Cotuit Center for the Arts is proud to announce Cape Cod's first large group glass artists exhibition and sale. The exhibition, Clear Vision: Masterworks in Glass will be on view through July 26. The exhibiting artists are Jim Holmes, Benton Jones, Fritz Lauenstein, Michael Magyar, David McDermott, Bonnie Maresh, Robbie Mason, Ed Poore, Patrick Todoroff, and Travis Weber as well as pieces from historic Pairpoint, America's oldest glassworks. Works will include the full range of hot worked to cold worked, blown, slumped, beveled, leaded and engraved techniques.

More Information: Gallery hours are Monday - Friday from 10am - 4pm and from 10am - 2pm on Saturday.

Cotuit Center for the Arts will offer Summer Art at CCftA, an intensive program for co-ed students, ages 12 - 15, with an enthusiastic interest in art. The program includes extensive classes in painting, black and white photography, sculpture, and drawing where students will have the opportunity to explore a range of media and visual ideas. Much focus is given to observational assignments. Plaster, wire, charcoal, oil painting, and darkroom techniques will be introduced. Many courses and projects will draw inspiration from the Cape landscape and ocean. There will be three two-week sessions: June 30 - July 11; July 14 - July 25 and July 28 - August 8. Classes will be held each weekday from 8:30am to 12:30pm. The cost for tuition for each two week session is $600 ($550 for CCftA members). A great value at $15 per hour! The tuition fee includes all art supplies and studio expenses. A great value for $15 per hour! To register, please call the arts center at 508-428-0669. Faculty consists of experienced, practicing, artists and teachers who look forward to working with creative art students this summer. At the end of each session every student will have acquired new skills, explored exciting media, produced a portfolio of artwork, and benefited from the experience of working with peers in a motivating and creative environment.

More Information: Enrollment form available on website.

Cotuit Center for the Arts proudly presents SULLIVAN AND GILBERT, a play with music by Ken Ludwig on June 26 - July 13*. Performances will be held at 8pm Thursdays-Saturdays with Sunday matinees at 4pm. (There is no performance on July 4th.) Tickets are $20; $18 for seniors and members; $10 for students with ID. Rich McKey direct this charming and clever play with music that mixes hilarious backstage drama with the best of the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire. To reserve tickets, please call the box office at 508-428-0669. There will be a fundraising event at 2:30pm on Sunday, July 13*. The event includes guest speaker, Royston Nash, hors d'oeuvres, wine, assorted desserts and a performance at 4pm of SULLIVAN AND GILBERT. All tickets are $50 with proceeds to benefit Cotuit Center for the Arts. To place a reservation, please call the box office at 508-428-0669. A command performance is the only thing that could cause feuding collaborators William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan together again. And it has: Gilbert and Sullivan, at the behest of Queen Victoria, have gathered the Opera company one last time for a special revue.

Cotuit Center for the Arts will offer two coordinated workshops for children that correspond with their production of Sullivan and Gilbert by Ken Ludwig, a play with music that mixes hilarious backstage drama with the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire. Musical theater instructor and choreographer, Michele Colley-Whittier will introduce your child to the music of Gilbert & Sullivan and the basics of performance techniques. The first workshop for children ages 5-8 will be held on Sunday, June 29 from 4:00pm to 6:30pm. A workshop will also be offered on July 6 for children ages 9-11 from 4:00pm to 6:30pm. The cost is $20 per child with purchase of ticket to Sullivan & Gilbert; $25 per child if not purchasing ticket to Sullivan & Gilbert. A snack is included. Pre-paid advance reservations are required and may be placed by calling the box office at 508-428-0669.

Lucinda Brockway, a renowned landscape preservationist from Kennebunk, Maine, will be at Highfield Hall on Wednesday, July 9 for an illustrated lecture at 10:00 am. Brockway will be talking about the history of the Highfield Hall landscape, and will provide information to homeowners about how they can apply historic landscape concepts to their own gardens. Reservations are encouraged by calling Highfield at 508-495-1878 as seating is limited. A $5 donation is suggested.

