Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) and the Shepherd University art department have embarked on an ambitious multiyear effort to build a new Center for the Contemporary Arts. The finished complex could rival the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Center in size and sophistication. There's just one problem: The choice of a politically polarizing play for this summer's festival lineup could unwittingly imperil funding and set back this ambitious project.
