Join us as we honor Black History Month with A Celebration of Langston Hughes: Soul Gone Home and poems Friday, February 12, 8:00 p.m. Directed by Oroki Rice, and starring Oroki & Sekou Sakkara Muhammad Our February offering for our Reading Series, on the second Friday this month, presents a […]
Want to be involved in a staged reading? Not sure how?
Hyde Park Community Players welcomes people at all levels of theater experience -- including none! Is there a short play (or excerpt of a play) that you'd love to share with an audience? Or a poetry collection or other literary work that has some dramatic possibilities? Would you like act, or direct? If so, please contact producer Laura MacGregor at stagedreadings@hydeparkcommunityplayers.org to learn more about the Staged Reading Series. We currently host 2 staged readings per month, on the First Friday of the month, and the Second Saturday. In a staged reading, the actors have their scripts with them, so no memorization is required. Support is available for inexperienced or first-time directors as you learn how to work with your cast to bring a short play to life. Because of COVID-19, all readings are currently held on Zoom, YouTube, or other virtual platforms. The Friday reading is a rehearsed performance, and the Saturday readings are read-along style: everyone who want a role plays one. The typical length for a reading is about 45 minutes followed by discussion. If you're not on the Hyde Park Community Players mailing list, make sure to sign up at the bottom of our homepage, so you can find out about the next reading. Attending one (or more) will help give you a better idea of what's involved in putting a performance together. We would love for you to be part of this series, whether as an audience member, an actor, or a director!
January Staged Reading: “Calumny”: Two Comedies about Slander, Libel & Fake News
Calumny Two short vintage comedies about slander, libel & fake news Friday, January 8, at 8:00 p.m Please join the online party for the streaming of our pre-recorded performance on YouTube! We present two one-act gems exploring the transmission of lies and the significance — or insignificance? — of truth. The performance will take place […]
Friday Staged Reading – Boxelder Bug Variations by Bill Holm
Join us for our December Friday Staged Reading via Zoom Friday, December 4th, at 8:00 p.m. Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music By Bill Holm Directed by Marilyn Cavicchia, with Assistant Director Barbara Barreno-Paschall Music performed & recorded by Bill Hohnke with: Sasha Austin-SchmidtJoseph CavicchiaRon ChafetzCorinna Christman Chris ChwedykBilly Cooper […]
Friday Staged Reading: Molière’s Tartuffe
Friday, November 6th, at 8:00 pm via zoom we present Tartuffe or, The Imposter a comedy by Molière directed by Sasha Austin-Schmidt Come join in the fun as a family executes a plan to convince their patriarch to stop idolizing a man who is definitely not holy, but certainly holier-than-thou. Tartuffe, Molière’s comic masterpiece on religious […]
Friday Staged Reading: Poems That Tell Stories: Classic Narrative Poems
Building on the success of our first rehearsed reading via Zoom, Friday, October 2, 8 pm, we will be at it again with Poems that Tell Stories: Classic Narrative Poems directed by Paul Baker The Program The Skeleton in Armor, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow– read by Ron Chafetz Casey at the Bat, by […]
Friday Staged Reading via Zoom
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot & Other Poems Directed by: Marissa Tranquilli Please join us for an evening of Eliot and poetry. We will present a large cast reading of one of T.S. Eliot’s most famous works: The Waste Land. It combines the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King in vignettes of contemporary British […]
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