More Information: Also on display at Highfield Hall through July 17 is “Cape Artists, Cape Towns” from the Cape Cod Art Association. Highfield Hall, a center for arts and culture, is operated by Historic Highfield, Inc., a nonprofit organization. The Hall is located at 56 Highfield Drive in Falmouth; Highfield Drive is an extension of Depot Avenue. For more information, please call Highfield Hall at 508-495-1878 or visit their website www.highfieldhall.org for an up-to-date listing of programs, exhibitions and community events.

A gripping rumination on the state of America’s youth, EVIE’S WALTZ is a riveting thriller about a troubled teen who makes his parents answer for the sins of their generation. Directed by Skip Greer

More Information: CCTP is dedicated to the development of new American plays. This year from July 10-Aug 2 professional playwrights directors and actors will come to Falmouth to develop and perform staged readings of new works. The audience is invited to discuss the play after each performance.

Cotuit Center for the Arts will offer Summer Art at CCftA, an intensive program for co-ed students, ages 12 - 15, with an enthusiastic interest in art. The program includes extensive classes in painting, black and white photography, sculpture, and drawing where students will have the opportunity to explore a range of media and visual ideas. Much focus is given to observational assignments. Plaster, wire, charcoal, oil painting, and darkroom techniques will be introduced. Many courses and projects will draw inspiration from the Cape landscape and ocean. There will be three two-week sessions: June 30 - July 11; July 14 - July 25 and July 28 - August 8. Classes will be held each weekday from 8:30am to 12:30pm. The cost for tuition for each two week session is $600 ($550 for CCftA members). The tuition fee includes all art supplies and studio expenses. To register, please call the arts center at 508-428-0669. Faculty consists of experienced, practicing, artists and teachers who look forward to working with creative art students this summer. At the end of each session every student will have acquired new skills, explored exciting media, produced a portfolio of artwork, and benefited from the experience of working with peers in a motivating and creative environment.

More Information: Enrollment form available at our website.

Shakespeare on the Cape, a troupe of talented, dedicated, young actors who appear at several locations Cape-wide will present a one-hour "Kiddie Shakes" performance of THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare. Directed by Tessa K. Bry, performances will be held at 5:30 pm on Tuesdays, July 15, 22 & 29 at Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Rte. 28 in Cotuit. This shortened, narrated version is a simple tale of fairies, witches, monsters, betrayal, retribution, redemption and forgiveness which is sure to delight both children and adults alike. Tickets are $5.00; children 12 and under free. To reserve tickets, please call the box office at 508-428-0669.

More Information: Perfomances each Tuesday, July 15, 22 & 29 at 5:30pm.

Shakespeare on the Cape, a troupe of talented, dedicated, young actors who appear at several locations Cape-wide will present Moliere's THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES, translated by Richard Wilbur and directed by Eric Powell Holm. Performances will be held at 8:00pm on Tuesdays, July 15, 22 & 29 at Cotuit Center for the Arts. From the original master of stage comedy, this is the classic farce. Moliere delighted in holding the human ego up to ridicule and he's never done it better than in THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES.

More Information: Perfomances each Tuesday, July 15, 22 & 29 at 8pm.

One of the few musicals ever presented at CCTP, REALITY! is an irreverent parody of the reality behind reality television shows. Fueled by high-octane pop songs, REALITY! charts the rise and inevitable fall of media sensations. Directed by Michelle Tattenbaum.

More Information: CCTP is dedicated to the development of new American plays. This year from July 10-Aug 2 professional playwrights directors and actors will come to Falmouth to develop and perform staged readings of new works. The audience is invited to discuss the play after each performance.

If you missed either of the two soul-stirring, foot-stomping, dance- the -night -away concerts earlier this year that wowed sell-out crowds, don't miss this encore concert! "Whitfield sings in a ferocious yell that recalls a whole tradition of 60's soul music...The band's originals have the snap and concision of great lost hit singles, and rumor has it that the band is even better on stage, which is almost hard to believe." --Philadelphia Inquirer

More Information: For ages 21 +. Positive ID required.

Social and political satirist, Jimmy Tingle performs his one-man show at this fundraising event. All proceeds to benefit Cotuit Center for the Arts. Drawing on 25 years of comedic insight, outrage and commentary, nationally-known comedian and commentator for 60 Minutes II, Jimmy Tingle has constructed a hilarious, thought-provoking and politically-charged one-man show based on his 2008 run for the White House. In lieu of consultants, volunteers or campaign contributions Tingle employs "the gift of laughter" - campaigning with passion, intellect and creativity on every issue from immigration and education to global warming and national healthcare. (In the unlikely event Jimmy Tingle is actually elected president he will have no choice but to continue the show through Inauguration Day 2012.)

