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Columbia Center
for the Arts

215 Cascade Street

PO Box 1543

Hood River, OR 97031

541-387-8877

 

How It Works

Subscribers receive a CAST Season Ticket Pass good for one admission to each of the season’s four shows … and one of the passes may be traded for the July show as well!

You choose which shows you are interested in seeing. After you sign up, you’ll receive a card that lists the shows, which you need to bring with you to each show. There is no need to choose the dates now. Two weeks before a play opens call or stop by Columbia Center for the Arts (541-387-8877 ext 117) and let us know which date and time you would like to reserve.

 

Talking With

October 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 at 7:30 pm and a matinee on October 11.

Written by Jane Martin directed by Glen Harris.

10 Women ... 10 Monologues

Talking With, by Jane Martin, is a study of love, loneliness and obsession missed liberally with humor.  Monologues by eleven women run the gamut from a young semi-hysterical auditioning actress through a woman in her thirties who’s recently lost her mother to an elderly lady who aspires to live in a McDonald’s restaurant.  These quick but potent studies are of women who have bought into the American Dream and now find themselves se apart from it, who all feel ostracized to some degree.  They movingly address the value of eccentricity as well as society’s condemnation of it.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

December 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12 at 7:30 pm; matinees on Dec 6 and 12 at 2:00 pm

Written by Barbara Robinson directed by Rebekah Meyer

In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most inventively awful kids in history.

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What the Butler Saw

February 2010

Written by Joe Orton directed by Jeanette Burkhardt

The Prentices are not an ordinary couple. Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. Geraldine does her best to comply, but nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house that includes Mrs. Prentice, a nymphomaniac who is seduced by a bellhop in a hotel, or maybe it's vice versa.

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The Laramie Project

May 2010

Written by Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project; directed by Mary Fassel

In October 1998 a 21 year old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, WY. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in the area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay.

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Forever Plaid

July 2010

Book by Stuart Ross, Music & Lyrics by Various, Musical Continuity Supervision and Arrangements by James Raitt, directed by Lowry Browning

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

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