On Sunday, March 1 at 4:00 PM, Hyde Park Theatre will host the legendary Sonny Carl Davis and his one man show, First To Be Eaten: Ramblings of A Bit Player. You've seen him in movies from Fast...
The long-awaited return of this wildly popular one-man show starring Ken Webster, originally produced by HPT in 1999, 2001, and 2009. Victor, the hero of Daniel MacIvor's dark and furiously...
BEST OF FEST Bill B. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2020 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. THIS BILL ALSO PLAYS...
A day of site-based work performed in local homes and other surprising locales, Mi Casa is consistently one of the most popular components of our festival. This year's curator is is producer,...
Stand-Up Jesus, by Robert Dubac (Moment-to-Moment Productions) Making his first appearance in over 2000 years, Jesus of Nazareth returns with razor-sharp satire for sinners. Let he who is without...
Transhumance, by Ania Upstill (Butch Mermaid Productions) Come dive into the absurd as we follow one clown’s surreal journey across the landscape of gender in search of a place to call home....
Straitjacket: Variations on a Theme of Horror, a monodrama produced, written, directed and performed by Charles P. Stites (Paladin Theatre Company) Tortured by a sadistic warden, prisoner Darrell...
Possibilities - Storytelling with Poetry, Improv, and Song, by Jennifer Bloom & In Our Prime Jennifer Bloom shares poetry, songs, and stories to weave a tapestry of connection on her exploration...
Bittersuite: Songs of Experience, Music by Elliot Weiss & Lyrics by Michael Champagne (Bohemian Theatricals) Akin to Sondheim and Weill, a musical song cycle about the joys and pains, the ups and...
Laughing Matter, by Greg Klein Backstage during a standup show, two exes meet for the first time since their breakup. One is a local emcee, while the other returns a more successful comic, touring...
Tatay, by Pelita Dasalla Tatay is an expanded form of a ten-minute play from OUT OF INK 2018: Lost and Found with the same title, produced by ScriptWorks. It is a Filipino-American story about a...
They Serve Brisket in Paradise, by Sandy Maranto. Family members - gotta love 'em! We often take them for granted until they're no longer in our lives. In this quirky comedy, the Williamson family...
BEST OF WEEK #1. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance were selected by our panel from the previous week's shows; the fifth was chosen by audience vote. Shows are...
Tonight's shows now listed in performance order. The Texas Book of Beasts: Year of the Rooster, by Jeff Irvin. Audience yoga (seated) with hats, clickers, insane plot, and singalong. Audience...
Fresh from its wild success at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Maggie Gallant's hilarious, endlessly surprising Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower comes to HPT September 5 - October 5. In their...
We had so much fun with A Doll's House, Part 2 and The Christians that we've added another Hnath play to this season! Maxine has weeks to live--and she thinks her daughter is paying her nurse to...
When Nora, the wife in Ibsen's A Doll's House, slams the door on her husband and children, the sound reverberated for a century. Now Lucas Hnath--author of The Christians, one of the most popular...
BEST OF FEST Bill A. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2019 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. Cowgirl Church,...
Dog Play, Pug to Wolfhound: Patty to Beatrice, Bitch to Bitch, by Michael Michaelian. (90 minutes) Dog Play is a tribute celebrating the human-canine relationship. With Jude Hickey and Justin...
Shield Maiden, by Melanie Teichroeb (60 minutes) Outrageous. Funny. Unapologetic! This one-woman show takes you to tenth century Sweden for a Norse RED Talk. Think TED Talks with a Viking twist....
Booger Red, by Jim Loucks (60 minutes) Loucks' solo performance, loosely based on stories from his childhood, focuses on his relationship with his father, a Hellfire and Brimstone Southern...
Speed Levitch's Birth of the New Ghetto, by Speed Levitch (Speed Levitch Productions) (90 minutes) As a Zionist leader, Theodor Herzl's a natural. As a playwright, he's a putz. As a husband? Oy....
(pretty shiny cage) // Consu(Me), by Lindsey Greer Sikes (Purdy Mischief) (75 minutes) Purdy Mischief is here for your pleasure. Groom her. Feed her. Consume her. Hybrid performance artist...
Riveted Rosie, by James E. Burnside (Travelling Troupe) (90 minutes) Dr. Ramone and Dr. Truffledina must find the defect in a "female" robot acting erratically. Ola Mae Baartman, Director of...
SETLL, by Amanda Chang (60 minutes) SETLL (Suspected Extra-Terrestrial Landing Location) is a new play that questions what lies beyond the limits of what we know. The play explores the world of...
Tonight's shows now reflect actual performance order. Achilles, by Todd A. Clark. It’s late, and the clock is ticking in an otherwise quiet mission control room for the Achilles solar survey...
In this deeply funny, deeply thought-provoking piece, a Mexican American urban sophisticate who wants to connect with his roots ventures deep into the Mexican interior. Directed by Ken Webster and...
My Seasons with the Astros, Expos, and Phillies Written and performed by Ken Webster A benefit performance for Hyde Park Theatre Sunday, September 9 at 7:00 PM Hyde Park Theatre 511 W. 43rd...
NOTE: MATINEE SHOW ADDED, 2pm Saturday August 4. The newest work from the playwright of HPT hits like John, The Flick, The Aliens, Circle Mirror Transformation, and Body Awareness --the...
THE DIONYSIUM, Austin's original debate & lecture show, presents its Spring Show: Global Social Movements. Featuring: A lecture: Professor Carleen Sanchez asks "Why now?" A lecture: Professor...
