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Describe the Night at Austin Playhouse

Dates: 2/10/2026 - 2/22/2026

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Austin Playhouse

Austin Playhouse

405 West 22nd Street
Austin,TX 78705

Phone: 512-476-0084

Tickets: General Admission: USD 40.00, Student Admission: USD 20.00, Pick-Your-Price Thursdays: USD 24.00


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Beginning in Poland, 1920, a war correspondent befriends an officer of the Russian Red Cavalry. In 1989, a Stasi agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying Polish government officials crashes in Smolensk. Connecting seven lives over 90 years, this Obie Award-winner is a powerful and timely look at memory, misinformation, and how lies have the power to shape history in an increasingly unstable world.

 

Date and time: On  Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:30 -  Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:00



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Austin Playhouse is a professional regional theatre, founded in August of 2000. Over fifty of Austin's leading theatre artists, administrators, and volunteers who had worked with Producing Artistic Director Don Toner to build Austin’s State Theatre Company into one of the city’s leading arts organizations, joined him in creating this new professional theatre for Austin. On November 27, 2000 Austin Playhouse was granted 501(c)(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service.

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