February/March 2012 – Cruel, Calm & Neglected – CTC Community Series

Plays by David Robson.

A program of short plays by Delaware native David Robson–cool comedies for a long winter’s night. Robson’s work has been produced across the country as well as abroad. He has garnered critical acclaim as the Winner of the Hotel Obligado Audience Choice Award for New Work and as a finalist for the Julie Harris Playwriting Award, and served as a playwright in residence at the Lark Theatre Company in New York City.

April/May 2012 – Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman. Book by Alex Timber.
Directed by Michael Gray. Music-directed by Joe Trainor.

Delaware premiere! Get ready to rock it out like the 100% this May when CTC presents  the daring rock musical that Rolling Stone called “the season’s best.” It’s a raucous ride through an American past that seems awfully familiar to modern eyes. The New York Times critic Ben Brantley opined that Bloody Bloody “feels unconditionally (and alarmingly) of the moment. The show’s theme song? An angry little number called ‘Populism Yea Yea,’ in which the chorus roars, ‘And we’re gonna take this country back for people like us, who don’t just think about things.’” The show is a tumultuous take on America’s seventh president, reinvented as a rock god who rises from the Wild West to star status only to fall out of favor when he provides what the people say they want.  CTC citizens, get ready to rage. Production runs April 27 through May 12.

Tickets $25 general; $40 VIP (includes 2 complimentary drinks, choice seating and CTC cast-signed program). Tickets purchased at www.city-theater.org or at the box office on the night of show.

December 2011 – A Little Night Music

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by Hugh Wheeler.
Directed by Founding Artistic Directors Michael Gray & Tom Shade.

This epic musical waltzes through a weekend in the country with a lush score and compelling characters whose relationships are as lavishly intertwined as weeds on a Wilmington sidewalk. In keeping with CTC tradition of reinvigorating classic shows like Cabaret and Sweeney Todd with our trademark bravado and intimacy. Opening Night is Friday, December 2 with Opening Night Party at Chelsea Tavern following the show. Production runs December 2 through December 17, with one Sunday matinee on Sunday, December 11, at 2:00pm.