For its 33rd season, Fort Worth’s Hip Pocket Theatre has announced a collection of shows that reflect founder Johnny Simons’ long-held interests, including Beat poetry, pulp fiction and pop prophecy. Notable this season will be a bigger theater venue and a new five-year lease on the city-owned property on Silver Creek Road.

Notable among the offerings, on the other hand, is something quite small and delicate: White Elephant (above), a puppetry-music-and-Super 8 film project by Simons’ daughter Lake and musician John Dyer. A poetic tale of a wicker elephant that is tossed into a bonfire and is transformed, White Elephant opened at La MAMA Experimental Theater Company this weekend in New York (Sept. 10-20).

• Allen Ginsberg’s classic Beat poem, Howl, gets adapted by Johnny Simons (June 5-28).

• Kahlil Gibran’s classic of new age philosophy (and eternal counter-cultural bestseller), The Prophet, gets adapted by Simons (July 10-26).

• Then comes a new work by Simons: The Ugly Brothers Present a Perfectly Lovely Play Featuring the Quiver Sisters and Their Pretty Little Ways (Aug. 7-30).

• The return of the Cowtown Puppetry Festival (Sept. 4-6).

• And A Princess of Mars (Oct. 2-24), one of Edgar Rice Burroughs series of “Martian tales,” his most popular works after his Tarzan novels (which Simons has staged).

Season tickets are on sale. Call 817-246-9775.