Rotherham Civic Theatre and Arts Centre
Rotherham Civic Theatre is a converted church in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England which is now a medium-scale proscenium arch theatre playing host to a wide program of professional and amateur dance, drama, musicals, children’s theatre, comedy, music and pantomime.
The Arts Centre offers a wide range of spaces including a small scale black box studio theatre, arts and craft room, meeting rooms and café/bar.
Over the years, the theatre has seen many performances from many different groups, but the Rotherham Teachers Student Academy (RTSA) - with an age span of 8 to 19 year olds - have performed various shows at the civic.
- The Yorkshire premier of Seussical The Musical
- One of the first productions of High School Musical: on Stage! with which the RTSA where asked to open and close the European Festival of Dance and Performing arts at Disneyland Paris in October 2008
- The Theatre s first production of Les Miserable (School Edition)
- A production of West Side Story is planned in March/April 2010
Rotherham Teachers Student Academy is only the junior leg of the long standing Rotherham Teachers Operatic Society, a society as of 2009 in its 97th year.
Coordinates: 53°25′52″N 1°21′06″W / 53.4311°N 1.3518°W / 53.4311; -1.3518
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