Shit Under $20 in Austin

Fallout Theater, Downtown

TODAY 11:45 PM • $19.32

“Improv where your sins become scenes. Snacks and fellowship 11:30, service 11:45.”

Sahara Lounge, East Austin

TMRW 7:00 PM • $16

“Afrobeat bands until late in a cinderblock bar off Webberville. Dance or leave.”

Quimera Gallery ATX, East Austin

MON 1:00 PM • Free-$17.85

“Sixty minutes of slow looking and sniffing your way through a gallery. Your nose does the critique.”

Fallout Theater, Downtown

MON 8:00 PM • $18

“Comics turn your terrible week into a show. Group therapy with a two-drink minimum.”

Saxon Pub, Other

MON 8:30 PM • $19

“Bob Schneider's Monday residency. Twenty-plus years and still a packed room.”

Sagebrush, South Congress

TUE 6:00 PM • Free

“Learn to two-step badly, then do it badly all night at a South Congress honky-tonk”

Cherrywood Coffeehouse, East Austin

TUE 7:00 PM • Free

“Free stand-up on a coffeehouse patio. Costs nothing, might rule.”

The Highball, Other

TUE 8:00 PM • Free

“Retro game shows hosted by drag queens. Free, prizes, and you only play if you want to.”

The Highball, Other

WED 8:00 PM • Free

“Free pub trivia where your useless knowledge finally pays rent”

Fallout Theater, Downtown

WED 8:30 PM • $5-$8

“Devised clown work with live direction. Messy, risky, happens once. Five bucks online.”

The Velveeta Room, 6th Street

WED 9:00 PM • $14

“Thirteen bucks for stand-up in a 6th Street dive named after fake cheese”

Upstairs at Caroline, Downtown

THU 12:00 PM • Free

“Rooftop holiday bar with a split naughty-or-nice cocktail menu and a Santa confession board.”

XuXa, Other

THU 9:00 PM • $10-$20

“Two selectors, decades of underground records, one small dance floor on a Thursday. 21+.”

Fallout Theater, Downtown

FRI 10:00 PM • $14

“10pm, 14 bucks, Austin comics trying bits that might not work. That's the point.”

East Austin Comedy Club, East Austin

FRI 11:59 PM • $13.54

“Stand-up at 11:59pm. Local comics, BYOB, and you battling sleep for one more punchline.”

Ovenbird, South Congress

SAT 11:30 AM • Free-$59.75

“Free drag brunch on a South Congress patio: queens, a live DJ, and a mid-show toast”

Clutch-Em Arcade Austin, Other

NOV 22 1:00 PM • Free

“Kimchi from local ATX makers inside a claw-machine arcade. Free RSVP, 1 to 3pm Sunday.”

Barton Springs Pool (South Entrance), Bouldin Creek

NOV 22 5:30 PM • FREE

“Hippies with djembes at sunset. Free, barefoot, faintly illegal-feeling.”

Austin Central Library, Downtown

NOV 23 2:00 PM • Free

“Staff walk you up five floors of library art. Free, an hour, and nobody shushes you.”

Dragon's Lair Comics and Fantasy, Other

NOV 23 5:30 PM • FREE

“Free queer MTG draft night. Tap two swamps, ruin a stranger's Monday.”

Dougherty Arts Center, Bouldin Creek

NOV 23 7:00 PM • Free

“Strictly Ballroom on the big screen, free. One rogue ballroom dancer vs. his by-the-book colleagues.”

Fallout Theater, Downtown

NOV 23 8:00 PM • $18

“Comedians autopsy your week on stage. It was bad. They know.”

George Washington Carver Museum, East Austin

NOV 24 10:00 AM • Free

“Super 8 film, a Tejana family ofrenda, East Austin portraits. Free, on a Tuesday morning.”

Fallout Theater, Downtown

NOV 24 7:00 PM • $16

“Card tricks and improv collide. Somebody's suggestion ruins a perfectly good illusion.”

Mr Nice Guys - The Green Room, Other

NOV 24 8:00 PM • $13.54

“Write anonymous roasts on note cards, then the comics have to read them aloud on stage. Revenge.”

Goodnight Cowboy, East Austin

NOV 25 3:00 PM • Free

“Sotol cocktail samples, oysters, a real tattoo and an actual Texas longhorn. 21+, free RSVP.”

Hi Sign Brewing, East Austin

NOV 25 7:00 PM • Free

“Survivor Bingo on the big screen. Blindside square, idol square, crying-about-my-kids square.”

The Velveeta Room, 6th Street

NOV 25 9:00 PM • $14

“Thanksgiving Eve stand-up in the narrowest room on 6th. Fourteen bucks well spent.”

East Austin Comedy Club, East Austin

NOV 26 9:00 PM • $14

“Comics give you life advice on Thanksgiving night. Somehow better than your family's.”

St. Elmo Brewing Company, Other

NOV 27 12:00 PM • Free

“Vintage, jewelry, candles and original art at a free Black Friday flea at a brewery.”

Speakeasy, Downtown

NOV 27 9:30 PM • FREE

“Free 90s night on Congress. Everyone's home for the holiday and it shows.”

East Austin Comedy Club, East Austin

NOV 27 11:59 PM • $13.54

“Local comics fight your bedtime at midnight. BYOB, 21+, nobody knows who's showing up.”

Juicy Roots, South Congress, South Congress

NOV 28 7:30 AM • FREE

“Free run club on SoCo the morning after Thanksgiving. Show up alone, leave in a group chat.”

Sahara Lounge, East Austin

NOV 28 7:00 PM • $16

“Live Afrobeat bands in an East Austin dive until you're too sweaty to care who you came with.”