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Collected Stories Introductions: Laura MacGregor (Ruth Steiner)

February 25, 2018 Leave a Comment

Today we introduce Laura MacGregor, who plays Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories. Laura is a longtime HPCP member currently serving on the board of directors. She has acted in many HPCP productions (most recently as Soot in Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo) and has also directed William Inge’s Glory in the Flower and Strains of Triumph as well as Christopher Hampton’s Les […]

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Props & Proofs: It’s Prop Season for COLLECTED STORIES!

February 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

BUY TICKETS Collected Stories starts tech week this Monday, so it’s crunch time at the Harris household. As I hesitate, Hamlet-like, between different recipes for mondel bread (also known, I have discovered, as mandelbrot) I’m collecting various other objects and making the few things that I have to make. Because Collected Stories is getting a very realistic production and […]

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Collected Stories Introductions: Paul Baker, Director

February 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

Today we introduce Paul Baker, the director of Collected Stories. Paul is the founder and first president of HPCP. He has directed and co-directed numerous HPCP shows, most recently The Lady’s Not For Burning. Paul last appeared as an actor with the HPCP in Rashomon. Q. How did you first encounter Collected Stories, and what made you […]

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Friday Staged Reading: MENTAL, written and directed by Sasha Austin Schmidt. Friday, February 2, 2018.

January 30, 2018 Leave a Comment

Friday,February 2, 2018.  8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (5500 South Woodlawn). Admission $5. Mental. Written and directed by Sasha Austin Schmidt. Featuring: Vanessa Ellis, Corinna Christman, Amelia Snoblin, Tom Lariviere, Bill Hohnke, Leslie Halverson, Samantha Fenno, Michelle Heinz, Oroki Rice. Mental is a one-act play composed of four vignettes which offers a lighthearted look at feeling down […]

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First Staged Reading of 2018: TOM’S A-COLD by David Egan, directed by Paul Baker

December 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

January 12, 2018 at 8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue. Admission $5 Tom’s a-cold written by David Egan, directed and enacted by Paul Baker & David Egan   On May 19, 1845, HMS Terror and Erebus set sail from London to find a Northwest Passage over the Canadian Arctic and across into the Pacific. Neither […]

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Friday Staged Reading: Holiday Children’s Stories

November 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

Augustana Lutheran Church December 1, 2017 at 7:00pm (please note earlier family-friendly start time) Admission $5 Is Christmas not incomplete without some special story?  Perhaps the Gift of the Magi, or the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, or The Night Before Christmas?  Come be a child again–and bring any children you may have!–and hear some favorite tales about the […]

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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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