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Mónica Vega works in installations that mix natural and artificial light, showing how light interacts with all materials and matter, how light travels through space and crashes with surfaces, and how these materials reflect, contain, and mold light.

Here's a unique, 90-minute culinary experience designed to rely on senses other than sight, where all the guests will be blindfolded while they eat.There, in the velvet darkness of the blackest night, safely ensconced within the modern elegance of the W Hotel in Downtown Austin, you'll partake of mouthwatering cuisine from your choice among three menus: Green (vegan), Blue (pescatarian), or Red (a carnivore's delight).What will you be eating this night, adventurous citizen? A Mexican-inflected starter that recalls the occasional dining splurges of your college days? A main course redolent of masterful meatery, or pescatarian power, or gastronomic tropes of vegan creativity, and each with compelling accompaniments? Your host will guide you through the three courses, inviting your blindfolded guesses between bites and drinks, all the way to the sweet finale of dessert.The panoply of flavors here, the diversity of textures, the gradients of temperature – all these unseen aspects of dining will come to the fore in a curated experience that's unlike any other, presented by the event wizards of Fever Originals.

"In a dystopian near-future, birds have returned from their recent extinction to carry a teenage boy off into the sky, leaving his father, girlfriend and twin brother searching for answers." This Charlie Thurston play is directed by Elizabeth V. Newman and features James Lindsley, Madison Palomo, and J. Kevin Smith for Filigree Theatre.

If the proverbial 800-pound gorilla were weaponized, this would be its manifestation as living embodiment of the nation's comedy-industrial complex – now smack in the center of your own Downtown. Reigning supreme in the scene with more laughter than the King in Yellow has lack of masks, this annual conflagration brings the biggest and best names from all over, adds a happy helping of equally wise locals, and sets 'em onstage all over town (with the venerable Paramount as the epicenter) for your giggling diversion from humanity's headlong plummet toward the grave. More than 150 comics in more than ten venues for more than ten days – and who the hell's gonna survive the afterparties with less than a Krakatoa in their morning-after skull? We've got a plethora of solid coverage for you right here, but – do check the festival website for details.

Celebrate the Queen of Tejano with cumbia lessons and music from the Tiarras and Selena cover band Las Chicas en 512.

This new musical by Rembert Block is equally whimsical and profound as its iconic characters – Ugly Selfie Girl, Dude Face, Chasing Sunsets – grapple with identity, image, and narcissism in our hyped-up times. Directed by Bonnie Cullum for the Vortex and Ethos, the show features live music by Brooklyn-based band Rembert and the Basic Goodness.

Texas Performing Arts presents this local installation – at the Blue Genie space on Airport, no less – of Robin Frohardt's brilliant and immersive tribute to the vulgar overdoity of plastic waste that humans are subjecting themselves and the rest of our planet to. Listen: "Visit a grocery store where the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded, single-use plastics in an endless cacophony of packaging. When you visit, the store transforms into a cinema for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic, sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations." Sensationally graphic yet more than just spectacle, this thing's got philosophical teeth as sharp as the fangs we're sinking deep into our own carotid. (Note: Some seatings will be free, via Fusebox Festival.)

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.

Leave the kiddos at home and have adult Easter fun with a nighttime egg hunt by flashlight, and enjoy music in the dance hall from Kerry McGinnis, delish fried chicken from Lucy's, and of course, some adult beverages. Raising funds to support the historic Pioneer Farms.

An evening of boats and bats at a sunset cruise with drinks from Desert Door Sotol.

A gritty and stylish thriller about a superhacker (Hemsworth) tracking down a hacker who's manipulated the stock market and set a nuclear reactor to meltdown.

Many artists work in multiple mediums, but for Lubbock-raised Terry Allen, music, performance, writing, and visual artwork are truly all part of the same practice. As a visual artist, he often creates immersive sculptural installations with an aspect of performance, incorporated through projections and video. For this ninth installment in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project series, Allen reveals a three-channel video installation and a related group of drawings.