Austin's Guide to Arts, Culture & EntertainmentTuesday Mar 16, 2010Austin Weather

Welcome to AusTIX

Welcome to AusTIX, featuring FULL-PRICE AND DISCOUNT TICKET OFFERS to arts and entertainment events. AusTIX is a service of the Greater Austin Creative Alliance, a nonprofit service organization working to build awareness, participation and support for arts, culture, and creativity throughout Austin and Central Texas.

100% of all ticket prices below go to our show's producers!
Added service charges cover costs as follows:

  • A $4.50/ticket service charge is added to tickets with a full price value of $20 or less:
    ($1.25/ticket for Tix.com online service + $2.25/ticket for bank processing fees + 1.00/ticket for Austix) 
  • Add $1.00 more for tickets originally costing between $20.01 and $30.00.
  • Add $2.00 more for tickets orignally costing $30.01 and higher.

You Can Order By Phone Too! Call AusTIX @ 512-474-8497 Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-5PM.

A Raisin in the Sun


The City Theatre Company

Called “a milestone in the American theatre,” this intensely affecting drama chronicles how a financial windfall touches the lives of an African-American family living in Chicago in the late 50s. A simple desire for a home of their own becomes the touchstone of their integrity. Their story is built on sacrifice, heartbreak, trust, love and the heroic struggle to hold their world together. Don’t miss this vital and hopeful portrait of one family’s search for the American dream.

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price = $20
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $10

Location & Parking

The City Theater
3823 Airport Blvd
Austin TX 78722

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

February 25th-March 21st
Thurs & Fri 8PM
Sun 5:30PM

A Little Night Music


Georgetown Palace Theatre

One of Broadway’s most neglected masterpieces, the romantic and achingly beautiful A Little Night Music deals with the universal subject of love, in all its wondrous, humorous and ironic forms. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, middle-aged Fredrik Egerman brings his 18-year-old bride Anne to a play starring his former mistress, Desirée Armfeldt. Soon, Fredrik and Desirée resume their romance, incurring the wrath of her current lover, a pompous Count. The situation culminates in a weekend at a country estate, with Fredrik, Anne, Desirée and the Count in attendance, as well as Fredrik’s son (who is hopelessly in love with Anne), Desirée’s illegitimate daughter, the Count’s manic-depressive wife and the Egerman’s lusty maid. And there, under the summer night, things are set right.

Ticket Price(s)

 Regular Price =$22
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price =$12

Location & Parking

Georgetown Palace Theater
810 South Austin Avenue
Georgetown, TX 78627

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 12th-14th
Fri & Sat 7:30PM
Sun 2PM

A Midsummer Night's Dream


TEXARTS

The TexARTS "Great Shakes" teen classical theater troupe under the direction of founder & former professional classical actor Todd Dellinger, brings you one of Shakespeare's most beloved and enjoyed romantic comedies April 10 & 11. On the heels of last years' hugely successful "Much Ado About Nothing" the TexARTS troupe breathes an exciting vitality and vigorous contemporary whimsy to this tried and true classic. From forlorn lovers to firey fairies of the wood, this classic is retold by TexARTS' talented teens in a tangible and timely way. Gentles, come enjoy the fantastical realm of Titania, Oberon, Bottom, Puck and friends as they spin a dreamlike world of mischief and merriment.

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$10

Location & Parking

TEXARTS Keller Williams Studios
2300 Lohman's Spur
Austin, TX 78734

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

April 10th & 11th
Sat 3PM & 7PM
Sun 2PM & 6PM

Esther's Follies


Esther's Pool

For more than a quarter century, the folks at Esther's Pool have kept Austin rolling with laughter. Part magic show, part vaudeville review, part comedy tour-de-force, Esther's Follies takes no prisoners, offering biting, hilarious satire on all the news makers and events fit to parody.

