The Week at Texas Performing Arts
The Intersection of Art and Entertainment
With groundbreaking theater, one-of-a-kind multimedia projects, comedy, concerts and Broadway, our upcoming calendar of events promises to open up new avenues of meaning and connection for every type of performing arts lover. See you at the show!
 
A curated series reflecting the most exciting
developments in the performing arts today
The Great Flood
The Great Flood
Fri, Jan 21 | Bass Concert Hall

"Archival wizard Bill Morrison's film finds lyricism in disaster." —The Wall Street Journal

A contemporary, multimedia perspective on the 1927 Mississippi River flood and how it changed American society and music.

Pre-Performance Discussion (Bass Concert Hall Level 6 from 6:45 - 7:15)
Join Bill Morrison and UT Visual Art Center faculty members for a pre-show conversation. The Visual Art Center’s exhibit Bill Morrison: Cycles & Loops opens on Jan 28.

Post-Performance Q&A with Bill Morrison and Bill Frisell
Submit your question for the artists here.

Don’t miss Austin Film Society’s upcoming series featuring the work of Bill Morrison including a screening of his masterpiece Decasia. Opens Jan 20.
The Wooster Group
TEXAS DEBUT
The B-SIDE: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons
A Record Album Interpretation
and UNTITLED TOAST
Jan 26-29 & Fri, Feb 4 | McCullough Theatre

“Powerful, lucid, and profound...Astonishing...it feels as if the theater’s air itself might shock you. ” — Vulture

THE B-SIDE is an original performance based on an LP of work songs, spirituals, and toasts recorded in 1964 in Texas’ then-segregated prison farms. Eric Berryman, Jasper McGruder, and Philip Moore channel the inmates’ voices, via in-ear receivers, and transmit them live. Berryman also provides context from the book Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues by Bruce Jackson, the folklorist who recorded the album.

UNTITLED TOAST is work-in-progress companion piece showing on Fri, Feb 4 that Wooster Group will develop as part of their residency with Texas Performing Arts.
Helen Sung
Sat, Apr 9 | Bates Recital Hall
Nathalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet
Fri, Apr 22 | Bates Recital Hall
 
 
The best of Broadway right here in Austin
Tootsie
Feb 22 – 27 | Bass Concert Hall

Call it “musical comedy heaven” (Rolling Stone). Call it “the most uproarious new musical in years!” (The Hollywood Reporter) Call it TOOTSIE! This laugh-out-loud love letter to the theater tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mar 22-27 | Bass Concert Hall
 
The Lion King
Apr 7-24 | Bass Concert Hall
Summer
May 3-8 | Bass Concert Hall
 
Mean Girls
Aug 2-7 | Bass Concert Hall
 
 
Your favorite concerts, comedians, and family shows
The Temptations and The Four Tops
Mar 9 | Bass Concert Hall
Jo Koy
Sat, Mar 19 | Bass Concert Hall
Rupi Kaur
Sat, Jun 11 | Bass Concert Hall
The Masked Singer
Jul 13 | Bass Concert Hall
 
 
 
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