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Anton Introductions: Meet Laura MacGregor, Director

May 7, 2018 Leave a Comment

Laura MacGregor directs Jane Martin’s Anton In Show Business, May 11-13 & 18-20 at the University Church (TICKETS). Laura has directed numerous shows for the HPCP, including “Bittersweet Love“, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and The Tempest. Her most recent acting role with the HPCP was Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories. Q. When did you first encounter Anton in Show Business, and what […]

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HPCP General Meeting, April 25, 2018 at 6:30pm, 57th Street Friends (Quaker House), 5616 S. Woodlawn

April 2, 2018 Leave a Comment

Save the date for our next General Meeting, which takes place on April 25, 2018  at 6:30pm at Quaker House (5616 S. Woodlawn Avenue). What is a General Meeting? Our general meetings are open to the public. Usually we play some theater games, and we also conduct business (preparing for future productions, reporting on past productions, […]

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HPCP 10th Season Gala, March 30, 2018

March 13, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Hyde Park Community Players are turning 10!  Come celebrate with us on March 30 at 6 pm– ONE NIGHT ONLY-at the Revival Theater, 1160 East 55th Street. Let us entertain you!  Join us for drinks, show stoppers, appetizers from local restaurants, improv games and a walk down memory lane. TICKETS are $25 in advance ($30 […]

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Collected Stories Introductions: Renata McAdams (Lisa Morrison)

February 28, 2018 Leave a Comment

Today we introduce Renata McAdams, who plays Lisa Morrison. Renata has been in several HPCP shows, including Arcadia, Proof, and Clybourne Park, as well as several staged readings. She would have made her directorial debut with The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart this season, had we been able to get the performance rights.  Q. How did you […]

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