Celebrate 15 years of big energy, big ideas, big fun, and other big stuff with CTC in 2008-2009!

Way back in 1993, CTC came kicking and screaming into the world (well into a bar actually), and theater as you know it has never been the same.

Now, we know there were times when you thought we’d never make it to our mid-teens. Hell, there were times when we couldn’t have agreed more. But we made it after all. And just when we think we’ve done it all—musicals, marriages, affairs with ball players, Scientology, divorces, rehab stints, world premieres, Kabbala, men, women, inappropriate political cartooning, sell-out shows, adoptive parents of several Somethingstan babies—we realize that we have far to go (we were born on a Thursday after all. At a happy hour, obviously. Drinks were on you as we recall. Those were the days.)

So at the ripe old age of 15—just like our bff Miley—we are feeling all grown-up and ready for anything. And like bffs Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, our season may be summed up with one word: solidarity. Solidarity with Miley and Disney and Annie Leibowitz. Solidarity with whomever will give the arts the most funding when elected to the Oval Office. Solidarity with the crazy notion three guys had 15 years ago when they said “hey, let’s start a theater company that does stuff in a way no one else around these parts does!”

Happy birthday to us! We are 15, we are old for our age, we feel like getting tarted up and having some fun. Which is why our first big to-do is THE PROM! This year’s CTC BENEFIT AND CARNIVALE will be held at OperaDelaware Studios one night only. Dust off that dress and turn up that tux, you are so going back to high school with us. Only this time you won’t get in trouble for spiking the punch. A cast of characters from The Thomas Shade Charter School for the Creatively Impaired will show you what prom night is all about as they break up, make up, and stage a dance-off while you eat good food catered from The Exchange on Market, drink, and make merry. 

After prom, like so many of our contemporaries (we are only 15 after all) we have a feeling we may be troubled by gender identity. To help us through this wondrous yet painful time, we plan to explore what it feels like for a girl…..or a boy…..to play in a CABARET. That’s right, we are turning OperaDelaware Studios into the famed Kit Kat Club for a few weeks in December. Come March, we plan to have our way with androgynous yet Bond-like playwright Matt Casarino and his brilliant new one-act comedies at the CASARINO ROYALE. And we’ll wind up all this gender-bending confusion with the original cross-dressing hero(ine?), Will Shakespeare, in THE BEARD OF AVON, Amy Freed’s hilarious romp through Elizabethan England.

We look forward to seeing you at OperaDelaware Studios in 2008-2009.

Thanks to our supporter, The Exchange on Market Official CTC After-Show Venue
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