Paramount Theatre

Paramount Theatre http://austintheatre.org 100+ year old historic theatre in downtown Austin
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Texas forever! 💛🏈 Twenty years later and Dillon still has a chokehold on us. The cast & crew of Friday Night Lights reun...
05/30/2026

Texas forever! 💛🏈 Twenty years later and Dillon still has a chokehold on us. The cast & crew of Friday Night Lights reunited at ATX Television Festival yesterday to receive the 2026 “Texas Made” Award presented with Media for Texas, celebrating the show’s lasting impact on Texas storytelling, culture, and television itself.

📸: Rachel Parker

Dragons descended on Austin 🐉🔥 ATX Television Festival kicked off with a first look at HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3, plu...
05/29/2026

Dragons descended on Austin 🐉🔥 ATX Television Festival kicked off with a first look at HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3, plus a packed night with Ryan Condal and cast members Steve Toussaint, Abubakar Salim, Harry Collett, and Bethany Antonia.

📸: Rachel Parker
Stills: House of the Dragon

05/29/2026

Join us on Friday, June 12th for a hometown show with Grammy-winning blues legend Ruthie Foster who will be debuting new songs from her upcoming album “Just Say Yes” out this summer on Sun Records (you might hear a little teaser of the 1st song in this clip)! You won’t want to miss this night!

🎫 Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/4soGgGL

As many Austin schools dismiss for summer today, that means the final bell rings on this year’s Paramount Education Stor...
05/29/2026

As many Austin schools dismiss for summer today, that means the final bell rings on this year’s Paramount Education Story Wranglers program ✏️🎭🎶

Over the last nine months, third graders across Central Texas filled journals with wild ideas, hilarious characters, heartfelt stories, and BIG imaginations. This year, Story Wranglers reached 15 schools, 56 classrooms, 1,047 student writers through both English and bilingual programming, and was brought to life by 55 dedicated Story Wrangler performers + 39 teaching artists who worked tirelessly to turn student ideas into full productions for the entire school to enjoy.

Story Wranglers is about more than creative writing – it’s about confidence, self-expression, collaboration, awe, wonder, and helping students realize their ideas matter.

To every student, teacher, teaching artist, actor, musician, and school that made this year so special: thank you for dreaming big with us. And always remember: Adventure is… out there! See you next year.

One Last Call before the curtain falls! 🚨🥂 We’re opening our doors on Monday, June 15th for an extended happy hour from ...
05/29/2026

One Last Call before the curtain falls! 🚨🥂 We’re opening our doors on Monday, June 15th for an extended happy hour from 4-8pm for one final evening before the Paramount Theatre closes for our 11-month restoration project!

Walk the 110-year-old theatre one more time, grab a drink with throwback happy hour prices, explore pieces of Paramount history, and see one of the theatre’s rarest hidden treasures unfurled: the original 1915 hand-painted fire curtain, believed to be one of the oldest surviving original fire curtains in the country.

Whether the Paramount has been part of your life for decades or you’ve somehow never stepped inside, this is your chance to say goodbye (for now) to one of Austin’s most beloved spaces before the Shine On restoration begins.

🎟️ Free with RSVP: austintheatre.org/lastcall

🗞️ ICYMI: During the 11-month closure, the Paramount team will still be putting on events at the State Theatre, as well as other venues around town with shows already announced at Hogg Memorial Auditorium on the UT campus, the AISD Performing Arts Center in Mueller, Radio East, and the Bullock Museum IMAX Theatre.

05/28/2026

John Sayles invites you to return to the scene of the crime in LONE STAR (1996) screening in 35mm on June 1st in the Summer Classic Film Series 🎥 Here's a sneak peek of the preshow reel of interviews with Sayles and stars Chris Cooper and Ron Canada discussing the making of the film, courtesy of our friends at Texas Archive of the Moving Image.

A skeleton in the desert, a town haunted by its own history, a mystery that only gets deeper in the Texas heat. With an unforgettable ensemble cast, an evocative soundtrack, and the dusty tension of small-town border life, LONE STAR remains one of the great modern Texas films which is why we HAD to program it during our “Shot in Texas” theme.

🎟️ https://bit.ly/4npyZoW

05/28/2026

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) screens in the Summer Classic Film Series on Sunday, May 31st in partnership with Austin Asian American Film Festival📽️

“IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a story about two people, and it could easily have been very boring. But instead of treating it as a love story, I decided to approach it like a thriller, like a suspense movie.” – Director Wong Kar-wai

With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

🎟️ Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode: https://bit.ly/4wIsBxw

Oh shii…take mushrooms 😎 Austin fully tapped back into its inner kid this weekend as the Paramount packed out for a 25th...
05/27/2026

Oh shii…take mushrooms 😎 Austin fully tapped back into its inner kid this weekend as the Paramount packed out for a 25th anniversary screening of SPY KIDS with Robert Rodriguez in the house. Even cooler, some of the kids who grew up on the movie brought their own kids this time around, and Robert kept the nostalgia going with live performances of songs from the film alongside his Family Spy Band.

📸: Rachel Parker

Fresh cuts 🤝 classic films. We’re teaming up with our friends at Birds Barbershop this summer. Swing by any Birds locati...
05/27/2026

Fresh cuts 🤝 classic films. We’re teaming up with our friends at Birds Barbershop this summer. Swing by any Birds location in Austin to pick up a Summer Classic Film Series schedule (it doubles as a poster, too) and get lined up for a season of iconic films at the Paramount ✨

You can also grab your own schedule at the Paramount Box Office or at the Visit Austin, Texas center!

We’re celebrating Miles Davis’ 100th birthday by looking back at this ad for his February 4, 1983 performance at the Par...
05/26/2026

We’re celebrating Miles Davis’ 100th birthday by looking back at this ad for his February 4, 1983 performance at the Paramount Theatre. A true innovator who changed the sound of jazz again and again, Miles left his mark on music history and on our stage 🎺

Play your favorite Miles record today, kids. You know we will too.

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713 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX
78701

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 5:30pm
Tuesday 12pm - 5:30pm
Wednesday 12pm - 5:30pm
Thursday 12pm - 5:30pm
Friday 12pm - 5:30pm
Saturday 12pm - 5:30pm

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(512)4725470

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