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In his first original solo show, award-winning actor and poet Jesus I. Valles journeys across both sides of a river with two names, moving between languages to find his place as a son, a lover, a teacher, and a brother in a nation that demands sacrifice at the altar of citizenship. Directed by Rudy Ramirez.

This group show, which inaugurates the 1815 Gallery on Rosewood, is "an exploration of human interaction in the digital age."

In this show, written and originally directed by Randy Johnson and starring Mary Bridget Davies, the legendary queen of rock & roll explodes onto the stage in a concert experience that celebrates the Texas musical marvel and shines a spotlight on the trailblazing female blues and soul vocalists who influenced her.

Here's the Austin premiere of a play about longing,: loss, and love, as a man begins restoring an old abandoned house, and his worldview is shaken by the arrival of the ghost of Anna Catherine. Written and directed by Rod Mechem for City Theatre.

This new exhibition is Julia Hart’s personal attempt to make sense of a world that makes very little sense to the artist and is inspired by what we cannot immediately see – those dreamlike spaces that exist just beyond vision, now rendered via a diversity of media.

This night is inspired by the Queen of Hearts and features art from 10 local women artists, beats by DJ Diggy Dutch, photo booth, and an array of festive cocktails. Note: "Lovely festive dress: encouraged.

In which the relentlessly inventive Allen presents new works sure to reupholster your mind's most comfortable furniture.

Join PrintAustin in celebrating its seventh annual juried international exhibition, a survey of traditional techniques and innovative approaches in contemporary printmaking, presented in collaboration with Big Medium and juried by Claudia Zapata. This show, pretty much the epicenter of what the impressive PrintAustin project supercharges gallery walls with each January, features works by David Avery, Kelly Belter, Lisette Chavez, Briar Craig, Tania Cruz, Angela Faz, J. Leigh Garcia, Dirk Hagner, Veronica Hallock, Anna Hoberman, Daryl Howard, Raluca Iancu, Brian Johnson, and more, more, more. And we raved about just one of the works right here.

This is a Valentine's Day tribute to the works of Stanley Kubrick, from the company that brings you all those "extreme erotic variety shows featuring filthy performance art, pole dancing, neo-burlesque, aerial silks, chains, lyra, nets, trapeze, contortion, a bed of nails, glass walking, fire breathing, rope bondage, fetish play, comedy, drama, and all things perverse, grotesque, and socially unacceptable." You know – the way our species likes to creatively embellish its celebration of defying vestigial taboos against methods of instigating and engaging in sexual intercourse? It's much ado, y'might say, about fucking. Bonus: Hosted by those shameless libertines Snake Tits and Dean Zaggler.

Texas Comedies presents this "mostly true" musical send-up of the deadly duo and the man obsessed with hunting them down, based on arresting deputy Ted Hinton's memoir and media stories of the 1930s.

We're told that, "if your idea of a good Saturday night is playing Mario Kart while watching anime on your laptop," then this guy is your new favorite comic. We won't argue that for a second – but we'll also insist, even though he doesn't come with a free bamboo steamer, this Gaar is much, much more. And his opener is named Lando? Even if it's only Lando Calrissian Shepard? OMG, WE'RE LEVELING UP!

This show features images by activist photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, telling a visual story of the struggle against segregation, race-based disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. These photos capture the day-to-day struggles of everyday citizens and their resolve in the face of violence and institutionalized discrimination – with more than a dozen additional images representing activism and protest in Austin's own history.

Here's a solo show, with Valentines, by the local artist of painterly abstractions.

The king returns, as we like to say, as Roi James presents this new solo show of recent paintings that encompass several different bodies of work, including variations of his abstract oils, his Construct series, and his Floral array of wonders.

Love, sorcery, and tragic opera? No better way to spend Valentine’s Day weekend, we suggest, especially as Local Opera Local Artists and Panoramic Voices have teamed up to present Henry Purcell’s beautiful baroque masterpiece from the late 17th century. Featuring music direction by Brent Baldwin, stage direction by Rebecca Herman, and choreography by Erica Gionfriddo, all driving a cast that includes Ivy Cantu, David Small, Jihee Han, Natalie Howard, Julie Silva, Mary Kettlewell, Jessica Blau, Jeffrey Jones-Ragona, and Holt Skinner. Bonus: The world premiere of Austin composer Carlos Alberto Cordero Garcia's Forgiveness.

This is the final installment of a two-part exhibition by Jade Walker, focusing on disease, healing, and the inherently close union we have with our own bodies. Inspired by the Rumi poem of the same title and including borrowed mallets from more than 40 members of the artist's community.