"A riveting tour de force performance. There isn't an actor or director in Austin who is more in tune with the dry wit, unexpected pathos and unique rhythm and timing of Will Eno than Ken Webster....
BEST OF FEST Bill A. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2018 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. PLEASE NOTE: This...
A day (12pm - 6pm) of site-based work performed in local homes and other surprising locales, Mi Casa is consistently one of the most popular components of our festival. We're excited to announce...
Strip the Musical, by Amparo Garcia-Crow with composer Arthur Shane The Living Room Storytime for Grownups, in association with Dillo Arts and Associates, present . . . STRIP THE MUSICAL. Strip...
Heidi, by Anne Adams Notario Based on Johanna Spyri's novel set in 19th-century Switzerland, Heidi is a new musical by Anne Adams Notario featuring an orphan girl who is taken to live with her...
BEST OF WEEK #1. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance were selected by our panel from the previous week's shows; the fifth was chosen by audience vote. Her...
Texas Book of Beasts, by Jeff Irvin. Series of extremely short skits dealing with gnats, gnus, bats, okra, raccoons, quail, pickups, skinks, javelina, daddy-long-legs, burghers, toads, ocelots,...
My Seasons with the Astros, Expos, and Phillies Written and performed by Ken Webster A benefit performance for Hyde Park Theatre Sunday, December 17 at 7:00 PM Hyde Park Theatre 511 W. 43rd...
The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe September 21 - October 21, 2017 NOTE: Due to sellouts, we have added a 10pm show on Friday, October 20. Running time is 90 minutes. Nine teenage girls make a soccer...
Picture the Brontë sisters, but with American accents. Picture a large dog falling in obsessive love with a small bird. Picture a dark, satirical comedy that will haunt you like a strange dream....
My Seasons With the Astros, Expos, and Phillies Written and performed by Ken Webster A benefit performances for Hyde Park Theatre Saturday, June 24 at 8:00 PM Hyde Park Theatre 511 W. 43rd...
Man Sitting in Chair on Sunday Concert Series At Hyde Park Theatre The husband and wife singing duo of Gary & Donna will be hosting a four-concert series on Sundays beginning May 21. Each concert...
John by Annie Baker March 2 - April 1, 2017 From the Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright of HPT hits The Flick, The Aliens, Body Awareness, and Circle Mirror Transformation: At a bed & breakfast...
BEST OF FEST Bill A. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2017 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. PLEASE NOTE: This...
Today's shows are now listed in correct performance order. A Woman's Work Is Never Done, by Lorene Stilwell. Through a mix of history, folklore, music, poetry, local legend and their own words, A...
Red Sox by Raymond V. Whelan and Down the Alley of Life, by Mike Royko, adapted by Raymond V. Whelan Red Sox turns back the clock thirty years to study the intricate personal struggles of...
The Best of The Back Pack by The Back Pack The Back Pack's favorite pieces pulled from their first full season of silent sketch comedy shows incorporating puppetry, dance, clowning, and all...
Julia Caesar by William Shakespeare, adapted by Andee Kinzy (ImprovEd Arts) Reversing the Shakespearean norm, this all-girl youth cast flips the genders in the story of JULIA Caesar. Performed...
Bluebonnet Road by Louise Richardson In the spring of 1979, local Austin singer/songwriter Noah Trundle drags his mother Olive, his younger brother Jo Jo--a budding musician himself-- and Jo...
BEST OF WEEK #1. Four of the shows that play in tonight's "Best of Week" performance were selected by our panel from the previous week's shows; the fifth was chosen by audience vote. Berserker,...
Seven years ago, Athens v. Sparta was selling out the Cactus Cafe, Hyde Park Theatre, and other venues statewide. Now this band/song-cycle--a combination dark indie-pop-opera, Greek drama, and...
A LONE STAR CHRISTMAS CAROL THE STORY OF TEXAS’ OWN EBENEZER SCROOGE! If you’re looking for a holiday treat, look no further. A Lone Star Christmas Carol takes Dickens’ classic tale and...
GARY FRANK TAYLOR CD RELEASE CONCERT ARE YOU READY for a Man Sitting in Chair Playing Guitar? Then come to Hyde Park Theatre on Sunday, November 6, at 6 pm, for Gary Frank Taylor’s release...
Sadie Saturday Nite Written and performed by Jean Caffeine Sadie Saturday Nite is a one person + one guitar player show ; stories and songs about growing up punk in the San Francisco. Sadie...
Lungs by Duncan Macmillan September 22 - October 22, 2016 PLEASE NOTE: For opening and closing weekends, this show runs at 8pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. During the middle three weeks, the...
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, The Flick is another exquisite play from Annie Baker, who wrote three of HPT's biggest-ever hits: The Aliens, Circle Mirror Transformation, and Body Awareness.
A BENEFIT FOR HYDE PARK THEATER. My Seasons with the Houston Astros and the the Montreal Expos, written and performed by Ken Webster. Award-winning actor/director Ken Webster explains his strange...
The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno February 25 - March 26, 2016 "Plays as funny and moving, as wonderful and weird as The Realistic Joneses, by Will Eno, do not appear often on Broadway. Or ever,...
Bill A. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2016 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. This same bill of shows is also...
Unshackled, by Anthony Ellison and Neal Adelman (Punchkin Repertory Theatre) A popular conspiracy theorist has a podcast called Unshackled. His "harmless" Twitter banter leads to the kidnapping...
