Frequently Asked Questions about HPCP Auditions Do you pay your actors? No. The HPCP is a volunteer, not-for-profit, amateur organization. We don’t pay our actors, nor do we pay our directors, producers, set designers, etc. Our mission is to give people who love theater the opportunity to make it. Do I have to be an […]
We did it! and a defense of Durang
We did it! Opening weekend was beautiful. The audience members laughed and cried and also questioned why I would do such a “disturbing” play. I am including my director’s notes here as an explanation/defense. Ta-da! I first discovered The Marriage of Bette and Boo—and Christopher Durang—in college. It was love at first read through. He […]
Plays are work… call it a night!
I was in my first play in second grade. It was called Iron John and, because I had a natural aptitude for being precise and bossy, I was cast as the lead narrator. Two days before the show, we had a disastrous rehearsal. We missed cues, we missed, entrances—I’m pretty sure one of the princesses […]
February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming Of The Bones,
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 […]
“The Marriage of Bette and Boo” by Christopher Durang (March 3-12, 2017)
Directed by Corinna Christman Purchase Tickets Bette and Boo Blog CAST: Bette- Leslie Browne Boo- David Federking Margaret- Cordelia Callaway Paul- Adam Hammond Emily- Amelia Snoblin Joan-Maryse Meijer Karl- Chris Mackle Soot- Laura MacGregor Matt- Leslie Halverson Father Donnally- James Redfield Doctor- Ruth Kadanov “Christopher Durang is one of the masters of modern dark comedy, […]
Welcome to our new website!
After 6 years, the online home has finally gotten an upgrade! We hope that information and items are easier to find, and that you have a pleasant experience navigating. A few highlights: Our blog will have ongoing updated content You can now sign up for our mailing list! (either in the right column, or at the bottom […]
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