CPAC’s announces 2018 season

The Cloverdale Center for the Performing Arts just released information about their 2018 season.
For more information about brand new 2018 ticket pricing and packages, go to https://www.cloverdaleperformingarts.com/copy-of-2017-plays
Here’s what’s coming:
NOVEMBER by David Mamet
​Generosly sponsored by Beezle Brands
Directed by Yavé Guzman
Dates: February 9,10,11,16,17,18
This Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It’s November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith’s chances for re-election are looking grim.  Amidst the biggest fight of his political career, the President has to find time to pardon a couple of turkeys — saving them from slaughter before Thanksgiving — and this simple PR event inspires Smith to risk everything to win back public support.  November is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and what people will do to win.
Suggested audience high school and older.
Students $12    Adults $25
Pay-what-you-can preview on February 8 at 7:30 pm.
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THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE by William Saroyan
Generously sponsored by Tim McDonald and Bob Scott
Directed by Arte Whyte
Dates: April 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15
Set in Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and entertainment Palace, the action centers on Joe, a moneyed but good-hearted young loafer who encourages the bar’s patrons in their eccentricities. His admirer and errand boy, Tom, and Kitty Duval, a young streetwalker who longs for a better life, could be drawn from the bar’s real-life customers, as the bar itself is probably based on the Saroyan’s favorite San Francisco saloon. The heartfelt creation of his characters made this Saroyan’s most beloved work, and was the first play to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Critics Circle Award.
​Suggested audience high school and older.
Students $12    Adults $25
Pay-what-you-can preview on April 5 at 7:30 pm.
TRUE WEST by Sam Shepard
Generously sponsored by Reuser Industrial Park
Directed by Christopher Johnston
Dates: May 18,19, 20, 25, 26, 27
This American classic explores human terrain as complex as the California landscape in which the play is set.  Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script.  Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has already sold to a producer when Austin’s brother Lee, a petty thief, drops in.  Lee pitches his own idea for a movie to the producer, who immediately wants Austin to scrap his bleak, modern love story and write his brother’s trashy Western tale.  This darkly comic American masterpiece was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1983.
Suggested audience high school and older.
Students $12    Adults $25
Pay-what-you-can preview on May 17 at 7:30 pm.
HEROES by Gerald Sibleyras, translated by Tom Stoppard
Generously sponsored by Joe and Maeta Emmons
Directed by Yavé Guzman
Dates: August 10,11,12,17,18,19
This gentle comedy pays respect to the lives that are forever altered by war. We are let into the hidden world of 3 survivors of World War I, who in 1959 when the play is set, are still living in a hospital for retired military men in France. Even while hatching a plan to escape they realize they are not going anywhere and that they no longer fit in the outside world as it has become. Translated from the original French by playwright Tom Stoppard, Heroes is at turns hilarious and poignant and winner of the prestigious Laurence Olivier Best New Comedy Award.
Suggested audience high school and older.
Students $12    Adults $25
Pay-what-you-can preview on August 9 at 7:30 pm.
DURANG/DURANG – A Night of One Acts by Christopher Durang
Medea, a spoof on the Greek tragedy Medea; For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, a send-up of The Glass Menagerie; The Actor’s Nightmare, based on his own really bad dreams!
Generously sponsored by David McChesney
Directed by Sandy Ziviani
Dates: October 5, 6, 7,12,13,14
Prolific and award-winning American author Christopher Durang’s best-known one-act comedies! For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls a hilarious parody of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie which was last seen on our stage in 2011; Medea, Durang’s wonderful spoof of the Greek tragedy of the same name; and based on Durang’s personal experience, The Actor’s Nightmare, a look into nightmares common to actors and performers in which they cannot remember their lines, cannot find their scripts, and when they do, the script is gibberish to them!
Suggested audience high school and older.
Students $12    Adults $25
Pay-what-you-can preview on October 4 at 7:30 pm.
YO HO HO, A PIRATE’S CHRISTMAS!
Generously sponsored by Amy Neel of the Neel Foundation & Lee Hunt and Joan Meisel
Directed by Amy Lovato
Dates: December 7, 8, 9,14,15,16
It’s up to a little seven year-old girl named Eve to save Christmas for everyone! What will become of Christmas when Santa Claus and the citizens of the North Pole are kidnapped by a bunch of directionally challenged pirates?  This hidden treasure of a musical has something appealing for every age group. It’s jolly fun with a sense of adventure and is fast becoming a family favorite holiday entertainment.
Suggested audience 5 years and older.
Students $12    Adults $25
Pay-what-you-can preview on December 6 at 7:30 pm.