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Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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Buddha in the USA!

April 16, 2019 Leave a Comment

Buddha Swings first came about when we performing a bunch of ‘JukeBox Musicals’ with The Overtime Theater back in the Old Frontier Town of San Antonio, Texas. Them’s were hard times, trying to earn a buck by doing Live Theater in the Alamo City. You saw Anton In Show Business, right? Well, this show was […]

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Meet the cast of BUDDHA SWINGS

April 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

We are proud to introduce the cast of John Poole’s original musical Buddha Swings, which will swing into action on May 2! Prince Sidd: Deigha Gary This will be Deigha’s third appearance with HPCP. After making his HPCP debut in the 2018 staged reading of She Kills Monsters, Deigha played Fernando in Renata McAdams’s production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Mariana Pineda.  He has also […]

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The View from the Bench: Love and THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

March 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

Though it happened entirely by accident, it is fitting enough that our refresher rehearsal for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is taking place in a church on Ash Wednesday. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play is a kind of a modern Biblical seriocomic courtroom drama in which Guirgis imagines a defense attorney appealing Judas’s sentence of eternal damnation at the […]

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Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Ben Matlock

March 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

Catch up with Ben Matlock – Simon the Zealot Ben has been seen on stage with the Hyde Park Community Players before in Dangerous Liasons, Musical of Musicals, The Musical!, and the Friday Staged Reading Series. Hi Ben, it’s great to see you again. What have you been up to? What made you want to […]

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Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – James Allen

March 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

Catch up with James Allen – Pontius Pilate James has previously appeared with HPCP as Caliban in The Tempest, and was in Clybourne Park, and The Lady is Not For Burning. Hi James, it’s been a while! It’s good to see you. What have you been up to? Since last time I did something with […]

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Director’s Note from Leslie Halverson – The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

February 27, 2019 Leave a Comment

I was raised going to church. I used to love hearing my grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, preach about the connections between Christianity and social justice. It did so much to shape the way I move through the world and interact with those around me. That said, while those memories are very precious to me, and […]

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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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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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