Hyde Park Community Players

Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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COVID19 Response

March 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

2025 is here, and the pandemic is officially long over, but, of course, the virus will always be with us, with new variants causing upsurges of concern.  For each person the balance between caution and optimism is different and changing. As a community organization, we want to be mindful of making the best possible decisions […]

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She Kills Monsters

March 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

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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“Airline Highway” by Lisa D’Amour

November 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

Hyde Park Community Players present Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour directed by Leslie Halverson (Director of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Twelfth Night) November 15-17 & 22-24 Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Sundays, 2:00 p.m. matinee At University Church 5655 S. University Avenue The first mainstage production of our 2019-20 season, our fall […]

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An Evening of Horror & Suspense, Part One: GOTHIC BY GASLIGHT

October 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

BUY TICKETS For our 10th Evening of Horror and Suspense, we celebrate the history of our longest-running production by offering two different Evenings, each featuring beloved stories from previous seasons. Directors of the previous Evenings of Horror and Suspense (Nora Davis, Terrie Vasilopoulos, Bill Hohnke, Mary McCarthy, Vanessa Ellis, Amelia Snoblin, and Shonte Wesson) recommended […]

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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

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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