SPEAKING OF getting your work out there, Austin folk: got a short piece suited to FronteraFest (see RT below) but no idea how to cast, find director, etc? ScriptWorks has you covered with their FronteraFest 101 primer on self-producing for the festival. YOU CAN DO IT. scriptworks.org/fronterafest...

LEARNING TO HUMAN opens Thursday! A show about grief, chaotic life choices, and recovery that I swear to God is somehow still incredibly funny. Winner of Best Autobiographical Show in its Off-Off-Broadway premiere! Come on out for this one ATX, it's special. www.hydeparktheatre.org/learningtohu...

Legendary musician/storyteller/comedian/badass Ed Hamell, aka HAMELL ON TRIAL, will be at HPT this Sunday afternoon only -- tickets and more info at link, catch him while you can! www.hydeparktheatre.org/hamellbucket

SPEAKING OF getting your work out there, Austin folk: got a short piece suited to FronteraFest (see RT below) but no idea how to cast, find director, etc? ScriptWorks has you covered with their FronteraFest 101 primer on self-producing for the festival. YOU CAN DO IT. scriptworks.org/fronterafest...

Calling queer and trans artists between 13-18! Applications are open for Staging Pride, National Queer Theater's free, after-school program for young artist-activists to build queer community, learn from professional theatremakers and create a show.

Zell Miller III, recently named Austin's poet laureate, is shutting down his longtime ZM3LiveProductions company with six intimate, personal evenings of storytelling and poetry at HPT--opens tonight! He's always riveting -- read more here: www.hydeparktheatre.org/from-a-to-z

these are pretty hilarious and it makes me happy they shot them inside my most beloved Austin icon

they filmed a very funny series of Sonic commercials starring Terry Crews inside of me, Hyde Park Theatre youtu.be/qY_ZZrjqdt8?...

FronteraFest 2026: now in our 31st year. Austin: Got an idea, for a short piece that needs an audience--theater, dance, music, film, dog act? friend I don't know, it's your weird brain!--HPT's got the venue. Apply before Oct 1 for $10 off the $60 fee! www.hydeparktheatre.org/fronterafest...

hello! have you heard the good news? we're celebrating @kwebster.bsky.social entering his 25th year as artistic director with a fundraiser August 23! including clips from old shows, pre show music from legendary Austin jazz guitarist Maragaret Slovak, beer, wine, food from New World Deli +

you dawdled my #atx, and now all performances of BETRAYAL by Harold Pinter are sold out -- BUT WAIT we have added one more show, Sunday, July 27 at 8pm. Tix are already flying, though so grab a couple while you can! www.ticketweb.com/event/betray...

Austin, oh my #ATX! we've sold out every BETRAYAL performance this weekend, & next week is getting there. So get yr tix now for this messy, heartbreaking, often extremely funny play. Thursday night is Pay What You Can at the door, more details and tix at link! www.hydeparktheatre.org/betrayal

BETRAYAL rolls into its 2nd week & we're already getting full happy houses, so hurry (but don't slip! wet out there!) & get your tickets. Remember, on Thursdays you pay what you can, whatever that is, when you buy your tix at the door. $$ shouldn't keep you from art. www.hydeparktheatre.org/betrayal

Heads up ATX, BETRAYAL, Harold Pinter's masterpiece of mess, opens Thursday at HPT. An illicit affair told backwards in time till you reach the dizzy happiness of the first flirtation. Often quite funny! Come opening weekend for the best karma available on earth: www.hydeparktheatre.org/betrayal

You’ve got three more chances to see my brand new comedy, IT’S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, while it’s still in Austin!

Closes Saturday! The reliably delightful OUT OF INK ten-minute play festival at HPT. I have never not had fun at one of these so get out here #ATX ! events.humanitix.com/out-of-ink-2...

Heads up! we hear there are only 6-7 tickets left for the last four performances of Shrewd Productions' FEAST at our theater. Snap them up now folks! Closes May 17. www.hydeparktheatre.org/feast

Theater folks, the Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, is the son of Amira Baraka, author of Dutchman, a classic play from 1964.

THREAD Y'ALL. FEAST, now at our theater, is getting insanely good reviews. Like this one: www.broadwayworld.com/austin/artic...

behold, it has arrived! Shrewd Productions’ FEAST starring @kcatmull.bsky.social opens Thursday at HPT. You know that @themountaingoats.bsky.social song “Grendel’s Mother”? this is that, but a play, with treats!

HEADS UP: Auditions this weekend (3/22-23) at Hyde Park Theatre: BETRAYAL, by Harold Pinter. Looking for one women and two men, 30ish-40ish, brush up your British accent, actors of all races/ethnicities strongly encouraged to audition. Pays $1K per actor. (1/2) #atx #austin #austintheater

HEADS UP: Auditions this weekend (3/22-23) at Hyde Park Theatre: BETRAYAL, by Harold Pinter. Looking for one women and two men, 30ish-40ish, brush up your British accent, actors of all races/ethnicities strongly encouraged to audition. Pays $1K per actor. (1/2) #atx #austin #austintheater

Best of FronteraFest is up this week-- one of the winners is a extract from our next mainstage show, Help! My Vagina is Trying to Kill Me! by Yola Jean Lu, a brilliant comedian and storyteller. IT KILLED ME (complimentary), don't miss #atx #atxtheater www.hydeparktheatre.org/helpmyvagina

what a marvelous and completely jammed Mi Casa Es Su Teatro we had for FronteraFest 2025. its actually still going on but i had to leave (as a theater building, i had to get ready for the Best of Week shows tonight). most forgot to take photos but here are a few

still some tix at the door for this whole day of shows, come at any point

THEY'RE BACK tonight for Best of Week. A couple of tix still available and if you miss those there's a generous (ie you will probably get in) waiting list at the door! Four other great shows as well -- tickets and descriptions at the link www.ticketweb.com/event/fronte...

Still some Tix left for closing weekend of the Ed Hamell (aka HAMELL ON TRIAL) show, Driving All Night--best show in #ATX this weekend, fulfilling all your daily requirements of music, storytelling, comedy, & madness www.hydeparktheatre.org/drivingallni...

Progress report. We had a blast. Thanks for the funds ScriptWorks. Happy 30th to FronteraFest. “Poseidon Cruise Presents Sheila and Carla Jeans High Tide Happy Hour Comedy Cabaret Deck 4 Weather Permitting Casual” by Lee Eddy and Jenny Larson @msleeeddy.bsky.social @hydeparktheatre.bsky.social 🛳️🍸⚓️

I've started a starter pack to attempt and locate/centralize local Austin orgs on Bluesky worth following. Feel free to both use it and let me know in the comments if you know of accounts I should add to it. go.bsky.app/Se26w1K

Looks what's coming your way Wednesday #ATX -- we're having a really A+ festival this year --

I think we should make @kwebster.bsky.social a Tshirt that reads "basically the Godfather of the Austin scene" with a spooky photo of Marlon Brando (thank you @austinchronicle.bsky.social for the lovely piece!) www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2025-01...

Go see our festival show DRIVING ALL NIGHT, music & storytelling from the astonishing Ed Hamell (Edinburgh festival award winner!), at Quack's South this Friday & Saturday and next weekend! #ATX www.hydeparktheatre.org/drivingallni...

We're in the midst of FronteraFest, our wildly complicated (close to 100 seperate performances!) annual festival now in its 30th year. So it seemed like a great time to start a new social media account 😵‍💫