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  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: An Englishman and A Belle

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      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!

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • Improvised Play Festival Spotlight: The Half-Written Play

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    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…

  • The Secret Power of Friendship

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    Origins: The Making of a Superhero, Improvised opens this Saturday, April 2 at 6pm! Click here to get tickets! by Origins cast member Jenn Hamm Most of us have seen the moment that superheroes obtain their powers in the movies. At first it’s awesome, but through time they begin to doubt themselves and fear their…

  • Submit a Secret for Austin Secrets

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    The Hideout Theatre’s latest mainstage show, Austin Secrets, opens this Saturday (March 5). This is the sixth season of this incredibly popular show and we need secrets to inspire the cast! Got something to share? Click here! After you’ve submitted your secret, come see the show and see if we use your secret! Austin Secrets…

  • Welcome to 183 Dewberry Lane

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    183 Dewberry Lane is our latest student mainstage show. It runs Saturdays in February at 6pm. Get your tickets here!   In order to really nail the tone of any genre improv show, the cast starts by doing a lot of research. When the cast of 183 Dewberry Lane got together to research this horror-comedy improv…

  • Let’s Hear it for our Students!

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    The 2nd Annual Student Appreciation show is this Saturday at 6pm. Get your tickets here! by Jessica Von Schramm, Student Appreciation Show co-Director Earlier this month I enrolled in Level 7, a unicorn-like class that happens only once a year. I finished Level 6 in 2013, and I’ve done several shows and a handful of improv…

  • Welcome Our New Technical Directors!

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    We are so excited to announce that we have brought on Lindsey McGowan and Cindy Page to be the technical directors at the hideout. Cindy and Lindsey have been integral to the success and quality The Hideout has achieved in recent years. Now that they are working with us in a more official capacity, we’re…