Old Town Playhouse

Description

A Community Stage
The Old Town Playhouse season runs annually from fall through summer. The 2008-2009 season is offering five mainstage productions - Nunsensations!, Urinetown: The Musical, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Producers, and Leading Ladies- and three studio theatre productions - Rabbit Hole, Panache, and Doubt: A Parable. Approximately 20,000 patrons attend the 56 mainstage performances while an additional 2,240 will attend 27 studio performances. The youth education arm of Old Town Playhouse, the Traverse City Traverse City Children's Theatre (TCCT) provides performance and educational activities for youth age preschool through secondary school, including mainstage performances during December, June and August as well as classes and workshops for youth throughout the year. TCCT will involve 50 youth grades three through twelve in classes and rehearsals leading to the holiday presentation of Willy Wonka, Jr. in mid-December. Over 100 youth age preschool through high school will participate in a variety of six-week educational classes in winter, spring and summer. Old Town Playhouse also serves as a resource for stagecraft, scripts, costumes and related advice for regional schools, community groups and businesses, other theatres and area arts organizations.