CSU Dramatic Arts Program
Enriching and educating the area's families and young students, CSU Dramatic Arts presents four main stage productions during the academic year along with two student-produced plays and a Theatre for Young Audiences production (especially for youth and families). CSU Dramatic Arts also sponsors Summer Stages, a unique, professional summer repertory theatre company which mounts three productions featuring CSU students, local and national professionals. CSU Dramatic Arts' mission is to ensure that its students are exceptionally trained to actively and positively contribute to the world of theatre and the communities in which they reside and work.
CSU Dramatic Arts Program is a member of Cleveland Arts Education Consortium (CAEC).
See a list of CAEC members and learn more about CAEC at http://www.csuohio.edu/class/caec.
Address: 1833 East 24th Street
City, State Zip: Cleveland, OH 44115
Organization Contact Info:
Contact Person: Ginger WilliamsPhone: 216.687.2109
Website URL: http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/
Program Listing
CSU Dramatic Arts Program
The Fantasticks is a musical love story with a catch: two fathers, both alike in dignity, scheme to get their children to wed by forbidding them to see each other. Enter a handsome rogue and his buffoonish acting troupe with an offer to fake a kidnapping as the masterstroke of their plan. But...
CSU Dramatic Arts Program
An ancient tale spanning generations, Aeschylus’s The Oresteia recounts the bloody curse befalling the House of Atreus in mythic Greece, where petty gods demand unspeakable sacrifices, faithless spouses seek bloody satisfaction, and tender mercy is a scarce commodity. The only complete Greek...
CSU Dramatic Arts Program
"The Elephant Man" tells the shockingly true story of John Merrick, a grotesquely deformed young man who was taken from the sideshows of Europe and adopted into Victorian London high society with the aid of his doctor, Frederick Treves. When it opened on Broadway, this compelling drama won the...
CSU Dramatic Arts Program
"Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad" is a dark, absurdist farce by Arthur Kopit, who was the librettist of the recent musical Nine. Oh Dad, Poor Dad features one of the most deliciously diabolical female characters in Madame Rosepettle, a fabulously...
CSU Dramatic Arts Program
"Curtains," fresh from its Broadway run, is the last musical by the legendary songwriting team Kander and Ebb, creators of Cabaret, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman. When the not-so-beloved leading lady of Robbin’ Hood of the Old West dies onstage during the opening night curtain call, a...
