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Tremble Staves
Tremble Staves is a collaboration between the Living Earth Show and Pulitzer Prize-winning Navajo composer Raven Chacon. This challenging site-specific work is a wordless water opera synthesizing mixed-media installation, manipulation of natural light and sound, and theatrical performance that comments on the approaching crisis of water shortage.Fri., Oct. 13, 5:30pm
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Bat Boy: The Musical
The ACC Drama Department presents this musical comedy/horror show about a half-boy, half-bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia – as based on a story, you'll recall, from the Weekly World News. Directed by Jamie Rogers for ACC Highland's Black Box Theater.Oct. 13-29. Fri.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. $8. -
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Bedpost Confessions
The x-rated for-real storytelling sensation is back! Now with stories by Elsie Maxwell, Karmel Poet, Nell Seiler, and Ebony Stewart – with lyra entertainment by Ickymuffin. As always, attendees have the chance to submit their own confessions to be read aloud to the audience.Fri.-Sat., Oct. 13-14, 8pm. $40.
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Antigone
Sophocles' classic, adapted by Davis Rush, is presented by the Filigree Theatre under the direction of Elizabeth V. Newman.Oct. 12-22. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. $25-40. -
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Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Step into the world of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as the iconic duo solves the case of the Baskerville family curse.Through Oct. 15. Fri.-Sat., 7pm; Sun., 2pm. $45 and up. -
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Chronicles of an Indigenous Offspring
Inspired by James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, Zell Miller III uses hip-hop culture, jazz aesthetics movement, and spoken word to weave an authentic tapestry offering a picture of what it means to be a person of color in this Southern city. This new show is "a therapeutic exhale that documents growing up Black in Austin, Texas," and "a love letter to cultural landmarks that have been erased from the city's consciousness, Chronicles also exposes the city's dark past. Famed photographer Ivan Millers's black-and-white images create a striking visual environment, and Miller's longtime musical collaborator Thomas "Hitman" Wheeler on percussion creates a funky sonic landscape.Oct. 12-Nov. 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $21-28 (pay what you can, Thursdays). -
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Sordid Lives
Austin Rainbow Theatre presents their inaugural production: Del Shores’ raucous Texas comedy about "about accepting our loved ones for who they are," starring nationally acclaimed drag entertainer and local celebrity Nadine Hughes as Brother Boy. Directed by Christopher Preslar.Oct. 6-14. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 2pm. $20.
