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Laundry & Bourbon with Lonestar
Laundry and Bourbon with Lonestar, two companion one act plays set in backyards of a small Texas town. Three ladies come together to talk about their life's ups and downs. Lonestar follows the life of three small town boys and the events that have shaped them. Both shows give us highs & lows with humor spread around, for good measure.Apr. 19-May 5Navasota Theatre Alliance
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MEANWHILE ...
Jennifer Sherburn and her company of major talents return to explore the tropes of comic books – with contemporary dance featuring a cast of six choreographers (Jairus Carr, Lisa Anne Kobdish, Taryn Lavery, Clay Moore, Amy Myers, and Sarah Annie Navarrete) traversing space with bungee, ladders, and mobile set pieces. Bonus: An original music score by William West and Juliana Sheffield, with lighting by Chris Conard, and a VR premiere of Sherburn's "Stolen" collaboration with Flow Nonfiction.Through June 15. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $30 ($20, in advance; and FREE on opening night)).Rogge Ranch House, 3506 Rogge -
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Soul to Sole International Tap Dance Festival
Did you know that the International Tap Association is headquartered in Austin, with Soul to Sole being one of the most esteemed tap festivals in the world, attracting hundreds of dancers? It's true, and Tapestry Dance Company has fomented up this eighteenth (!) annual fest, with dazzling performances at the Long Center, workshops, and master classes taught by a faculty of artists from all over.Thu.-Sat., June 13-15. $29 and up. -
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Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre: Rally
This new dance show features original live music (composed by Andrew Nolte) and the conducted improvisation of Soundpainting, offering a kinetic array of personal perspectives and collective experiences as the multidisciplinary performers explore what drives people in local and global communities to rise up, unite, and rally.June 13-16. Thu.,-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $15 and up. -
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Black Girl Love
This is a stage adaptation of Anondra “Kat” Williams' short stories about black girls in love. Featuring Faith Anderson, g’beda, Allegra Jade Fox, and Oktavea L. Williams, directed by kt shorb and Simone Raquel Alexander for GenEnCo. Join them for opening weekend as part of your Austin Black Pride celebrations!Through June 22. Wed.-Sat, 8pm. $15-35. -
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Dry Land
The first full-length play from American playwright Ruby Rae Spiegel is about abortion, female friendship, resiliency, and what happens in one locker room after everybody's left. Starring Annika Lekven, Amara Johnson, Lucy Abramowitz, and Travis Dean. Directed by Cheryl Painter for Capital T Theatre.Through June 15. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. Extra show: Sat., 2pm. $20-30. -
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Hamilton
This, in case you somehow didn't know (and please accept our sincere congratulations on finally waking up from that years-long coma, yo, it's good to have you back), is Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Brought to town by the good people of Broadway in Austin, it's a phenomenon that's worthy of its endless hype, and they say tickets are possibly still available if you were born on a full moon, the wind is coming in from the northeast, and the Westlake sibyl dances a clockwise tarantella during consultation. Or, better: See the website right here for the show's two-days-before ticket lottery.May 28-June 16. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 1 & 7pm. $79-539. -
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Henry V
Penfold Theatre stages this Shakespearean wartime classic out in that fabled Round Rock Amphitheatre in the park, featuring a fine cast directed by Liz Fisher.Through June 22. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. Extra show, Sun., June 23, 8pm. Free.
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All Shades Considered: Group Exhibition
Ben Aqua curates a group exhibition of 17 QPOC Texans making art in photography, digital collage, illustration, performance, fashion design, new media, video, and painting to better visualize the artists' lived experience as brown queers in the Lonestar State.: Artists include: Adiean, Anthony Flores, Ben Aqua, Claudia G Aparicio Gamundi, Diego Mireles Durán, Henry N Rodriguez, House of KENZO, Isaiya Venegas, Josue Hart, Manuel Morales, Michael Anthony Garcia, Natalia Rocafuerte, Niko, p1nkstar, Jp Rivfe, Josh Garcia, S Rodriguez, Saakred, and Wayne Dean. Use #AllShadesConsidered on the gram!Through July 7. Free. -
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Angela Shelf Medearis: Our People
During 2018, Medearis – known to millions as The Kitchen Diva – donated several books, manuscripts, photographs, awards, and research papers to the Carver Museum. Now, they’ve been curated and presented as this new exhibition.Through June 23 -
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Auditions: Next to Normal
Ground Floor Theatre and Deaf Austin Theatre are holding auditions for this Tony-winning musical, to be directed by Lisa Scheps and Brian Cheslik for performances in December. This production will be fully deaf inclusive, with each character double-cast with a deaf actor and a hearing actor (some characters are deaf and some hearing). See website for details and appointments.Mon., July 29, 6:30-10pm (hearing); Tue., July 30, 6:30-10pm (deaf) -
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Big Medium: Memory Palace
In her first solo show at Canopy's anchoring gallery, Rehab El Sadek conceptualizes a meditative journey through personal past and the ancient world, drawing inspiration from classic architecture, modern architectural theory, world literature, and historical texts. And the Chronicle's Robert Faires reviews the show right here.Through July 3 -
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Book of Will
