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Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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AUDITIONS for Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

May 16, 2022 Leave a Comment

AUDITIONS for Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Audition Dates & Times: May 21, 1-4pm & May 25, 6-9pm Performance Dates: July 22-24, 29-31 The HPCP returns to Nichols Park this summer with our first free outdoor Shakespeare play since 2019! One of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a witty, funny, and sometimes moving tribute to […]

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Program for An Evening of Horror and Suspense 2020

October 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

The Hyde Park Community Players Present An Evening of Horror and Suspense 2020 Originally Streamed On Our Youtube Channel at 7pm Central Time Friday October 30 & Saturday October 31. Both Shows are now archived at the links at which they were originally broadcast First Evening of Horror and Suspense: The Turn of the Screw […]

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October 30 & 31 Release of Our Evening of Horror & Suspense 2020 in the New Fangled Physically Distanced Tradition!

October 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

Rehearsals are done and we’re preparing our 2020 “Radio Show” for release on October 30 & 31 on our Youtube channel.  Visit our Facebook page for details on how to be part of our audience for this year’s double evening of Horror & Suspense! THE CAST & THE STORIES Please meet our four scary stories […]

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February 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

Our Party Grows: Qui Ngyen’s She Kills Monsters, Dungeons & Dragons, and Geek Theater In the early 1980s, when I was around twelve or thirteen, my older brother got into a game called Dungeons & Dragons. Long before I knew what the game was about, I encountered traces of it around the house. There were the […]

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…But You Can’t Stay Here: AIRLINE HIGHWAY and the Problem of Home

November 8, 2019 Leave a Comment

A colleague of mine once told me that bartenders in Ireland will sometimes chase customers out at closing time by pointedly asking them, “Have you no homes to go to?” The American closing-time refrain, memorialized in many a country song, is “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” In Lisa D’Amour’s 2014 play Airline Highway, the […]

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An Evening of Horror and Suspense, Part Two: TERROR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

October 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

BUY TICKETS TO AN EVENING OF HORROR AND SUSPENSE 10 For our 10th Evening of Horror and Suspense, we celebrate the history of our longest-running production by offering two different Evenings, each featuring beloved stories from previous seasons. Directors of the previous Evenings of Horror and Suspense (Nora Davis, Terrie Vasilopoulos, Bill Hohnke, Mary McCarthy, Vanessa Ellis, Amelia […]

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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 »

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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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