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Musical Theatre Workshops and Productions

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Musicals Incorporating Strong Female Leads

Amazing Performances

Original Music Combined with Unique Stories

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We produce musical theatre workshops and productions that educate and entertain the community.

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We create opportunities for young people to experience musical theatre through workshops and performance.

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We award grants to artists and organizations that enhance the musical theatre community and other artistic venues.

Latest News

EDTA releases guide for reopening of school theatre programs!

There is a wonderful organization that I belong to, the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA.) It is an international non-profit group that shares information with teachers, directors and others ab

Helpless, Satisfied and a Football Game?

I have a friend from Milwaukee, a mature, theatre-going woman, who just loves HAMILTON. Before she saw the show live in Chicago, she downloaded and printed the lyrics to the show. She wanted to be f

Pilot Productions of THE MYSTERY OF CUSTODIA

THE MYSTERY OF CUSTODIA – our new virtual, online musical is being tested….right now! Several pilot productions of the show are being performed by middle schools throughout Illinois. What’

A New Musical in 5 weeks – WHAT???

The challenge was daunting. How could we ever create a new musical in such a short time? Musicals take years to create and develop, right? And this one had to be all solos and monologues – how

Black Lives DO Matter!

Dear friends, All of us at CPA Theatricals want to join our voices to those of the black community – and, indeed of all Americans of good will – in expressing our anger and our grief at the brutal

Mystery of Custodia – Q&A

OK, time to divulge some details about our new project. I thought it would be best to put it in a Q&A. How did you conceive the story? I did zoom interviews with a bunch of students of all ages,

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