CT Community Theatre Association Festival Set for Today at Warner Theatre

The first Connecticut Community Theatre Association Festival will be held at the Warner Theatre today, September 27 at 1 pm. Four community theatre groups will compete at this years festival, dinner will be provided and an awards presentation will follow.

The final result of this Festival will be for our adjudicators to select two Outstanding Productions to represent Connecticut in the New England Regional Theatre Festival (NERF), which will also be hosted by the Warner Theatre in our Nancy Marine Studio Theatre in Feb/Mar 2015. Winners from the NERF will go on to represent our region in the National AACT Festival, which will be held in June 2015 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This year's competing groups:
BACKYARD THEATRE ENSEMBLE - "Laundry and Bourbon"
DESULTORY THEATRE CLUB - "Jumper"
PHOENIX STAGE COMPANY - "The Checker Game"
WARNER STAGE COMPANY - "Winter Flowers"

Adjudications for each production will follow each performance and are open to the public. Our adjudicators for this event are Joan Luther and Paul Nelson, both from New York. Dave Sheppard from Massachusetts is the AACT Festival Commissioner.

Audiences are encouraged to attend all the performances and all of the adjudications to derive full educational value from the Festival.

Per AACT standards, the theater is sealed at the start of each performance. While an audience member may be permitted to exit during a performance, they will not be allowed to re-enter during a performance.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling the Warner Box Office at (860) 489-7180 or online at warnertheatre.org.

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