Month: April 2016

  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: Instant Theatre

    Wherein we spotlight a show playing in the 2016 Improvised Play Festival, happening Thursday April 14 – Saturday April 16! Get your tickets here! Instant Theatre comes to The Improvised Play Festival from Vancouver, British Columbia. Their format is simple: they ask the audience what they know about Canada, what the people are like, what…

  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: An Englishman and A Belle

      Wherein we spotlight a show playing in the 2016 Improvised Play Festival, happening Thursday April 14 – Saturday April 16! Get your tickets here! Mark Tindle is from England. Aspen Webster is from Florida. They are a duo. They bring their disparate point of view together to form “An Englishman and A Belle”. We talked…

  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: Boy, Howdy!

    Wherein we spotlight a show playing in the 2016 Improvised Play Festival, happening Thursday April 14 – Saturday April 16! Get your tickets here! Boy, Howdy! is an improvised 1960s TV western in the style of Bonanza and The Big Valley that originally had a mainstage run at The Hideout in November and December of last…

  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: Teenage Wasteland

    Wherein we spotlight a show playing in the 2016 Improvised Play Festival, happening Thursday April 14 – Saturday April 16! Get your tickets here! “Teenage Wasteland” played in October of last year as part of The Hideout’s Student Mainstage series. It comes back tonight for one final party at 8:30pm! Director Jordan Maxwell gives us…

  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: Express Yourself

    Wherein we spotlight a show playing in the 2016 Improvised Play Festival, happening Thursday April 14 – Saturday April 16! Get your tickets here! “Express Yourself” originally played at ColdTowne Theater in February and March, selling out consistently throughout the run and receiving much critical acclaim. Set in a high school classroom, “Express Yourself “tells the story…

  • 2016 Austin Secrets Archive

    Here are the slideshows of the secrets that were used in each of our 2016 Austin Secrets shows (new ones are added as the shows happen). Some of them include photos of the show! Got your own secret to share? Share it here! http://hideouttheatre.com/send-us-your-secrets Is it April 2016 still? Wanna see the show? Get tickets…

  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: The Half-Written Play

    Wherein we spotlight a show playing in the 2016 Improvised Play Festival, happening Thursday April 14 – Saturday April 16! Get your tickets here! Last year at The Improvised Play Festival, Jon Bolden premiered “The Half-Written Play”. The name explains it pretty well: the first act of a play is written before the show and…