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Shakespeare’s comedic tale of marital mismatch is given new life and modern energy in Ballet Austin’s lighthearted recreation, Stephen Mills' dynamic choreography offering a masterful embodiment of the Bard's tale of the trials of courtship, marriage, and common courtesy – reminding us that true love is seldom achieved at first sight.

Ah, here's a kinetic spectacle that you'll never forget. This is Blue Lapis Light's site-specific dance that features aerialists dancing on the parking garage windows above True Food Kitchen and on the Seaholm Power Plant stacks, along with ground-based dancers performing on the Plaza. Digital media accompanies the performance, evoking the beauty of our planet and how our actions affect the environment.

"Join Dante and Virgil on a journey through the nine rings of Hell," they tell us, "with aerialists, dancers, demons, and souls ensnared in the fear and terrible humor of this portion of the Divine Comedy." Yes, this Inferni from Fly Unfeathered combines elements of a theatrical play with circus arts and features local performers.

La Follia presents music from four of Bach’s sons, who were illustrious composers in their own right, featuring Anton Nel on fortepiano.

All rise for the return of this political satire show that's based solely on the Texas Legislature. It's "a little Saturday Night Live meets Colbert Report meets So You Think You Can Dance." The show opens with sketches that decode political headlines, behavior, and nuance into comedic relief – and ends with a legislative celebrity interview.

Join the Density512 collective members to kick off the season with this part-fundraiser, part-concert, part-community-gathering event. Musicians will serenade you with new music and improvisation amid an evening of drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and a sneak peak at the future of Density512.

Playwright Kate Hennig explores the contemporary themes of victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women as she reimagines the scandalous and little-known story of fifteen-year-old Elizabeth the First before she was Queen. Directed by Michael Cooper for the Alchemy Theatre.

This exhibition brings together the work of seven ACC Studio Art faculty members – Jill Bedgood, Jonas Criscoe, Melanie Hickerson, Brian Johnson, Haydeé Victoria Suescum, David Thornberry, and Gary Webernick – who work in a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, assemblage art, and sculpture.

This new exhibition, "Cultivating Community through Art: Sam Coronado’s Serie Project and Its Continuing Legacy," provides a fine, curated look at exactly what the title says, touching on Coronado Print Studio today, while also demonstrating the new opportunities that can be cultivated through persistence and dedication to the arts.

New art, new artists, new show – a group exhibition (more than 30 local artists) supercharges the interior of this popular South First Street venue. Bonus: This is also the debut of curator Hallie Rae Ward's own "Classical POP" show.

This is an exhibition of Les Satinover's "unapologetic" and monumental paintings that portray male figures in vast landscapes. While it may seem confrontationally nude, the artist assures us that the purpose here is to "produce an emotive sensual evocation of skin, muscle, and form with a subconscious connection to beauty as truth."

Our own sense of place informs us that this venue's out in Buda, actually. But damned if a trip to the ACCG isn't always worthwhile – especially with the bold landscapes and botanicals of painter Debbie Carroll being celebrated there.

The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"

Here's the new group show from the Austin Visual Arts Association.

This multimedia, multivalent, multifantastic exhibition features five women artists – Melissa Aguirre, Alexa Capareda, Paloma Mayorga, Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM), and Alejandra Regalado – who explore movement and place in relation to landscape, geological bodies, and other nonhuman intelligences. Using their own bodies as medium, the artists share ecofeminist sensibilities through video, installation, sculpture, photography, and performance works.

Collected and respected for her experimental approach to painting, Charlotte Smith is well established as royalty in Texas contemporary abstract art; this is an exhibition of her most recent paintings.

The photographer, humanitarian, and educator Jamel Shabazz presents a career retrospective spanning four decades of work, featuring candid portraits of women of color – as curated by Ja’nell Ajani. "At a moment when Black and Brown women are more visibly leading the charge around movements for racial and economic justice, this exhibition has materialized and aligned at a critical moment in American history and Shabazz’s career."