Lauren Gunderson's excellent comedy features William Shakespeare's friends and fellow actors in The King's Men company doing whatever it takes to make sure that true versions of the Bard's plays survive – by compiling the First Folio, thwarting all the tailcoat-riding bastardized versions, faithfully recapturing the words that shaped their lives. Directed by Lara Toner Haddock for Austin Playhouse. And, prithee, what did our reviewer think of the show?Through June 30. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $36-42 (student discounts available). -
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Camiba Art: Adreon Henry's World
It's the first Camiba solo show for this master of silkscreening, vinyl weaving, and graphic manipulations. It's a look into the vivid and complex machinations of a creative mind via handmade manifestations that will delight your eyes. Recommended.Through June 29 -
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Carver Museum: Constant Escape
Founding members of the Austin-based Black Mountain Project – Adrian Aguilera, Betelhem Makonnen, and Tammie Rubin – debut a new body of work in sculpture, photography, text, and video. Also on display at the Carver: "Re-Membering Is the Responsibility of the Living," an installation by Taja Lindley.Through July 27 -
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Cloud Tree: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This exhibition, curated by Susan Maynard, Billy Kirkland, and Rachel Koper, staged in collaboration with Pump Project, boasts work by more than 60 locals – many of whom have been kicking your eyes' ass in a provocative fashion for years.Through July 13 -
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Co-Lab Projects: Ebony Reprinted
What does Dana Robinson use to create her monoprints? Images that circulated in printed advertisements, images from which she's removed traces of exploitative white-dominated capitalist visual language to allow the individuals pictured to regain their agency in the world. Images from vintage Ebony magazine ads, in this show.Through June 29 -
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Danse Macabre: An Exotic Bazaar
"Watch, shop, and be adorned as you are surrounded by the exotic arts of the darkest souls in the south." Here's an evening of morbid mafficking, of art, performance, music, wares, and fashion in homage to – or at least with chill resignation toward – the universality of death.Sat., June 15, 6-11pm -
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Davis Gallery: METROmorphosis
This new show features works by Annie Darling and David Elliott, the paintings and sculpture on display here offering each artist's own vision – always colorful, sometimes dazzling – of our quickly expanding and changing city.Through July 13 -
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Dimension Gallery: Niche Construction
This new show of beautiful sculptural works by Laura Latimer is informed and inspired by the way an organism physically modifies an environment or moves to another habitat that better suits its needs. (Kind of like the way Dimension's outdoor Sculpture Park moved across the street, y'might say, and you could experience that before or after viewing this fine exhibition.)Through June 22 -
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Flip Side Redux
TILT Performance Group asks the question: Is the grass really greener on the other side? Here's an exploration of that question and its potential answers in a series of six 10-minute plays that explore concepts of otherness.Through June 15. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $10-15. -
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Harry Ransom Center: The Rise of Everyday Design
Here's a new and detailed look at the history of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America, showing how it transformed the homes and lives of ordinary people and how it continues to influence modern design.Through July 14 -
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ICOSA Gallery: Negative Space (and other planes of there)
Exploring the in-between of signifiers and narrative, Leon Alesi and Bug Davidson cite ancestral lineage, uncomfortable compromise, and abrasion of edges in this new two-person show of photography, moving images, installation, assemblage, and found objects.Through June 22 -
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Imagine Art: Rebirth & New Blooms
Here's a show that aims to "capture the essence of new growth, new beginnings, renewed spirit and heart," as curated by Lacey Richter.Through June 21 -
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Immortal Longings
That four-time Tony winner Terrence McNally explores the rich history of the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev’s itinerant Russian ballet company, in this newest play of his. See what happens in the the tempestuous relationship between Diaghilev and dancer Vaslav Nijinsky – as directed by Peter Rothstein for Zach Theatre, featuring choreography by Kelli Foster Warder. And here's that Robert Faires with a review!Through July 14. Wed.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2:30 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. $30-93. -
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Iolanthe
Gilbert & Sullivan Austin's big summer production is this fanciful comedy that presents a topsy-turvy love story involving fairies and members of the House of Lords. (Oh, it must be nice – it must be niiiii-iiiiiice, to have Oberon on your side.)Through June 13-23. Thu.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat., 2 & 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $8-27. -
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Kevin Nealon
He's much more than just "that guy from 'Saturday Night Live'," right? Right – which is why you wanna catch Nealon's sets here at Cap City this weekend.Fri.-Sat., June 14-15, 7:30 & 10pm. $28-33. -
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Link & Pin Gallery: The Gang of Six Mix It Up
The Gang of Six is a group of working artists who meet regularly for constructive creative input, inspiration, and problem solving. Members include Linda Anderson, Beatrice Baldwin, Christopher Hynes, Ruth Lauer, Paul Sonnenberg, and Sean Thornton – and this is a show of their work.Through June 16 -
