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This Hamlet, collaboratively directed by the cast, invites the audience to really consider the themes Shakespearean audiences would've been confronted with: loss, grief, familial obligations, and whether ghosts are real or not. (They are, except when they're not.) Friday Jan 10: ASL Interpreted Night Tuesday Jan 14: Live-Captioned Subtitles in English and Spanish Ticket Types […]
A gay performance artist, his video-artist best friend, and her sexually confused photographer boyfriend fall into a disorienting bisexual love triangle in Gregg Araki’s rarely-seen feature debut about “angst, despair, and coffee shops in the Modern World.” Made for $5,000 and shot across Los Angeles entirely at night (and without a crew), THREE BEWILDERED PEOPLE […]
Join bilingual children’s book author Miguel Briones for a morning of Lucha Libre Literacy at Book People located at 603 N. Lamar in downtown Austin. Celebrate the release of the highly anticipated follow up to the bilingual lucha libre themed book Macho No Machismo. Macho Manuel is back and ready to teach young people and […]
In celebration of Timothy Myers’ 2023 appointment as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Music Director, Austin Opera is thrilled to announce the launch of a new series: Opera Unleashed: Epic Masterpieces with Timothy Myers. Opera Unleashed will offer a series of company premieres over the coming seasons featuring some of the most historically significant works […]
Film presented in Thai and Isan with English Subtitles. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film about death and spiritual continuity frequently provokes profound responses in viewers. As our guest programmer, artist Jiab Prachakul, notes, “The audience is not asked to understand the linearity of things with logic. Uncle Boonmee’s journey through his last days becomes our own journey […]
The mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly returns to Austin Opera in April 2025. In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, affectionately known as “Butterfly,” is seduced by the dashing U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton. After a hasty wedding separating Cio-Cio-San from her family, Pinkerton abandons […]
The mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly returns to Austin Opera in April 2025. In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, affectionately known as “Butterfly,” is seduced by the dashing U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton. After a hasty wedding separating Cio-Cio-San from her family, Pinkerton abandons […]
The mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly returns to Austin Opera in April 2025. In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, affectionately known as “Butterfly,” is seduced by the dashing U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton. After a hasty wedding separating Cio-Cio-San from her family, Pinkerton abandons […]
The Soul of Austin Culture Fest promotes artistry and authentic diversity in a family-friendly environment, featuring a diverse offering of dance performances, live music, arts, crafts, authors and food vendors […]
