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Identical twins and collaborative performers Tegan and Sara will be at Bass Concert Hall on Friday, February 26, 2010. They'll be supporting their latest album, Sainthood, on-sale October 27. Tickets are on sale Friday, October 16 at 10 a.m. through UTPAC. We know the show is a ways off, but we're offering a chance to win tickets early, so mark your calendar and enter to win:

If there's a musical genre that Elvis Costello has missed over the past 30 years, hold on a year or two and he'll probably record an album to cover the omission. The eclectic nature of Costello's prolific catalog began all the way back in 1981 with Almost Blue, a collection of country covers that featured Hank Williams and Gram Parsons tunes. Since then, he's often veered away from his main job as a rock singer-songwriter to tackle chamber pop (1982's Imperial Bedroom), roots rock (1986's amazing King Of America), classical (1993's The Juliet Letters), easy listening (1998's Burt Bacharach collaboration Painted From Memory), torch songs (2003's North), and even opera (2004's Il Sogno). In recent years, he's done collaboration albums with both New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint and indie-pop darlings Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice. Confused yet?

The first thing you need to know about Wicked is that you should go see it. It’s fabulous. Before we drill down into the fabulousness, the second thing you need to know is that seats are very hard to come by, as shows are either sold out or only have scattered single seats available. The third thing to know—and this is important—is that each night, 2 hours before curtain, there is a lottery held to sell a limited number of tickets for the totally excellent price of $25. To qualify, show up 2.5 hours beforehand, get your name on the list, wait thirty minutes, and if they call you, have i.d. ready and you can get two tickets. This is a very worthwhile effort, trust us. Now, about the show. In 1900, L. Frank Baum’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, introducing Dorothy and the Land of Oz and all that. Two years later, the book was produced as a play. Thirty-seven years after that the movie version, The Wizard of Oz, came out and remains one of the best loved films of all time.

The cast of Annie, which played last weekend at Bass Concert Hall had the proverbial big shoes to fill. For the most part they succeeded admirably and the overall performance experience was one not to forget.

This weekend, June 5-7 at 8pm, Annie appears at the Bass Concert Hall. Part of the Broadway Across America series, this is the 30th anniversary tour of a production that took home the Tony for Best Musical in 1977 and earned a nomination for Revival in 1997.

Waiter, waiter, there’s HAIR in my musical! It certainly seems that way with RENT, the smash hit Broadway musical currently playing at the Bass Concert Hall. And the plot/musical numbers aren’t just reminiscent, at times, of that other musical, HAIR. The audience will get whiffs of other shows, too. But above all, the plot derives (purposefully) from Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème, right down to the same-named female protagonists— Mimi— who, in both the original opera and the Broadway show, are both overly flirtatious and terminally ill. But one needn’t be familiar with the opera to enjoy its updated version. RENT is packed with some outstanding moments and more than a few excellent songs. Basically, what we have is a group of young, fucked up, starving artist types squatting in NYC’s East Village, trying to figure out life and love and, like, you know, The Meaning of It All. Is this a tired premise? Certainly not for fans of literary archetypes—the old man vs. man, man vs. himself, man vs. nature (or the concrete jungle in this instance). Mark (Anthony Rapp) is our narrator, a documentary filmmaker hounded by his answering machine, which fills up with nagging messages from, among others, his Jewish mother and a TV producer wanting him to make a soul-selling deal-with-the-devil. His roommate, Roger (Adam Pascal), is HIV positive, rendered more or less agoraphobic until Mimi (Lexi Lawson) the junkie-stripper with AIDs hurls herself at him and mad love ensues.

UTPAC has just announced a September 1 performance at Bass Concert Hall featuring Elvis Costello & the Sugarcanes. The all-acoustic band will be supporting the release of Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane, out on June 2. Tickets go on sale May 18 at 10 a.m. For more info, click here.

Fifteen years after the quintessential 90s musical made its debut at the New York Theatre Workshop and over a decade since it won the Pulitzer and big stack of Tony Awards for its portrayal of artistic types living in America at the end of the millennium, Rent is coming to Bass Concert Hall, thanks to Broadway Across America. Originally conceived as a way to "bring Musical theater to the MTV generation", Rent exists as both a product of and a comment on the decade in which it's set.

