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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 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) 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.
Beck Center for the Arts hosts the longest running youth theater program in the United States, running for nearly seventy years.
Productions
2024-2025 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
The Sunshine Boys
September 13 - October 6
Senney Theater
The Glass Menagerie
October 4 - November 3
Studio Theater
Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat
December 6 -January 5
Senney Theater
Waitress: The Musical
February 14 - March 9
Senney Theater
Under a Baseball Sky
April 4 - May 4
Studio Theater
The Robber Bridegroom
May 30 - June 29
Studio Theater
A Chorus Line
July 11 - August 10
Senney Theater
2024-2025 Season Youth Theater
Show
Date
Location
The Monster Bash of
Dreadstone Manor
October 24 - October 27
Senney Theater
Channeling Grimm
December 13 - December 22
Studio Theater
The Tempest
February 28 - March 9
Studio Theater
Between the Lines
May 2 - May 11
Senney Theater
2023-2024 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
Doubt: A Parable
May 26 - June 25
Studio Theater
Once On This Island
July 7 – August 6
Senney Theater
Cat's-Paw
September 22– October 22
Studio Theater
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
December 1– December 30
Senney Theater
Ride the Cyclone
February 9 – February 25
Senney Theater
Jitney
April 5 – May 5
Studio Theater
A Doll's House, Part 2
May 31—June 30
Studio Theater
Beautiful, the Carole King Musical
July 12– August 11
Senney Theater
2023-2024 Season Youth Theater
Show
Date
Location
It's A Madhouse
October 26 - Oct 29, 2023
Senney Theater
Going Medieval: A Ye Olde Comedie
December 8 - December 17
Studio Theater
Mean Girls (High School Version)
March 3 - March 24
Senney Theater
The Wizard of Oz
May 10- May 19
Senney Theater
2022-2023 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
Buyer & Cellar
September 9- October 9
Studio Theater
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
September 23- October 16
Senney Theater
Elf the Musical
December 2- December 30
Senney Theater
Ghost the Musical
February 10- February 26
Senney Theater
Noises Off
March 24- April 16
Senney Theater
Doubt: A Parable
May 26- June 25
Studio Theater
Once On This Island
July 7- August 6
Senney Theater
2022-2023 Season Youth Theater
Show
Date
Location
The Canterbury Tales Or...
Geoffrey Chaucer's Flying Circus
November 3 -November 6
Senney Theater
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
December 9 - December 18
Studio Theater
William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead
March 3 - March 12
Studio Theater
Once Upon a Mattress
May 5 - May 14
Senney Theater
2021-2022 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
Broadway Bound
September 10- October 3
Senney Theater
The Exonerated
October 8- November 7
Studio Theater
Elf the Musical
December 30- January 2
Senney Theater
Lizzie
February 4- February 26
Senney Theater
Meteor Shower
April 1- May 1
Studio Theater
The Legend of Georgia McBride
May 27- June 26
Studio Theater
Something Rotten!
July 8- August 7
Senney Theater
2021- 2022 Season Youth Theater
Show
Date
Location
Little Tech Class of Horrors: When Good Science Goes Bad
October 22- October 24
Senney Theater
The Real Valkyries of Valhalla
December 10- December 19
Studio Theater
Disney's: High School Musical
March 18- March 27
Senney Theater
Bugsy Malone
May 6- May 15
Senney Theater
2020-2021 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
Fully Committed
November 13- December 6
Online
5 New Musicals X 15 Minutes
February 12 - February 28
Online
Beck Broadway Alums in Concert
March 5- March 28
Online
This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing
July 23- August 8
Senney Theater
2020-2021 Season Youth Theater
Show
Date
Location
Zopp
October 22- October 25
Online
A Christmas Peril
December 10 - December 13
Online
The Teen Untitled Sketch Show
March 25- March 28
Online
Honk, Jr.
May 20- May 24
Online
2019-2020 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
Glengarry Glen Ross
September 13 - October 6
Mackey Theater
The Member of the Wedding
October 4 - November 3
Studio Theater
Shrek the Musical
December 6 - January 5
Mackey Theater
The Scottsboro Boys
February 7 - February 23
Mackey Theater
Meteor Shower
April 3 - May 3
Studio Theater
Disgraced
May 29- June 28
Studio Theater
Something Rotten!
July 10 - August 9
Mackey Theater
2019-2020 Season Youth Theater
Show
Date
Location
The Trials of Robinhood
October 24 - October 27
Mackey Theater
Once Upon a Decade
December 13 - December 22
Studio Theater
Mockingbird
February 28 - March 8
Studio Theater
2018-2019 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
An Act of God
September 14 - October 7
Mackey Theater
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
October 5 - November 4
Studio Theater
Shrek the Musical
December 7 - January 6
Mackey Theater
Once
February 8 - February 24
Mackey Theater
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
March 15 - April 14
Studio Theater
King Lear
May 31 - June 30
Studio Theater
Matilda the Musical
July 12 - August 11
Mackey Theater
2018-2019 Season Youth Theater Presented by the Mort and Iris Philanthropic Fund
Show
Date
Location
Cinderella
October 26 - October 28
Mackey Theater
Law & Order: Nursery Rhyme Unit
December 14 - December 23
Studio Theater
13
April 5 - April 14
Mackey Theater
Seussical
May 10 - May 19
Mackey Theater
2017-2018 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
September 15 - October 8
Mackey Theater
Waiting for Godot
October 6 - November 5
Studio Theater
The Little Mermaid
December 1 - December 31
Mackey Theater
Hair
February 9 - February 25
Mackey Theater
My First Time
March 30 - April 29
Studio Theater
Bent
June 1 - July 1
Studio Theater
Gypsy
July 6 - August 12
Mackey Theater
2017-2018 Season Youth Theater Presented by the Mort and Iris Philanthropic Fund
Show
Date
Location
Snow White's Adventures
October 26 - October 29
Mackey Theater
All Greek to Me
December 8 - December 17
Studio Theater
The Laramie Project
March 2 - March 11
Studio Theater
Annie
May 11 - May 20
Mackey Theater
2016-2017 Season Professional Theater
Show
Date
Location
Ruthless!
September 16 - October 16
Mackey Theater
Body Awareness
October 7 - November 6
Studio Theater
Disney's The Little Mermaid
December 2 - December 31
Mackey Theater
Bring It On The Musical
February 10 - February 26
Mackey Theater
A Great Wilderness
March 3 - April 9
Studio Theater
Really Really
June 2 - July 2
Studio Theater
City of Angels
July 7 - August 13
Mackey Theater
2016-2017 Season Youth Theater Presented by the Mort and Iris Philanthropic Fund
"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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