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Meet the cast of BUDDHA SWINGS

April 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

We are proud to introduce the cast of John Poole’s original musical Buddha Swings, which will swing into action on May 2! Prince Sidd: Deigha Gary This will be Deigha’s third appearance with HPCP. After making his HPCP debut in the 2018 staged reading of She Kills Monsters, Deigha played Fernando in Renata McAdams’s production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Mariana Pineda.  He has also […]

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Friday Staged Reading Series: Joyful Noise

March 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Auditions for Buddha Swings!

March 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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The View from the Bench: Love and THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

March 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Ben Matlock

March 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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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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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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