Beck Center for the Arts

Beck Center for the Arts
The Beck Center
Formation 1931
Type Theatre group
Location
  • 17801 Detroit Avenue Lakewood, Ohio 44107
Website beckcenter.org

Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, Ohio, is a non-profit, performing arts and arts education organization. It is the largest theater and arts center on Cleveland's West Shore, educating and entertaining over 65,000 people per year. On its 3½ acre campus, Beck Center houses two stages producing live theater for children, teens and adults; two gallery spaces, and over thirty classrooms for educational programming for children and adults. It offers classes in visual arts, music, theater and dance.

The Beck Center was originally named the "Guild of the Masques" when it was founded by Richard Kay in 1929; formally incorporating as the Lakewood Little Theatre in 1933. The group moved onto its current site in Lakewood, Ohio in a theater originally designed for the movies, the Lucier, in 1938. They redesigned the interior space for live plays and purchased the building in 1943. In the following decades, the group bought up contiguous land, and, in 1972 began a capital campaign to build a new center. They were successful in raising $600,000 which was matched by ad exec Kenneth C. Beck and the current Beck Center was built in 1975.[1]

Beck Center for the Arts hosts the longest running youth theater program in the United States, running for nearly sixty years.

Productions

2016-2017 Season Professional Theater

ShowDateLocation
Ruthless!September 16 - October 16Mackey Theater
Body AwarenessOctober 7 - November 6Studio Theater
Disney's The Little MermaidDecember 2 - December 31Mackey Theater
Bring It On The MusicalFebruary 10 - February 26Mackey Theater
A Great WildernessMarch 3 - April 9Studio Theater
Really ReallyJune 2 - July 2Studio Theater
City of AngelsJuly 7 - August 13Mackey Theater

2016-2017 Season Youth Theater Presented by the Mort and Iris Philanthropic Fund

ShowDateLocation
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandNovember 4 - November 6Mackey Theater
AARGH!December 10 - December 18Studio Theater
Carrie the MusicalMarch 24 - April 2Mackey Theater
Schoolhouse Rock LiveMay 12 - May 21Mackey Theater

2015-2016 Season Professional Theater

ShowDateLocation
The Spitfire GrillSeptember 18 - October 18Mackey Main Stage
Mothers and SonsOctober 9 - November 15Studio Theater
Mary PoppinsDecember 4 - January 3Mackey Main Stage
In the HeightsFebruary 12 - February 28Mackey Main Stage
Shining CityApril 1 - May 1Studio Theater
Heathers the MusicalMay 27 - July 2Studio Theater
Billy Elliot the MusicalJuly 8 - August 14Mackey Main Stage

2015-2016 Season Youth Theater

ShowDateLocation
A Little PrincessNovember 5 - November 8Mackey Main Stage
Happily Forever AfterDecember 11 - December 20Studio Theater
Bright IdeasFebruary 2 - March 6Studio Theater
Big the MusicalMay 13 - May 22Mackey Main Stage

2014-2015 Season Professional Theater

ShowDateLocation
Forever PlaidSeptember 12 - October 12Mackey Main Stage
[Title of Show]October 10 - November 16Studio Theater
Mary PoppinsDecember 5 - January 4Mackey Main Stage
DogfightFebruary 6 - March 15Studio Theater
Lend Me a TenorMarch 27 - April 26Mackey Main Stage
The Young Man From AtlantaMay 29 - June 28Studio Theater
American IdiotJuly 10 - August 16Mackey Main Stage

2014-2015 Season Youth Theater

ShowDateLocation
Mr. Toad's Mad AdventuresNovember 6 - November 9Mackey Main Stage
Hillbilly HolidayDecember 12 - December 21Studio Theater
ChicagoFebruary 20 - March 1Mackey Main Stage
Oliver!May 15 - May 24Mackey Main Stage

2013-2014 Season Professional Theater

ShowDateLocation
She Loves MeSeptember 20 - October 20Mackey Main Stage
33 VariationsOctober 11 - November 17Studio Theater
AnnieDecember 6 - January 5Mackey Main Stage
Carrie the MusicalFebruary 7 - March 9Mackey Main Stage
'night, MotherMarch 21 - May 4Studio Theater
Seminar: A ComedyMay 30 - June 29Studio Theater
Young FrankensteinJuly 11 - August 17Mackey Main Stage

2013-2014 Season Youth Theater

ShowDateLocation
The Pied Piper pf HamelinNovember 7 - November 10Mackey Main Stage
Law and Order: Fairy Tale UnitDecember 13 - December 22Studio Theater
The Children's HourFebruary 21 - March 2Mackey Main Stage
The Wizard of OzMay 9 - May 18Mackey Main Stage

2009-2010 Season Youth Theater

ShowDateLocation
The Lion, The Witch, and The WardrobeNovember 5 - November 8Mackey Main Stage
All Greek to MeDecember 11 - December 20Studio Theater
Twelve Angry JurorsFebruary 19 - February 28Studio Theater
Seussical The Musical!May 14 - May 22Mackey Main Stage

References

  1. ↑ "Lakewood Little Theatre/Beck Center". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 19 July 1997. Retrieved 22 December 2015.

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