Entries by Peggy McKowen

SATURDAY: WE ANNOUNCE

From a staff perspective, we’ve known the five plays that will occupy our lives for the next six months for a while now. But it never seems real until they flash across our website, show up on Google Alerts, and the–hopefully–constant buzz of the box office phones kicks in.  We’re no different than other theaters in, […]

GIDION’S KNOT…hitting all corners of America

This past weekend, CATF visited Philadelphia to see a production of Johnna Adams’s GIDION’S KNOT at InterAct Theatre Company, under the direction of artistic director and co-founder Seth Rozin. They did a wonderful job with the play. Terrific performances by Alice M. Gatling as “Corryn” (that’s the role Robin Walsh played here at CATF for […]

MEET THE ARTISTS: David M. Barber (Scenic Design)

CATF is thrilled to welcome back to Shepherdstown this summer designer David M. Barber.  You’ll remember David’s work from last year if you saw CAPTORS by Evan M. Wiener and IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP by Neil LaBute.  Both shows were presented in repertory on the Frank Center Stage and were directed by Producing […]

Welcome to the Marinoff!

Last week, Shepherd University President Suzanne Shipley announced the official name of the theater housed within the new phase of the Center for Contemporary Arts.  This 180-seat flexible space will be called the STANLEY C. AND SHIRLEY A. MARINOFF THEATER in honor of a recent legacy gift made by Dr. Stanley Marinoff to the Shepherd […]