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Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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June Staged Reading: “A Sleep of Prisoners” by Christopher Fry

May 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

Join us for our June Staged Reading via Zoom A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry  (author of The Lady’s Not for Burning) Friday, June 4, at 8 pm directed by Paul Baker featuring: Nathan Agin James Allen, Jr. Paul Baker Samantha Fenno Henrik Nielsen Four prisoners of war are being held in a church. […]

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May Staged Reading: Selected Poems of Rupi Kaur

April 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

Selected Poems of Rupi Kaur Friday, May 7th at 8:00 pm via Zoom Please join us for a reading of poetry by Rupi Kaur, an Indian-Canadian, best-selling poet who has published three books, milk and honey (2014), the sun and her flowers (2017), and home body (2020). Kaur’s work “touches on love, loss, trauma, healing, […]

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BLACK LIVES MATTER.

April 21, 2021 Leave a Comment

Hyde Park Community Players is an inclusive, diverse, and actively anti-racist organization. It is important that we not only live these values, but celebrate them. Here are some of the steps we are taking in the short and long term: Examining and reflecting on the mistakes our organization has made in the past, and the […]

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Friday Staged Readings 2013-2017

April 21, 2021 Leave a Comment

Previous Staged Readings Friday, April 7, 2017, 8:00pm Secret Rivers Snapshots of life through poetry Written and directed by Marilyn Cavicchia “Marilyn Cavicchia gives vivid voices to the drivers and passengers traveling a rainy stretch of freeway in eastern Ohio. She conjures distinctive verbal identities for each of her personae, and each poem’s vignette delights […]

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April Staged Reading: “Hiding in Plainview”

March 31, 2021 Leave a Comment

Join us for our April Staged Reading via Zoom Hiding in Plainview written and performed by Dan Friedrich Friday, April 2, at 8 pm on Zoom. Free.  To receive the Zoom invite, contact us at info@hydeparkcommunityplayers. org And we hope you will stay after the show for discussion. Dan Friedrich, Hyde Park Community Player and farm […]

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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 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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