Texas Performing Arts Unveils Diverse 2025-2026 Season

Texas Performing Arts, the city’s largest arts company, is renowned for hosting touring Broadway musicals, but its upcoming 2025-2026 season showcases a diverse array of global performances. The program, in collaboration with local partners like Fusebox and the Austin Chamber Music Center, will feature events across seven venues. Highlights include:

Music you never heard

• Nov. 2: Carrie Rodriguez's "Laboratorio Old-Time Radio Hour Edition" featuring Gaby Moreno & Mireya Ramos with radio hosts Laurie Gallardo & Alex Marrero, McCullough Theatre. https://texasperformingarts.org/
• Nov. 7: Miró Quartet and Isidore String Quartet: "Mendelssohn’s Octet at 200: A Legacy in Sound," Bates Recital Hall.
• Nov. 15: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Memorial Auditorium.
• Jan. 24: Carrie Rodriguez's "Laboratorio El Gato Negro Edition" featuring Ruben Ramos & Friends, McCullough Theatre.
• Jan. 31: Jason Moran: "Duke Ellington: My Heart Sings," Bates Recital Hall.
• Feb. 27: Mnozil Brass: "Strau$$," Bates Recital Hall.
• Feb. 27-28: Balourdet Quartet, presented with Austin Chamber Music Center, KMFA’s Draylen Mason Studio and First Unitarian Church.
• April 4: "An Evening with Lang Lang," Bass Concert Hall.
• May 2: Rhiannon Giddens, Bass Concert Hall.

Dance you’ve never seen (or not often enough)

• Jan. 17: Mark Morris Dance Group, "The Look of Love: An Evening of Dance to the Music of Burt Bacharach," Bass Concert Hall.
• March 3: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bass Concert Hall.

Enter theater and mixed performing arts

• Nov. 5: "Stuntboy, In the Meantime," Bass Concert Hall.
• Nov. 15: Manual Cinema, "The 4th Witch," presented with Fusebox, McCullough Theatre.
• Feb. 24: Cirque Mechanics, "Tilt! A Circus Thrill Ride," Bass Concert Hall.
• March 6-7: Robin Frohardt, "Shopping Center Parking Lot," presented with Fusebox, McCullough Theatre.
• April 16-19: Katie Bender, "Instructions for a Séance," presented with Fusebox, UT Rehearsal Room.
• April 17-19: Rude Mechs: "Not Every Mountain," presented with Fusebox, B. Iden Payne Theatre.