‘Birthday Party Planners’  is a light-hearted look at newly discovered childhood trauma. A few middle aged people want to live the rest of their lives knowing that they have uncovered every dark area of their minds that could be holding them back from happiness. They employ the services of Birthday Party Planners, a company that […]

What would happen if you took the politics, the magic and the murders out of the “Scottish Play?”  What would Macbeth  look like if you banished the witches and removed the wronged thanes and the English force and just kept the private inwardness of Macbeth, his tormented musings, Lady Macbeth, her slide from brusque confidence […]

Come enjoy a staged reading of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, abridged and directed by Andrea Holliday.  Please Note:  We’ll be at a different location than usual–see below!   Sir John Falstaff arrives in Windsor very short on money, and decides to court two wealthy married women, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.The “merry wives” don’t […]

April is National Poetry Month, and spring is finally here! To celebrate both of these great events, the Hyde Park Community Players will perform a staged reading of nature-themed children’s poems by Paul Fleischman. Most of the selections are from Fleischman’s Newbery Medal-winning book Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, in which each poem is […]

February 8, 2019 at 8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue. Admission $5 The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde directed by Susan Harris with: Paul Baker, Leslie Browne, Leslie Halverson, Michele Heinz, Bill Hohnke, Kim Shaw, Amelia Snoblin Algernon and Jack are best friends. They’re both rich and useless; they both […]