2019

IT IS MAGIC by Mickle Maher

From the brilliantly twisted mind of Mickle Maher comes a new dark comedy that challenges the limits of the theatre’s magic while mashing up the curse of the audition, The Three Little Pigs and,...

Robert Mueller's Greatest Hits - Vol I & II

"Complete and total exoneration"- Donald J. Trump Robert Mueller, played by Austin Arts Hall of Fame inductee Ken Webster, with some help from a rotation of local all-star actors will bring to...

Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel

Only 8 Performances over 2 weeks! Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Dry Land is a play about abortion, female friendship, resiliency, and what...

Wakey, Wakey by Will Eno

"universal and timeless" -Houston Press "Webster's performance radiates charm . . . Captivating, superbly funny . . . Eno's rapturous love affair with the full potential of the English language...

2018

The Hunchback Variations and ...Faustus... by Mickle Maher

The hysterical and brilliant Mickle Maher is back! Capital T is proud to present two short plays by Mickle Maher, the playwright who wrote Cap T’s award-winning hits Song About Himself, The...

The Goat: or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee

“As challenging- and...as outrageously funny as theater gets” – New York Post The most provocative love story ever told... Martin—a hugely successful architect who has just turned...

Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl

On a weeklong silent retreat in the woods, six wildly disparate urbanites looking for life balance find that staying quiet doesn’t necessarily bring inner peace. An acclaimed new comedy from...

I And You by Lauren Gunderson

From the writer that brought Austin the smash hit EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR... "Sharp and FUNNY. Gunderson taps into a buoyant spirit" - Washington Post "Unforgettable. The end will leave you...

2017

THE BROTHERS SIZE by Tarell Alvin McCraney

From the writer that brought us the Academy Award-Winning movie MOONLIGHT.... The Louisiana bayou. Two Brothers. The younger brother comes home from prison and hopes to resume his happily...

TITLE AND DEED by Will Eno

A newly arrived immigrant brings only a bag and a couple of his belongings. He is the newest nobody of the funniest century yet. He's almost Christ-like, from a distance, in terms of height and...

The Effect by Lucy Prebble

Hearts racing. Minds reeling. Knees buckling. Connie and Tristan have palpable chemistry—or is it a side effect of a new super-antidepressant? They are volunteers in a clinical trial, but their...

Hir by Taylor Mac

Isaac, a young veteran, returns to his childhood home and discovers that his family’s been transformed. His timid mother, freed from the constraints of her marriage, has begun a crusade to...

2016

Song About Himself by Mickle Maher

From the mind of Mickle Maher, the same genius that brought Austin the smash hits SPIRITS TO ENFORCE, THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS, and THE STRANGERER comes SONG ABOUT HIMSELF. Mickle...

Hand to God by Robert Askins

Trevor by Nick Jones

8 Years ago a chimpanzee named Trevor starred in an infomercial with Morgan Fairchild... Now Trevor's showbiz career is on the rocks. Despite biting a woman in the supermarket parking lot last...

Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi

Liberté, Egalité, Celebrité In a world of empty celebrity and economic crisis, how’s a queen to keep her head? David Adjmi’s reimagined modern take on cake enthusiast and infamous...

2015

The Dumb Waiter

Two professional killers armed with revolvers and a few biscuits are waiting in a windowless basement for word of their next macabre assignment unsure of who it will be or when it will...

Year of the Rooster

Gil Pepper is a loser. Odysseus Rex is winner. Against all odds Gil and his rooster will prove to his narcissistic mother, his teenage boss, local tycoon Dickie Thimble and the rest of the...

The Strangerer by Mickle Maher

The 2004 presidential debate mixed with Albert Camus' THE STRANGER...seriously. Multi-award-winning Ken Webster and Robert Pierson team up to portray Senator Kerry and President Bush in this...

DNA by Dennis Kelly

---CLOSING WEEKEND---- 10 Friends 1 Dead body (The death was frankly a little inconvenient) A group of teenagers weave a bloody web of lies in a jet-black comedy by the multi-award-winning...

2014

Fool for Love by Sam Shepard

After a long absence, Eddie has traveled 2,480 miles to reclaim May, his lover since high school. May’s efforts to make a fresh start are undermined by Eddie’s attempts to drag her back into...

Detroit by Lisa D'Amour

Recently laid off, Ben starts an e-business from his suburban home while his wife, Mary, keeps up with the Joneses. But when mysterious new neighbors Sharon and Kenny arrive, the façade of their...

punkplay by Gregory Moss

NOW EXTENDED THRU JUNE 28th! Mickey, a disaffected high schooler, is befriended by a confused and angry runaway named Duck. Trapped in a suburban wasteland, the two boys come across a vinyl...

Gidion's Knot

In a typical 5th grade classroom two women meet for a parent teacher conference. The encounter is anything but typical as the mother and teacher circle each other with scalding mistrust. We soon...

2013

There is a Happiness That Morning Is by Mickle Maher

EXTENDED Thru November 23 Due to rave reviews and sell out crowds! “A bizarre, brilliant play that is capable of reordering your brain a bit” -Austin Chronicle “Charming and...

THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Things are looking up for recovering alcoholic Jackie and his girlfriend Veronica—until Jackie spots another man's hat in their apartment and embarks on a sublimely incompetent quest for...

The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh

NOW EXTENDED THRU JUNE 29th Due to Sellout Crowds and Rave Reviews "SHOCKING, FUNNY, VIOLENT, AND UNPREDICTABLE" -Austin Chronicle "ABSOLUTELY TOP NOTCH...THIS SHOW IS A MUST SEE EVENT" - Austin...

Gruesome Playground Injuries

In a very different kind of love story an accident prone dare devil and a corrosive masochist navigate friendship, love and the squishy parts that lie in between. As they mature from...

2012

The Pain and the Itch by Bruce Norris

EXTENDED THRU THANKSGIVING WEEKEND!!! (no performance Thanksgiving Day)   "RIDICULOUSLY ENTERTAINING”   Austin American-Statesman
  "Hysterical and laugh-out-loud funny”  ...

Exit, Pursued by a Bear by Lauren Gunderson

Nan decides its finally time to leave her abusive husband Kyle and make a run for it but not until she’s tied him up, covered him in honey and invited the neighborhood bear in for a snack....

boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND
Now thru June 30th

"Sex to Change the Course of the World"—A grad student's online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research...

Precious Little Talent

by Ella Hickson (Capital T Theatre) (90 minutes) The US premiere of the latest breakout hit from London, Precious Little Talent follows two twenty-somethings--one American, one British--and their...