Free Patterns (TILT Performance Group) Schedules: we love them and we hate them. More of this type of time, less of that time. Making time, losing time. A new play by TILT Performance Group...
Any Night, by Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn (EVN Productions) When a troubled young dancer moves into a new basement apartment, she finds herself oddly drawn to her handsome, charming neighbor....
Liberté Egalité Adoptée, by Maggie Gallant. What kind of parent KNITS their daughter a swimsuit? With itchy, water-absorbing red wool? Maybe the same ones that would buy her a leather...
Tonight we present five shows from earlier in the week--four chosen by our panel, and the fifth by audience vote, as the shows they would most like to see again. Janus Geminus, by Chris Alonzo....
Whirlpool, written and directed by S. Becker. After breaking up with her first boyfriend, a teenaged girl befriends a counselor at summer camp who sparks more than her mind. Time passes, they...
STEALING BABY JESUS Written and performed by Bernadette Nason Directed by Michael Stuart Only 5 shows at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W 43rd St, Austin, TX Monday, December 7 at 8:00 PM Tuesday,...
Only the second production in the country of this new work by the playwright of HPT's award-winning smash hit Slowgirl. After a series of unsettling discoveries in a marble-quarry town in Vermont,...
Two shows for the price of one! SADIE SATURDAY NITE/SAN FRANCISCO The Miss Adventures of a sweet little rock n roller… Stories and songs about growing up punk in the San Francisco seventies....
The Night Alive by Conor McPherson From the playwright who gave us earlier HPT hits like St. Nicholas, The Good Thief, and Port Authority: a play that the New York Times called "extraordinary....
PLEASE NOTE: THESE SHOWS HAVE BEEN CANCELED.
Actors Theatre Austin presents award-winning actor Michael Stuart in Samuel Beckett's legendary one-man show, Krapp's Last Tape and Eugene O'Neill's rarely produced two-hander, Hughie at Hyde Park...
The Christians by Lucas Hnath February 26 - March 28, 2015 We turn HPT into the smallest megachurch in North America for the first production of this marvelous new work since its premiere at the...
Six years ago, Athens vs Sparta was selling out the Cactus Cafe, Hyde Park Theatre, and other venues statewide. Now this band/song-cycle--a combination dark indie-pop-opera, Greek drama, and...
BILL B. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2015 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. This same bill of shows is also...
Tonight we present five shows from earlier in the week--four chosen by our panel, and the fifth by audience vote, as the shows they would most like to see again. The Sound That Shook the World,...
CODA, Children of Deaf Adults, by Mark Murray (Two Hands Productions) One man leads you through the journey of being the ears for his family. As son and interpreter for his Deaf parents, Tim...
My Dinner With Bambi (A Shocking Comedy), by Randy Lewis Loyalties are torn one evening when Bambi Krill, rightwing media celebrity extraordinaire, holds court with her two young acolytes, Sarah...
Mother's Day, by Lisa B. Thompson. Mother's Day is a futuristic short play that examines the persistence of long-standing stereotypes about black women and motherhood. Directed by Marcus...
I can feel the distance getting closer, created by Melissa Watt Dancers explore varying degrees of vulnerability that arise in unfulfilling relationships. Through costume, voice, unison, and...
The Situation Room and Connective Tissue, created by Xynergistas! Productions. Xynergistas! presents two interdisciplinary performance pieces focusing on unique ways of dealing with life and all...
Dog Play, Pug to Wolfhound: Patty to Beatrice, Bitch to Bitch, a play that's probably not a play but a tribute to the human-canine relationship, by Michael Michaelian An American in Central...
The Ballad of Zipfield and Gus, by Jordan Morille, additional songs by Jim Price Country singer/songwriter Hitchy Wilson (Broadway veteran Jim Price) used to be famous. Now he’s broke, tired,...
Stars of David, based on the best-selling book by Abigail Pogrebin (Austin Jewish Repertory Theater) A funny and captivating new musical revue celebrating the lives of your favorite Jewish public...
The King of Texas, by Beth Webster In 1840, a culture clash at Austin’s French Legation almost turns Texas into France-on-the-Brazos. Diplomat Alphonse de Saligny brings seven million dollars...
Incline/Decline, by Mark Charney & Ryan McCrary Like a rollercoaster, every relationship has inclines and declines. This is one man's journey for love, sex, and the true meaning of being a...
Raw Clay/Rough Diamond, by Corey Kwoka Player One: Drug addicted Diamond forced into a religious revival weekend. Player Two: Naive, pious Clay searching for faith and purpose. The Game: A...
The Walls of Jericho, by Sandra Metcalf The Walls of Jericho is a drama set in the early 1960s; it follows the challenges of an Air Force family living in The Cold War era, amid constant change...
PECK, by Amy McAndrew, Cindy Vining, and Johanna Whitmore (Hourglass Productions) Power dynamics in female relationships – a la carte. Tickets: $10 (75 minutes) Mon. 1/19 8:45PM; Weds. 1/21...
The Biscuiteater, by Jim Loucks Produced by Deb Loucks and directed by Lisa Chess. Jim Loucks returns to the FronteraFest Long Fringe with the premiere of his new rollicking, heartfelt solo...
The break room of a Hobby Lobby in Boise, Idaho is the setting for Samuel D. Hunter's savagely funny and deeply moving story of a man reconnecting with the teenage son he hasn't seen since the boy...
Spike Gillespie and THE DICK MONOLOGUES return to HPT in the wildly popular revue that has returned in many forms since 2007. "Spike Gillespie and her talented guests (writers, musicians,...
