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News

2024-25

• The Center for Performing Arts’ 2024-25 Season Promises: Nostalgia, Multigenerational Traditions, U.S. Premieres
• Spooky Season at The Center: Thrilling Performances of Sweeney Todd in Concert and The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Live Shadow Cast Just in time for Halloween
• New musical about young John Lewis to premiere at The Center for Performing Arts
• The Center for Performing Arts’ 29th Season Continues to Bring Nostalgia and Multigenerational Traditions

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2023-24

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

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2022-23

• ������ 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 ������ University Center for Performing Arts October 15

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

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

• 2022-23 Season Announcement����

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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 ������ University Center for Performing Arts

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2020-2021

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

2019-2020

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

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• ��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
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• ��2018-19 Season Announcement

2017-2018

• The Blues Hip Hop Experience
• Shange's 'For Colored Girls' addresses social issues through dance, music
• ������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
• ������Students Have a Positive Message for the Community in The Scarlet Letter
• Starting Over: A Love Story for LGBT History Month at ������ 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

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