More Information: Appropriate for ages 18+

Designed for students ages 13-18, Bob Bock instructs this three-week theater immersion workshop leading to performance. Skills taught during the workshop will include acting, stage movement, as well as technical skills in set construction and painting, properties, costumes, stage management, lighting and set management. Open to all skill levels—beginner to experienced will find this workshop beneficial and fun for all! A worthwhile chance for you and your friends to work together. Pre-registration is required. Class size limited.

More Information: Classes meet Monday - Friday.

A CD release party for singer-songwriter, acoustic guitarist, Michael Oakland's newest CD, "Reality Matinee". Michael Oakland has been dubbed The "Tropic Gypsy". A title that has suitably stuck. He is Tropico-Jazz-World-Fusionaire! Equatorial rhythms of Samba, Bossa Nova, and Calypso fuse with a World-Afro-Jam Improvisation. Virtuosic dynamism and eloquental subtlety play a nylon string guitar. He has a rhythmic intimacy with the instrument and plays it as if it were a world percussion kit. Whilst simultaneously playing bass lines, chordal accompaniment and soloing. The depth, breadth and sheer integration of so much sound coming to the ear defies what the eye sees. An expanded vocal range affecting the music with lyric and textural treatments would lead one to believe that there were three different people performing.

CCTP is proud to commission a new comedy from John Cariani, the author of the hit comedy ALMOST, MAINE. This riotous new work follows the hapless story of two wildly different brothers in a gas station in northernmost Maine. Directed by Andrew Polk

More Information: CCTP is dedicated to the development of new American plays. This year from July 10-Aug 2 professional playwrights directors and actors will come to Falmouth to develop and perform staged readings of new works. The audience is invited to discuss the play after each performance.

MBL Waterfront Park. Raindate is Wednesday, July 30th. Artisan’s who would like to participate can call for more information.

The final program of the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival's 35th season features a commissioned work, "Why I Wake Early" by Ronald Perera, composer of "The Outermost House". Margaret Bossi directs the Chatham Chorale Chamber Singers in eight poems by the Cape's celebrated poet, Mary Oliver, which have been set for mixed chorus, string quartet and piano. Also, Brahms--Quintet op.34 in F minor will be performed. The musicians are Charles Sherba-violin; Benjamin Thacher-violin; Consuelo Sherba-viola; Matthias Naegle-cello and Donald Enos-piano.

More Information: Tickets also available at the door.

Cotuit Center for the Arts will offer Summer Art at CCftA, an intensive program for co-ed students, ages 12 - 15, with an enthusiastic interest in art. The program includes extensive classes in painting, black and white photography, sculpture, and drawing where students will have the opportunity to explore a range of media and visual ideas. Much focus is given to observational assignments. Plaster, wire, charcoal, oil painting, and darkroom techniques will be introduced. Many courses and projects will draw inspiration from the Cape landscape and ocean. There will be three two-week sessions: June 30 - July 11; July 14 - July 25 and July 28 - August 8. Classes will be held each weekday from 8:30am to 12:30pm. The cost for tuition for each two week session is $600 ($550 for CCftA members). A great value at $15 per hour! The tuition fee includes all art supplies and studio expenses. A great value for $15 per hour! To register, please call the arts center at 508-428-0669. Faculty consists of experienced, practicing, artists and teachers who look forward to working with creative art students this summer. At the end of each session every student will have acquired new skills, explored exciting media, produced a portfolio of artwork, and benefited from the experience of working with peers in a motivating and creative environment.

More Information: Enrollment form available at our website.

Race, sex, video games, a dead poet and hidden chocolate all clash in this new play set in a New England town. CCTP is proud to present this comedy about melancholy and the trials of homecoming by one of America’s most exciting new playwrights.

More Information: CCTP is dedicated to the development of new American plays. This year from July 10-Aug 2 professional playwrights directors and actors will come to Falmouth to develop and perform staged readings of new works. The audience is invited to discuss the play after each performance.