Think your family has skeletons in the closet? It’s nothing compared to what the McGrath sisters are dealing with in this award-winning play about three very different sisters who have to make it through “a real bad day.”

“A hurricane of hilarity and hurt . . . a modern classic.” – LA Times

“It has heart, wit and a surprisingly zany passion that must carry all before it…it would certainly be a crime for anyone interested in the theatre not to see this play.” – NY Post.

This tragicomedy is directed by Christine Thomas. Cast members include Tyler Jowaisas, Michelle Miller, Patrick O’Laughlin, Misty Seibert, Cindy Smith and Heather Weiler.

All performances of Crimes of the Heart will be held at the Caribbean Community Theatre at #18 Estate Orange Grove in Christiansted, St. Croix. Tickets are sold at the box office at CCT prior to each performance: $20 for adults; $18 for senior citizens (age 65+); $15 for college students with ID; and $10 for students/children under age 18. No reservations are being accepted for this show. Box office opens for ticket sales at 7:15 PM on show nights, and at 3:15 PM for the Sunday matinée; arrive early for best seating. This show is not recommended for children under age 13.

Crimes of the Heart is jointly supported by a grant from the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC, a federal agency.

A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play by Beth Henley
Directed by Christine Thomas
November 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 at 8 PM
Sunday matinee at 4 PM on Nov. 13

THE COLOR PURPLE

Based on the novel by Pulitzer winner Alice Walker
Book by Marsha Norman
Music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray
Director: Rebekah Hughston & Oceana James
Music Director: Patrick Baron
February 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25 at 8 PM
Sunday matinee at 4 PM on Feb. 19

MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS

A Comedy by Ron Hutchinson
Directed by Jeanne Johnston
March 23-24, 30-31, April 6-7 at 8 PM
Sunday matinee at 4 PM on April 1

THE OLDEST PROFESSION

Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Tom Ziegler
May 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 at 8 PM
Sunday matinee at 4 PM on May 13

I TAKE THIS MAN

Screwball Farce by Jack Sharkey
Directed by Charles Braslow
July 13-14, 20-21, 27-28 at 8 PM
Sunday matinee at 4 PM on July 22

OTHER EVENTS AT CCT:

THE CALICO CAT COMPANY

Children’s Shows: December 4, 2011 and May 27, 2012
Sunday matinee at 3 PM

A CCT FUNdraiser

Directed by Michael Armendariz
March 10, 2012
Saturday at 8 PM

Five Southern women, whose friendships began years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. This hilarious and touching comedy focuses on four of those weekends.

Don’t miss our last show for the season.

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Welcome to the hilarious, terrifying and surreal world of child beauty pageants. Pinky Corningfield will do anything to make sure her little angel wins the title of Supreme Queen. Glitz, glamour, money, kidnapping and really, really small false teeth.

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Members of the panel who will be presenting the workshop are Tom Ziegler, resident of St. Croix; Jane Ridley, award-winning British/American actress who is also former head of the MFA acting program at Penn State University; Jere Hodgin, Head of Acting and Directing at the University of Montana; and Josh Harvey, a composer who teaches music at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

Resident playwright Tom Ziegler has a one-person show, Mrs. Kemble’s Tempest, opening at Caribbean Community Theatre the night before this workshop. This work has played to rave reviews in many cities across the U.S. plus the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Other plays by Mr. Ziegler which have been presented at CCT in the past few years are Grace & Glorie and Sundays at Eleven.

Jane Ridley, who has performed in Mrs. Kemble’s Tempest since its inception, has contributed to its success and is cognizant of the skill required to make a one-person show work. She has been a professional actress and fight choreographer for more than 25 years. Her ability to perform more than 35 very distinctive characters in this play is astounding.

Jere Hodgin, who has directed Mrs. Kemble’s Tempest in many of its venues, has also directed and acted in numerous one-person shows. He brings much expertise in helping develop scripts, staging, and working with performers. The challenge of this type of theatre is to create conflict and ensure the audience’s involvement in the story.

Josh Harvey has arranged music that was written to be used when Fanny Kemble herself read William Shakespeare’s plays to audiences all across the United States and Great Britain. He has also composed pieces specifically for the show and is adept at researching music of different periods.

The workshop on Sunday, April 10th at 3 PM is open to the public, free of charge, at Caribbean Community Theatre on Sunday, located at #18 Orange Grove in Christiansted, St. Croix.