   

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price = $20 General Admission Tickets
$25 Reserved Seating Tickets
$18 Military w/ID
$18 Senior 65+ w/ID

Location & Parking

Esther's Pool
525 East 6th Street
Austin TX 78701

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

Thursday 8PM
Friday and Saturday 8PM&10PM

**Now offering $10 HotTIX to Thurs 8PM & Fri 10PM  Shows!!!**

floodlines 2010


floodlines by Jaclyn Pryor

What does memory look and feel like? Conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, floodlines transforms the North University and Hyde Park neighborhoods into dreamscapes of beauty and loss. The audience travels by car through the streets while witnessing staged vignettes en route. As performers appear, disappear, and reappear again, the audience is asked to consider the relationship between history and memory, seeing and feeling, experience and loss. floodlines has been performed once each spring since 2004. The performance on April 11, 2010 marks the final of seven performances and the end of the seven year cycle.

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$30

Location & Parking

Eastwoods Park
3001 Harris Park Avenue
Austin, TX 78705

For persons with disabilities, if you need any special accommodations, please notify Ann Graham, Production Manager, at annsgraham@gmail.com after completing your ticket purchase so we can try to arrange appropriate accommodations. Thank you

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

April 11th, 2010
2PM

**floodlines 2010 is the final of seven performances and the end of the seven year cycle. There are only 36 seats available in the entire performance. Tickets will go on sale March 8th 2010 at 8 AM. Tickets are $30 with a service fee. Tickets are now SOLD OUT. We will create a waiting list to insure that every seat is used and as many audience members are accommodated as possible. Please call 512.474.8497 to be added to the list. You will be contacted by Ann Graham, Production Manager regarding your position on the waiting list.

How the Other Half Loves


The City Theatre Co.

Alan Ayckbourn’s ingenious comedy about three married couples trying to cover-up their adulterous love affairs which result in a hilarious comedy of errors as all get tangled up in lies and misunderstandings, culminating in a dinner party where laughter is the main course. Come find out how the other half lives…and loves.

 



Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$20
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $10

Location & Parking

City Theater
3823 Airport Boulevard
Austin, TX 78722

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 25th-April 18th
Thurs & Fri 8PM
Sun 5:30PM

 

Insomnia

Crank Collective

Insomnia: A satirical musical comedy on hard work, money and pharmaceuticals. “Insomnia Patch activates the body’s own “alert centers,” creating a sense of well-being, enhancing productivity, and ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR SLEEP.” Another light musical comedy from Crank Collective, who produced last year’s H1N1-themed “Epidemic of Fear, The Influenzical.”

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$15
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price =$12

Location & Parking

The Hideout
617 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 26th-April 10th
Fri & Sat
8 PM

 

Keeping Track


Teatro Vivo

Teatro Vivo, Austin's premier Latino theatre company, invites you to the Austin opening of a new Latino comedy entitled, Keeping Track,written by Erica Saenz. This lighthearted comedy is set in a modern day Latino family, who try to solve their problemas con la familia using new hi tech surveillance devices. ¡Ay yi yi! Live-in mother-in-laws, newborn babies, hovering single friends, microchips and monitors all come to balance on the fine line between staying in touch con la familia and just being nosy.

 

  

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$16
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $8

Location & Parking

Salvage Vanguard Theatre
2803 Manor Road
Austin, TX 78722

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

April 8th-25th
Thurs-Sun 8PM

 

Lady Bird, Pat & Betty: Tea for Three


The Long Center for the Performing Arts

Emmy Award-winning actress Elaine Bromka reveals a gallery of intimate portraits of three remarkable, radically different First Ladies—Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford. We discover each at a threshold moment in her life, and learn the personal cost of what Pat Nixon called “the hardest unpaid job in the world.”

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$38
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price =$21

Location & Parking

The Long Center: Michael and Susan Dell Hall
701 W. Riverside Drive
Austin, TX 78704

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 9th-11th, 2010
7:30PM

 

Magician Matias


Vortex Repertory Co.

