Alder & Clark Presents A Night of Stravinsky at CCT
Alder & Clark Presents will bring A Night of Stravinsky to Cookeville Children’s Theatre June 25–27, featuring professional adult artists and a full performance of The Rite of Spring directed and choreographed by Jennifer Dotson-Creter.
(photo from left) Joseph Clark & James Alder of Alder & Clark Presents, director & choreographer Jennifer Dotson-Creter, and CCT Artistic Director Jennifer Welch met with local artists, theatre makers, and community supporters gathered at Dream Country Brewing to celebrate the collaboration,.
Cookeville Children’s Theatre is proud to host Alder & Clark Presents for their upcoming production, A Night of Stravinsky, a powerful evening of ballet featuring professional adult artists and celebrating Igor Stravinsky’s groundbreaking compositions for the Ballets Russes between 1910 and 1913.
The evening will conclude with a performance of Stravinsky’s transformative The Rite of Spring, directed and featuring original choreography by Jennifer Dotson-Creter.
This collaboration reflects CCT’s continued commitment to supporting high-level artistic work, creative partnerships, and meaningful live performance in downtown Cookeville. As CCT prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary year, opportunities like this help expand the ways our building can serve professional artists, audiences, students, and the broader Upper Cumberland arts community.
A Night of Stravinsky will premiere at Cookeville Children’s Theatre on Thursday, June 25, and run through Saturday, June 27.
Performance Schedule:
Thursday, June 25 at 7:30 PM
Friday, June 26 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 27 at 2:00 PM
Saturday, June 27 at 7:30 PM
Ticket information will be announced soon.
CCT is honored to welcome Alder & Clark Presents, Jennifer Dotson-Creter, and the full company of professional artists bringing this exciting production to life.
Cookeville Children’s Theatre Looks Ahead to Its 50th Year
As Cookeville Children’s Theatre prepares to celebrate 50 years of youth theatre in 2026, CCT is looking ahead with gratitude, vision, and renewed investment in the future.
Cookeville Children’s Theatre is preparing to celebrate a remarkable milestone: 50 years of creating theatre with and for young people in the Upper Cumberland.
Since its founding, CCT has served generations of students, families, artists, teachers, and audiences through mainstage productions, theatre education, summer camps, school-day performances, and community arts programming. What began as a local children’s theatre has grown into a long-standing creative home for young performers and a beloved part of Cookeville’s cultural landscape.
As CCT looks toward its 50th anniversary in 2026, the organization is also looking toward the future. Plans are underway for the next phase of improvements to CCT’s downtown home, including expanded creative spaces, additional restrooms, improved functionality, and the development of a flexible black box theatre space for rehearsals, workshops, small-scale performances, and community collaborations.
These improvements are part of a larger vision: to strengthen CCT’s ability to serve young artists, families, schools, and audiences for the next 50 years.
CCT is deeply grateful for the many students, parents, volunteers, donors, artists, educators, board members, and community partners who have helped build and sustain this organization across five decades. The 50th year will be both a celebration of CCT’s history and an invitation to imagine what comes next.
More anniversary announcements, events, and opportunities to celebrate will be shared soon.