This new series of paintings by John Mulvany weaves together events – remembered, recounted, or directly experienced – into an allegorical narrative documenting a singular imagined event set over a 24-hour period in the desert and mountains along the border of Texas and Mexico. "When I took my first trip to Big Bend," says the artist, "the heat, the extraordinary light, the intense silence, the long blue shadows – it was the most exotic and intense landscape I had ever experienced." And now you can know that experience, too, citizen – via visions from the eyes and mind of this talented man, as rendered in meticulous pigments on paper, on canvas, on the heart of the world.

This multimedia installation by Adrian Aguilera consists of found videos exploring a single year, 1997, projected on a cone-shaped screen, along with an assemblage of playlists, light-based work, human-scale text, and print works. "Together, these pieces might function as non-explicit information retrieval systems."

ColdTowne's new brick-and-mortar place is totally open, and who knows what they'll shake this city with next? But one truth remains: ColdTowne is a designated den of gold, baby, sweet comedy gold.

The newest group show at this excellent venue features works by B. Shawn Cox, Faustinus Deraet, Garrett Middaugh, Dana Younger, Julie Davis, and Felice House.

Founded by comedians Raza Jafri and Andre Ricks, this club that operates out of Tiger Den on the Eastside is the city's only BIPOC-owned comedy venue.

The Vortex Repertory Company launches their 35th season with this world premiere by Mary Glen Fredrick, a "dark, comedic, psychological, queer, rom-com, social media thriller" that explores what it means to be authentic when everything we do is edited for public consumption. Directed by Will Detlefsen and starring Alaithia Velez, Jacqui Calloway, Erin McNellis, and Dane Parker.

This is a new exhibition by documentarian photographer Cindy Elizabeth, featuring an outdoor installation that is immersed within the museum’s native landscape. There are large-scale photographs inside the building, too, interwoven amongst Elisabet Ney's own neoclassical sculptures.

This hotbed of local performance is carrying on even more than usual, with an eclectic mix of live, mind-rocking comedy from some of Austin's best, all week long. Hey! The place is our cover story, as reported by Valerie Lopez! And, srsly, who would ever disagree with the sentiment of Monday night's Fuck This Week show? Check the website for details.

Quantum forces have conspired to entangle Austin’s Goodluckhavefun Gallery with San Antonio-based collective Motherling. The resulting phenomenon brings artists with a focus on geometric abstraction into spatial proximity, reflected up and down the I-35 corridor from their primary locale. Works from seven San Antonio artists will occupy the Austin venue for the run of the show, while works from artists from the Geometric Abstraction Group of Austin will reside in San Antonio.

Yoonmi Nam, an artist born in Seoul, South Korea, works in traditional printmaking processes such as mokuhanga (Japanese-style water-based woodblock printing) and lithography to make imagery and explores other materials – clay, glass, and paper – to make three-dimensional still lifes. Well, to be precise, to make gorgeous three-dimensional still lifes.

The walls of this popular neighborhood restaurant showcases works from three series by Juliet Whitsett.

The Austin-based author and musician displays his artwork on the walls of this popular eatery.

This show's a fundraiser for Hyde Park Theatre, written and performed by HPT's artistic director Ken Webster, and it's about Hyde Park Theatre – the highs and lows of the company's long history, the ins and the outs, the day-to-day humdrum and (until we see this show we can only imagine) the truly fucking weird. Fascinating from a local perspective, even if you've never been (how?) to HPT, and – as manifested by Webster, live onstage – well worth seeing. He's fierce, funny, obsessive, a true powerhouse of professional passion. And, yes, he was our cover story back in 2007.

Here's the continuation of, the sequel to, Matt Rebholz and Jana Swec's exhibition from September 2021, the artists vividly manifesting their personal histories into emotionally charged landscapes steeped in narrative and individual mythology.

This is a solo exhibition by Jenn Hassin – the artist’s first show of new work since completing her MFA at Columbia University. The work in "Pulp Alchemy" features military uniforms from all six branches of service, medical uniforms, children’s clothing, blue jeans, carved bone, and porcelain, meticulously transformed into beautiful, raw memorials to the survivors of trauma.

