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XANADU at City Theater Company: Campy Musical Fun on Roller Skates

Around the Region April 29, 2013 at 8:26 pm 0 comments

The 1980 film XANADU never quite lived up to the sum of its parts. It featured a heavy-hitting cast, including the wildly popular Olivia Newton-John, icon Gene Kelly, and music by Jeff Lynne (of Electric Light Orchestra fame) and John Farrar. But its roller disco theme made it seem dated [...]

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XANADU Skates into CTC This Spring!

Press Releases April 20, 2013 at 12:14 pm 0 comments

XANADU skates into CTC this spring! Runs April 26 through May 11. Tickets are available NOW at www.city-theater.org Lace up your skates and roll on over to CTC this spring for XANADU, the hit musical comedy featuring music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar and a book by Douglas [...]

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ON THE AIR: World Premiere at CTC

Around the Region February 27, 2013 at 9:21 am 1 comment

The premiere run of ON THE AIR, City Theater Company’s original musical about a 1941 radio soap, is something of an experiment. Still in the workshop stage, it’s a work in progress, and the company wants audience feedback to polish it up and help it evolve into a finished piece. [...]

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BAT BOY, THE MUSICAL is a Must-See Surprise

Around the Region December 5, 2012 at 6:18 pm 0 comments

City Theater Company’s BAT BOY, THE MUSICAL is a show that should top your list of holiday-season entertainment, even though (or maybe because, depending on your feelings about holiday shows) there is nothing “holiday” about it. It’s a masterfully done musical with an offbeat subject, black humor, sex and violence [...]

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Members of the cast of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON: Righteous Jolly, Kerry Kristine, Dana Michael, Dylan Geringer and Joe Trainor (Photo credit: Joe Del Tufo)

CTC’s ANDREW JACKSON: BLOODY BLOODY Good!

Around the Region May 2, 2012 at 9:08 pm 1 comment

What do you get when you mix rock and roll, populism, and a touch of genocide? Wilmington’s City Theater Company’s BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, the over-the-edge tribute to the seventh President of the United States. BBAJ is an emo musical, the trappings anachronistic, with the ensemble dressed in modern-day fashion [...]

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The cast of City Theater Company's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC running in Wilmington DE through December 17.

City Theater Company Offers A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

Around the Region December 3, 2011 at 9:22 am 0 comments

Opening night of City Theater Company’s production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC was a complete sell-out.  It is easy to understand why.  Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s musical, inspired by the movie “Smiles of a Summer Night”, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman , is a collection of wonderful songs linked [...]

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STAGE Magazine Interviews City Theater Company Featured Playwright, Alex Dremann

Interviews, News February 27, 2011 at 9:34 pm 0 comments

STAGE Magazine’s News Reporter Jim Hilgen interviews playwright Alex Dremann on the opening night of City Theater Company’s presentation of several of his short plays.  Dremann is the featured playwright for the Wilmington-based CTC’s Community Series Original Works by Original People . The series opened on Friday, February 25th and [...]

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Rachel (Victoria Rose Bonito) drives Lloyd (Jim Burns) to Springfield in a scene from RECKLESS, running in Wilmington DE through December 18. (photo by Bill Edwards)

O Come All Ye Faithful to City Theater This Holiday Season

Around the Region December 5, 2010 at 11:43 pm 0 comments

City Theater Company (CTC) welcomes in the holiday season with their holiday production, RECKLESS, a dark comedy by Craig Lucas. RECKLESS follows the journey of Rachel. A holiday obsessed woman who is forced to leave her house on Christmas Eve after her husband, Tom, takes out a contract on her [...]

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