​Comrades,
 
We call to you. We call to you, from the Mississippi River to the Lake known as Pontchartrain, from the East to the West, from the upside to the down. We humbly call to you and request your company in celebrating Cripple Creek’s achievement of ten years as a non-profit theatre dedicated to producing rigorous work aimed at provoking social action.
 
We have completed ten years of plays: some funny, some stirring, some sad, and some sung out loud. In ten years we have created musicals about chickens, dramas about the evaporating communities, operas about justice, poetic wakes in bars; and they were all done with the single intention of using art to serve our city. None of it, not a single light bulb or swirl of color, could have happened without your support and diligent guidance.
 
At ten years, we have a theatre that is free to all - because we believe that art is as vital to our city as clean drinking water and paved potholes. This civic utility requires the active patronage of citizens who see it as a necessity. Cripple Creek Theatre Company requires beacons to help it navigate the exciting waters it now sails.
 
And this is why we call to you.
 
Join us May 14th at Lighthouse NOLA for Cripple Creek’s "Port in a Storm" where we will gather together for music, libations, amateur theatricals, and free theatre. All proceeds from this event go to make our summer spectacle "RAGTIME" free and open to the public.
 
Formality requires us to include the exciting options offered to support this vital experiment in civic artistry. I ask that you draw your attention to the catalogue of Sea Monsters below you. Each one is a different stream of patronage you may choose to follow. If you, like us, believe in the power and necessity of free theatre, you also no doubt believe in the unifying power of mythical nautical terrors.
 
·  $50 - Moby Dick - Admittance to the main event at 8pm
·  $85 - Loch Ness Monster- Admittance to the patron party at 7pm and 1 primo reserved seat at "Ragtime"
·  $250 - Narwhal - Admittance to the patron party, a special "Ragtime" poster and two primo reserved seats
·  $500 - Leviathan- Admittance to the patron party and a poster and four primo reserved seats
·  $1,000 - Kraken- Admittance to the patron party and a poster and 8 primo reserved seats
 
We heartily wish to see you there.

10 Student Plays. 5 Theatre Companies.
Hilarity and Drama Ensue at the Play/Write Showcase on May 9th.

Come see Cripple Creek members launch the work of New Orleans' future playwrights!

NEW ORLEANS – On Monday, May 9th at 7:00 p.m., Goat in the Road Productions (GRP) and Dillard University present their annual event, the Play/Write Showcase at Dillard’s Samuel DuBois Cook Theatre located at 2601 Gentilly Blvd. The Showcase is comprised of 10 student plays written by 5th – 7th graders from New Orleans schools and presented by five local performance groups: Cripple Creek Theatre Co., Dancing Grounds, Dillard Theatre Ensemble, KM Dance Project, and Lux et Umbra. These companies’ adult performers will take the students’ words from the page to the stage, celebrating the work that all of the 215 students involved in the Play/Write program have done over the past year. Tickets are $10 at the door or can be purchased online at www.goatintheroadproductions.org.

This is GRP’s seventh year conducting Play/Write. The program consists of yearlong playwriting residencies conducted in six New Orleans schools: Renew Cultural Arts Academy, St. Mary’s Academy, Success Preparatory Academy, The International School of Louisiana, Young Audiences Charter School, and Warren Easton Charter High School. During these residencies, each student writes an original play, 10 of which are chosen for the Showcase. This event creates a direct relationship between writing dramatic scripts in the classroom and the real world application of that writing; a theatre production. In addition to the evening performance that is open to the public, the students will come to Dillard University’s Cook Theatre on the same day for a 10 a.m. matinee performance. Every student will receive a formatted and professionally printed copy of his/her play.
 
Since 1869, Dillard University has been committed to providing students with a quality four-year liberal arts education. Dillard is a fully accredited private, historically black university. In 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dillard among the nation’s Top 10 HBCUs, based on comprehensive undergraduate studies. Dillard was also awarded a Top 10 Ranking in 2010 for liberal arts schools in the social mobility category by Washington Monthly.
 
Goat In the Road Productions is a New Orleans based performance ensemble, dedicated to the production of original and invigorating new works or theatre, dance, performance art, and educational programming. For more information visit
www.goatintheroadproductions.org.