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FUSEBOX PRESENTS

Our new chapter of Fusebox features year-round performances from some of our favorite artists in the world. Check out our new 2025/26 season below and reserve your tickets today!

  • Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch
    Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 2:00pm & 7:30 pm
  • Robin Frohardt: Shopping Center Parking Lot 
    Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 7:30pm & Sat, Mar 7 at 2:00 pm
  • Katie Bender: Instructions for a Séance
    Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 7:00pm, Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 9:00pm,
    Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 5:00pm & 9:00 pm, & Sun, Apr 19, 2026, 3 p.m.
  • Rude Mechs: Not Every Mountain

    Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 7:00pm, Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 7:00pm, & Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 3:00pm

  • Michael Sakomoto + DJ Spooky: Work in Progress
    More info soon


    Read on for more info on each show!

Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch

Emmy Award-winning Manual Cinema returns to Texas Performing Arts with another masterfully crafted, beautifully handmade production. This all-new performance blends shadow puppetry, live-action silhouettes, and original music to create a haunting reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This unique adaptation follows a young girl who is unwittingly drawn into the dark world of the three witches. As she becomes their reluctant apprentice, she grapples with a strange new power and the moral implications of her actions. Prepare to be mesmerized by stunning visuals and a haunting soundscape that bring the magic of theater to life. Come and see the Scottish play in a whole new light!

Presented in partnership with Texas Performing Arts

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Robin Frohardt: Shopping Center Parking Lot

Robin Frohardt—the visionary behind the critically acclaimed Plastic Bag Store (TPA ’22) and a 2024 Herb Alpert Award-winner—returns to Austin with a new, genre-defying live-cinema performance.

 

For 15 years, Frohardt has lived across from a Home Depot parking lot—an unremarkable view that became a source of personal and cultural reflection. Her new project, Shopping Center Parking Lot, explores the loss of identity, community, and connection to nature in a world shaped by asphalt, big-box store sprawl, and endless consumer rhythm. Through a hand-built cardboard set, live puppetry, and cinematic projection, the work reimagines the parking lot as part of the ecosystem, blurring the line between the natural and the constructed. It’s a meditation on the quiet poetry of overlooked spaces—and what they reveal about the world we’ve built.

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Katie Bender: Instructions for a Séance

Katie Bender—Harry Houdini enthusiast, mom, struggling artist—says she’s been leaving her house after the kids go to sleep… sneaking into TPA’s rehearsal studio, stealing items from the prop shop and artifacts of Houdini’s from the Harry Ransom Center. She’s attempting to contact Houdini himself.  So far, she has failed. But for one week in April 2026 she’s inviting you to try it with her.

In this unique immersive theatre, DIY experience—created and performed by writer/artist Bender—the audience is invited to summon the spirit of escape artist Harry Houdini and maybe, in the process, break free from the traps in their own lives. Instructions for a Séance is a playful yet poignant exploration of motherhood, artistic ambition, and the urge to disappear. Inspired by the Houdini archives at the Ransom Center, Séance is a 70-minute theatrical gem: compact, gleaming, and utterly unforgettable.

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Rude Mechs: Not Every Mountain

Austin’s Rude Mechs return to one of their most beguiling works. Not Every Mountain is a mellow meditation on change, permanence and our place in the natural world. It tells the story of the life cycle of mountains and the processes by which they are born and eventually laid to rest, an invocation of tectonic force and geologic time.

Using string, cardboard and magnets, the Rudes invites us to watch the collective effort of making and unmaking a series of interlocking mountain ranges. We watch minutes, or perhaps centuries, unfold, as mountains rise and fall, clouds dance, birds alight and depart, and a moon delicately hangs overhead. Not Every Mountain is a joyous and poignant meditation on the fleetingness of time and the many lives of minerals, underscored by a poetic recitation–or perhaps a spiritual incantation.

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Michael Sakomoto + DJ Spooky: Work in Progress

A unique integration of hip-hop mixology, new music, dance theater, and integrated media visuals, time/life/beauty is inspired by the music and artistry of legendary composer, musician, and activist Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952- 2023), whose long and varied career in multiple genres and media surpassed definition.This project channels the artists’ shared and distinct approaches to interdisciplinary performance, intercultural dialogue and social concerns.

Tracing Sakamoto’s creative, cultural and social concerns, the artists unpack and embody the nuanced connectivity among languages and forms of expression, environment, science and culture. How do shared languages form between creators and communities? How do individual and collective human behaviors influence ecologies small and large? What is the relationship between community, place and the larger environment over time?

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Fusebox x TPA Partnership

Anchoring our new Fusebox Presents series is a new partnership between Fusebox and Texas Performing Arts that includes the presentation of multiple bold projects throughout the year.

“This extraordinary partnership marks the beginning of a new chapter for Fusebox, building upon our 20-year history of sharing unique live performances. In the past this has primarily happened through our festival in April. But as Austin continues to grow, it has become apparent that Fusebox needs to grow as well. This collaboration allows us to share more remarkable artists with thousands of more people throughout the year, and TPA is the perfect partner.”  -Ron Berry, Executive & Co-Artistic Director of Fusebox
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The partnership features vivid live performances that span music, theatre, dance, and film—reflecting the boundary-less, unique experiences Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox have created through past collaborations such as Robin Frohardt’s critically acclaimed The Plastic Bag Store (2021).

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