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This new play by debbie tucker green is the inaugural production for Horizon Line Theatre. Directed by Chuck Ney, it's a provocative and darkly humorous show that focuses on the aftermath of one woman’s violent attack and how it has destroyed her life and her family, and it stars Nadine Mozon, Barbara Chisholm, and (yes, Chronicle Arts Editor) Robert Faires.

Broadway In Austin brings us the 50th anniversary tour of this award-winning Andrew-Lloyd-Weber-and-Tim-Rice phenomenon that highlights the extraordinary events in the final weeks of the life of a certain mythic Nazarene. Note: Originally staged by London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, this production won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival.

Now here's a novel night to get excited about: Bestselling authors Gentry, Abbott, and Falkin read from their thrillers – intricate tales of mystery and violence, fierce enough to set your pulse racing.

Check it: "Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water, dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy, and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself." This Caridad Svich play is directed by Jess Shoemaker.

That Gabe Leonard fellow – that guy with all those girls, guns, and glory – returns to A05 with his cinematically staged paintings of sharpshooters, gangsters, gamblers, and musicians.

Feel like heading a little north, citizen? This statewide juried arts competition, organized by Georgetown Art Works, features exhibitions at the Georgetown Public Library and the Georgetown Art Center.

This is a modern dance festival – happening in April of 2020 – that will present professional showcases, artist interviews, master classes, a youth concert, pop-up dances, and a dance-on-film screening. Artists working in modern dance, postmodern dance, and contemporary dance are invited to apply for the professional showcases. Pre-professional youth companies are invited to apply for the Youth Edition Concert. Also accepting submissions to “Dance on Film.” Dance on over to the website for details.

What is this? It's a group show with original Texas bizarro artists Andy Don Emmons, Chicken George Zupp, David Patrick Dennis, and James Lawrence Thornton, that's what it is.

Sara Madandar's new series of paintings takes its inspiration from Persian history, exploring how complex notions of gender and national identity have changed in Iran between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Yippee ki yay, space cadet, it's time to head 'em off at the Pass Nebula as the State History Museum presents an exhibition that spans more than 150 years of Western and science fiction history and features 100-plus artifacts (including props from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and other skiffy media fare). And our arch-geek himself, the estimable Richard Whittaker, also a part-time Sith Lord, reviews the show for you here.

In partnership with the Peabody Fund and Dell Children’s Medical Center, Davis Gallery presents a unique group show in support of: the gallery's own Jan Heaton, one of Austin’s premier: watercolorists. More than 60 artists have contributed 4" x 4" squares of their own artwork in an overall pink palette that will be hand-stitched together to create a pink quilt, symbolizing the community’s compassion, strength, and friendship – in memory of Heaton's daughter, Kristin Peabody, taken by an aggressive cancer after ten years of battle.

This new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire tale is a sensual fantasy with a surprising twist: a bold heroine who dares to defy the ruler of the night. "Seductive, romantic, and empowering, this foray to the dark side is a juicy date-night," we're advised – and that seems, yup, just about right. Written and directed by Steven Dietz for Zach Theatre, with a kickass cast featuring Sarah Kimberly Becker as Mina Harker and Keith Contreras-McDonald as the titular bloodsucker.

20 million years ago, two supernovae collided – causing ripples in the very fabric of space-time. 20 million years later, generative artist James Pricer created cataclysmic portraits of this event using the actual gravitational wave data. The exhibition features a box set of eight gravitational wave prints, a collision video, two unique explosion prints, and several generative objects.

Some artists try to capture their city, their geographical region, and they succeed at it. Only the best will ever succeed as well as Austin's John Mulvany does in capturing his Eastside neighborhood. Listen: "Everything in life is present in the neighborhood," says the artist. "If you are inclined to walk around with your eyes and senses open, you notice things you might otherwise miss. A dead grackle in the road, the unkempt beauty of East Austin backyards, the violent magenta-pink veil of cherry blossom enveloping a vacant house, a cockroach carried away by ants. This exhibition is an invitation to look closer. The neighborhood, like the natural world, is in a constant state of creation, transformation and decay." And this is precisely what you'll see, in Mulvany's array of realist, atmosphere-haunted paintings on the familiar grayDUCK walls. (See Barbara Purcell's review of the show right here.)

