CPH Stories

An Update on our 2020-2021 Season

Meet The Playwrights: Introducing Vichet Chum

CPH Roe Green Fund for New American Plays Meet The Playwrights! Introducing Vichet Chum Vichet Chum is a Cambodian-American playwright and theater...

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Stay Connected! InsideCPH is VIRTUAL!

CPH Artist Director Laura Kepley has some exciting news to share about our new Virtual InsideCPH series! Stay connected and...

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Hats Off to Our 2020 Graduates!

Spring is in the air! But as the season winds down and we count down to Summer, we wanted to...

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Salute to the CWRU/CPH MFA Class of 2020

Salute to the CWRU/CPH MFA Class of 2020! We celebrate the accomplishments and the successes of the CWRU/CPH MFA Class of...

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about an hour ago via twitter

It's a bit past midsummer, but we're taking this #FBF to spotlight hot-weather-classic A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, a Shakespeare comedy CPH has staged 7 times (including a puppet play version in 1924!). Here's a shot from the 1934/35 show! What's your favorite summer-set play? https://t.co/BA6oXZAglh

about an hour ago via instagram

Perhaps it's a bit past midsummer — how is it almost August?! — but we're taking this #FBF to spotlight hot-weather-classic A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Staged by the Play House seven times (including one puppet play version in 1924!), this beloved Shakespeare comedy continues to delight audiences with its romantic entanglements, mischievous fairies, love potions and sumptuous woodland settings. Here's a shot from the 1934/35 production, featuring Ester Mullin, Alberta Watkins, Lois Ward, Margaret Leland and Harriet Morley as the fairy queen Titania and her court. Here, they comfort the unfortunately transfigured Nick Bottom (played by Thomas Gomez), an actor whose head has been transformed into a donkey's. What are your favorite summer-set plays? Let us know in the comments! Photo courtesy the CPH Archives at CWRU's @kelvinsmithlibrary.