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 […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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 […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: The Collection, written by John Poole
THE COLLECTION is an original two-act play about the heroes we avoid being, written and directed by John Poole. We perform act 1. John’s original musical, Buddha Swings, is our Spring play, so come get an early preview of his wit and humor! Jacob Kleist is moving to Chicago, and so, he must sell his […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: The Maker of Dreams
Directed by Paul Baker . The Maker of Dreams by Oliphant Down This musical fairy tale features Pierrot and Pierrette, living unhappily ever after together. But a stranger arrives to help with magic, riddles, and poetry. . With original music by Bill Hohnke . 7 pm Friday, December, 7 at Augustana Church (5500 S Woodlawn.) […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: An Enemy of the People
Directed by Laura MacGregor . An Enemy of the People was written in 1882 by Henrik Ibsen. It tells the story of a town, whose supposedly beneficial spa water may actually be poisoning the citizens. But who is the actual enemy of the people: the scientist gleeful at the disaster, the mayor eager to cover it up, […]
FRIDAY STAGED READING: The Wedding Band by Alice Childress
Directed by Oroki Rice, it’s an interracial love story set in 1918. There is a war in Europe, and a smaller war in South Carolina, where an African-American seamstress and a white German-American baker have a long-time affair. Disapproval from neighbors and family, as well as South Carolina’s laws prohibiting interracial marriage, makes it increasingly hard for them […]