2025-26 HPT Season

  • a collection of photos in windows of the same whute man at different ages and in different roles

    I Love HPT: The Return

    December 4 - 20, 2025

    a 9-performance fundraiser for HPT
    written and performed by Ken Webster

    Ken Webster loves Hyde Park Theatre, the iconic Austin treasure that turns 43 this year (the theater, not Ken!).

    Webster, a member of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame ,will perform his monologue piece, a history of our beloved space, that was first produced at HPT three years ago, when audiences were still wearing masks. We’ll have tales of Webster’s 46 years in local theatre, 42 years producing at Hyde Park Theatre, and 25 years of running the joint.

    We’ll also have video clips from old shows, photos and posters from past shows, one of Webster’s famous question-and-answer sessions with the audience, and more.

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  • smiling white woman in blue ballcap holds two baseballs before her eyes, fingers splayed

    FronteraFest 2026

    January 13 - February 14, 2025

    it’s time to heat up your winter nights again with the 31st season of FronteraFest at Hyde Park Theatre. The Short Fringe, and Mi Casa--as always and ever, FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre. Too bad there's no actual way to expect the unexpected, because that is your only hope.

    Produced in conjunction with Scriptworks.

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  • a medieval woodcut of four witches giving dolls to a devil; above them are creepy flying creatures

    WITCH

    February 19 - March 21, 2026

    By Jen Silverman

    Jen Silverman’s darkly funny and very modern take on the 1621 Jacobean play The Witch of Edmonton. The village thinks old Elizabeth is a witch. But when a charming, affable Devil arrives, only Elizabeth—not the rich young man devoted to Morris dancing (and another, secret thing); not his ruthlessly ambitious adopted brother; not the village girl he’s stringing along—only Elizabeth cannot be tempted . . . maybe. And maybe that’s what the Devil can’t resist.

    If you’ve ever looked around and thought, “I dunno, should we burn it all down?”—then this is the play for you.: Opens right after FronteraFest.

    Directed by Ken Webster.

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    TBA

    May 7 – June 6, 2026

    Details soon!

  • an unsmiling white woman with long white hair in a blue mechanic's coverall leans on a rusting orange gas tank

    Dear Dickies

    June 18–27, 2026

    written and performed by Robin Chotzinoff

    A love/business letter to Dickies workwear.

    Dear Dickies chronicles, through slides and stories, her attempt to become a Dickies brand ambassador. And also her attempt to clean out her closet, IRL and metaphorically.

    More information coming soon! Photo byKatie Rose Gurkin.

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