Avenue Q, the musical unleashed off-Broadway in 2003, is a send-up of Sesame Street, but everybody knows that by now, don’t they? Instead of mirroring the overly cheerful dispositions of the muppets that inspired their creation though, these puppets and the human characters they live with on a rundown street in New York are less concerned with exploring themes like counting and cooperation and more into examining why their lives suck. It’s a tale of coming of age and plain old coming, the latter occurring during a hilarious night of wild puppet sex prompted by the foreplay of drunken revelry. The show has enough of a buzz about it, even after all these years, to run the risk of…not exactly disappointing an expectant audience, but having to stretch pretty far to clear the bar. What with all the billboards around town promising puppet nudity and adult themes, you might arrive anticipating some NC-17 action. Nah. Sure there are plenty of funny bits about racism, homosexuality, Internet porn and schadenfreude, but overall the book is tame enough.

Season subscriptions are now available for the newly-announced 2009-2010 Broadway Across America series, which locally is held at Bass Concert Hall. The season, which starts in October, includes Spring Awakening, The Color Purple, Fiddler on the Roof, In the Heights, and A Chorus Line. Individual tickets will be made available about two months before each production. [Broadway Across America]

I grew up in a very large, very Catholic family, pre-pedophilic priest scandal, back when members of the faith did not question what they were told, and really embraced that whole sheep thing. At least my father did. He was a convert—they say these are the worst—and he marched us up to the front pew of our little parish church, where I’m sure the congregation seated behind us had a field day counting our heads (ELEVEN!) in astonishment. Besides being reminded regularly that God was punishing us for this or that—for instance, let’s say I punched my brother and then turned around a stubbed my toe, that would be God punishing me—we were also regularly reminded that we were going to hell. Very relaxing childhood, I’m telling yo

Anticipation was in the coldish air as legions of students, faculty, patrons of the arts and everyone else queued up outside the beautifully revamped Bass Concert Hall, which opened just last month to the public at large. The reason? Not George Lopez or Gordon Lightfoot (who will visit in April and March, respectively), but a performance by Philip Glass, a minimalist, trailblazing composer who was performing his homage to the poetry of Leonard Cohen.

The Canadian supernova commonly referred to as Broken Social Scene shook the walls at the newly-renovated Bass Concert Hall Saturday night, reveling in their first performance in the "new America."

John and Paul. Mick and Keith. Roger and Pete. None of those famous duos are actually coming to Austin this spring, but you want to know who are turning up? Bret and Jemaine, aka Hip-Hopopotamus and Rhymenoceros, aka winner of the fake 2008 Grammys for best New Zealand act and best manager and the actual 2008 Grammy for Best Comedy Album. They're also in some show on HBO. Flight Of The Conchords will play the Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas on May 7th for all the ladies of the world (and anyone else who'd like to purchase a ticket.)

The UT Performing Arts Center’s Bass Concert Hall is back in business after undergoing renovations over the last year and a half. BCH hosted John Legend last Friday and is home to two stellar events this weekend. On Saturday, Broken Social Scene brings its mesmerizing compositions to the remodeled venue but not before a very special evening entitled World of Sound this Friday.

Those who've seen Broken Social Scene before may possibly recall that they are really durn good on stage. There are a whole bunch of them, they've all got talent, and as a strikingly peculiar bonus, they really seem to enjoy playing music with one another. And while the cascading guitars and sheer magnitude of their multi-instrumental assault may at times careen towards chaos, it always safely returns to the confectionary bliss of pure 21st century popism.

You know that a leader can inspire the world when he can demolish Morrissey's misery by turning up. So on a day filled with hope and enthusiasm, we bring you some (suddenly less) mopey news: legendary solo artist and former Smiths frontman Steven Patrick Morrissey is returning to Austin on April 12. The show takes place at the new and improved Bass Concert Hall on The University of Texas campus less than two years after Mozzer's last Austin gig at (former large venue) The Backyard in 2007.

Last May, the University of Texas Performing Arts Center undertook a major renovation project with Bass Hall. The venue, originally finished in 1981, sat about 2,800 and held a 100 member orchestra, but the $14 million Ponce de Leon-inspired upgrade and facelift has given the hall a new lease on life.