This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.

Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am.

This exhibition comprises new works by Rama Tiru and features digital, mostly surreal paintings, both full color and monochrome, with augmented reality elements added to some of the images.

This exhibition of new photographs is the gallery's first presentation of work by the Austin artist (and musician and husband and father and professor) Barry Stone. You want to see images that are beautiful and often a little eerie? You want to witness photos with backstories that can inspire something like awe? Find yourself among these "Lost Pines."

Take a trip into the 19th century with this new production of the Bard's blood-soaked tragedy from the Archive Theater. The haunting strains of Scottish-American melodies from live musicians, magic, dancing, brutal fighting, deadly passions, and the ghosts of memories breathe new life into this legendary drama. Can the Scottish play be more terrifying than when it's directed by Garrison Martt and performed at Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms? See for yourself, theatre-lover.

Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it.

Listen: "Since the closing of Spegetto Warehouse, Jonathan’s has taken the lead to become the Men’s Warehouse of restaurants. For one night only, you’ll have a chance to see and taste it for yourself." Cooked up by Elissa Ussery and Nicole Levasseur – the creators of Chuggy’s Christmas, Monchichi in Space, Hellchug, Tassy’s bedroom bar, and Poachers Bar – chef prepped by FFTwin Beth Schindler – it's a sensational attempt to bring you the terrible but familiar hometown Italian restaurant experience.

This new exhibition reveals a collection of rare, previously unseen, and vintage photographs from The Rolling Stones’ 1972 session with legendary photographer Norman Seeff. Photos from the late-night shoot were ultimately used to produce the set of postcards included with the original pressing of the band’s masterpiece, Exile on Main St.

Texas Comedies presents this murder-mystery musical comedy based on the events surrounding the "Servant Girl Annihilator" and the raising of Austin's iconic Moontowers in the 1880s. A cast of seven and a live band brings the horrific past to life – tunefully and hilariously – before your very present eyes.

Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite is a series of forty-four collages inspired by the theme of global unity. Each 24-by-18-inch work on paper consists of a background monoprint or a digital photoprint, overlaid with collage, calligraphy, and mixed media. Note: The originals are part of the permanent collection of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago; the works on display here are limited-edition prints of those originals.

Witness now the works of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878-1962), a German-American artist and teacher, the forerunner of modern impressionistic and expressionistic still life painting.

The Asian American Resource Center and Color Arc Productions present a live concert reading of Romeo and Katrina, a musical set four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans.

Explore the works of eight female artists – Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Adriana Corral, Ellie Ga, Juliana Huxtable, Tala Madani, Danielle Mckinney, Wendy Red Star, and Clare Rojas – in this new exhibition that explores how narrative and storytelling shape our senses of self, community, history, and identity.

City Theatre presents this classic Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical that celebrates the, you know, eternal power of love. Directed by Matthew Shead, with musical direction by Karl Logue and choreography by Jane Schwartz.

Bohemian Theatricals presents Jonathan Larson’s musical in which, on the brink of turning 30, a promising theatre composer navigates love, friendship, career, and the pressures to create and achieve success. Directed by Rick Roemer, with musical direction by Susan Finnigan; featuring Andrew Cannata, Tyler Jones, and Haley Smith Patterson.

Paper-folding artist Amanda Witucki of the this venue at least once.

Carol Dawson draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring the life cycles of flowers from their buds, infancies, blooms, and deaths, allowing herself to use at most three pigments in her works.

This show highlights two international graffiti masters: the French artist Blek le Rat and L.A. artist RISK.

Rachel Wolfson Smith focuses our attention on the essential and grounding effect of beauty in nature, portraying constructed, intricate, and imagined landscapes, creating "an antidote to the imbalance many of us experience as we lurch from impulse to impulse in our tech-laden, consumer-driven, modern existence." Yes – an antidote to that, and a paean to the possibilities of graphite wielded by a brilliant hand and mind.

This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.