Theatre Arts
Please watch the website for announcement of the 2008-2009 season -- Coming this July!
ETC etcetera series
Join us in a celebration of the creative work of our theatre students. The etc. Series, or Experimental Theatre Collaborative, showcases the ongoing training of our students as they apply the techniques and skills they are learning in the classroom. In addition, several performances showcase the talents of our international students in the annual International Festival and of our speech and debate students in the annual LCCC Forensics Tournament. All etc. Series performances are FREE and take place at 7:30pm in the Stocker Arts Center's Studio Theatre. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend!
No tickets are needed. The ETC etcetera series events are FREE and open to the public
Sorry you missed this Spring's and last Fall's, LCCC Theatre department productions of:
"An Evening with Anton Chekhov"
Four of the author's farces as adapted and directed by Carlyn Cahill.
Tuesday-Saturday, March 11-15, 2008 at 7:30pm
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Adapted by Tim Kelly
Directed by Carlyn Cahill
Friday, November 9 - 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Alice journeys into a world of talking animals, comic royalty and races where the contestants run in circles! There's the Mad Hatter's frantic tea party, the watch-carrying White Rabbit and talking flowers. Along with the way Alice must deal with a sneezing duchess and a baby that turns into a pig! The finale has Alice watching a trial, but she suddenly finds herself the accused! "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" adapted gives a modern view to an old classic, where nonsense makes quite good sense.
The cast consists of nine young people ages 6-16 playing all of the 30 different roles. The play will be performed in the Stocker Arts Center’s intimate Studio Theatre, which can only hold 125 per performance, so get your tickets early.
For more information and/or to purchase tickets to LCCC Theatre events, come to the Stocker Arts Center Box Office, which is open weekdays from 12 noon to 6:00pm, call (440) 366-4040 or (800) 995-5222 ext. 4040 during those hours, or click on the "Buy Stocker Event Tickets" icon above.
Carlyn Cahill, current Director of the Lorain County Community College Theatre Program, has catapulted into national prominence. The American College Theatre Festival Region III nominated LCCC for the Ohio Award of Excellence three years in a row. She holds a BA from Vassar College, a MA the University of South Florida, a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and an MBA from Fontbonne College. Dr. Cahill began her career at age six as a union stage actress, adding TV and film work as a child. Before entering college she worked for the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Tower Ranch Theatre plus The National Theatre Group in Wisconsin, and had two extended contracts in New York. She also danced with the Marion Yahr Ballet and the Chicago Opera Ballet. While at Vassar in N.Y., she choreographed her first major ballet for a N.Y. company and continued her professional acting for stage and TV. After graduating, she worked on a soap for over a year along and acted in The Crucible in N.Y.
Work as a TV commercial announcer took her to WFLA and WTVT in Tampa, FL. where she earned an M.A. in Speech Science at the USF and coached an award winning forensics team. She has since headed theatre departments at Univ. of Tampa, Tampa Preparatory School, the Florida State Model School for the Arts, Fontbonne University, Highlands University where she also taught theatre on the Navajo reservation at Taos, New Mexico, and the Univ. of the Virgin Islands before coming to LCCC.
The Theatre Arts productions are performed by Lorain County Community College Theatre Arts students.