Here's an exhibition of original artwork based on Jewish themes and symbols, including mosaics, hamsa, and Zentangles, by Marvin Beleck, Marion Stoutner, Ginette Jordan, Martha Kull, and Susan Ribnick – also featuring reproductions of 18 mosaics honoring the victims of the shooting of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life or L'Simcha Congregation.

The author presents his new book about legendary golfer Payne Stewart, focusing on his last year in the PGA Tour in 1999, which ended in a fatal air disaster.

The LINE Residency's second artist-in-residence explores identity and what it means to be a black person living in modern America, developing a new series of large portraits of black women

Alicia Philley and Emily Hoyt-Weber present their new body of paintings and sculpture, created around conversations about color, light, and shadow, resulting in an exhibition in which Philley’s colorful compositions of curving linear elements serve as a counterpoint to Hoyt-Weber’s mathematically inspired line drawings.

Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's classic musical about an insatiable man-eating plant is staged for TexARTS' professional series, with a fine cast cavorting with the pithy and puppeted carnivore, the whole spectacle under the direction of Val Williams.

This NYC-based comic has her own Comedy Central half hour and album, Glittercheese. Reckon there'll be more than just cheese glittering when she lights up the Cap City stage.

McMakin brings us recontextualized furniture and untold (actually, very carefully quantified) numbers of coats of paint, with his "Two Bowls, a Cabinet Door, Two Tables, and a Window (with a Blue Wall)," and Keyser's got a new showcase of her vivid "Works on Paper."

Manchester-born Kevin Cummins has an international reputation as one of the world’s leading photographers and is famed for his portraits of musicians, including Joy Division, New Order, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Mick Jagger, Patti Smith, and Oasis. This weekend, Modern Rocks Gallery (now in its fifth year) launches the photographer’s first retrospective show in the United States, featuring his most iconic images.

The San Antonio-based poet and human rights activist is this month's featured reader; Cindy Huyser hosts; an open mic follows.

The complex relationship between contemporary art and anthropology shapes the subject of "The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn," an 11-artist exhibition representing a wide range of media – including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. And here's our own Robert Faires with a full review of the show.

Jigglewatts Ruby Joule, Jolie Goodnight, Ruby Lamb, Something Blue, and Alexander the Great cast their spells while guest performer Godiva Morte adds her magic to the cauldron. Bonus: live music from Mr. Lewis & The Funeral 5.

Here's the 15th annual exhibition at Austin City Hall, presenting a wide array of painting, sculpture, drawing, and other media by 113 local artists. This year, the exhibition includes a special selection of photographs: The Bold Beauty Project of Texas, featuring images of Texas women with disabilities taken by photographers from across the state.

Yeah, no, this is a monumental showing of work – including a series of paintings commissioned for the exhibition – by one of the best, most provocative artists working on this planet. The former Austinite (he taught at UT for 20 years) Michael Ray Charles "is known for art that investigates the legacy of historic racial stereotypes of African Americans. Since the 1990s, he's created complex, layered paintings that challenge stereotypes, power dynamics, and social and cultural hierarchies." Ah, words can't even – but our Arts Editor Robert Faires offers a fine preview right here.

Explore the music of a composer who has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual music of his times. This class will focus on the music of Glass' opera Akhnaten, about the Egyptian pharaoh of the same name. Note: The Metropolitan Opera will be broadcasting a live performance of Akhnaten on Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Arbor Cinema on Great Hills Trail, and you can attend this showing as an optional class event.

Will Klemm, a realist master of tone and texture in oils, was one of the first artists represented by Wally Workman back in the day. By this time he's revealed more than 50 solo exhibitions across the country. "My intention is to communicate something abstract and interior, while still referencing our everyday lives," says the artist. And now the Workman walls are filled, in image after image, with his sublime success in achieving that intention.

Preetika Rajgariah’s new exhibition is where culture, capitalism, and classism collide on the yoga mat, with the artist exploring – through sculpture, video, and performance – how this spiritual practice with deep roots in Hinduism has proliferated into nearly every part of American society.