From acclaimed Irish playwright Conor McPherson, author of The Weir, Shining City, and two of HPT’s biggest past hits, St. Nicholas and The Good Thief: Port Authority is the interconnected...
The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey "Drawer Boy" as in "the one who draws." After ten years, we're bringing back one of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows HPT has ever done. That 2004...
Bill B. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2014 Saturday "Best of Week" performances: four chosen by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. This same bill of shows is also...
Tonight we present five shows from earlier this week--four chosen by our panel, and the fifth by audience vote, as the shows they would most like to see again. Violet Crown: Salamander’s Town,...
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an autobiographical sketch by Richard Wright, adapted and performed by Reginald C. Brown, directed by Teresa Morrow. If You Ever Forget, by Elizabeth Mason....
The Liberty Belles, by Carolyn Kennedy (90 Minutes) Peter C. Graupner & The Austin Producers’ Club A 1940’s comedy featuring WWII music. Aunt Bebe manipulates her broken, cranky family of...
Gidion's Knot, by Johnna Adams (90 Minutes) Capital T Theatre In a typical 5th grade classroom, there is a parent teacher conference. However, this encounter is anything but typical. As the...
Iced Tea in Texas, by Bernadette Nason (90 Minutes) Having lived in England, North Africa, and the Middle East, she was culture-shock-proof. What could be so very different about Texas, aka the...
Mad & a Goat, by Diana Small with Heather Johnson (75 Minutes) Diana Small To free herself from college debt, the Woman joins a Wyoming goat farm she inherits from her occult-leader birth...
The Relentless Pursuit of Ice, by Max Langert (90 minutes) Punchkin Repertory Theatre A post-apocalyptic future. A couple struggling to survive. An increasingly hot sun. A surprise package. And a...
The Wedding, or The Rebellion (a cabaret of misogyny), by Becca Plunkett (60 Minutes) Reckless Youth Theatre Collaborative The Wedding, or The Rebellion tells the story of an arranged marriage...
Inappropriate Touching, by Rebecca Beegle (60 minutes) Come to my house. I want to tell you about my ex-boyfriends. Writer and storyteller Rebecca Beegle gives you the entertaining lowlights of...
The Sniper’s Nest by Lisa Soland (90 minutes) Last Act Theatre Company Last Act Theatre Company will give FronteraFest 2014 audiences an unexpected look at Lee Harvey Oswald in The Sniper's...
Hazards, by Mina Samuels (45 Minutes) Life Works Mooney on Theatre (Toronto) says, “...fascinating... hilarious and thought inducing...” Part clown, part Freud, with a dash of...
Bodies in (Public) Space, directed by Lucy Kerr; devised by Lucy Kerr in collaboration with performers (45 minutes) OTHER Dance Theatre Mixed-ability performers will interrupt the normalized...
The Island of Dr. Moreau: A Fever Dream Steeped in Blood, adapted as a monodrama by Charles P. Stites from the novel by H.G. Wells. (90 Minutes) Paladin Theatre Company A man is stranded on an...
45°, created by TILT Performance Group (60 minutes) Created by TILT, 45° is a story of tilted perspective, our comfort boxes, and how we live with each other. Our journey explores the...
Cemetery Golf, by Jim Loucks (75 Minutes) Jim Loucks’ live-wire solo performance takes you to the Deep South, with preachers shoutin’ from the mountaintops, mamas pickin’ switches, and...
People Will Talk About You Sometimes, by Sarah Matusek (75 Minutes) Poison Apple Initiative Izzy has friends. A lot of friends. Do you have friends? I bet you love them. Izzy's friends love...
Tender Transitions - Dances of Transformation, choreographed by Sumi Komo (75 minutes) Komo Danceworks Komo Danceworks presents original choreography influenced by modern avant-garde dance. Music...
Mocha by Eleanor Burgess (90 Minutes) EVN Productions & Last Act Theatre Co. When a celebrity arrives in Indonesia to adopt a baby, she attracts the interest of a journalist questioning her...
The Cowboy from Corona, by Cindy Vining (60 Minutes) Hourglass Productions The Land of Enchantment holds the bones of a murdered cowboy that a proud farming community conspired to keep secret....
The Lonely Highway Christmas by Hans Frank Featuring Hans Frank and Ken Webster. ONE NIGHT ONLY. Raves for previous Lonely Highway productions: "The only kind of wrong Sloppy Sean can do is...
Hyde Park Theatre Benefit GRATITUDE AND ATTITUDE An Edgy Night to Benefit Hyde ParkTheatre We got burglarized and Spike Gillespie and some other great artists are coming together to come to our...
Will the sun rise again? It's looking unlikely, but no worries: our crack news team is on the story. "A charming display of witty satire in the face of Armageddon. . . . this 75-minute play...
Hyde Park Theatre and Teatro Vivo present an encore of the one-man piece that won raves from Austin critics and audiences in 2007 and again in 2013. The play the New York Times called "astonishing...
An encore of the one-man piece that won raves from Austin critics and audiences in 2007. The play the New York Times called "astonishing in its impact" returns in an award-winning performance by...
FronteraFest legend Sloppy Sean returns to his old stomping grounds at The Hyde Park Theatre for two evenings of comedy, mayhem, and Rock-a-Billy. The Lonely Highway has been called a cross...
Slowgirl, by Greg Pierce March 21 - April 27, 2013 A hilariously chatty teenage girl visits her withdrawn, soft-spoken uncle in the Costa Rican jungle where he retreated nine years...
