April is National Poetry Month, and spring is finally here! To celebrate both of these great events, the Hyde Park Community Players will perform a staged reading of nature-themed children’s poems by Paul Fleischman. Most of the selections are from Fleischman’s Newbery Medal-winning book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, in which each poem is […]
Archives for March 2019
Auditions for Buddha Swings!
Breath deeply. Come out and audition for this jukebox swing musical about the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the one who became The Buddha! Be prepared to sing a few bars and read. Auditions take place at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue on: Wednesday, March 13 from 6-9 pm Friday, March 15 from 7-9 […]
The View from the Bench: Love and THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
Though it happened entirely by accident, it is fitting enough that our refresher rehearsal for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is taking place in a church on Ash Wednesday. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play is a kind of a modern Biblical seriocomic courtroom drama in which Guirgis imagines a defense attorney appealing Judas’s sentence of eternal damnation at the […]
Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Ben Matlock
Catch up with Ben Matlock – Simon the Zealot Ben has been seen on stage with the Hyde Park Community Players before in Dangerous Liasons, Musical of Musicals, The Musical!, and the Friday Staged Reading Series. Hi Ben, it’s great to see you again. What have you been up to? What made you want to […]
Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – James Allen
Catch up with James Allen – Pontius Pilate James has previously appeared with HPCP as Caliban in The Tempest, and was in Clybourne Park, and The Lady is Not For Burning. Hi James, it’s been a while! It’s good to see you. What have you been up to? Since last time I did something with […]