The Mojo and the Sayso written by Aishah Rahman directed by Oroki Rice Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy.The New York Times review says of […]

‘Birthday Party Planners’  is a light-hearted look at newly discovered childhood trauma. A few middle aged people want to live the rest of their lives knowing that they have uncovered every dark area of their minds that could be holding them back from happiness. They employ the services of Birthday Party Planners, a company that […]

Come enjoy a staged reading of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, abridged and directed by Andrea Holliday.  Please Note:  We’ll be at a different location than usual–see below!   Sir John Falstaff arrives in Windsor very short on money, and decides to court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.The “merry wives” don’t […]

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 […]