The Week at Texas Performing Arts - September 9, 2019
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THIS WEEK
Les Misérables
Sep 10 - 15
Bass Concert Hall
Cameron Mackintosh presents the new production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, Les Misérables, direct from an acclaimed two-and-a-half-year return to Broadway. With its glorious new staging and dazzlingly reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, this breathtaking new production has left both audiences and critics awestruck, cheering “Les Miz is born again!” (NY1). Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.
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BROWN BAG LUNCH
Lunch and Discussion with Company Members
Wed, Sep 11 | 12 pm
Jewish Community Center
7300 Hart Ln | Austin, TX 78731
Open to the public.
Please bring a brown bag lunch (kosher OR dairy/vegetarian).
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JUST ANNOUNCED
Wild Kratts Live 2.0
Activate Creature Power!
Sat, Jan 18 | 2 pm
Bass Concert Hall
In Wild Kratts - Live 2.0 – Activate Creature Power! Martin and Chris Kratt, stars of the Emmy-nominated Wild Kratts, step out LIVE ON STAGE, to engage the audience in a classic Wild Kratts story.
The adventure begins when Martin somehow manages to lose all of his and Chris’ creature power discs, along with a few of their other favorite things. While they are trying to figure out the best way to find everything, the brothers come to realize that the only way to do this is to…miniaturize! The show follows the brothers as they learn how to navigate a world where everything is ten times their size. As the brothers are trying to figure out how to find all of their lost items, Zach gets wind of what has happened and sends his mini Zachbots off to find the missing items before the brothers do! To keep the animals of the creature world safe, Chris and Martin get some much needed help from Aviva, Koki, and Jimmy, who come to us from the Tortuga through the magic of animation. They experience some hilarious challenges and activate some new creature powers to help them get everything before Zach does! It’s a race to the finish – who will find these lost items first?
On sale Fri, Sep 27 at 10 am
Pre-sale information will be available in next week's newsletter.
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19-20 ESSENTIAL SERIES PREVIEW
Sean Dorsey Dance
BOYS IN TROUBLE
Fri, Sep 27 | 7:30 pm
McCullough Theatre
Trailblazing transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey returns to the stage with BOYS IN TROUBLE, a new evening of dances that unpack masculinity with unflinching honesty—from unapologetically trans and queer perspectives.
True Transsexual Confessions. An unabashed love letter between queer Black men. A send-up of all things Macho. A queer spin on butchness. Real talk about whiteness. An invitation to look deeply at shame. A witness to hurt and heartbreak. A road map for another way. With stark honesty, powerful storytelling, and breathtaking dancing, these dances celebrate expansive trans and queer gender expression, and move audiences to examine their own assumptions and experiences of gender. View a preview video of BOYS IN TROUBLE. [link removed]
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NEXT WEEK
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Fri, Sep 20 | 7:30 pm
Bass Concert Hall
Thirty years after photographer and visual artist Robert Mapplethorpe’s untimely death, it’s difficult to turn away from the compelling emotional complexity of his influential body of work. In this new performance piece, music, poetry, and photography come together in a theatrical context, exploring the impact Mapplethorpe’s work had on the lives and careers of composer Bryce Dessner (The National) and librettist korde arrington tuttle. Through music and large-scale projection of Mapplethorpe’s images, this extraordinary work allows the audience to peer inside Mapplethorpe’s bold, insatiable view of how human beings look, touch, feel, hurt, and love one another. Triptych will contain a frank discussion of sexuality, queer identity, and race, and may include photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe depicting sexuality, sexual acts, nudity, flowers, and classical portraiture.
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THIS MONTH
The Paramount Theatre presents
Paul Anka
Anka Sings Sinatra: His Songs, My Songs, My Way
Sep 18 | 8 pm
Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701
Our friends at the Paramount welcome the legendary Paul Anka paying tribute to Sinatra, Wednesday, September 18th. A Note From Paul: “The Anka Sings Sinatra tour will honor a great artist who has influenced me more than anyone else throughout my career, Frank Sinatra. It will also feature the hits that have spanned my career on this 60th anniversary year. It will be a night filled with his songs, my songs, my way!” Tickets start at just $40 and group discounts available!
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