Bill B. Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2013 Saturday "Best of Week" performances, four by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. This same bill of shows will also be...
Tonight we present five shows from earlier this week--four chosen by our panel, and the fifth by audience vote, as the shows they would most like to see again. Violet Crown: Dog's Town, by Larry...
Going Postal, written by Pete Betcher, Jeremiah Rosenberger, Katie Kohler, and Justin Morely (The Back Pack) (75 minutes) Going Postal fuses all sorts of performance types into a one-of-a-kind...
Turning Tricks With the Darlings, by Jack Darling & Trish Sherrer (60 minutes) "Did you know magic could save your life?" If you didn't catch Turning Tricks With the Darlings last year for their...
Children in the Dark, directed by Ross Britz (Neutral Ground Ensemble (New Orleans, LA)) (75 minutes) Children in the Dark is an original piece about one man’s final breath. Come follow a team...
Stuffed, by Erin Fleming and Tyler Mabry. A bittersweet mini-musical comedy that explored the cultural phenomenon that is a storage unit auction and all that it reveals about human nature. DFW,...
ICU, by Allison Gregory (Wilson & Gregory) (60 minutes) On the night Elena is about to leave her husband, he is involved in a terrible accident and rushed to the hospital. Was it an accident,...
Little Mother, by Katie Green (Crue Company) (45 minutes) Little Mother is a harrowing fairytale of maternal love—a silent passion play, using shadow puppetry, physical acting, and live musical...
We Had a Grand Time, Didn’t We, Kid? (Ramon Carver) (60 minutes) We Had a Grand Time, Didn’t We, Kid?, an upbeat musical retrospective, features Ramon Carver, whose plays have been produced...
Gods and Idols, by Jason Rainey, directed by Lizz Taylor (Punchkin Repertory Theatre) (90 minutes) Gods and Idols centers around an atheist's journey through his obsession with religion and his...
Gruesome Playground Injuries, by Rajiv Joseph (Capital T Theatre) (90 minutes) In a very different kind of love story, an accident-prone daredevil and a corrosive masochist navigate friendship,...
West Side Terri, by Terri Mowrey (Jay Michael Fraley and Rude Guerilla Productions) (75 minutes) Everyone has those sheer bursts of performance with abandon by singing in the shower or wailing on...
Some Women See Things As They Are, by Raymond V. Whelan (Highland Lakes Players) (60 minutes) Jackie reads history, recites poetry and seeks privacy as she continues to recover from her...
The Butterfly Monologues, written and performed (with original songs and music) by Patrice Blue Maltas; directed by Amparo Garcia-Crow (75 minutes) A four-act, one-woman show of Patrice’s...
Hyde Park Theatre presents Middletown by Will Eno September 20 - October 20, 2012 A hilarious, moving, Our Town-inspired take on 21st century life from Will Eno, the author of HPT's...
The San Francisco Chronicle called it "an uproar of laughs." The New York Times called this off-Broadway hit "an endearing new play . . a heartfelt comedy" in which a big cat on the loose from a...
Annie Baker, the finest young American playwright and author of the 2010 HPT hits Body Awareness and Circle Mirror Transformation, weaves an extraordinary evening from a simple tale of three young...
Bill B.Tonight we present five shows selected from among the 2012 Saturday "Best of Week" performances, four by our panel and the fifth by audience vote. This same bill of shows will also be...
by Topping Haggerty (Da Foundry) (60 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater Akimbo Bubble Scuttle Ruckus is the dark adorable sketch comedy extravaganza you've been waiting for from DA Foundry. Do all...
Tonight we present five shows performed earlier this week--four chosen by our panel, and the fifth by audience vote, as the shows they would most like to see again: "South of Tennessee," by...
by A. John Boulanger (Imagine That Productions) (75 minutes) Blue Theater Newlyweds Steven and Ellen Gellar pop into a psychic parlor to see what lies ahead for them as husband and wife. Skeptical...
by Jared J. Stein (Out of Context Productions ) (60 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater Some·where·in·U·to·pi·a [suhm-whair in yoo-toh-pee-uh] - a travesty - (1) A theatrical calamity, see...
written by Lowell Bartholomee & Dan Dietz (the dirigo group) (75 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater The dirigo group presents Don’t Go in the House, a collection of four short, dark plays,...
by Annie La Ganga (90 minutes) Blue Theater Wedding cakes, greeting cards, pysanky, kirigami, and crochet. Oils, watercolors, charcoal, and collage. Museums, workshops, church basement craft fairs...
by Corey Kwoka (3-D Productions ) (90 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater A wedding in paradise disintegrates into madness. When cousins mistakenly make love, ex-flames appear, and family...
by Trey Deason (Purple Crayon Theatre) (90 minutes) Blue Theater "Every life must end, Eden. And that is a truth you should celebrate. Why else would someone like you, who's had so much pain and...
by Manuel Zarate (90 minutes) Blue Theater What is love? It's everything and nothing. It's funny and awful. It's the "till death do us part" and the one night stand. For three strangers in Austin,...
written by Nicholas Walker Herbert, directed by Gary Jaffe (Tutto Theatre) (90 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater Bethany is 15 months pregnant with an alien baby, and she's invited you to the...
written and performed by Christy McBrayer (75 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater Southern Fried Chickie is a one-woman play about a struggling actress returning from Hollywood to her hometown of...
written by Connor Hopkins (Trouble Puppet Theater Company ) (45 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater The Crapstall Street Boys uses Czech marionettes to tell the story of You Lad, a workhouse boy who...
by Drew Julian (75 minutes) The Blue Theater The play opens with the unexpected arrival of Bobby's old college roommate, Will, who is suffering from the recent death of his girlfriend....
by Bastion Carboni (Poison Apple Initiative) (60 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater Comprised of candid interviews taken after the expiration of a non-disclosure agreement, Holier Than Thou centers...
