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Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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February 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

Our Party Grows: Qui Ngyen’s She Kills Monsters, Dungeons & Dragons, and Geek Theater In the early 1980s, when I was around twelve or thirteen, my older brother got into a game called Dungeons & Dragons. Long before I knew what the game was about, I encountered traces of it around the house. There were the […]

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…But You Can’t Stay Here: AIRLINE HIGHWAY and the Problem of Home

November 8, 2019 Leave a Comment

A colleague of mine once told me that bartenders in Ireland will sometimes chase customers out at closing time by pointedly asking them, “Have you no homes to go to?” The American closing-time refrain, memorialized in many a country song, is “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” In Lisa D’Amour’s 2014 play Airline Highway, the […]

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Auditions for Buddha Swings!

March 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

Breath deeply. Come out and audition for this jukebox swing musical about the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the one who became The Buddha! Be prepared to sing a few bars and read. Auditions take place at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Avenue on: Wednesday, March 13 from 6-9 pm Friday, March 15 from 7-9 […]

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Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Ben Matlock

March 6, 2019 Leave a Comment

Catch up with Ben Matlock – Simon the Zealot Ben has been seen on stage with the Hyde Park Community Players before in Dangerous Liasons, Musical of Musicals, The Musical!, and the Friday Staged Reading Series. Hi Ben, it’s great to see you again. What have you been up to? What made you want to […]

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Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – James Allen

March 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

Catch up with James Allen – Pontius Pilate James has previously appeared with HPCP as Caliban in The Tempest, and was in Clybourne Park, and The Lady is Not For Burning. Hi James, it’s been a while! It’s good to see you. What have you been up to? Since last time I did something with […]

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Who’s Who in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – Kim Shaw

February 26, 2019 Leave a Comment

Catch up with Kim Shaw – St. Monica Kim has appeared in several of HPCP’s annual Halloween show, An Evening of Horror and Suspense, as well as in An Ideal Husband and several staged readings, most recently as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. It’s so great to see you! It’s been a […]

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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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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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