Welcome to the 48th season!

WE CAN’T WAIT TO BE UNDER THE OPEN STARRY TEXAS SKY WITH YOU!

The 2024 season starts May 17th and continues all the way through November 3rd.

We will share FIVE productions that will blow your socks off!

IT’S HOMEMADE MAGIC, THE KIND THAT MAKES HIP POCKET OH SO SPECIAL.

Single ticket sales will be open soon!

But you can go ahead and get your season pass here: HIP PASS

With deep appreciation for your continued support and love of Hip Pocket Theatre,

Lake & Lorca Simons

Artistic Directors of Hip Pocket Theatre


 
  • Hip Pocket Theatre has been a vital part of the performing arts in Texas since 1976, when founders Johnny Simons, Diane Simons, and Douglas Balentine first staged their interdisciplinary plays under the stars in Fort Worth. Since its founding, the theater has grown its global reach and capacity for genre-defying programming, while staying true to the bold, playful, and magical.

    Hip Pocket incorporates dance, mime, music, masks, and puppetry to create a universal language that can tell stories at once childlike and urgent. The scripts, the stage, and the performers at Hip Pocket build on a lexicon unique to its pioneering roots, and each performance is an homage to what it means to create a space for theater.

    Hip Pocket honors the new vision of each artistic generation as an unfolding of time. Johnny and Diane’s daughters, Lorca and Lake, now carry the theater’s vision forward with their new directorship. They embody Hip Pocket's evolving vocabulary of storytelling and movement, and as veteran creators for its stage, look to expand its legacy of original, boundary-bending works. As Lorca and Lake bring with them lifelong careers and experience in the arts, they conscientiously seek to prioritize the theater's accessibility, inclusivity, and international reach.

    Hip Pocket Theatre, as both experimental playhouse and environmental visual installation, has a long-standing outreach program comprising community based events and enriching healing arts programming. It is dedicated now, as always, to bringing guest artists from around the globe and throughout Fort Worth to collaborate on projects each season.

  • Lake Simons, Managing Artistic Director

    Lorca Simons, Producing Artistic Director

    Johnny Simons, Consulting Artistic Director

    Peggy Bott Kirby, Director of Finance and Development

    Lauren Riley, Social Media Manager

    Rebecca Sinclaire, Administrative Assistant

    Board of Directors:

    Holly Nelson Ellman, President

    Tracy Stearns Bush, Vice President

    Leslie Zvitt, Secretary

    Quentin McGown, Treasurer

    Melinda Wood Allen

    Aaron Butler

    Lauren Ivy Chiong

    Nikki Deshea Smith

    Marian Eastman

    Yvonne Duque- Guerrero

    Paul Hamilton

    Thad Isbell

    John Key

    Bethany Malone

    Brian Pierce

    Barbara Wooten Meece

    Artistic Advisory Board:

    Bruce Balentine

    Barbara Busackino

    Andy Corren

    Alex Cowan

    Ellen Mahoney Crouse, PhD.

    Tom Crouse

    Scott Ferree

    Peter Fodera

    Deborah Freed

    Loli Kantor

    Dr. John P. Murphy

    Basil Twist

    Greg Vore

    Joe Waller

    Ms. Linda Whittington

  • We love our volunteers! Come out and join in! Be part of the action and lend a hand! For more info on how you can volunteer and lend a hand call us or email us.

    817-246-9775

    hpt@hippocket.org

    Throughout our season we welcome volunteers! If you have experience with box office, as an usher, or would like to help us in any way- we can likely use your help! Contact us at the above number or email us.

    GET INVOLVED! BE HIP!

 

We are excited to share this special opportunity with the DFW community! Experience ritual theatre with artistic director, Lorca Simons. Join her on our stage for this one day exploratory lab: ROUGH MAGIC.

Generously brought to us by Dallas Movement Collective.

The scripts, the stage, and the performers at Hip Pocket build on a lexicon unique to its pioneering roots, and each performance is an homage to what it means to create a space for theater.

Come on out & experience an unforgettable night!

Donate & make us Strong & Hip!

There are many ways to keep us STRONG & HIP. Opportunities include setting up a monthly donation, giving us a one-time donation, buying a Hip Pass (our season pass) and attending all of the productions this season - you don't have to pick just one! Whatever ways you decide is right for you…keep coming back!

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 People like you keep us moving forward!

Thank you to all our theatre loving donors!