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Hip Haven's Moving Sale plus Estate Sale
Austin decor maker Hip Haven will be downsizing and moving to a new location. They'll have loads of great Hip Haven merchandise discounted from 15-50% off, plus 2000 square feet of vintage and antique items from multiple estates. Cash, card, or Venmo accepted. (Doors open promptly at 11--no earlybirds!)Sat. Apr. 27, 11am-5pmHip Haven Inc. -
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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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Theatre
Latino Comedy Project: Estar Guars!
Emmy-nominated sketch troupe the Latino Comedy Project return with their hilarious, thoroughly Mexified sendup of some pinche Jedi shit that happened pretty recently in a barrio just across the tracks. Or, rather, the LCP presents a "loving homage of live comedy, original videos, and visual spectacle, re-creating the classic sci-fi rebellion as a modern-day Resistencia, complete with Galactic Walls, space chanclas, migrant moisture farmers, fearless princesas, mystical abuelas, and the targeting of Sanctuary Planetas by an evil empire determined to MAGGA (Make A Galaxy Great Again)." Did we say "hilarious" earlier? We weren't kidding. Written and directed by Adrian Villegas, brought to spicy space opera life by a talented cast, this show's recommended to make you laugh your asteroids off. Note: Performed mostly in English with some Spanglish.Through May 8. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $25-28. -
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Dance
Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre: Reimagine
This new show from AADC reunites its critically-acclaimed founding director Andrea Ariel with longtime collaborator and composer Graham Reynolds for an evening of dance and live music that fuses past repertoire with new work, featuring Alexis Buffum on violin and Ilia De la Rosa on cello, with dancers Luis Ordaz Gutierrez, Sade Jones, Clay Moore, Whitney O’Baugh, Ceci Proeger, and Sunny (Jun) Shen.April 29-May 1. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. $10-39. -
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Austin Opera: Fidelio
Austin Opera’s current season concludes with Fidelio, which is Beethoven's only opera, sung exquisitely by Alexandra Loutsion (Leonora), Sean Panikkar (Florestan), and Musa Ngqungwana (the villain, Don Pizarro). This world premiere orchestra-on-stage production is directed by Jennifer Williams and conducted by Timothy Myers.Fri., April 29, 7:30pm; Sun., May 1, 2:30pm. $49 and up. -
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testsite: Flotsam and Jetsam
The two pieces in "Flotsam and Jetsam" are just that: a castaway – a recreation of John Risley's Three Panel Screen, 1960 – and a newly salvaged version, Imposter Screen, 2022, made sixty years later by the artist's son Jack Risley. This exhibition considers the question of how much an artist recognizes and gives attribution to their sources.Through May 1. Sundays, 3-5pm -
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee’s masterwork has been shocking audiences since it premiered on Broadway in 1962. Produced here by City Theatre, with direction by Karen Sneed and featuring Cal Kraines, Chiara McCarty, Meredith O’Brien, and Rick Smith.Through May 1. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. $15-25.
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Blue Genie Art Bazaar’s May Market
The creators of the award-winning Blue Genie Art Bazaar bring back their spring arts shopping event, featuring the work of more than 100 regional artisans and craftspeople under one roof. Listen, you want locally made, unique gifts for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, graduations, anniversaries, weddings, or whatever? You wanna treat yourself, even, citizen? Here's where.Through May 30. Fri.-Sun., 10am-8pm -
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grayDUCK Gallery: When You Call My Name Quietly
This show by South Korea-born and Texas-based artist Soomin Jung features a series of landscape drawings rendered in gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paper, simultaneously accurate and surreal.Through May 1 -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour
Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am. -
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Lydia Street Gallery: David Amdur Memorial Exhibition
David Amdur was a staple of the Austin art community for much of his life, from his days at UT, to Amdur Gallery in downtown Austin, to the dream home that he designed and built. Drawing, painting, printmaking, music posters, wood furniture, stone sculpture: He was a master of so many forms. This newest exhibition at Lydia Street Gallery, "A Light In the Wood," celebrates the man's life and legacy.Closing reception: Sat., June 25, 7-10pm -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: Who Do You Think You Are?
For the past year and a half, Austin artist Rejina Thomas has been the artist in residence at this fine Eastside gallery. This exhibit features work she's created during that time, as well as older paintings.Through May 21 -
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The Blanton Museum: Invisibilia
This is the first retrospective of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz's work in the United States. The exhibition includes 40 exemplary works from his most evocative series created between the 1970s and today, wherein the artist has "turned photographic processes inside out to underscore the intrinsic fragility and transient nature of the image," revealing "how the act of opening the aperture to light instantaneously transforms the present into the past and life into memory."Through June 5 -
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The Blanton: Fantastically French! Design and Architecture In 16th- to 18-Century Prints
Drawing primarily from the Blanton’s extensive holdings of French prints, this exhibition invites you to look closely at exquisite details, marvel at fantastic forms, and take delight in ornate embellishments that celebrate the creativity of imagination across three centuries.Through Aug. 14 -
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Theatre
The Rocky Horror Show
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.Through May 1. Tue.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat.-Sun., 2:30 & 7:30pm. $25 and up. -
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Vortex Summer Youth Theatre: Auditions
The Vortex seeks students (ages 13-17) to participate in its award-winning, tuition-free Summer Youth Theatre program. This year’s program is highly competitive for a position with a youth ensemble including actors, musicians, technicians, understudies, and production assistants. Rehearsals – evenings and weekends, May 31-Aug. 6 – culminate in a full production of Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: a post-electric play, directed by Jennifer Jennings and presented to the public over two weekends. Note: See website to schedule auditions.Audition/Interviews: May 16, 18, 28; by appt only -
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Wally Workman Gallery: An Abstract Landscape
In which the painter Gordon Fowler returns to the landscapes of his youth in the hills of Austin, Texas, and brings a storied past to full, living color on canvas after canvas after canvas.Through May 1 -
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Comedy
Yo Banana Boy: An Improvised Palindramedy
ColdTowne Theater and Especially Heinous present an improv experience inspired by palindromes. Join 'em for a totally bananas show full of plot twists and turns where, who knows, they may just ... sit on a potato pan, Otis.Through May 29. Sunday, 7pm. $10.GameOn! ATX, 1515 Dungan #200
