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Archives for November 2019

…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 […]

Filed Under: Airline Highway, Season, Shows

Friday Staged Reading: The Mojo and The Sayso

November 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

The Mojo and the Sayso written by Aishah Rahman directed by Oroki Rice Inspired by the 1973 killing of a ten-year-old boy by New York City police, THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO is both a comic and dramatic study of the ways that people cope with the aftermath of terrible tragedy.The New York Times review says of […]

Filed Under: Events, Friday Staged Readings, Readings

“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 […]

Filed Under: Airline Highway, Events, 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

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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