Due to the closing of Lakewood City Schools, Beck Center for the Arts is inviting area students to the FREE 10am matinee of the Youth Theater production of Our Town on Thursday, November 1. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood. Free onsite parking is available.
Our Town, considered one of the greatest American plays ever written, will be performed by 33 Beck Center students on the Mackey Main Stage. Although Our Town is ideal for grades 6 through 12, younger students are welcome. Students must be accompanied by an adult. “All of us at Beck Center understand the challenges our community has endured over the last several days,” said Ed Gallagher, Director of Education. “This is a great opportunity to welcome students and their parents to Beck Center to experience live theater performed by our outstanding youth actors.”
There will be general admission seating and tickets are not required. Please arrive between 9:30 am and 9:50 am. Theater doors will open at 9:40 am. Our Town is approximately two hours in length and there will be two intermissions.
Described as the greatest American play ever written, Our Town tells the story of the Webb and Gibb families who live in the small town of Grover’s Corners. Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal set and props, the play is performed in three acts – Daily Life, Love/Marriage, and Death/Loss. Audiences follow the families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually, in one of the most famous scenes in American theater, pass away. Our Town reminds us that life is both precious and ordinary, and that these two fundamental truths are intimately connected.
Beck Youth Theater’s Our Town will also be performed 7:30 Friday, November 2 and 3:00 pm Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4. Tickets are $12 for Adult/Senior (65 and over) and $10 for Children/Student (18 and under). To purchase tickets, visit beckcenter.org or call 216.521.2540, ext. 10.