"The Yellow Wallpaper; A Puppet Adaptation," by Parker Dority. A puppet adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" using a combination of Table-Top and Shadow puppetry. Firth...
by Bill Bauer (Weird City Theatre) (75 minutes) Blue Theater What if, instead of blocking an online scammer, you tried to see how far you could string them along? Weird City Theatre presents this...
by Ella Hickson (Capital T Theatre) (90 minutes) Blue Theater The US premiere of the latest breakout hit from London, Precious Little Talent follows two twenty-somethings--one American, one...
by Max Langert (Punchkin Repertory) (90 minutes) Salvage Vanguard Theater The Billy Ocean/Teena Marie Confluence of 1985 centers around Allison, a young woman who’s fascinated by charts, leading...
by Don Fried (Paradox Players) (70 minutes) Blue Theatre In this touching futuristic comedy, Michael is a technologically challenged senior and Betta is a virtual computerized assistant assigned...
An actress who does Chekhov in Toronto basements and drinks too much; a nun who disapproves of big-city talk like "Whatever"; and their peculiar, soap-opera-watching youngest sister. In this...
From the playwright and actor who brought you our award-winning production of St. Nicholas: a small-time Irish hood's story, by turns funny, touching, and profoundly harrowing, of a simple job...
Hyde Park Theatre continues its love affair with the black comedies of the brilliant young Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, this time with McDonagh's first play set in America, the savagely funny...
In this darkly comic one-man piece by the brilliant Irish storyteller Conor McPherson, a theater critic relates tales of his life among the vampires. The New York Times called it "spooky" and...
Our panelists chose their favorites from all the Saturday "Best of Week" shows to play during Best of Fest Week, and audience vote determined the last two "Best of Fest" shows. Tonight is Bill...
Spirits to Enforce, by Mickle Maher (Capital T Theatre) (90 minutes) Twelve superheroes take up residence in a secret submarine to hold a fundraising drive for their upcoming production of...
Our panelists chose four shows from this week that they would like to see again. The fifth Best of Week selection was chosen by audience vote. The Pool, by Ben Prager. A new short story by three...
coal opera (chamber), by robert stewart. A camp-fire chamber tragedy-- of resounding proportions-- a prospector longs for echoes-- & listens-- Am I Normal If...? by Charla Hathaway. Sex coach...
Agamemnon, by Aeschylus (City on a Hill*) (75 minutes) Following up on last year's award-winning American Volunteers, City on a Hill* Productions presents the first play in the Western canon,...
Senior Moments, by Don Fried (DaDo Theater) (75 minutes) Five funny, touching, and slightly naughty short plays about seniors who are by no means ready to be put out pasture. The Boulder...
What You Touch is Gold, by Amory Elizabeth Casto (90 minutes) Small town love isn't always as simple as it should be. Charlotte is a quiet girl, who wants nothing more than to love and be loved...
Mechanical Bullsh*t The New Movement, 1819 Rosewood Ave (corner of Rosewood and Chicon) The New Movement's monthly showcase Anthology is back, featuring material curated by Alex Berry and Chris...
Howl, adapted from Allen Ginsberg by Teresa Harrison (Square Product Theatre) (60 minutes) Tonight’s HOWL is not an homage: it’s a portal. A real-time, off-line, be-bop lean into...
A Samuel Beckett Cabaret (Fourthworld Theatre Projects) (75 minutes) A Samuel Beckett Cabaret celebrates absurdity and rejects regret. Or rejects absurdity. Or celebrates regret, or even...
One Venus Hour, by Sheila Gordon (75 minutes) One Venus Hour is a foray into the life of an American family broken apart by distance, economics, illness and ideology. Gordon, who has performed...
Waiting for the Big O Written & Directed by Daniel Huntley Solon (90 minutes) Election Night 2008: An election viewing party turns to emotional debate as three Philadelphians are surprised and...
Portmanteau presented by Applied Mechanics The Café at Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd. It’s an invasion. Five strangers arrive in a remote village with five very different goals. As the...
A Writer's Vision(s) (Imagine That Productions), by A. John Boulanger. (90 minutes) A collection of the first three 10-minute plays written by A. John Boulanger. Jerome finds his life disrupted...
D'Angelico, by Gabriel Jason Dean (90 minutes) Jonas, an attorney, returns home to Tennessee to find his dead father's missing D'Angelico guitar. The search leads to his younger brother Palace...
Dancing on Sacred Ground (Komo Danceworks) (75 minutes) A multi-media production including original live music composed by Erich Avinger, Steve Bernal, Amy Annelle, and Adam Sultan. Slide...
Going with Jenny, by Thomas and Sherry Jo Ward Penfold Theatre Co. Round Rock Public Library, 216 E. Main Street, Round Rock In Going with Jenny, a contemporary comedy about marriage, audiences...
Let’s Make Love Tonight! (Annie La Ganga) (60 minutes) Annie La Ganga’s solo comedy show, Let’s Make Love Tonight!, is a fun, candid, irreverent exploration of love, sex,...
