Caribbean Community Theatre Celebrates its 25th Season!
Bringing the Arts to St. Croix, Caribbean Community Theater (CCT) has been celebrating theater, music, and dance in venues across the island of St. Croix, for the past 25 years. From the Airport Inn, to the Strand Street Theater, to the Buccaneer Hotel, to the Sydney Lee Theater, to it present home at #18 Estate Orange Grove, CCT has garnered a reputation for showcasing the best in local talent.
From its first (1985-86) season, the founders of CCT explained in their inaugural program that the organization was intended to be a COMMUNITY theater. In November of 2009, CCT embarked on its Silver season with the world premiere of Sundays at Eleven by St. Croix resident Tom Ziegler, whose play Grace & Glorie, produced by CCT in 2008, has been performed to acclaim worldwide. The month of February 2010 is enlivened by the comic rock musical Little Shop of Horrors.
CCT will hold its 25th Anniversary Cabaret FUNdraiser on March 19 & 20 at 8 PM. The show will be directed by Michael Armendariz. No stranger to the stage himself, Armendariz collaborated and co-directed several previous cabaret shows with CCT's founder and original artistic director, David Richards. The show will feature songs and skits from various performances from the past 25 years, and highlights one of the islands strengths: musical theater talent.
In April, CCT will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Proof. Look for the classic Noel Coward comedy, Blithe Spirit, in May. Rounding off the season in July 2010 will be 8 to 5 - Government Workers Style II by local playwright Sandra A. "Imelda" Edwards; to anyone who has lived in the V.I., the title suggests subject matter with which they will be all too familiar!
The theater has, whenever possible, showcased plays by local authors - such as Sarah & Addie, Saturday Marnin' in de Market, And Everything in Its Place, and Liberated - and thought-provoking material like A Raisin in the Sun, Steel Magnolias, Anna in the Tropics and Real Women Have Curves. CCT also serves the community with an after-school children's theater program, the Calico Cat Company, with productions in December and May that are written and performed by the students.
Performances are held at #18 Estate Orange Grove in Christiansted (see map for directions). The theater's website, www.cct.vi, has information on the current season or call 778-4228 or 778-1983.
