2010-2011 HPT Season
Vigil
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 speaking, you're the only one who won't have to listen to it." Kemp has come to attend to his dying aunt. But as the play proceeds, it becomes less and less clear what he is doing there, or whether she will ever actually die. We've brought back Ken Webster and Lana Dieterich in a revival of our 2002 production, which won Outstanding Comedy of the Year.
Of our 2002 production, the American-Statesman said "impeccable . . . Hyde Park Theatre is on one heck of a roll." The Austin Chronicle said, "Panych's script is an absolute gem, so much so that it almost leaves me speechless." The Daily Texan called the 2002 show "riotously funny."
FronteraFest 2011
January 11 - February 12, 2011
The eighteenth season of this renowned five-week, city-wide, unjuried fringe festival featuring over 800 local and national artists annually. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro--all as unpredictable as ever.
FronteraFest is produced in collaboration with ScriptWorks, a group dedicated to supporting emerging playwrights and developing new dramatic works.
St. Nicholas
by Conor McPherson
Featuring Ken Webster
February 17 - March 12, 2011
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 "delectably droll." This is the much-anticipated revival of our 2006 production, which the Austin Chronicle called "storytelling at its finest . . . a joy to watch," and for which Ken Webster won the Austin Critics Table Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.
A Behanding in Spokane
by Martin McDonagh
directed by Ken Webster
April 28 - May 28, 2011
Another hilarious, terrifying black comedy from the playwright who brought you The Pillowman and The Lonesome West.
The Good Thief
by Conor McPherson
featuring Ken Webster
July 7 - August 6, 2011
The New York Times said of this quiet, hour-long play in which a small-time thug tells of a job gone wrong that McPherson has "a sure gift for unsettling by stealth . . . hypnotic."
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