Morrissey has landed on Nashville-based (mostly Americana, Universal-owned) label Lost Highway, and has announced a massive 2009 tour schedule. The Moz will be in Austin on April 12 at Bass Concert Hall. Nothing is posted there yet, but you can email or call (512.471.1444 or 1.800.687.6010) the ticket office for more info.

Canada's Broken Social Scene music collective is making a stop in Austin at the Bass Concert Hall on January 31, 2009.

Photos from The University of Texas Performing Arts Center's renovation of Bass Concert Hall. Photos by Lauren Perdue. If you can't view the Flash slideshow above, an alternate version appears after the jump....

This morning, the long-awaited remodeling of Bass Concert Hall -- the main performance center on UT campus, located between the LBJ Library and Royal-Memorial Football Stadium -- began in earnest. The renovations will cost a total of approximately $15 million and will include upgrades in fire code compliance, improvements in sound and lighting systems, restaurants, a rooftop lounge, a donor lounge, as well as additional exhibition spaces. It will also include a new glass-front...

THURSDAY [10] music • Learning Secrets with Ramesh (Voxtrot), Ben Craven + Co at Whisky Bar music • Rock of Ages Cover Show with Preserve the Sound (50s), Consider the Source (60s), Seaflea (70s), Promisebreakers (80s), Say Hello to the Angels (90s) at Emo's music • The Postmarks, Shuttle Debris, Raleign at Stubb's music • Future Clouds & Radar at Waterloo Records (5pm, Free) music • Moonhangers, Love Gone Cold, Salvia Family Band, Shot Gun...

Damien Rice will perform tonight at Bass Concert Hall in support of his most recent work, 9, an album wrought with angst, anger and (not surprisingly) sexual frustration. Last year, we reviewed the album and were pleased with Rice for not letting the follow up to a brilliant work (his previous full-length, O) suffer the slump: Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice has carried quite a weight the past four years. Ever since his debut release,...

WEDNESDAY [9] books • Amy Guth presents Three Fallen Women at BookWoman (7:00pm) comedy • Jimmie Roulette at Cap City Comedy Club film • Texas Doc Tour: "Ten Under Ten 2007" at Alamo Downtown film • "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Golden Ticket Giveaway at Alamo Downtown film • Weird Wednesdays: "Cop Killers" at Alamo Downtown food • Angel Valley Organic Farm Farmstand at Asian American Cultural Center, 11713 Jollyville Road (10am-2pm) food...

Filmmaking legend Francis Ford Coppola needs little introduction, but it can be daunting to keep track of everything that this prolific director, producer, screenwriter, and (yes) winemaker has been responsible for. For instance, we'd completely forgotten that he directed the amazing 1986 3-D space opera, Captain EO (see below). Youth Without Youth, his first directorial effort in over a decade, is set to be released later this year. The romantic thriller is set in...

FRIDAY [27] music • While You Were Out, presented by Bueno Music Bureau, with The Unbearables, She Sir, The Scripts, Friday After Dark at Club de Ville ($5) books • Anita Gonzalez, Ph.D., presents Dancing Between Myth and Reality at CAAAS (UT - Jester A232) (3:00pm) comedy • Tig Notaro and Steve Burr at Cap City Comedy Club comedy • Punchline, open mic stand up comedy at ColdTowne Theater (10pm) dance • Fetish and Other...

WEDNESDAY [25] comedy • Tig Notaro and Steve Burr at Cap City Comedy Club books • BookPeople's First Annual Spelling Bee at BookPeople (7:00pm, 13 and under) books • Jacqueline Taylor presents Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom at BookWoman (7:00pm) dance • Fetish and Other Dances, part of Refraction Arts' Fuse Box Festival at The Off Center (8pm) film • "The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico" at Alamo...

In Austin, all the malt shops, arcades, bowling allies, drive-ins and wherever else the hip kids hang out these days will be empty May 13th. Instead, they’ll all be gathered at Bass Concert Hall with their hearts in hand ready to give them freely to Bright Eyes indie folk heartthrob Conor Oberst. He’s now become a coveted American musical icon, and thanks in part to the media, we have watched him mature through breakups...