With just a few weeks away until Cannonball AND our Season Launch party, we’re stocking up on Kleenex here at CYPT, because between the pride of watching our kids write /direct their own plays and the annual “goodbye to the grads” part of Season Launch, we know we’re gonna need them. One of our kids […]
Peter Pan is open! It’s been such fun watching a new generation of kids fall in love with the OG children’s play, especially the older kids who’ve been around for a while and get to rediscover their earlier youth in this production. For one kid, the journey has been downright cyclical, because she started her […]
Work for CYPT Calgary Young People’s Theatre is accepting applications from professional directors for our upcoming season of plays. Applicants are encouraged to apply for one of the two following opportunities: Mainstage – a full length production for youth performers. Mainstage productions are supported by a team of professional designers, stage managers, fight choreographers, etc. […]
Happy Snowmageddon, or as we call it in Canada, “winter!” While some of us huddle up in our houses staying warm, our intrepid Peter Pan cast are busy at work for next month’s show. Carrying a good deal of the load is the actor playing Wendy, who is also our YP of the Month. This […]
2018 Cannonball Festival Cast Lists CYPT is delighted to announce the cast lists for our 2018 Cannonball Festival of Youth Theatre. Thank you so much to everyone who came out for a role! Many very skilled actors were not cast for a variety of reasons, including from scheduling conflicts to just being the second choice […]
Happy New Year! We hope you’ve all had a fabulous holiday season. We’ve remained busy with Peter Pan rehearsals, a performance at the High Performance Rodeo’s 10 Minute Play Festival featuring our youth performers, and with the start of season planning for NEXT year. That’s right, our 2018 Outpatient Collective is at work, and it […]
And that’s a wrap on 2017. Phew. It was a big year for us, with lots going on, envelopes being pushed all over the place, and the closing of our most recent show, Grounded, just days ago. And what a show it was! When we weren’t been scandalized by the salty language onstage, we were […]
Somehow it’s November, and somehow – just weeks after closing Unity – we’re opening our next show in Season 26: All Growed Up, the world premiere of Grounded! And speaking of ‘all growed up,’ we also got to celebrate the 18th birthday of one of our graduating performers last month. You will have seen this […]
We are a mere two weeks away from opening our first of two fall 2017 productions, Unity (1918) and our cast is working hard! One of the performers in this cast has been around CYPT for years, but this show will mark her first lead performance and we can’t wait to see how she tackles […]
We are pleased to announce the casts lists for Season 26 Productions Grounded, Peter Pan, and The Probably True (but also not) Adventures of the Imaginary Book Club. We saw over 80 kids at this round of auditions and we were overwhelmed by the amount of talent. Casting is a complex process, and sometimes decisions […]
