Living tale of jazz Wynton Marsalis, simply among the era-defining and extreme musicians included in the schedule for Texas Doing Arts’ 2025-26 period ( Picture by Frank Stewart)
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The 9 muses of Greek folklore, the sirens that motivate the innovative arts, are once more sending their acolytes to elegance the several phases supervised by Texas Doing Arts, as the company launches its 2025-26 period schedule.
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Introducing a lineup of musicians that cover songs, theater, dancing, puppetry, circus, and a lot more, from phases as grand as the Bass Music Hall to as intimate as the TPA Wedding Rehearsal Space, TPA Exec & & Artistic Supervisor Bob Bursey called the period “a party of transformative efficiency. … We are honored to existing musicians that are difficult conventions, redefining styles, and supplying strong, important viewpoints via songs, theater, dancing, and multidisciplinary efficiency. Each job welcomes target markets right into effective, immersive experiences that mirror the globe in fresh and purposeful means. We’re specifically delighted to promote and assist establish ingenious initial jobs– sustaining trailblazing modern musicians as they bring originalities to life on phase.”.
Music
Carrie Rodriguez holds her program, Laborotorio, not as soon as yet two times in the brand-new period at Texas Doing Arts ( Picture by Rachel Parker)
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Like all her brother or sisters, Polyhymnia was a muse of several elements and passions, yet her abilities in unsupported claims and consistency motivate both nights of Carrie Rodriguez’s Laboratorio in the coming period. Her event of Latine society via track and narration combines Gaby Moreno and Mireya Ramos for an Old-Time Radio Hour Edition (Nov. 2) with not-so-old-timey radio hosts Laurie Gallardo and Alex Marrero. Successive in her quarterly residency, the El Gato Edition (Jan. 24, 2026) provides Ruben Ramos & & Buddies for a stimulating go through the Tejano celebrity’s comprehensive collection.
Euterpe was experienced in several music types yet was typically illustrated bring a violin. Nonetheless, there’ll be lots of stringed tools to walk around as the Miró Quartet and Isidore String Quartet collaborated in sweetest consistency for Mendelssohn’s Octet at 200: A Heritage in Noise (Nov. 7), commemorating the bicentennial of the bright wizard’ Octet in E-Flat Minor, made up when he was just 16.
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Jazz constantly discovers an inviting home at TPA, and this period is no exemption in inviting modern-day greats. Wynton Marsalis fronts probably the country’s best set, Jazz at Lincoln Facility Band (Nov. 15), prior to Texas indigenous Jason Moran admires a piano terrific to note his 125th birthday celebration with Duke Ellington: My Heart Sings (Jan. 21, 2026). And while jazz isn’t the only point they do, there’s certain swing to the funny blend designings of Vienna’s Mnozil Brass with their program Strau$$ (Feb. 27. 2026), a sidesplitting occasion that owes as much to Monty Python as it does to the jobs of the meister of the waltz.
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Obviously, the factor there are many muses is to enable a lot ideas of many musicians, as shared by a stuffed schedule that consists of the Balourdet Quartet (Feb. 27-28, 2026), pianist Lang Lang (April 4, 2026), and multi-instrumentalist and two-time Grammy and Pulitzer victor Rhiannon Giddens (May 2, 2026), that summons Clio, the muse of memory, as she passes through American music background as an understanding right into the country’s spirit.
Theatre
(Delegated right) Payton Tabb, Markia Nicole Smith, Jackson Kanawha Perry, Manny Houston, and Kolter Erickson in Stuntboy, in the Meantime ( Picture by Jeremy Daniel)
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Melpomene, the muse of catastrophe, and Thalia, the guardian of funny, stride the phase in a period abundant in range. Nonetheless, it’s Melpomene that influences the puppetry of Manual Cinema with The fourth Witch (Nov. 15), an extreme reinvention of Macbeth with darkness creatures, live-action shapes, and a lot more. At the same time, puppetry is simply among the abilities used by Natural herb Alpert Award-winner Robin Frohardt, that goes back to TPA after her success in Austin in 2022 with Plastic Bag Store with her latest program Shopping Facility Parking Lot (March 6-8, 2026), constructing a cardboard globe motivated by the 15 years she invested living throughout the roadway from a Home Depot car park.
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Some claim that theater is a means to discover that which is larger than ourselves, and what is the astrology of Urania apart from a means to get to the celebrities? That’s precisely the terrific elevations in the direction of the acrobats of Cirque Mechanics are intending with their ingenious program that blends high flying, wonderous gadgets, and a dashboard of related activity oil and radiance. Likewise, Not Every Mountain (April 17– 19, 2026) enables Austin’s staged leaders and trendsetters Rude Mechs to have fun with a larger range in this transmedia event of the eons-long lives of hills, blending impressive theatricalism with poetic recitals that would certainly make the muse Erato proud.
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For those darker hearts amongst you, Katie Bender probes the shroud in between globes with Instructions for a Séance (April 16-19, 2026), a speculative and interactive job motivated by the Harry Ransom money Facility’s archive of Harry Houdini.
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The muses of dramatization are signed up with by the literary passion of their sibling, Calliope, with an adjustment of Stuntboy, in the Meantime (Might 5, 2026), the comic by Jason Reynolds and Raúl the Third’s concerning a young kid encountering his moms and dad’s separation via locating his very own internal superhero.
Dance
Entertainers of the Mark Morris Dancing Team in The Look of Love: A Night of Dancing to the Songs of Burt Bacharach ( Picture by Julieta Cervantes)
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Terpsichore takes control of the phase for 2 of America’s essential dancing performers with acquainted jobs reconfigured. Initially, the Mark Morris Dancing Group jumps right into the songbook of among the terrific authors with The Appearance of Love: A Night of Dancing to the Songs of Burt Bacharach (Jan. 17, 2026), ready to brand-new setups by jazz pianist Ethan Iverson carried out cope with vocals by Broadway celebrity Marcy Harriell (In the Heights, Rent). Lastly, acquainted close friends of the TPA, the Alvin Ailey American Dancing Theater (March 3, 2026), bring 4 of the Texas-born choreographer’s best jobs to Austin, including his trademark job, Revelations.
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Tickets for are readily available currently for TPA Iron Circle participants, and take place sale to the public at 10am on Friday, June 13, at texasperformingarts.org.
