June 10 through August 8, 2021. The weekly socially distanced outdoor concerts will feature four concerts over eight weekends running Thursdays through Sundays. Tickets on sale Thursday, April 29 at noon.
Employing the same health and safety guidelines as the Spring concerts, ZACH Theatre is ready to welcome patrons on campus throughout the summer. Although socially distanced pod seating looks different than a traditional show at ZACH, the “Songs Under the Stars” concert series brings the joy of live performance back to the People’s Plaza with esteemed performers and an outdoor bar all under the stars while surrounded by the Austin skyline.
Opening the series for the first two weeks,
More musical healing is in order.
You will not find a more intense hour of invigorating and soothing curative than Gospel Down by the Riverside, delivered by four top-shelf singers as part of Zach Theatre s Songs Under the Stars series through April 11.
In October, Zach introduced the salutary outdoor series staged at its People s Plaza with a socially distanced concert of Broadway show tunes sung by local stars Matthew Reden and Jill Blackwood. Then as now, as much careful planning went into audience placement and movement as into the concerts perched on the steps of the Topfer Theatre. Rock, pop and Motown themes enlivened the weeks that followed.
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ZACH Theatre announces a return to live performance with
March 18 through May 9, 2021. The weekly socially distanced outdoor concerts will feature five concerts over eight weekends running Thursdays through Sundays.
Employing the same health and safety guidelines as the Fall and Holiday concerts, ZACH Theatre is ready to welcome patrons back on campus. Although socially distanced pod seating looks different than a traditional show at ZACH, the “Songs Under the Stars” concert series brings the joy of live performance back to the People’s Plaza with esteemed performers and an outdoor bar all under the stars while surrounded by the Austin skyline.
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One of the surprise theatrical hits from 2020 was the socially distanced concert series staged in Zach Theatre s spacious People s Plaza.
Thanks to mostly ideal fall weather, the city s regional theater company rolled out a series of themed concerts, from Broadway show tunes to an Austin take on Christmas standards, in the previously underused space between the Topfer Theatre and Kleberg Theatre.
The sharp rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations in late December forced the theater to cancel the final planned holiday concerts.
Now, as Austin re-enters lower Stage 4 pandemic guidelines and vaccine rollout haltingly begins, some arts organizations have an eye toward 2021 programming.