Reviews for Hyde Park Theatre Performances
Review #3 of 3: The Making of a Great Moment, by Hyde Park Theatre
by Alistair C. Beaumont
Published on October 23, 2026
One can only imagine what philosophically deleterious effects life on the road has on these die-hard thespians. That would be a story indeed!
The Victoria Canada Traveling Bicycle Theatre Company Presents Great Moments in Human Achievement by Alistair C. Beaumont (as recorded by Brian Paul Scipione) Mona Barnes and Terry Dean of the Victoria Canada Traveling Bicycle Theatre Company (VCTBTC) have rolled into Hyde Park Theatre and given a road-weary blowout of a performance that included nearly five hundred of the most important great moments of human achievements in a mere four hours. The actors were, amazingly, not …
Review #2 of 3: The Making of a Great Moment by Hyde Park Theatre
by Vanessa Hoang Hughes
Published on October 17, 2026
From near-farce to heartfelt catharsis, THE MAKING OF A GREAT MOMENT is ninety minutes of fun, acting skill, and vivid character.
Wake up! The Victoria Canada Traveling Bicycle Theatre Company is in town! In four short hours, this touring-by-bike production of Great Moments in Human Achievement promises to change your life. Although over-anxious Mona and aloof Terry, the cast, shower in gas station sinks and probably stink from nonstop biking, their life mission is to bike their play across North America, touching the minds and souls of all who attend their four-hour show. In actuality, Peter …
Review #1 of 3: The Making of a Great Moment by Hyde Park Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on October 12, 2026
Funny GREAT MOMENTS amidst a spot-on MAKING OF. Theatre peeps par excellence Lee Eddy and Jeff Mills tickle the funnybone and touch the heart.
I caught Hyde Park Theatre's The Making of a Great Moment on the first weekend of performances. Looking around, I saw lots of Austin theatre peeps in the audience. No wonder, considering that Ken and Katherine have been sounding the drums on the return of Lee Eddy and Jeff Mills to the local stage; both actors are much admired by theatre colleagues. If you've never heard of them (or only gotten glimpses), this zany duo …
Review: Witch by Hyde Park Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on February 24, 2026
Playwright Silverman crafts a clever parable about witches, women, and men from a Jacobean gory story -- using contemporary language and a decidedly 21st century spin.
First of all, though Jenn Silverman based Witch on the typically hair-raising 1621 Jacobean play The Witch of Edmonton, a gory and almost hot-off-the-presses tabloid stage account of real murders and a burning at the stake, do NOT be scared of her rendition. Silverman cheerfully ransacks that work and walks away with a setting, some names, and the eternally familiar trope of the Devil coming to town in search of souls. Indeed, hers is a …
Review: Betrayal by Hyde Park Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on July 22, 2025
Hyde Park Theatre is the source for the most powerful contemporary drama in Austin. Harold Pinter's THE BETRAYAL, quietly spellbinding and heart-rending, proves it yet again.
Harold Pinter, Ken Webster. Ken, Harold. Pinter by Webster. Webster and Pinter. Similar. Similar? Pinter through Webster to Patrick, Robb, Guntli. Guntli robs Patrick. Robb? Pause. [pause] Pause? [long pause] Commonplace to say Pinter's the poet of pauses. Not so. Not? So . . . ? Pinter's the poet of the unsaid. Of the withheld. Of the truth we don't want to know. Though we do. Pinter's words are fine in the mouths of Brennan …
Review: Waiting for Godot by Hyde Park Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on December 21, 2024
Hyde Park Theatre proves once again that it's not obligatory for drama to entertain or distract. It's vital, sufficient and salutory for theatre art to look straight into the abyss.
It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That was Winston Churchill in an October, 1939 radiocast discussing the newly announced pact between Germany and Russia, but his cryptic formulation could be applied as well to Samuel Beckett's 1948-1949 En attendant Godot, written in French and produced in Paris in 1953. Beckett's English-language translation of his own work was staged in London in 1955. The first …