Rambo: The Missing Years, by Howard Petrick (Howard Petrick Presents) (60 minutes) Threats of treason charges! Phone calls from the Pentagon! Bad mashed potatoes! The hilarious autobiographical...
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Tongue & Groove Theater) (45 minutes) Tongue and Groove Theatre presents a new multi-media work-in-progress inspired by the 1957 science fiction film of the same...
Case 146-The Rattler's Curse, by E. S. Cuny (Ifandor Production Associates) (90 minutes) A dark comedy take on a noir-style mystery set in South Texas. Justin Case, P.I., investigates the death...
Lost Land, by Jennifer Kokai (Wogglebug Theatre) (90 minutes) Lost Land is a tale of hope and dreams, of love discovered and ultimately lost. Spanning three centuries from the late 1950’s...
Cardigan, by Trey Deason (Purple Crayon Theatre) (90 minutes) Edgar Cardigan is a world-renowned author and university professor: beloved by his students, courted by publishers, desired by women....
The Thing That Ate My Brain...Almost, by Amy Lynn Budd VSA TEXAS Dougherty Arts Center Theatre, 1110 Barton Springs Road Theatre, dance, puppetry and references to really bad old movies collide...
Sometimes Callie and Jonas Die, by Bastion Carboni (Poison Apple Initiative) (75 minutes) Callie and Jonas have stuff in common: taste in fashion, disregard for consequence, and the ability to...
by Morris Panych September 9 - October 9, 2010 "I spoke to a funeral director today. You don't mind recorded music, do you? Of course not. I don't mean this in a cruel way, but practically...
Circle, Mirror, Transformation by Annie Baker Directed by Ken Webster July 8 - August 7, 2010 (EXTENDED THROUGH AUGUST 14) Thursday-Saturdays at 8:00 PM
From the playwright and...
Body Awareness by Annie Baker Directed by Ken Webster April 8 - May 8, 2010 Thursday-Saturdays at 8:00 PM It's "Body Awareness Week" at a very-liberal-indeed liberal arts...
The Atheist by Ronan Noone February 18 - March 13, 2010 A wickedly funny dark comedy about a young journalist who is high on ambition and low on morals. Featuring Joey Hood (Killer...
Our panelists chose their eight favorites from all the Saturday "Best of Week" shows to play during Best of Fest Week, and audience vote determined the last two "Best of Fest" shows, which play...
Each week, our panelists choose the four shows they would like to see again to give an encore perfomance at the Saturday Best of Week show. The fifth Best of Week selection is chosen by...
Dying City (Capital T Theatre)
The first casualty of war is the truth. Christopher Shinn's unsettling new play, Dying City, seeks that truth in a quiet, transfixing tale of grief and...
The Understudy: A Musical, by Rain Nox. Behind the scenes a three-way struggle brews. A Broadway diva, an emo director, and the new girl battle it out in this musical comedy.
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Habit by Robert Minshew
Habit is a new play by Robert Minshew, dealing with themes of addiction, obligation, and the gut-wrenching pain of combining two lives. Timothy is down to his last...
Some Other Day Written & Directed & Performed by: Ben Schave and Caitlin Reilly
Some Other Day is Schave & Reilly’s take on the inevitable: death and weather. With their absurd blend of...
American Volunteers (City On a Hill (?) Productions)
American Volunteers follows a squad of special operations Rangers as they patrol the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The play focuses...
Feelgood Hits of the 70’s (Pommelhorse)
Written and performed by Sam L Landman and Matthew Glover.
Two roommates. On a couch. Drinking Tab. No subtext. No growth. No future. It’s...
Love Me by Philip Kreyche
When his love left him, Oskar thought his life was over. Now, several years and a world war later, he still can't get over her. To avoid reality and save...
Things in Life by Ben Prager
Three time Best-of-Fest winner Ben Prager reprises his comic monologues that portray with unblinking realism “ordinary” Americans. In 2009, Things in...
Hotel Morocco Written by Aaron Black Directed by Shannon Davis
Adam has lost his dad, girlfriend, and job. Now he’s stuck as the overnight bellman at Hotel Morocco, a Times Square...
A Man, A Magic, A Music (Movin' Melvin Brown) "A magical journey through Black Music history 50's-90's, in Song, Tap & Clogging, Comedy, Characters & Story! Songs of Ray Charles, Sam...
One Man's Music: A Monologue with Song Written and Performed by Vince Bell
Based on his new autobiography, Bell tells a fine tale about Texas music, the singer-songwriter tradition,...
I Can't Believe It's Not Funny: The Best of Midnight Society Presents For nearly two years, Midnight Society has been writing and performing sketch comedy at ColdTowne Theater. In that...
In This House (Everything is You) B.Y.O.V. Presented by Salvage Vanguard Theater and Eponymous Garden
We are thinking of a lost child. We are thinking of the past poking up into the...
Alice! (Chaotic Theatre)
From the twisted mind of the Chaotic Theatre Company, comes Alice!, a story about a young girl’s descent into madness. Along this journey she meets characters with...
An Evening With Chastity and Alan Jr. (A2Z2U) Written by Alan Metoskie and Zoe Schwartz
Famous country western duo Alan Jr. and Chastity Gambler have always been in love. But their...
The Mommy Confessions by Rhonda Kulhanek
Kulhanek’s hilarious one-woman show features 13 different characters struggling to survive their maternal lives. There’s a "memaw" raising her...