International Magician, Matias of Chile, will have you on the edge of your seat with his suspenseful and interactive Magic & Comedy Show. This spectacular event creates a magical atmosphere of wonder and mystery, where fantasy becomes reality. Experience the Impossible and Let It Amaze You! Benefit Performance for the Victims of the Earthquake in Chile will be held, Saturday, March 13th, 2010 at 10:00pm. Matias is a Professional Magician from Chile. He has been performing in Chile and Argentina for the past 10 years. Matias inherited a library of magic books from his Uncle, Magician, Jorge Barriga (1960-2002), as well as the natural talent to deceive and amaze audiences with magic. After meeting Sebastián Sáa, Matias was invited into the Magic Circle of Chile. Matias now brings his talents to international audiences, next stop, Austin, TX.


Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$25-$30
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $10

Location & Parking

The Vortex
2307 Manor Rd
Austin TX 78722

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 11th-13th
10PM

 

She Loves Me


TEXARTS

She Loves Me is one of America’s most charming and heartwarming musicals with book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. “She Loves Me,” inspired the hit Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan film “You’ve Got Mail,” and inspired by the Jimmy Stewart film The Shop around the Corner and the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version In the Good Old Summertime. The plot revolves around Budapest shop employees Georg Nowack and Amalia Balash who, despite being consistently at odds with each other at work, are unaware that each is the other's secret pen pal met through lonely-hearts ads. The original Broadway production played in 1963, and the show enjoyed a West End production and award-winning revivals on each side of the Atlantic in the 1990s.

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$30-$56

Location & Parking

TEXARTS Kam and James Morris Theater
2300 Lohman's Spur
Austin, TX 78734

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

April 23rd-May 9th
Fri & Sat 7:30PM
Sundays 2PM


 

Sleeping Beauty


Vortex Repertory Co.

VORTEX Repertory Company proudly presents Sleeping Beauty, a magical new musical by Bonnie Cullum and Content Love Knowles. Loosely based on the Grimm Brothers’ faery tale, this dynamic production joins the musical theatre cannon with a feminist, revisionist, re-telling of a well-beloved faery tale. While this production is not designed for children (scary faeries), we welcome audiences of all ages (PG-13 with no nudity or foul language). This is not your mama’s faery tale.

Ticket Price(s)

Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $10

Location & Parking

The Vortex
2307 Manor Road
Austin TX 78722

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

April 2nd-May 2nd
8PM

Soaring


Ballet East Dance Co.

2010 Spring Production- Soaring: All new works by choreographers: Gina Patterson, Eric Midgley, Danny Herman, Amberlee Cantrell, Elizabeth Palmer, Sheila Cruz and Ballet East Dance Company

 

 

 

 

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$12
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $8

Location & Parking

Dougherty Arts Ctr.
1110 Barton Springs Road
Austin TX 78704

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

April 8-March 11
Thurs-Sat 8PM
Sun 2PM

The Carpetbagger's Children


Different Stages

In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the tale of their family and an era. Their father, the eponymous carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post as county treasurer and tax collector to amass a Texas plantation of twenty thousand acres. Preserving that plantation through the vicissitudes of their lives becomes a central issue for his daughters. It's all about family secrets, tribal memories, sibling rivalry, and how change stalks our lives.

 


Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price = Pick Your Price!
$15, $20, $25, $30
**Seating will determined by pricing priority**
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $10

Location & Parking

Austin Playhouse
3601 South Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78704

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 19th-April 10th
Th-Sat 8PM
Sun 2 PM

 

The Taming of the Shrew


Austin Shakespeare

In Shakespeare's time, only men were allowed on stage. Now, we will turn the tables. In this classic comedy, Austin's finest actresses will take the stage in this replica of an Elizabethan Theater: Richard Garriot's Curtain Theatre. Join us in this beautiful setting amid a pecan grove on the shores of Lake Austin off City Park Rd., near Rts 2222 and 360.

