2012 Programming Complete Listing

Click on the link above for a complete listing of our theater, music, film and gallery programs.  Please check the website from time to time as there will be additions to our programs throughout the year

A play by John Patrick Shanley

April 5-22, 2012

     In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.

     Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award.

     “A beautifully balanced drama. Shanley is a writer working at the top of his craft, making the most of a muted but evocative palette in the pursuit of truth’s shadows. Here, for the first time in a long time, is a play that is about something.” —Chicago Tribune.

February 15 – March 17

Opening Reception Feb. 18 5-7pm

Paris, known as the “City of Light” has been reflected through the lens of all who have visited. In this exhibit, Paris becomes itself, again, in another moment of excitement, mystery and anticipation that either warms your memory of a time past or stimulates a yearning forward . 

Don West began a career as a freelance and news photographer making a conscious choice to capture affirmative images of people of color in all facets of community life. His editorial and documentary assignments have taken him throughout the United States, Latin America, Africa, China, Europe and the Middle East.

A musical comedy by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek

June 7-July 1, 2012

     Based on the popular 1988 film, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS centers on two con men living on the French Riviera. The first is the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. The other, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother’s failing health.
     After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn’t big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female target, heiress Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town. A hilarious battle of cons ensues, that will keep audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the end!

February 15 – March 17

Opening Reception Saturday, February 18 5-7 pm

A celebration of artists with disabilities, this exhibit is designed to foster a better appreciation of people with physical challenges.  As art enriches their lives, we hope their creativity, talent & exuberant spirit will enrich Cotuit Center for the Arts’ visitors’  lives, along with their family, friends & caregivers.

Deb Colligan will be in the gallery for exhibition tours, talks and art workshops Wednesdays 3-5pm (Feb. 22 & 29, March 7 & 14)

Captured in Motion: Sculpture from the kilns of Benton Jones

February 15 through March 17

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 18 from 5 – 7 pm 

Benton Jones has committed himself to relentless sculptural experimentation and strives to impart layered meaning into each object he creates. Often combining materials with contrasting properties, like molten glass and non-ferrous metals, Jones captures liquid sculpture in mid-motion by precisely choreographed cooling in his kilns.

The search for commonality within disparity, both in subject matter and media choice, is a recurring theme in Jones’ work. He has transformed century old Sandwich Glass fragments into contemporary drop-ring vessels, made a series of work entitled Oceanic Experience from the glass walls of the old Provincetown Aquarium, and, in a collection of ice-like glass sculpture entitled Melting Hemispheres, Jones captured the attention of the New England Cable Network, when he reshaped glass flotation spheres previously in use by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for climate change research, in an effort to draw attention to the issue.

“To bridge a connection between unlike materials, for example, glass to copper, or even between opposing viewpoints, such as, industrialist and environmentalist, you must start by identifying the similarities, making sure not to ignore the differences, then, and only then, can a true relationship develop.”

Drawing from his formal training, gleaned atCarnegieMellonUniversity, Ecoles Des Beaux-Arts and The Johnson Atelier Institute of Sculpture, Benton Jones continues to create dynamic work. Of equal value to Jones’ artistic success is his intuitive understanding of materials, reinforced by 15 years of kiln-forming explorations and 20 years of metal casting within his personal studios, located at the Millstone Sculpture Gallery complex inBrewster,Massachusetts.

March 21 – April 22

Opening Reception Saturday, March 24 5-7 pm

A long time Falmouth resident, Zens Twombly has exhibited in Europe as well as the U.S., including the Rivington Gallery in London, Pieces of Eight Gallery in Port Salerno, Florida and at Cape Cod galleries.  She is also an accomplished portrait artist and has designed sets for the Santa Fe (New Mexico) Theater Company and the Charles Playhouse Children’s Theater of Boston. 

“I paint in order to name with color and line what I see and hear and so love in this world.  My intention is simply to be as truthful as I can be about these things, and I have found that abstraction often lets me be as limitless in this as I can possibly be.  In the end, I hope that the beauty I hear, the truth I see, will nourish us every single day and help us to know that we are this beauty too.”

 Kathy Zens Twombly

March 21 – April 22

Opening Reception Saturday, March 24 5-7 pm

The first exhibit featuring  works of our curatorial committee: Michelle Law, Lois Hirshberg, Mary Moquin and Michael Ernst

A musical, Book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood.  Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb

August 2-26, 2012

     The scene is a night club in Berlin, as the 1920′s are drawing to a close. The Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience to the show and assures them that, whatever their troubles, they will forget them at the Cabaret. His songs provide wry commentary throughout the show. On the train to Berlin we find Cliff, a young American writer, and Ernst, a German who surprises Cliff by putting his briefcase among Cliff’s luggage at the German border. History is in the process of being made. Musical numbers include It Couldn’t Please Me More, Willkommen, Cabaret, Don’t Tell Mama and Two Ladies. We find Cliff on the train again, now leaving Berlin alone. He writes about Sally and the people of Berlin leading up to the Third Reich. It has been a tumultuous and heartbreaking era.

May 5 – June 10

Opening Reception Saturday, May 5 5-7pm

Traditional and non-traditional aspects of the tea ceremony will be explored.  The preparation of tea, utensils used in the ceremony, calligraphy, ikebana (flower arranging), textile (kimonos), architecture (gardens and structures) and more.

The tea ceremony is an ancient ritual preparation of Matcha (powdered green tea). The foundation of the Japanese tea ceremony is the harmony of nature and self cultivation, and enjoying tea in formal and informal settings.The richness of the ritual itself, plus the artistic setting and utensils of the tea ceremony, have inspired tea enthusiasts for centuries.

The central principles of the tea ceremony are: harmony, respect, purity and tranquility. This exhibit will feature contemporary works by artists who have been inspired by this philosophy and aesthetic.