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Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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June Staged Reading: “Bloom’s Day” by Stephen Fedo

June 9, 2026 Leave a Comment

A reading from Bloom’s Day A new dramatization of James Joyce’s Ulysses. by Stephen Fedo Directed by Ron Chafetz Friday, June 12, 7:30 pm Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue Join us as we present the 2nd part of Bloom’s Day.  This second part, of course, includes Poldy Bloom’s & Stephen Dedalus’s adventures in […]

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Summer Shakespeare Auditions

May 26, 2026 Leave a Comment

This summer, the Hyde Park Community Players will perform a a variety of Shakespeare scenes in Nichols Park at the end of July.  This will include “oldies but goodies” like the witches scene from Macbeth, and Pyramus &Thisbe from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but will also feature new scenes for the Players from Hamlet, Measure […]

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MonteCristo2020

May 15, 2026 Leave a Comment

MonteCristo2020 The Hyde Park Community Players are delighted to present the premiere of MonteCristo2020, an original musical based on Alexander Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo with book & lyrics by Susan Harris and score by Bill Hohnke. Reserve your seats here: https://events.humanitix.com/montecristo2020 The suggested donation is $20 per seat. Performance Dates Performances will […]

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May Staged Reading: “The Goat” by Edward Albee

April 25, 2026 Leave a Comment

Join us for The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee The Goat won every major award for best new play in 2002: the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.   Corinna Christman & Bill Hohnke will present scenes from this wickedly funny play about a family […]

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MonteCristo2020

March 6, 2026 Leave a Comment

The Hyde Park Community Players present: MonteCristo2020 is an original musical based on Alexander Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo with book and lyrics by Susan Harris and music by Bill Hohnke. Isolating in her apartment during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, a lonely bookworm discovers Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo. The classic novel […]

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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 »

Support the Players

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 about two 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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