 

 

 

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$23.50
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $12.50

Location & Parking

The Curtain Theater
7400 Coldwater Canyon
Austin, TX 78730

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 25th,26th,27th
8PM

The Glass Menagerie


TEXARTS

The Glass Menagerie is one of America’s great plays, written by Tennessee Williams and performed as part of TexARTS’ professional Off-Broadway Series. The rather auto-biographical play was originally written for MGM and premiered in Chicago in 1944 and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945. The Glass Menagerie was Williams's first successful play; he went on to become one of America's most highly regarded playwrights. Williams (whose real name is Thomas) is largely reflected in the main narrator character of Tom, who recounts his life with and escape from his Mother, Amanda, and his sickly and (supposedly) mentally ill sister Rose would be Laura (whose nickname in the play is "Blue Roses", a result of an unfortunate bout of Pleurosis as a high school student). This union production integrates some of the region’s finest talent and brings one of our greatest American plays and playwrights to life with depth and quality.

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price =$30-$56 **Please Note: Cocktail seating for this performance will not be at tables in the theater, but will include a complimentary reception before the performance and during intermission.**

Location & Parking

TEXARTS Kam and James Morris Theater
2300 Lohman's Spur
Austin, TX 78734

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

February 26th-March 14th
Fri & Sat 7:30PM
Sun 2PM 

The Flaming Idiots


The ZACH

Just when you thought The Flaming Idiots days of jugglin', jokin', throwin', swallowin', leapin' and conquerin' Broadway were over, Austin brings them back! The Flaming Idiots are returning to ZACH's stage for the sort of theatre circus hilarity that brought them to international acclaim and got them kicked out of Williamson County. Prepare to be amazed as you watch their signature spectacle come to the stage with a bound-for-Broadway reunion act that is far more outrageous than you ever thought theatre could be

 

Ticket Price(s)

Regular Price = $25 - $40
Your AusTIX HotTIX Price =$19-$23

Location & Parking

Zach Scott Kleberg Stage
1421 W. Riverside Dr.
Austin TX 78704

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

January 28th-March 28th
Currently Selling:
March 12th-14th Shows

Xephyra


Vortex Repertory Co.

Award-winning artists Chad Salvata and Jo Beth Henderson have created the newest ethos adventure, Xephyra, an alternative world music and video mythos. This non-traditional performance is presented with video images and live music. The extraordinary vocals are performed in an imaginary language of a mythic tribal island world. Xephyra, a warrior of the Blue Orchid tribe, journeys on her quest to find her husband, Warrior, who has not returned from the Island Wars. Along the way, she is joined by Terra, a sea siren. They are hunted by monster birds, battle shark mermaids, and slay the kaleidoscope octopus. Will they find Warrior and return safely home?

Ticket Price(s)

Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $10  
 

Location & Parking

The Vortex
2307 Manor Road
Austin, TX 78722

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

February 26th-March 14th
8pm
March 12—Performance free with SxSW Interactive Badge
**2 for 1 Admission to Xephyra with donation of non-perishable item to SafePlace**

 

Zero Libertad

Vortex Repertory Co.

Alana Macias, Heather Barfield, and Texas Performance Labs are proud to present Zero Libertad, an experimental, multi-media performance piece that simulates Zero Libertad’s (played by Alana Macias) experience in the Contra War of Nicaragua by creating a liminal space between the living and the dead, by use of music, film, visual art, and theatre, high and low culture, pain and pleasure. Zero Libertad combines electronic beats, found sound, film treated with animation techniques, a live 60’s style girl group, gestural language, and the explosion of cultural intersection from 1980’s & 90’s Miami to create a glamorous guerilla-pop spectacle. This explosive piece aims to overwhelm audiences from all sides. Zero Libertad wants you but she may kill you instead.

Ticket Price(s)

Your AusTIX HotTIX Price = $10

Location & Parking

The Vortex
2307 Manor Rd.
Austin TX 78722

Offer Date(s) & Time(s)

March 20-March 28, 2010
8PM