Hyde Park Community Players

Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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VacciNation: Our Next Life-Giving Production

June 20, 2021 Leave a Comment

Hi, friends.  Think about it for a moment: one day we’ll be saying to one another, “Remember that pandemic!  How did we ever get through that?” How soon can we start saying that!?  That will depend on us.  The world has been handed the tool we need to put this present into that past, vaccination, […]

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June Staged Reading: “A Sleep of Prisoners” by Christopher Fry

May 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

Join us for our June Staged Reading via Zoom A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry  (author of The Lady’s Not for Burning) Friday, June 4, at 8 pm directed by Paul Baker featuring: Nathan Agin James Allen, Jr. Paul Baker Samantha Fenno Henrik Nielsen Four prisoners of war are being held in a church. […]

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May Staged Reading: Selected Poems of Rupi Kaur

April 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

Selected Poems of Rupi Kaur Friday, May 7th at 8:00 pm via Zoom Please join us for a reading of poetry by Rupi Kaur, an Indian-Canadian, best-selling poet who has published three books, milk and honey (2014), the sun and her flowers (2017), and home body (2020). Kaur’s work “touches on love, loss, trauma, healing, […]

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BLACK LIVES MATTER.

April 21, 2021 Leave a Comment

Hello all! We hope everyone is as safe and healthy as possible in these challenging times. We miss you, and our hearts are with you. With live performances on hold, we have been seizing this unique moment to examine ourselves hyper-critically and reaffirm ourselves as an inclusive, diverse, and actively anti-racist organization. It is important […]

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Friday Staged Readings 2013-2017

April 21, 2021 Leave a Comment

Previous Staged Readings Friday, April 7, 2017, 8:00pm Secret Rivers Snapshots of life through poetry Written and directed by Marilyn Cavicchia “Marilyn Cavicchia gives vivid voices to the drivers and passengers traveling a rainy stretch of freeway in eastern Ohio. She conjures distinctive verbal identities for each of her personae, and each poem’s vignette delights […]

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April Staged Reading: “Hiding in Plainview”

March 31, 2021 Leave a Comment

Join us for our April Staged Reading via Zoom Hiding in Plainview written and performed by Dan Friedrich Friday, April 2, at 8 pm on Zoom. Free.  To receive the Zoom invite, contact us at info@hydeparkcommunityplayers. org And we hope you will stay after the show for discussion. Dan Friedrich, Hyde Park Community Player and farm […]

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Who Are We?

Founded in January of 2009, the Hyde Park Community Players is a non-profit, amateur, volunteer organization whose mission is to create compelling theatre by and for residents of the South Side. Read More »

Support the Players

You can make your contribution to our work here at the Hyde Park Community Players. There are lots of ways to give! Read More »

Friday Staged Readings

In addition to our major productions, the Players present a monthly staged-reading series, typically on the first Friday night of each month.
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Auditions

Auditions usually take place a few months before a show, in two sessions, one on a weekend afternoon and one on a weekday evening.
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Production History

Since our founding in 2009, the Hyde Park Community Players have been putting on between 2-3 shows per season.
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