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Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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Props & Proofs: It’s Prop Season for COLLECTED STORIES!

February 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

BUY TICKETS Collected Stories starts tech week this Monday, so it’s crunch time at the Harris household. As I hesitate, Hamlet-like, between different recipes for mondel bread (also known, I have discovered, as mandelbrot) I’m collecting various other objects and making the few things that I have to make. Because Collected Stories is getting a very realistic production and […]

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Collected Stories Introductions: Paul Baker, Director

February 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

Today we introduce Paul Baker, the director of Collected Stories. Paul is the founder and first president of HPCP. He has directed and co-directed numerous HPCP shows, most recently The Lady’s Not For Burning. Paul last appeared as an actor with the HPCP in Rashomon. Q. How did you first encounter Collected Stories, and what made you […]

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Friday Staged Reading: MENTAL, written and directed by Sasha Austin Schmidt. Friday, February 2, 2018.

January 30, 2018 Leave a Comment

Friday,February 2, 2018.  8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (5500 South Woodlawn). Admission $5. Mental. Written and directed by Sasha Austin Schmidt. Featuring: Vanessa Ellis, Corinna Christman, Amelia Snoblin, Tom Lariviere, Bill Hohnke, Leslie Halverson, Samantha Fenno, Michelle Heinz, Oroki Rice. Mental is a one-act play composed of four vignettes which offers a lighthearted look at feeling down […]

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Collected Stories by Donald Margulies: March 2-4, 9-11, 2018

January 24, 2018 Leave a Comment

Collected Stories by  Donald Margulies TICKETS Directed by Paul Baker with Laura MacGregor and Renata McAdams March 2-3 at 7:00pm, March 4 at 3:00pm March 9-10 at 7:00pm, March 11 at 3:00pm The acclaimed short story writer Ruth Steiner invites a promising student named Lisa Morrison to her Manhattan apartment to discuss her work. Lisa becomes Ruth’s […]

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First Staged Reading of 2018: TOM’S A-COLD by David Egan, directed by Paul Baker

December 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

January 12, 2018 at 8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue. Admission $5 Tom’s a-cold written by David Egan, directed and enacted by Paul Baker & David Egan   On May 19, 1845, HMS Terror and Erebus set sail from London to find a Northwest Passage over the Canadian Arctic and across into the Pacific. Neither […]

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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 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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