Hyde Park Community Players

Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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AUDITIONS for EOHAS 25

September 10, 2025 Leave a Comment

AUDITIONS  for our 16th Annual Evening of Horror & Suspense in the Old-Time Radio Tradition Saturday, September 27, 1-4 pm  Tuesday, September 30, 6-9 pm At Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue Join us as we recreate the feel of a studio in the Golden Age of Radio.  There will be no lines or […]

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September 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

Join us for our September Staged Reading A Night of Monologues Directed by Anne Gearhart Join us for an evening of monologues, fourteen in all, drawn from a variety of plays and other sources.  Following the reading, we will have our usual homemade goodies and a chance to talk with the director and actors about […]

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Getting Shakespeare off the Shelf 2025

August 7, 2025 Leave a Comment

Join us for our Annual Shakespeare Boot Camp! Getting Shakespeare off the Shelf! An afternoon workshop to explore & perform scenes from Shakespeare,  get constructive feedback,  have lots of fun! Saturday, August 23 1:00 to 5:00 pm  Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue Appropriate for all levels of experience!   Registration is required as space […]

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Shakespeare Workshop 2024

August 10, 2024 Leave a Comment

  Join Us for our Annual Shakespeare Boot Camp! Getting Shakespeare off the Shelf! A one-afternoon workshop to explore & perform scenes from Shakespeare, get constructive feedback, have lots of fun! Saturday, August 24, 1:00 to 5:00 PM Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue For adults, 15 and up.  No experience necessary.  The cost […]

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June Staged Reading: #MonteCristo2020

May 22, 2024 Leave a Comment

#MonteCristo2020 Written and directed by Susan Harris & Bill Hohnke is an original musical in progress which reimagines Alexandre Dumas’s classic 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo through the lens of the coronavirus pandemic. The show is narrated by the Isolator, who discovers Dumas’s novel in the spring of 2020 while on lockdown. As […]

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“Do You Feel Anger?” by Mara Nelson-Greenberg

April 24, 2024 Leave a Comment

Hyde Park Community Players present Do You Feel Anger? An Absurdist Comedy By Mara Nelson-Greenberg Directed by Marilyn Cavicchia May 10 -12, 17-19  Fridays & Saturdays – 8 pm   •  Sundays – 3 pm matinee At University Church 5655 S. University Avenue Join us for our May production, Do You Feel Anger?, written by Mara […]

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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

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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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