Hyde Park Community Players

Mid-South Side, Chicago Theatre

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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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“Airline Highway” by Lisa D’Amour

November 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

Hyde Park Community Players present Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour directed by Leslie Halverson (Director of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Twelfth Night) November 15-17 & 22-24 Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Sundays, 2:00 p.m. matinee At University Church 5655 S. University Avenue The first mainstage production of our 2019-20 season, our fall […]

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An Evening of Horror & Suspense, Part One: GOTHIC BY GASLIGHT

October 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

BUY TICKETS For our 10th Evening of Horror and Suspense, we celebrate the history of our longest-running production by offering two different Evenings, each featuring beloved stories from previous seasons. Directors of the previous Evenings of Horror and Suspense (Nora Davis, Terrie Vasilopoulos, Bill Hohnke, Mary McCarthy, Vanessa Ellis, Amelia Snoblin, and Shonte Wesson) recommended […]

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Meet the Cast(s) of Evening of Horror & Suspense 10!

September 23, 2019 Leave a Comment

TICKETS on sale now An Evening of Horror and Suspense 10 has been cast! This year’s 10th Evening of Horror and Suspense offers twice the spookiness! We are doing two different shows, and each show has its own cast. Chris Skyles will return for both shows as Your Host for the Evening. If you’re in Friday’s […]

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Radio Show Tickets on sale now!

September 20, 2019 2 Comments

Our 10th Annual Evening of Horror & Suspense in the Old-Time Radio Tradition For our 10th Evening of Horror and Suspense, we are celebrating the show’s first decade by restaging favorite stories from the previous nine seasons. Friday October 25: Gothic by Gaslight will be dedicated to horror classics from the 1800s: Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte […]

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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Cast

June 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Our 4th annual summer Shakespeare in the Park production is now One for the Ages! Under the direction of Paul Baker & Laura MacGregor, these are the fine folks who will be entertaining audiences in July at Nichols Park!   (South of 54th St., between the two park play lots.) Every evening at 6 pm on […]

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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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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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