Hyde Park Community Players

Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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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!

February Staged Reading: “The Investigation: A Crime in Ten Acts”

January 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

February Staged Reading THE INVESTIGATION A Crime in Ten Acts By Robert Schenkkan ________________________________________ Based on          The Investigation into Russian Interference           in the 2016 Election  by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller _______________________________________ Abridged & directed by Andrea Holliday The Investigation is a masterly adaptation of the Mueller Report for theatrical […]

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Friday Staged Reading: “The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden” by Thornton Wilder

December 19, 2019 Leave a Comment

Join us Friday, January 10th The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden by Thornton Wilder directed by Paul Baker and starring: Adrienne Irmer as Ma Kirby Max Knighten as Elmer Kirby Jarell Johnson as Arthur, their son Alayna Johnson, as Caroline, their younger daughter Leslie Browne as Beulah, their elder daughter Paul Baker as The […]

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Happy Holidays from the Players to all our friends!

December 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

Happy Holiday season to all our wonderful HPCP friends!  Join us for a very special staged reading Friday, Dec. 13, 7 pm, at Quaker House,  5615 S. Woodlawn.  Songs of the Season features our gifted member Amelia Snoblin, who creates and directs her original work about finding the meaning in the holiday season.  And spoiler alert:  it […]

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Friday Staged Reading: The Mojo and The Sayso

November 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

The Mojo and the Sayso written by Aishah Rahman directed by Oroki Rice Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy.The New York Times review says of […]

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Friday Staged Reading Series – Birthday Party Planners

September 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

‘Birthday Party Planners’  is a light-hearted look at newly discovered childhood trauma. A few middle aged people want to live the rest of their lives knowing that they have uncovered every dark area of their minds that could be holding them back from happiness. They employ the services of Birthday Party Planners, a company that […]

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Friday Staged Reading – “The Scottish Couple” or “The Private Life of Macbeth and His Lady”

July 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

What would happen if you took the politics, the magic and the murders out of the “Scottish Play?”  What would Macbeth  look like if you banished the witches and removed the wronged thanes and the English force and just kept the private inwardness of Macbeth, his tormented musings, Lady Macbeth, her slide from brusque confidence […]

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