The lamentable and true tale of Master Arden, his wicked wife, her insatiable lover, and the bumbling ruffians the illicit pair hire to kill him... Published anonymously and registered in 1592,...
Before the Gothic Horror of Stoker and Shelley, before the most curious corners of the minds of the Brothers Grimm, there was John Webster’s dark fairytale of power, corruption, fate, and...
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In 1677, poet, libertine, and sometime spy for Charles II, Aphra Behn was the first published professional female playwright in the English language. Her play The Rover, or the Banish’d...
The Hidden Room, Eric Colleary from the Harry Ransom Center, and the Austin Scottish Rite Theatre lead a team of award-winning actors, scholars, and designers to resuscitate the ghost of John...
Back by popular demand! VERSE 1 on Saturday Jan 13th and VERSE 2 on Sunday Jan 14th. Please note that you need to have successfully passed VERSE 1 before you can sign up for VERSE 2. 12pm -...
Royalty. Rebellion. Rock. The Hidden Room presents Shakespeare's masterpiece about a delinquent Prince's journey from Eastcheap to glory. Using a brilliant cut by the American Shakespeare...
... marking the 90th anniversary of the Great Houdini's death... the Hidden Room and the Harry Ransom Center present
In 1681, Nahum Tate took an "unpolished jewel," Shakespeare's King Lear, and modified it for Restoration tastes. The romantic result replaced its original for 157 years. Now rarely-seen,...
Kicking off Brudermord’s 2015 US and UK tour, the Hidden Room presents: BRUDERFEST! Three nights of parties and puppets to send the Brudermord team off with a bang as Austin shakes hands with...
Enjoy blocked and costumed staged readings of these rarely-performed early modern gems, each extremely popular in their day, but mostly forgotten in modern times. Can you detect the words of...
We are proud to announce der Bestrafte Brudermord, or Hamlet Prince of Denmark, a collaboration between the Hidden Room, the American Shakespeare Center, and Tiffany Stern of Oxford University....
What Show Awaits You? It's a Mystery... Get out of the cold and into one hot night in a Hidden Room somewhere inside 311 W. 7th Street, downtown Austin. Look for a shadowy figure at the door and...
A sumptuous feast of Elizabethan food, prepared by Megan Turbeville, Executive Chef of the Root Cellar. Please reserve your dinner order no later than five days prior to your show date. All...
The Hidden Room is honored to present Rose Rage, Edward Hall & Roger Warren’s thrilling adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI triology, cut down into an epic two-part event. We are the first...
Venture inside the Hidden Room for holiday stories, music, dancing and danger set Christmas, 1940. The rest is a mystery. Hosted by the beautiful Bernadette Nason. Music by Andrea Smith,...
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