OVERSIGHT

by L. B. Deyo

July 30 - August 22, 2026

Produced by Zahir Theater. A tense, fast-paced political and psychological thriller that traps its audience inside a closed committee hearing as lawmakers confront a consequential threat. Directed by Marcus McQuirter.

A Ritual of Healing. A Celebration of Love. A Story of What Remains.

A World Premiere One-Act Play by Zell Miller III

September 3 –12, 2026

Produced by Black Rose Theater ATX. Inspired by the loss of Miller’s mother, Vernell Miller, and his longtime mentor, theater icon Laurie Carlos, And She Was Loved is a deeply personal journey through grief, and memory that ultimately transforms into a testament of resilience, healing, and the enduring power of love.

Blending the mythology of Peter Pan with hip-hop theater, jazz aesthetics, movement, and gesture language, this powerful new work explores the bitter, the sweet, the love that remains after loss—and the hope that never leaves us.

Featuring national & international award-winning tap dancer Siobhan Alexis and introducing Marley Miller, granddaughter of Vernell Miller, and featuring Zell Miller III, Austin’s first poet laureate.

Tickets now on sale!

1pm Saturday, September 12

Reservations are Free

Presented by Black Pearl Books. Join us for a free, one-time only performance and reading of excerpts from  Frederick Douglass'  "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?," a speech delivered by the abolitionist in 1852 criticizing the hypocrisy of celebrating the Fourth of July while enslaving millions of people. It became one of Douglass's most famous speeches—reproving the gap between America's founding principles and the institution of slavery.

• A reading by Zell Miller III

• Performers from Black Rose Theater ATX

• Music by Thomas Wheeler

• Post-performance talk back with Harrison Eppright

• Book giveaway

1pm Saturday, September 12, 2026.

by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

September 24 – October 24, 2026

Hyde Park Theatre season show. HPT is deliriously excited to announce our production of The Making of a Great Moment by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, directed by Mark Pickell and featuring two comic legends of Austin theater, Lee Eddy and Jeff Mills.

In this hilarious play, two members of the "Victoria Canada Bicycle Theatre Company"  aspire to change people’s lives with the power of theater.

“A nonstop delight." - SF Examiner

"There are so many great moments in The Making of a Great Moment that it's hard to decide if the best ones are from the comic side or the more dramatic one." -Theater Dogs

"The audience howled. This is must-see theater at its finest." - For All Events

by Sabrina Wallace

6:30 p.m Sunday, September 27, 2026

Presented by Wallace Too Productions and The Filigree Theatre: a staged reading of At the Edge of Nowhere, Sabrina Wallace's debut one-act stage play directed by Elizabeth V. Newman.

What happens when a seventeen-year-old girl discovers she is pregnant in the weeks following the overturning of Roe v. Wade?

Set in a small rural Texas town, “At the Edge of Nowhere" follows Sadie as she carries a secret that could mean her future is no longer her own. As she navigates family expectations, town gossip, religious judgment, and political division, the voices around her become a chorus of fear and pressure that threatens to drown out her own thoughts.

Part of The Filigree Theatre's Stage One Reading Series, a workshop series dedicated to the development of new works by established and emerging playwrights and screenwriters.

by Annie Baker

February 25 - March 27, 2027

Hyde Park Theatre season show. Annie Baker is the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Genius Award-winning playwright of many past HPT favorites, including John, The Antipodes, The Flick, The Aliens, Circle Mirror Transformation, and Body Awareness,

In 2027, HPT is bringing you Baker’s latest: a very funny and occasionally harrowing play set at a California pain clinic. The New York Times called Infinite Life “very weird and great.” Vulture called it “nimble, funny, and devastating . . . Whatever the relative wellness or illness of our bodies, Infinite Life gathers us all in its wide embrace, turning its curious, accepting gaze on our brokenness.”

Directed by Ken Webster. More details soon.