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Director’s Note on CLYBOURNE PARK

May 11, 2017 Leave a Comment

Several years ago I directed a staged reading of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play A Raisin in the Sun, a fictional portrayal of an African American family’s move into an all-white Chicago neighborhood. I read the play for the first time in high school and loved it because the subject matter felt real to me. I […]

Filed Under: Clybourne Park, Clybourne Park, Events, Shows

Friday Staged Reading: Harold Pinter, THE LOVER, directed by Rosina Neginsky

May 3, 2017 Leave a Comment

Friday, May 5, 8:00pm Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue The Lover by Harold Pinter Directed by Rosina Neginsky Featuring:  Ron Chaffetz, Rosina Neginsky, Scott Malpass, Laura MacGregor and Adam Hammond.   Written in 1962, this serio-comic play contrasts domesticity with sexual yearning in a very odd love triangle. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there […]

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Clybourne Park, May 12-14, 19-21 at the University Church

April 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

Buy Tickets PERFORMANCES at University Church, 5655 South University Avenue May 12, 8:00pm May 13, 8:00pm ($6 Student Saturday) May 14 at 2:00pm ($7 Senior Sunday) May 19 & 20 at 8:00pm May 21 at 2:00pm Regular admission for all shows is $12. Students and seniors pay $10 except on special discount days as noted above. […]

Filed Under: Clybourne Park, Clybourne Park, Events, Shows

Friday Staged Reading: “Secret Rivers” by Marilyn Cavicchia

March 29, 2017 Leave a Comment

Friday, April 7, 8:00 p.m. Augustana Lutheran Church Admission: $5    Secret Rivers Director and Author: Marilyn Cavicchia Performers: Anthony Brown, Ron Chafetz, Corinna Christman, Leslie Halverson, Adam Hammond, Bobbie Lyons, Scott Malpass, Elizabeth “Dusty” Rahuba, Chris Skyles, Amelia Snoblin Imagine your town is dying. Would you do anything to save it? What if that […]

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Congratulations to the Cast of CLYBOURNE PARK!

March 26, 2017 Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce the cast for our next production, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park: CAST ACT ONE RUSS:  Paul Baker BEV:  Corinna Christman FRANCINE: Shonte Wesson ALBERT:  Paul Upshaw KARL:  Eric Roberts BETSY:  Amelia Snoblin JIM:  Dan Heinz ACT TWO DAN:  Paul Baker KATHY:  Renata McAdams LENA:  Shonte Wesson KEVIN:  James Allen STEVE:  Eric Roberts […]

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February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming Of The Bones,

January 31, 2017 Leave a Comment

So on Friday, February 3 at 8:00 pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (assuming the world has not yet ended), my hardy band of players, singers, and musicians will do staged readings of two of Yeats’s dance plays: At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming of the Bones. Each play runs about 20 minutes and there will […]

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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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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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Since our founding in 2009, the Hyde Park Community Players have been putting on between 2-3 shows per season.
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