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 THE CENTER PRESS ROOM 

2023-24 Season Electronic Press Kit

 

News

2023-24

• Center for Performing Arts Governors State University Announces New Executive Director and Season
• SUGAR SKULL! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure: A Colorful Journey into Mexican Culture

 

2022-23

• Governors State University’s Dance Company will “RISE UP” to Social Injustice Through Dance 
  
  
•  Theatre and Performance Studies Presents: Cloud 9

•  Universally Renowned Ailey II Dance Company Returns to Governors State University Center for Performing Arts October 15

•  Tickets now on sale for Southland Film Festival Oct. 13 to 15   

• Governors State University to produce The World Premiere of Red Summer by Shepsu Aakhi and Andrew White with music by Shawn Wallace

•  2022-23 Season Announcement  

 

 

2021-22

• ORBERT DAVIS’ CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC Forward Momentum
  
  
• Theater and Performance Studies Presents A Delightful Quarantine
  
  
• Opera Up Close Presents Viva La Zarzuela
  
  
• CHICAGO'S WTTW-TV TO AIR SWEET HOME CHICAGO -- CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OFALLIGATOR RECORDS ON SEPTEMBER 10 AND SEPTEMBER 12
  
  
• 2021-22 Season Announcement 
  
  
• WTTW to air Sweet Home Chicago Blues -- Celebrating 50 Years of Alligator Records Filmed at Governors State University Center for Performing Arts

 

2020-2021

• Center for Performing Arts Returns to Live Concerts this Fall. Messages of Hope Streaming June 5 - July 3
• Governors State University Academic Theatre Returns with bobrauschenbergAMERICA Live Streaming May 6-8 
• Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts Launches Opera & Beyond Endowment   Fund
•  Governors State University Celebrates 50 Years of Alligator Recrods with Streaming Concert   Premiering March 13, 2021
•  Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts Continues its Opera Up Close Series
•  Shaping our Future using the Past Lessons from Anne Frank’s story
•  GSU Holds Virtual Silent Auction to Benefit Arts Programs, GSU Food Pantry 
•  Governors State University Fall Drama Failure: A Love Story
•  MPAACT Podcast Plays explore arts and activism with Beyond Conversation Series
•  25th Anniversary Season Announcement
•  Virtual Theatre Camp at GSU
•  WBEZ’s Unforgettable: Stories of Local Grads and the School Mentors Who Changed Their Lives -   featuring box office manager  Patricia Guy and student worker and 2020 graduate DeMario Tribett

2019-2020

•   Theaters Hope Crowds Return for 2020-21 Performances
•   The Greatest Love of All: A Tribute to Whitney Houston Starring Belinda Davids
•   Salt Creek Ballet Presents a Time-Honored Holiday Tradition
•   Governors State University Alumnus Chuck Smith Returns to Direct Acclaimed Gospel Musical CROWNS
•   GSU Theatre and Performance Studies Program presents The Laramie Project
•   The Center for Performing Arts’ 2019-2020 Season Celebrates GSU’s 50th Anniversary

 2018-2019

•  Scenes Newsletter: Stories From the Stage Spring 2019
•  A Valentine's Celebration with Heart and Soul
•  Scenes Newsletter: Stories From the Stage Fall 2018
•  The Iconic Aaron Neville in Chicago
•  WIVR Interview with Lana Rogachevskaya and Josh Young
•  2018-19 Season Announcement

2017-2018

• The Blues Hip Hop Experience
• Shange's 'For Colored Girls' addresses social issues through dance, music
• GSU Dance Company Brings the Big Screen to Life On Stage
• Southland Area Theatre Ensemble Presents the Ground-breaking Musical Caroline, or Change
• A Musical Celebration of the Black Experience at GSU's Center for Performing Arts
• Salt Creek Ballet Presents Time-Honored Holiday Tradition The Nutcracker
• Chicago Dreamgirl Celebrates the Legendary Aretha Franklin
• GSU Students Have a Positive Message for the Community in The Scarlet Letter
• Starting Over: A Love Story for LGBT History Month at Governors State University
• CPA Voted Best Live Entertainment Venue in Chicago Southland
• 2017-18 Season Announcement
• NEA Grant Awarded to the CPA  
  

2016-2017

• "Let Them Eat Jazz" Festival Celebrates a Century of Jazz
•  SLATE Presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
•  Guest Artists Announced for Nutcracker
•  Fat Pig
•  Evil and Good
•  2016-17 Season Announcement
• Music and Food From Around the World

2015-2016

• The Nutcracker
• Chevere de Chicago
• Philadanco
• Curious George
• Whose Live Anyway?
• Viva Italia!
• Big Read Grant