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October 30 & 31 Release of Our Evening of Horror & Suspense 2020 in the New Fangled Physically Distanced Tradition!

October 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

October 30 & 31 Release of Our Evening of Horror & Suspense 2020 in the New Fangled Physically Distanced Tradition!

Rehearsals are done and we’re preparing our 2020 “Radio Show” for release on October 30 & 31 on our Youtube channel.  Visit our Facebook page for details on how to be part of our audience for this year’s double evening of Horror & Suspense! THE CAST & THE STORIES Please meet our four scary stories […]

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COVID19 Response

March 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

What will this New Year bring? As you know, the coronavirus crisis continues, and this winter  the number of Illinois cases was again on the upswing. As a community organization, we want to be mindful of making the best possible decisions in relation to the safety and security of our audiences, performers, and production people. […]

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Meet the Cast – Tyler as Miles!

March 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

Meet the Cast – Tyler as Miles!

Let’s get to know the new cast members who will bring She Kills Monsters to life on March 13-15 and 20-22! Name: Tyler Kaplan Age: 31 Background: Physician at Rush What inspired you to audition? I just recently move to Chicago for work over the summer. I had done a lot of theater in high […]

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She Kills Monsters

March 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

She Kills Monsters

Sunday, March 15, will be the last chance to see She Kills Monsters.  In keeping with growing health concerns, we have made the hard decision to cancel the second weekend of the run. She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, Directed by Meara MacGregor and Assistant Directed by Marilyn Cavicchia.   Our Cast: Agnes Evans – […]

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February 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

Our Party Grows: Qui Ngyen’s She Kills Monsters, Dungeons & Dragons, and Geek Theater In the early 1980s, when I was around twelve or thirteen, my older brother got into a game called Dungeons & Dragons. Long before I knew what the game was about, I encountered traces of it around the house. There were the […]

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…But You Can’t Stay Here: AIRLINE HIGHWAY and the Problem of Home

November 8, 2019 Leave a Comment

…But You Can’t Stay Here: AIRLINE HIGHWAY and the Problem of Home

A colleague of mine once told me that bartenders in Ireland will sometimes chase customers out at closing time by pointedly asking them, “Have you no homes to go to?” The American closing-time refrain, memorialized in many a country song, is “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” In Lisa D’Amour’s 2014 play Airline Highway, the […]

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January Staged Reading: “Calumny”: Two Comedies about Slander, Libel & Fake News

January Staged Reading: “Calumny”: Two Comedies about Slander, Libel & Fake News

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Program for An Evening of Horror and Suspense 2020

Program for An Evening of Horror and Suspense 2020

October 30, 2020
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October 30 & 31 Release of Our Evening of Horror & Suspense 2020 in the New Fangled Physically Distanced Tradition!

October 30 & 31 Release of Our Evening of Horror & Suspense 2020 in the New Fangled Physically Distanced Tradition!

October 4, 2020
Filed Under: An Evening of Horror and Suspense, Events, Season, Shows

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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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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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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