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March 2015
CBT Opening Night: A Shayna Maidel
Clarence Brown Theatre presents A Shayna Maidel, a play a family in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Two sisters, one a survivor of Nazi concentration camps and the other raised as an American, are meet in 1946 for the first time in nearly 20 years.
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CBT Opening Night: Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play
The Clarence Brown Theatre presents "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play," where in post-apocalyptic Northern California, a group of strangers bond by recreating an episode of “The Simpsons" as the basis to shape the future.
Find out more »April 2016
CBT Opening Night: The Open Hand – World Premiere
The Clarence Brown Theatre presents, "The Open Hand – World Premiere," a CBT-commissioned satire that ventures into the territory of giving and receiving with wit and bite, and the anxieties between those with means and those with hopes, dreams and disappointment.
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CBT Opening Night: The Crucible
Clarence Brown Theatre presents "The Crucible," which chronicles the historical events in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Salem witch hunts - which can resonate still today.
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CBT Opening Night: This Is Our Youth
Clarence Brown Theatre presents "This Is Our Youth," a play about three wayward adolescents navigating Reagan-era New York, recreating their broken homes in dysfunctional friendships and bungling attempts to find love.
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CBT Opening Night: Top Girls
Clarence Brown Theatre presents "Top Girls," a feminist play about shattering glass ceilings and the conflicts that accompany the pursuit of success and desire to “have it all.”
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CBT Opening Night: Blue Window
"Blue Window" is a long-running Off Broadway hit and a portrait of loneliness in New York, one of the world’s most densely populated cities.
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CBT Opening Night: The Dream of the Burning Boy
"The Dream of the Burning Boy" is about finding the strength to move on after a death. It contains mature language and themes.
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CBT Opening Night: The Real Inspector Hound
Attending the premiere of a new murder mystery, two feuding theatre critics soon find themselves inside the play-within-a-play and implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.
Find out more »November 2019
CBT Opening Night: Exit, Pursued by a Bear
In "Exit, Pursued by a Bear" by Lauren Gunderson, Nan has had it with her abusive husband, and she’s determined to teach him a lesson before she leaves. Don't miss this wild revenge comedy set in the North Georgia mountains.
Find out more »March 2020
CBT Opening Night: Airness – CANCELED
(As a proactive measure against the COVID-19 virus, this event has been postponed.) Prepare to have your face melted by Shreddy Eddy, Golden Thunder and the reigning champ, D Vicious, at the National Air Guitar competition! Nina, a real guitar player, enters the competition thinking it will be a cinch to take the championship. She soon discovers she has a lot to learn. Experience this tribute to good friends, killer rock classics, and the joy of letting go in "Airness"…
Find out more »March 2022
CBT Opening Night: Blood at the Root
Racial double standards and inequality in the criminal justice system are explored in "Blood at the Root," a contemporary drama from the playwright of Detroit ’67. A Black high school student sits under a tree seemingly reserved for whites, and the next day, three nooses appear on the tree. A few weeks later, a fight erupts. The Black students are charged with attempted murder. Inspired by the true story of the Jena 6, this play contains adult content.
Find out more »October 2023
CBT Opening Night: The Moors
An anthropomorphic Mastiff. A catfished governess. Two forlorn sisters on bleak English Moors yearning for love in a manor where every room looks the same. This is a new play the likes of which you have not seen before. It’s a dark, funny, genre-bending trip the New York Times calls, “the reason we go to the theater.”
Find out more »March 2024
CBT Opening Night: Anon(ymous)
Separated from his mother while fleeing their war-torn country, a young refugee called Anon journeys throughout the United States. On his quest to find home and family, he dodges those who would entrap him, finds unexpected friendship, and experiences supernatural help from a goddess. A modern retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey.
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