Of course Flatbed, of all places and organizations in this inkstained city, is part of PrintAustin – don't be silly! In fact, don't be sad, citizen … which is what you will be – downright miserable, we reckon – if you miss this gorgeous installation and exhibition of prints by Sangmi Yoo, who uses digital printing and laser- and hand-cutting techniques on paper to create large works celebrating the architectural structures around us.

In Rita Anderson’s Gliders, three generations of seemingly ordinary women begin to uncover secrets about themselves, even as the extraordinary events of the Apollo 11 mission unfold overhead in the summer of 1969. This premier production is directed by Karen Jambon for Different Stages.

By means of sculpture and installation, Spanish artist Ana Esteve Llorens explores the reality of space as a sensory experience, using natural and manufactured materials, craft techniques, and industrial processes to engage with different methods of production and a local and international community of makers.

He's a stand-up comedian, he's an Emmy-winning writer, he's got a book out with Simon & Schuster – what more do you want but a pair of tickets for a Valentine's date to see this guy, right?

Here's an exhibition featuring the works of hobbyists and crafters, organized and curated by ICOSA's Tammie Rubin.

Group show of works by artists Greta Olivas, Marilyn Rodriguez, and Donna Starnes.

This 28th annual fundraiser features a silent auction of beautifully decorated hearts created by artists and community members. Bonus: Live music and tasty noms.

The Camel Collective's Something Other Than What You Are is the latest to get the big-screen treatment in this ongoing series from your friends at UT's Landmarks program.

Who was Napoleon before he became an emperor? Find out in this comedy by George Bernard Shaw, presented out at Pioneer Farms by an Archive Theater cast under the direction of Garrison Martt and Jennifer Rose Davis.

This show features the work of Chicago-based Yvette Mayorga, who creates multimedia installations and candy-colored confectionary, tackling issues of race, identity, and gender using visual tropes of celebration.

February's featured artists – who, we reckon, make this place a good place to visit before SXSW comes a-roaring into Austin again – are Valérie Chaussonnet, Rebecca Bennett, Lauryl Eddlemon, and Sylvia Crossland.

The annual program of exhibitions displaying the work of printmakers – professionals and amateurs creating all manner of art via pigment pressed onto paper and other materials – using woodcuts, etchings, mezzotints, lithography, serigraphy, aquatints, newfangled digital methods, and so on in glorious profusion – the annual program celebrating all this is now under way. With Big Medium in Canopy featuring "The Contemporary Print," and Link & Pin Gallery offering "Melanated Life in Print," and Wally Workman Gallery resplendent with the narrative lithography of Kathryn Polk, and other venues around the city giving the inky discipline its promotional due – and with the almost overwhelming PrintEXPO culmination at Blue Genie coming up (Feb. 1 & 2) … well, here's yet another bundle of good reasons to get out and explore your artful city, Austinite.

This show features new paintings and drawings from the legendary musician and artist – the lead singer of punk band The Dicks, no less.

Get in the mood for art on Valentine’s weekend and celebrate with your loved one by getting them into the museum for free. Yes, it's a buy-one-get-one-free deal for true romantics – and Ed Ruscha's "Drum Skins" show is on display right now, and there's that Ellsworth Kelly Austin edifice of polychromatic wonder, and – oh, you know by now, right? That this is an excellent idea for a date? Recommended!

This unusual whodunnit, the 2015 Tony winner for best play, scripted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon's internationally bestselling novel, features guest artists Babs George and Michael Dolan among a vigorous student cast. Directed by Robert Tolaro for St. Ed's Theatre.

This surreal evening of theft and collaboration is the newest work from San Francisco's Annie Danger – a wild, interactive game show in which players craft alliances and rewrite the rules for their co-players in a series of challenges that test their cunning and their ethics. Bonus: Erica Nix opens.

The painter's figures and themes, mixing magical realism with influences of pop art and surrealism, illustrate the contrast in our lives and the doubts we are faced with as humans.

This is an open call for artists, business partners, and advertisers for Big Medium’s West Austin Studio Tour (WEST), a free, annual, self-guided art event spanning two weekends in May. Suggestion: Click over to the website and get involved, you art-loving citizen!

In meticulous paintings and watercolors of leaves, of rain, of mud, of other objects in the natural world, Mihee Nahm seeks to capture the ephemeral in all its transience.

The arts community's favorite Dog, having ditched Congress Avenue with the rest of last decade's memories, re-opens in Canopy (right behind Bale Creek Allen Gallery), inaugurating its fresh digs with a knock-out show of new skull and skeleton paintings by former funeral director Mike Egan.