The Contemporary Theater Company (CTC) is a small professional traveling theater company based in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Established in 2005, the company presents a range of plays with an emphasis on reaching first-time theatergoers.
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The Contemporary Theater Company started as an unincorporated group in 2005 known as The Courthouse Theater Company. Its first production was Rumors by Neil Simon in the summer of 2005. The company incorporated on May 30, 2006.[1] The company continued to present shows at the Courthouse Center for the Arts until the end of 2007, when the center established an in-house theater group.
In 2009, The Courthouse Theater Theater Company renamed itself The Contemporary Theater Company. It has since produced shows including The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)[2] and The Gift of the Magi[3].
Complete List of Shows:
2005: Rumors
2006: Proof, You Can't Take It With You
2007: The Matchmaker, Set & Drift
2008: Color Theory, 30 Neo-Futurist Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
2009: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Noises Off, Arsenic and Old Lace, Metamorphoses (play), Gift of the Magi
2010: The Last 5 Years, The Real Inspector Hound, The Glass Menagerie, Waiting for Godot, Rumors, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Gift of the Magi
2011: Romeo and Juliet, Composition, 30 Neo-Futurist Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Eurydice
In addition, the company has presented a 24-Hour Play Festival every year since 2006. [4]
The CTC is led by a seven-member board of directors and Artistic Director Christopher Simpson.[5] In 2009, Simpson won a fellowship from Princeton University to help grow the company.[6]