2010 REPERTORY

Finally a new blog. I am ready to begin to post new blogs RE: our 2010 REPERTORY. The snow is beginning to melt in Shepherdstown. Man…what a winter! The local newspapers are calling our recent snowfalls” THE STORM OF THE CENTURY!” Shepherdstown was a winter wonderland. Life here simply stopped for over a week. Time seemed to stand still. We lost electrical power at my house for two and a half days during the first 28′ snow storm. It seemed like the snow would never stop falling. But…I can now say that I am ready for Spring.

Needless to say the STORM OF THE CENTURY has put CATF behind schedule. We are putting the final touches on the 2010 FESTIVAL GUIDE and hope to have it to the printers later this week. Please let me know when you receive it in the mail. I am interested in hearing your thoughts about our upcoming Five Play Repertory. Let’s begin to have a conversation on this Producers Blog.

I returned from Philadelphia on January 28th where I was directing the World Premiere of THE ECLECTIC SOCIETY by Eric Conger at The Walnut Street Theatre. Rehearsals began on December 26th and we opened on January 27th. It runs until March 7th. So if you are in the Philadelphia area…check it out. www.walnutstreettheare.org  I had a BLAST! working at the Walnut. The play is doing well and is playing to full houses. Which is great…because…it is an 1,100 seat theater.

Last November Lee Sellars and Max Baker invited me to attend a private concert reading of their new Performance Theater Musical THE EELWAX JESUS 3-D POP MUSIC SHOW. I was blown away by the reading. I am looking forward to introducing you to this imaginative new work this summer. We are producing the World Premiere on the Frank Stage in our rotating repertory of Five new American plays. EELWAX JESUS will rotate with Michele Lowe’s beautiful new play INANA. I attended a reading of INANA in Denver and decided to produce it on-the spot. I am pleased to welcome Michele to the CATF Repertory.

J.T. Rogers is returning to the Festival with a controversial newly revised draft of WHITE PEOPLE which we will perform in our intimate 75 seat Performance Space. The CATF Studio Theater will feature two brand new works: BREADCRUMBS by Jennifer Haley and LIDLESS by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig.

We have a strong Five Play Rep in 2010. I recommend that you begin to make your travel and lodging plans now. Serious theater is back…thinkTheater 2010 is coming…

More about the 2010 Rep later.

Ed Herendeen