Bohemian Cowboy by Raymond King Shurtz
In November 2005, Raymond Dean Shurtz walked into the desert in Clark County, Nevada, The Valley of Fire, and vanished. For two years,...
The Bitter Poet's "Looking For Love In All The Wrong Cafes, Strip Clubs and Black Box Performance Spaces"
The Bitter Poet performs his darkly humorous, satirical guitar-driven poems about...
Lady M by Melissa Rodriguez
Gruoch Comegáin is a Scottish noblewoman happily married with a child. Her father, Boite, is a ruthless, ambitious man who will stop at nothing to reach...
Dance Carousel by Spank Dance Company
Spank Dance Company will present the 7th annual Dance Carousel. The Dance Carousel is a showcase of 10 local dance artists, each creating four...
The Collection sizzles with sexual tension as three men and one woman fall into shifting, overlapping triangles of desire and menace. One of Harold Pinter's funniest and most erotically charged...
Victor, the loser inhabiting Daniel MacIvor's dark and furiously funny one-man show, takes you on a whirlwind tour of the offices, circus tents, supermarkets, Ramada Inns, sewers, dreams, and...
Awarded the David Mark Cohen New Play Award by the Austin Critics' Table in 2007, My Child, My Child, My Alien Child is Miller's hilarious and passionate story about his son crash-landing into his...
Hyde Park Theatre presents the world premiere of Bombs in Your Mouth. Ken Webster directs Liz Fisher and Joey Hood in this brilliant dark comedy by Corey Patrick, one of America's hottest new...
Wild Card night features shows chosen by the FronteraFest staff--these are our favorites of the shows overlooked by the Short Fringe panelists. Shows are listed in performance order.
"Stories...
52 Pick Upx0dx0ax0dx0aby TJ Dawe and Rita Bozix0dx0ax0dx0aGemma Wilcox Productionsx0dx0ax0dx0ax0dx0ax0dx0a52 cards in a deck. 52 scenes about a couple's relationship. The titlex0dx0aof each scene...
Drywall by David Meyers and Patrick Knisely Buy The Whey "Do Doug and Peter have what it takes to make it as big-time Broadway playwrights? Or will Allison's constant disapproval and Roy's...
Our Angle in Heavenby Maggie Gallant “United inx0dx0agrief”, “a nation in mourning”, or so the media told us. Beyond thex0dx0aheadlines, what was really happening to ordinary Brits? Some...
Tear Down x0dx0aby John M Livelyx0dx0aHat Shop Productionsx0dx0ax0dx0aTear Down is a modern day story about a couple in their finalx0dx0ayears faced with the prospect of losing their home and...
The Drowned World by Gary Owen Produced and directed by Ken Webster Ken Webster presents the southwest premiere of Gary Owen's hauntingly powerful The Drowned World . The Drowned World is a...
Things in Life by Ben Prager Actor/playwright Ben Prager uses a series of monologues to portray with unblinking realism a half dozen familiar types in various stages of life. “I find Prager’s...
Let’s Get Real by Michael Kranes "How many of you are completely happy in your lives?" This simple question has been asked worldwide to millions by master teacher Ted Jiles. Let's Get Real will be...
My Bugatti Story by Paul Ehrmann My Bugatti Story by Paul Ehrmann is a new drama about a man who regains his sanity by inhabiting the persona of a pre WWII race car driver who became a hero of the...
Reality Check by John and Tracy Medberry The Green Room Theatre Would you bet it all for $10,000,000? Come watch as one lucky contestant will take that chance and run through the gauntlet of...
Sex, With Benefits Written and Directed by Daniel Huntley Solon Alone in an abandoned New Jersey summer home, two young cyber fuck-buddies meet for the first time. Battling to understand and...
Stephen Pruitt - TBA."Folding House," by Sheila Gordon. A real estate auction, a stroke victim and 911 Truth seekers converge in this solo performance.
ratliff jackson by John Ratliff and Lisa...
Leela’s Wheelby Gemma WilcoxGemma Wilcox ProductionsGemma Wilcox portrays 20 characters in this newly extended version of her multi-award-winning comedy-drama: “The Honeymoon Period is...
A Matter of Taste by Bastion CarboniPoison Apple InitiativeCannibalism. Incest. Suicide. We know: new theatre= risky proposition. Acknowledging this, we can assure you of three things: 1) Though...
Every week, our panelists choose the four shows they would most like to see again to be performed on Saturday. The fifith show is chosen by audience vote.
"Tower to Tower: The 1 Man Show," by...
Cochise!by Improv for EvilImprov for Evil presents Cochise!, a fully improvised 70s cop show created live from your suggestion. Detective John Cochise is a loose cannon scouring the streets of...
The Dick Monologues by Spike Gillespie and friends Since 2007, Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues has brought together Austin's best writers, performers, and musicians to whip out and size up the...
The Science of Suggestion by Christina HouleScience of Suggestion explores the relationship between the performer and her subject matter, as well as the filters that she imposes on her material....
The Bird and The Bee by Al Smith (The Bird) and Matt Hartley (The Bee)Capital T TheatreChloe and Jacob are beautifully in love. The first time they meet, they end their lives. The runaway hit of...
Dance Carousel By Spank Dance Co. and AICThe Dance Carousel is a showcase of ten local dance artists, each creating four one-minute dances, for a total of forty one-minute new movement pieces....
Kill Will: The Lost Diary of Shakespeare by Austin AlexanderStrike TheatreWilliam Shakespeare’s lost diary has dropped into the hands of a petty thief on the streets of London. Now gangsters,...
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