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MASS Gallery: A Little Accident, Like Any Other
Here's a new show that celebrates collaborative practice, mail art, drawing, and sound – by local artist Alex Robinson and Ohio-based Michael Kellner. Individual works from the artists are also included.Through July 7 -
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Northern-Southern: Likesness
Usually a lot of complex abstracts, a lot of cool conceptual art, up in this intimate space. "Likesness," though? Exclusively figurative art. But it's no less stunning, as this new group show features work by Adrian Armstrong, Dawn Okoro, Jean Smith, Laura Lit, Ryan Sandison Montgomery, and Saul Jerome San Juan. Recommended. Like this, we mean. Tell you what: curator Phillip Niemeyer is one of those 12th Street forces currently making that section of the city a cultural destination.Closing reception: Mon., July 8, 6-8:30pm -
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Oedipus the Tyrant
In this modern retelling of the classic story, Oedipus, obsessed with discovering what is poisoning his subjects against him, is willing to give up anything to recover the lost greatness of Thebes. Directed by Nichole Bennett for Fox Den Theatre Company.Through June 15. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $20. -
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Outside Mullingar
What's outside Mullingar? Well, for one thing, two introverted thirtysomething misfits named Anthony and Rosemary, in this Tony-nominated play by John Patrick Shanley (the author of Doubt and Moonstruck, no less). This is the Austin premiere of a very funny and heartbreaking love story, directed by Michael Cooper for Reverie Theatre Company and featuring live Irish fiddle music throughout.Through June 30. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $25-40. -
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Parallel Lives
This cult-favorite comedy, written by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney, features two actresses playing 25 odd characters in comic sketches examining the multifarious plight of women. Starring Roxy Becker and Helyn Rain Messenger, directed by Andy Berkovsky. And here's our review.Through June 15. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $10-25. -
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Rub a Duck
Austin's own Frank Wo/Men Collective presents this experimental multidisciplinary physical theatre work in which 13 collaborators – dancers, actors, singers, design artists, and a bread maker – create an experience that mimics and mocks human subconsciousness. Note: This show's got some nudity and what they're calling adult content. Also, you should probably attend in swimwear or wet-ready attire, because the seating is mostly in a splash zone … mostly.June 13-16. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. Extra show: Sat., 4pm. $5-25. -
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Shakespeare at Ramsey Park: Cymbeline
Something for Nothing Theater presents this Shakespearean romance with just five actors playing all 32 characters, distilling theatre to its most basic elements: bodies moving in space, creating a story that comes to life in the spectators’ imaginations. Gonna be, we reckon, a whole lotta Shakesin' going on – directed by Deb Streusand right there in the great outdoors. Bring a blanket or chairs, pack a picnic, invite some friends, and join the fun.Through June 22. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. Free. -
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Strange Beasts VI: The Return Of The King
It's the city's best cinematic tie-in, we're thinking, as 19 amazing artists pay graphic tribute to Godzilla, the king of the kaiju, the master of all monsters – and his fiercest foes and greatest allies. Originals and prints available among many monstrous machinations.Through July 14 -
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Texas State History Museum: Texas From Above
Here's an original exhibition featuring aerial images captured by photographer Jay B. Sauceda during a six-day flying journey around the state. This show highlights the beauty of Texas borderlands and explores the process of capturing the images.Through June 16 -
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The Blanton Museum: Zulu Time
This new solo exhibition of two-dimensional and sculptural works by Brooklyn native Kambui Olujimi, now on view in the Blanton's Contemporary Project gallery, will revitalize your awareness of what's coordinated and universal. And, listen, the Blanton now stays open until 8pm on Fridays – through July 26.Through July 13 -
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The Contemporary Austin: Hi, how are you, Gonzo?
Abraham Cruzvillegas’ vibrant artistic practice begins with the concept of autoconstrucción, an idea rooted in transformation, exchange, and play. During the exhibition, a series of site-specific sculptures will be enlivened through music, performances, workshops, cooking, storytelling, artmaking, skateboarding, and more, in activations led by the artist’s collaborators from Mexico City and community partners from Austin. See our feature article for more.Through July 14 -
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The Russell Collection: Ethereal
This is a curated collection of works from artists Kathy Buist, Katherine Houston, and Jaime Kirkland.Through June 29 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Monsteras
This is the WWG's sixth solo show with local figurative painter Patrick Puckett, the artist's larger-than-life canvases deploying the color red to lend his singular figures an undeniable presence.Through June 23 -
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Women & Their Work: Truth Before Flowers
Jennifer Ling Datchuk disentangles histories and traumas through objects (teacups, dinnerware) culturally associated with womanhood, using porcelain "to speak in dualities – especially of fragility, resilience, and ultimately the struggle between diversity and the flawless white body."Through July 25. free.
