Through April 29 -
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The Contemporary Austin: Against a Civic Death
Rodney McMillian's social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power explores the changing symbol of the White House and the concept of civic death.Through Aug. 26 -
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Top Comedy Spot on Airport
Yes, there's Sugar Water Purple on Wednesday nights. And this Thursday features Friends For Now, a daring supergroup of improv, and then the sketch shenanigans of Pendulum. Friday brings Movie Riot and the laugh-inducing ladies of Loverboy and that Live at ColdTowne stand-up showcase hosted by Carina Magyar. Then there's Saturday, with the Dave Buckman-directed Roast of St. Nick and the love-stinks larking of Missed Connections ATX, followed by a gathering of that mysterio-hilarious Midnight Society. And Sunday's got a Stool Pigeon spieling up the laughs for you, and – see website for more. -
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UTNT: Loverboy
The UT New Theatre program presents this drama by Drew Paryzer, directed by Jess Shoemaker, in which the titular character finally returns home: to his childhood home and to his mother. "His youth is gone, but there are still many things to be raised within the walls of his strangely powerful bedroom."Sat., April 21, 2pm. $15-26. -
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UTNT: MotherWitch
The UT New Theatre program presents this modern fantasy by Travis Tate, directed by Alice Stanley, in which a young woman studying her induction into the family coven must negotiate her family's legacy, her uncanny power, and the love of her life … all before she's old enough to drink.April 19-21; Thu. & Sat., 7:30pm. $15-26. -
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Violet
"Twelve troubled years after a childhood accident left her severely scarred, Violet embarks on a pilgrimage to visit a televangelist she believes will heal her." This heartwarming musical, based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts, is directed by Nick Mayo and features a fine cast of St. Ed's students with guest actors David Long, Jarret Mallon, Christina Stroup, and Gregory Truvillion. Bonus: musical direction by Peter Stopschinski.Through April 22. Wed.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $23-28. -
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Visual Arts Center: 2018 Thesis Exhibitions
Presenting "Affordable Dream House," for the Studio MFA; "If This Then That," for the Design MFA, and "Catalyst," for the Senior Design grads.Through May 11 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Will Klemm
This is a solo show with the Austin-based painter who's shown nationally since 1993 and is a veteran of more than 50 one-man exhibitions. This newest phase of work focuses on the horizon and the soft transitions that occur above and below.Through April 28 -
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Yard Dog: Off the Record
St. Louis artist Kerry Smith's new series features his gouache and oilstick paintings of iconic record album art.Through May 27
