THE MAKING OF A GREAT MOMENT

Hyde Park Theatre season show: We are happy, or more accurately deliriously excited, to announce our production of The Making of a Great Moment, by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb.

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

The show is directed by Mark Pickell and features two comic legends of Austin theater, Lee Eddy and Jeff Mills.

We could not be luckier in our cast. Lee Eddy is an actor, director and writer whom you may know from Netflix’s brilliant series Mo or the marvelous Richard Linklater film Apollo 10 1/2. Or you may remember her from her Best of FronteraFest show “You’re Invited to Tuscan’s 5th Birthday Party!,” the raucous story of a stressed-out mother and a children’s party gone as wrong as possible, which she subsequently turned into an award-winning short film.

You may have seen Jeff Mills last year at HPT in L. B. Deyo’s Apprehension, but he has also worked with the Rude Mechs, SVT, Physical Plant, Fusebox, Zach Theater, Refraction Arts, the Siti Company and many more. He’s a producer, director, actor and sound designer whose notable credits include The Assumption, Fixing King John, Roe, Everything is Established, Three, Spacestation1985, Fixing Troilus and Cressida, and Hotel Vanya. In 2018, Jeff received the distinguished John Bustin Award for Conspicuous Versatility from the Austin Critics Table.

A few highlights from reviews of the San Francisco production of The Making of a Great Moment.

“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

All shows start at 8:00 PM and run Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays September 24 – October, 2026. Tickets for the first three weeks are $25 on Thursday and Friday, $28 on Saturday; prices go up the last two weeks. Tickets on sale now!

ALERT TO THE BROKEISH: Every Thursday is Pay What You Can Night. Write hydeparktheatre@gmail.com or call 512-479-PLAY (7529) to make a reservation, then pay what you can—your call, you know better than we do—at the door. Or just show up and take your chances!