CPT announces the 25th Anniversary Season: Alive
Alive -- A celebration of premiere performance and original work
The 2008-2009 season includes 4 World Premieres, 3 Ohio premieres, the 8th year of Big [BOX], the return of Little Box and CPT's acclaimed performance series DanceWorks.
Click here for details on the complete 2008-2009 season schedule!
Pandemonium 08 is Saturday, September 13!
Don't miss Cleveland Public Theatre's annual fundraising extravaganza and the party of the year!
Saturday, September 13th
Unlock the treasure at 7:00pm
Tickets: $125
Featuring dozens of area theatre, dance, visual and performance artists along with fabulous food and drink, Pandemonium is a benefit like no other and an evening not to be missed. Jim Rokakis, Cuyahoga County Treasurer, and Laurie Rokakis, social worker on the district staff of Congressman Dennis Kucinich, will be honored with the 2008 Pan Award.
CPT accepting submissions for Little Box 2008
Cleveland Public Theatre is proud to announce that submissions are now being accepted for Little Box. Now in its second season, Little Box is designed to help directors and writers in developing new work, by providing a forum for full length readings of new plays.
Little Box is modeled on CPT’s successful Big [BOX] series. As with Big [BOX], we are seeking artists who have the ability to carry a project through to production, but Little Box is on a smaller scale. Little Box offers an opportunity to develop and perform a full length staged reading in the James Levin Theatre for one night.
Little Box will run Thursday evening through Sunday afternoons from October 23 - November 2, 2008.
The deadline for submissions is September 12, 2008. Continue reading for more information and application materials.
CPT accepting proposals for DanceWorks 09
Cleveland Public Theatre is proud to announce that proposals are now being accepted for DanceWorks 09. CPT is gearing up for the 2008-2009 season and DanceWorks is an important part of that season. DanceWorks offers dance companies and choreographers the opportunity to have their works presented in a series with other local dance companies.
DanceWorks 09 will be presented in the Gordon Square Theatre from April 16 - May 24, 2009.
Continue reading for more information and to download the application materials.
Raymond Bobgan and Cleveland area artists travel to Turkey
CPT Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan recently spent a week in Istanbul with a group of Cleveland-area arts professionals. The trip launched a year of working with Turkish artists and teachers to develop arts programs for urban youth in Turkey.
STEP 08 opens July 31
CPT Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is proud to present Free Family Theatre in the Parks! The teens of the Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP) present an original play with drums and dance inspired by Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht. This original work will be presented free of charge at parks throughout the city of Cleveland from July 31 - August 10. Free and open to the public! Fun for the whole family!
CPT announces the 25th Anniversary Season: Alive
Cleveland Public Theatre Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is proud to announce the 2008-2009, 25th anniversary season:
Alive -- A celebration of premiere performance and original work
"Cleveland Public Theatre is the place for bold, new, adventurous and relevant works of performance," says Bobgan. "Our exciting line-up includes amazing new works from great American playwrights and home-grown premieres of national stature." The 08-09 season includes 4 World Premieres, 3 Ohio premieres, the 8th year of Big [BOX], the return of Little Box and CPT's acclaimed performance series DanceWorks.
Click below for the complete 2008-2009 season schedule!
Two Plays by Gao Xingjian
CPT is proud to present Two Plays by Gao Xingjian:
Between Life and Death and The Other Shore
Directed by Raymond Bobgan and Holly Holsinger
Don't miss your chance to see these inventive, adventurous and highly original works. This is the kind of theatre you will only see at CPT!
Onstage now through June 14th in the Gordon Square Theatre.
PLEASE NOTE: The Thursday, May 29th performance is SOLD OUT! Plenty of tickets remain for upcoming performances!
Click here for tickets, showtimes and more information!
Click here to read a review from The Plain Dealer
Click here to read a review from Cleveland Scene
Matt and Ben: The New Men
Matt and Ben: The New Men
by Christopher Johnston
"How does a package fall from the ceiling?"
I remember, as we all do, exactly where I was when I first saw Good Will Hunting. A movie theater. It proved an epiphanal experience.
Senator Sherrod Brown visits CPT!
Senator Sherrod Brown stopped by Cleveland Public Theatre earlier this week to facilitate a roundtable discussion with Cleveland's arts leaders.
CPT Awarded NEA Grant
Cleveland Public Theatre receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the spring 2008 presentation of two works by Nobel Prize Winner Gao Xingjian.
