November 8-17 at CTC: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee music/lyrics by William Finn book by Rachel Sheinkin conceived by Rebecca Feldman directed by Mera Kathryn Corlett music direction by John Austin Clark In this exciting and fun musical, an odd assortment of spelling champions learns that winning –… read more →
“Alphabet Soup: A Staged Reading” On Saturday October 20 at 5pm, CTC and Louisville Youth Group present “Alphabet Soup: A Staged Reading” free of charge on the Nancy Niles Sexton Stage. This is an original piece devised and performed by Louisville Youth group members who have worked with The Laramie Project… read more →
Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale directed by Heather BurnsOpens September 20 at CTC In this moving, comical story of Victorian women fighting for the future of education, Tess and her fellow first-years are determined to win the right to graduate from Girton College, Cambridge. But distractions of love, the class divide, and the strength… read more →
CTC’s Walden Theatre Alumni Company presents 2 plays in Summer 2018 featuring the acting and directing talents of ’09-’17 alumni and other professionals. Ghosts Like Us by Sage Martin directed by Maggie Rogers July 26, 27, 28 & Aug 2, 3, 4 @ 7:30 AND 9:30 Performed at St. James School… read more →
Here, here for deceptions! Commonwealth Theatre Center is proud to present three plays by William Shakespeare in the annual Young American Shakespeare Festival: Richard III directed by Heather Burns May 12 @ 2:00, May 13, 16, 18 @ 7:30, May 20 @ 12:30 Measure for Measure directed by Charlie Sexton May… read more →
UPDATE: Due to weather conditions this event has been rescheduled to March 28 CTC is hosting a staged reading on March 28 of a new collection of short plays—each written in response to a different school shooting in the United States. The full-length compilation includes works by 19 playwrights and… read more →
Circe and Ulysses by Darcy Cleaver directed by Mitchell Martin performed by the Walden Theatre Conservatory’s Young Company The sorceress Circe has made a sport of reeling in seafarers and keeping them for her pets. But with the arrival of Ulysses—the hero of Homer’s Odyssey (and catch of the century?)—she finds herself… read more →
StoryTime Theatre – Fables: Anything But Aesop February 17 | 10:30-11:30 A play for younger audiences by the Blue Apple Outreach Touring Company written/directed by Mera Kathryn Corlett Aesop is perhaps the most famous fabulist in history, but this is not a show about him! A lively troupe of actors is determined… read more →
The Trojan Women by Euripides translated by Edith Hamilton, directed by Hallie DizdarevicJanuary 25 – February 3 at CTC The women of Troy are left homeless and await sale as slaves after their husbands are murdered and their children taken from them by a war in which they had no say.… read more →
Oedipus’s arrival in Thebes (Egypt, NOT the Greece you might be expecting) ushers in rapid-fire technological advancement, but solving the the city’s inequality and corruption prove to be riddles more vexing than any sphinx in this cutting political allegory by celebrated—and banned in his native Egypt—playwright Ali Salem. The Comedy… read more →