After her divorce in 1848, she gave dramatic readings of Shakespeare’s plays in which she performed all the roles. Set during one of those readings, Mrs. Kemble’s Tempest, written by resident playwright Tom Ziegler, juxtaposes the tumultuous ups and downs in the life of this astounding woman with the rapid reversals of fortune in Shakespeare’s island fantasy, The Tempest.

Jane Ridley, award-winning British/American actress, stars in this tour de force, performing the role she originated to 5-star reviews at the famed Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and most recently at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A sample review: “Tom Ziegler has written a witty and wonderfully intelligent show and Ridley is effortlessly able to keep our attention focused on her larger-than-life heroine.” Ms. Ridley is accompanied by actor/pianist Josh Harvey; the production is directed by Jere Hodgin.

There will be just one performance of Mrs. Kemble’s Tempest, on Saturday, April 9, at 8 p.m. at Caribbean Community Theatre, located at #18 Orange Grove in Christiansted, St. Croix. Ticket prices are $25 for adults, $23 for seniors, $20 for college students (with a valid student ID), $15 for children under age 18; discounts are available for CCT members. Box office and bar open at 7:15 PM; seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis, so please arrive early.

Directors: Eileen Bishop Des Jardins and Oceana James

Show dates: March 25, 26, April 1 & 2, 2011 – Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM

Two Sunday Matinees on March 27 & April 3 , 2011 at 4 PM

Written in Crucian dialect, Sarah & Addie is a collage of lustily entertaining vignettes centering on the island “market women” of the 1940’s and 1950’s who were looked to as important sources of humorous commentary, philosophy and the daily wisdom of the times.

The show no longers opens on March 18th, but opens on Friday, March 25th instead.

We have added another Sunday matinee on April 3rd at 4 PM.

The production uses innovative choreography and puppetry, which serve to heighten the dramatic aspects of the story and add to the stunning visual spectacle. In addition to the title tune, Cabaret features memorable songs such as “Two Ladies,” “I Don’t Care Much,” “Mein Herr,” and “Maybe This Time.”

The production features Daniel Deane and Mariah Shabazz (pictured), Charles Braslow, Marilyn Chakroff, Katie Walsh, and many other talented actors, dancers and singers, with choreography by Kemit Amon-Lewis and Khnuma Simmonds.

This show is not recommended for children under 13.

We are pre-selling Cabaret tickets at CCT during January 2011: Saturdays and Sundays from 2 – 4 PM, and weekday evenings after 5:30 PM, by appointment.

Ticket prices for Cabaret are $25 for adult non-members; $23 for seniors; $20 for CCT members & college students with IDs; $15 for children under age 18; $12 for children CCT members.

CABARET

A Tony Award-Winning Musical
Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on the Play by John Van Druten
and Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Director: Ruby Des Jardins
Music Director: Patrick Baron
Show dates: February 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 & 26, 2011
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM

Poster
February 20, 2011 – Sunday Matinee at 4 PM

Some Enchanted Evening features an evening of songs by Carole Demas, who originated the role of “Sandy” in Grease on Broadway. Ms. Demas has been praised by critics such as Clive Barnes for her show Summer Nights at New York’s Laurie Beechman Theatre. She has starred off-Broadway in The Fantasticks, and appeared in numerous television shows, commercials, and regional theater productions. Ms. Demas also performed for 12 years in The Magic Garden on WPIX TV.

She will be performing at CCT with her music director Ian Herman and guitarist Sean Harkness for one night only, Saturday, March 12 at 8:00 p.m. Ticket prices are $50 for adults ($45 for CCT members) for seating at tables, and include
desserts and coffee, with a cash bar. This is a FUNdraiser and we will hold a silent auction and raffle to benefit CCT.

Tickets for this FUNdraiser will go on sale in February. We are accepting donations for our raffle and silent auction now.
Many thanks to Carole Demas and friends for donating their time and talents to CCT.

A Tony Award-Winning Musical by John Kander & Fred Ebb

Director: Ruby Des Jardins; Music Director: Patrick Baron

Show dates: February 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 & 26, 2011 – Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM

February 20, 2011 – Sunday Matinee at 4 PM

Cabaret is set in 1929 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power; it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub (a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany), and on the relationship between performer Sally Bowles and young writer Cliff Bradshaw.