Productions & Special Events
2022-2023 | Our 99th Season of Exceptional Theatre
Plant, Grow, Pick!
Theatre for the Very Young's Performance for Ages 3 through 6
Join us for an immersive theatrical experience with Plant, Grow, Pick! Our Theatre for the Very Young play is appropriate for ages 3-6 and fun for the whole family. See what happens when a Farmer, Rooster, and Weather all team up to grow a garden!
March 23 & 29 at 10:30AM
Tickets: $10 for adults; $5 for children.
Sonia Young, The Purple Lady
A Celebration of Life
Saturday, March 25 @ 5PM
A Celebration of the Life of Sonia Young, Chattanooga’s beloved Purple Lady, will be held Saturday, March 25, starting at 5 p.m. at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River Street. Following the seated program, light refreshments will be served by Lee Towery Catering. Sonia Young was a passionate supporter of the city and for enriching our community, especially in the arts, education, children’s causes, and animal welfare. Please join her family and friends in a commemoration her life which will include a tribute video by Randall Shuptrine, Legacies that Live On. This is an open event for those who wish to pay their respects to this legendary lady. RSVP is requested. Call the Chattanooga Theatre Center at 423-267-8534 or visit www.theatrecentre.com Donations in Sonia Young’s memory can be made to the Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 400 River Street, Chattanooga, TN 37405. Please contact Melanie Young, [email protected] for more information or the Chattanooga Theatre Centre.
Order TicketsCTC Book Club
A Discussion of Paula Vogel's INDECENT
Wednesday, March 29 @ 7 PM
Next up for the CTC Book Club is Indecent by Paula Vogel. Read the play before the meeting, then join us in the Mainstage Lobby for some lively conversation (and a little wine if you want to BYOB). Each monthly meeting will discuss another play that addresses social issues. You’ll find a PDF of the script on the club’s Facebook page. If you’re not a member, search for “CTC Book Club” and ask to join!
The Cake
The Ingredients for Trouble
April 21-May 7, 2023
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls. Those she leaves to her husband. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, this bubbly but conservative baker’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? In Bekah Brunstetter’s touching dramatic comedy, Della faces a crisis of conscience and, for the first time in her life, she has to think for herself. (Appropriate for mature audiences)
Order TicketsMiss Nelson Is Missing
A Youth Theatre Production
May 12-21, 2023
In this hilarious adaptation of the beloved children’s book, Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp. With the Big Test approaching, the kids realize how much they miss Miss Nelson, and they’ll do anything to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back. (Appropriate for all ages)
Order TicketsThe Piano Lesson
An August Wilson Masterpiece
June 9-25, 2023
It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he must come up with the money right quick. Should he sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations? Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated. From the masterful August Wilson, author of FENCES, comes this winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. (Appropriate for ages 13 and up)
Order TicketsSomething Rotten
The Funniest Musical in 400 Years
July 21-August 6, 2023
Two brothers set out to write the world’s first musical in this hilarious mash-up of 16th century Shakespeare and 21st century Broadway. This outrageous musical farce follows Nick and Nigel Bottom, who are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. (Appropriate for ages 13 and up)
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