Tag: CCM

Hunter Trammell’s Ben, whose face is a shattered mask of anguish and vacancy, is both endearing and frightening - everything anyone says about a school shooter after he’s committed his heinous act. You really do want to know what’s going on in his head as he stares into the...

Each year, the entire CCM Acting community would break up into six teams with each team creating a new thirty-minute play based on any topic of their choosing. The result marries the make-shift mentality of Fringe Festivals to the aesthetic of a mad theatre scientist experimenting with primal forces.  ...

This is one of my favorite shows and CCM, as usual, brings it to life with the entire package of acting, singing, dancing and technical...

"Sometimes I think men raise flags when they can’t get anything else up,” says Berthe...Pippin's grandmother ...

Isabella Wagner is outstanding as the lean and hungry Ciaus Cassius. Wagner strength is finding the emotional core in Cassius’ speeches and using that emotion to connect to her fellow actors...

While the vocals are gorgeous, one of the most unique features of the show is the lack of a large pit offstage. Instead, the actors accompany themselves on instruments including guitar, cello, piano, ukulele, melodica, and percussion. When not part of the primary scene, the actors float along the...

The musical is, frankly, a lot:  a lot of look, a lot of synth, a lot of  meta jokes about artists, gentrification, and 40-year-old gays who attend children’s theater. The show never takes itself seriously and for 90 intermission-less minutes, the audience is transported to a world where physics,...

It’s a good, old-fashioned campy sendup. ...