The excitement of theater, the energy of a small, engaged audience, the unique experience of watching a new play on your computer as it happens.

Intimate theater takes on a new meaning when original plays are webcast from living rooms, gardens and uncommon performance spaces, in front of an in-person and virtual audience, using breakthrough technology and old-fashioned storytelling.

htp: From our house to yours. Live. Online.

"Groups are just beginning to do this kind of online experiment in New York and LA, and it's exciting to see it happening here in Orlando." ~ United Arts of Central Florida

Downloadable press release
Featured in the May/June 2012 issue of Orlando Arts Magazine
Coming soon to Orlando Weekly

The Play


 An award-winning comedy about real life (or a drama with some very funny bits) about an elderly Russian man's last days with his favorite nephew

A Little Crazy
a play by Joseph Reed Hayes

"Playwright Joseph Reed Hayes captured the essence of the Jewish spirit in A Little Crazy, a beautifully written and acted drama that was among the best of the 28 [Fringe] shows I saw." - Orlando Weekly

"Hayes' work is appealing and sometimes downright lyrical." - Orlando Sentinel

The Tech

  • The multi-camera, live streaming experiment we call htp: is an exercise in the ancient art of theater and the modern magic of mobile technology. Using tiny hand-held cameras and an Apple iPad wirelessly linked together by a clever piece of wizardry called Collabracam, we can place multiple cameras anywhere to create a produced-on-the-fly video, while using Livestream and a high-resolution camera to stream the show to the world as it happens. Just imagine the artistic possibilities for playwrights, musicians, poets and artists everywhere.

The Live Show

The premiere performance of "A Little Crazy" 17 seats remaining The Lunch Show, scheduled with our international audience in mind, with multi-cultural dishes created by htp: resident chef, Joseph Hayes 9 seats remaining The Dessert Show - featuring exclusive confections created by Hollis Wilder of Sweet! by Good Golly Miss Holly to tempt our guests 14 seats remaining The Dinner Party Show - with unique culinary inventions of guest chef Tony Adams of Big Wheel Provisions  SOLD OUT 


Avram: Adrian LePeltier
Harry: Scott Silson
Lulu Picart, director

Christine Barron, clarinet
original music composed by Brian Groder

Watch Online

 

WATCH HOUSE THEATER PROJECT LIVE IN YOUR BROWSER
May 26 at 8pm
May 27 at 2pm
June 2 at 8pm
June 3 at 8:30pm
Watch htp: live on your iPhone, iPad or Android device with the Livestream app

Or Join Us

  • The plays produced by htp: can be watched live in the comfort of your home, but why not experience it where it happens? A select group will play a part of House Theater Project productions as our live, in-house (and never was a phrase more appropriate) audience.
  • Please get in touch if you're in Orlando and would like to join us for this or future shows.
    • Email us

"A very innovative use of technology to expand the definition of live performance." ~ United Arts

  
A play by Joseph Reed Hayes is a welcome oasis of cultural smarts."
~ Orlando Weekly

Best local playwright: Joseph Reed Hayes."
~ Orlando Sentinel

What impressed me most of all about the script was the way its message had an appeal to a wide audience crossing age and cultural boundaries with consummate ease."
~ Peter McGarry, Artistic Director, Eyewitness Theatre, England
Joseph Hayes is one of the new voices that can bring the theater to new audiences. His sense of dialogue and structure, his wit and awareness of the foibles of our society and the humanism that fill the pages of his work make him a true dramatist. His work and all the events he creates are significant nationally and internationally." 
~ David Amram, composer and author