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For Immediate Release: Contact: David Kuehn, Executive Director Cotuit Center for the Arts Phone: (508) 428-0669 Email: [email protected] Website: ArtsOnTheCape.org

Cotuit Center for the Arts Announces “The Art of Making Art – Putting it Together”, The 2017 Season

Taking a cue from a lyric of Stephen Sondheim’s beloved musical Sunday in the Park with George, Cotuit Center for the Arts is proud to announce a season of programming with a focus on integrating all art forms: visual, performing, and literary; in our theater, music, exhibition, education, and collaboration offerings. Following another year of tremendous growth at Cotuit Center for the Arts, the 2017 season offers something for everyone. The Center will present five mainstage theatrical productions, including Sunday in the Park with George, featuring Anthony Teixeira in the title role and Martha Paquin as Dot; Nunsense; One Man, Two Guvnors; and Annie. Theater aficionados will also appreciate a weekend of Shakespeare; The ABC’s of NYC II, an original musical production by Holly Erin McCarthy; and celebrity appearances in the Broadway@ series produced by Mark Cortale. Cotuit’s recently renovated Black Box theater space will feature 11 exciting and often provocative full productions, including Rabbit Hole; Lines in the Sand, an original play by Jim Dalglish; [title of show]; The Collector; Grounded; Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens; Christmas Shorts; and two cabaret productions by Stephanie Miele and Hannah Carrita. The Center will present a slew of concerts and special events, including perennial favorites such as the annual Poetry and Chili Fest, Art and Souls Masquerade Ball, Entertainment Tonight, Kentucky Derby Gala, Provincetown Jazz Festival, Brazilian Cultural Festival, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Brazen Belles Burlesque, Ukulele Celebration, Cape Cod Can, the FACB, and more. And in its first collaboration with the Cape Symphony, they will present Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, a play with music by Andre Previn and Tom Stoppard, in two performances at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center. In addition, the Center will feature magicians, comedians, staged readings, and a very special one-night-only performance by Liberace and Peggy Lee!

Cotuit Center for the Arts 2017 Programming Page | 2 Gallery exhibitions include local, regional, and international artists, and the local arts community will be invited to participate in several open juried exhibitions throughout the year, including “Into the Fire,” a winter exhibit to coincide with “Out of the Frying Pan,” an exhibition featuring Steve Swain, artist and owner of Wellfleet’s Frying Pan Gallery, and Nadine Robbins, Frying Pan artist. The Center will also present Piece by Piece 3, a large scale collaborative art exhibition that has garnered tremendous acclaim in its previous two incarnations.

The Center’s education and outreach programs will continue to expand, with dozens of classes and workshops in various areas of arts education designed for students of all ages and abilities. Specific classes for the first several months of the year are published on our website. Classes, events and workshops will be designed with thematic ties to works being programmed on our stages throughout the year.

Highlights of the season include:

THEATER:

Main Stage:

Free Will Offering (January 28-24) a weekend of Shakespeare. Pay what you “Will”.

The ABC’s of NYC II (February 16 – March 5) by Holly Erin McCarthy. Five of the Cape’s finest singers on a musical journey of the alphabet.

Nunsense (March 23 – April 9) by Dan Goggin. A hilarious spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to manage a fundraiser.

Sunday in the Park with George (July 6 – 30) by Stephen Sondheim. This stunning masterpiece centers on enigmatic painter George Seurat and his search for love, inspiration, and “the art of making art.” One of the most acclaimed musicals ever, this Pulitzer Prize winner features a glorious score.

On Man, Two Guvnors (October 5 - 22) by Richard Bean. Slapstick at its finest, with actors falling down stairs, slamming doors, making double entendres, and interacting with the audience.

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Annie (November 21 – December 17) by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. Due to popular demand, the beloved holiday musical Annie will be presented on Cotuit Center for the Arts’ mainstage every 3 years featuring new orphans and guaranteed holiday cheer for the whole family.

The Black Box Theater in the Annex:

Rabbit Hole (February 9 - 26), written by David Lindsay Abaire and directed by Steve Ross Lines in the Sand (March 9 - 26) written and directed by Jim Dalglish [title of show] (April 6 - 23), written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell and directed by Elin Hersh The Collector (May 4 - 21), written by Henry Naylor and directed by Michael Wresinski Grounded (June 30 – July 16), written by George Brant and directed by Bob Bock Teen Theater Project (August 3 - 27), conceived and produced by Michele Colley and Kristin Stewart Rogers, Hart, and Hammerstein (September 7 - 24), written and performed by Stephanie Miele Hannah in the Box (October 12 - 29), written and performed by Hannah Carrita Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens (November 3 - 20), written by Janet Hood and Bill Russell and directed by Katie Koglin Christmas Shorts (December 7 – 23), written by Matt Hoverman and directed by Melinda Gallant

Concerts and Special Events: January 13 DJ Dance Party January 14 Member’s Movie Night January 21 Bruce Marshall Band February 22 Winter Magic with Rich Archer March 11 17th Annual Poetry and Chili Fest April 15 An evening with Olli Soikkeli and Julien Labro April 21, 22 Moms on Broadway April 22 Love Letters featuring Dr. Waldo Fielding and Pam McCardle May 6, 7 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour in collaboration with Cape Symphony May 6 3rd Annual Kentucky Derby Gala May 12 Nancy Witter: Moms Night Out May 13 Cabaret Fest featuring Leslie & Fred Boyle and Tedi Marsh & Louis Sacco May 14 Moms on Broadway Encore! May 20 Bob Dylan Birthday Concert June 2-4 Cape Cod Can: Professor Milligan’s Magical American Musical Tour June 25 Meetinghouse Chamber Music Festival July 27 Suede in Concert August 1, 8, 15 Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival

Cotuit Center for the Arts 2017 Programming Page | 4 August 3 Tedi Marsh and Fabiano DeCastro perform Michel LeGrand August 4, 5 FACB on the Main Stage August 6 Loretta LaRoche August 9 – 12 Brazen Belles Burlesque August 14 Provincetown Jazz Festival August 17 – 19 Love is Blind: A Tribute to Amy Winehouse by Emily Wade Adams August 26 Lee Squared: An Evening with Miss Peggy Lee and Liberace September 6 Second Wednesday Theater: Grease Singalong September 8, 9 Play Pen – a 24 hour playwriting experiment September 14 – 17 NOW: The Songs of Karen Carpenter by BraveHorse Music Productions September 24 3rd Annual Brazilian Music Festival October 8, 15, 22 Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival October 28 17th Annual Art and Souls Masquerade Ball

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Recurring Events

Drum Circle (1st Tuesday of every month) 2nd Wednesday Theater (2nd Wednesday of each month), a free play reading series Wine and Music Wednesday (3rd Wednesday of each month), enjoy wine, live music, great art and scintillating conversation Salon of Shorts (3rd Wednesday of each month), an open mic series of poetry, story, essay, song, performance art, dance, improv and stand-up Life Drawing (Weekly) Saturday Morning Yoga (Weekly) Sunday Morning Yoga (Weekly)

********************************************************************** Schedule subject to change - please check website for current information For more information, visit artsonthecape.org or call 508-428-0669.

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Cotuit Center for the Arts 2017 Programming