Hyde Park Community Players

Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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What To Expect at an HPCP Audition

March 17, 2017 2 Comments

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 […]

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We did it! and a defense of Durang

March 10, 2017 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Plays are work… call it a night!

February 19, 2017 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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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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“The Marriage of Bette and Boo” by Christopher Durang (March 3-12, 2017)

December 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

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, […]

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Welcome to our new website!

November 14, 2016 Leave a Comment

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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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 »

Support the Players

You can make your contribution to our work here at the Hyde Park Community Players. There are lots of ways to give! Read More »

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

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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