{"id":9916,"date":"2012-02-04T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=9916"},"modified":"2012-02-04T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T07:27:10","slug":"for-better-to-open-at-cumberland-arts-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/04\/for-better-to-open-at-cumberland-arts-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFor Better\u201d to open at Cumberland Arts Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Drama Masks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Drama-Masks-185x200.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"140\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Cell phones, instant messaging, email, social media \u2026 has the communication technology of the 21st Century brought us closer together or farther apart?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove in the Age of Communication\u201d could easily be the subtitle of \u201cFor Better,\u201d Eric Coble\u2019s two-act show presented by the Cumberland Arts Centre on February 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th.<\/p>\n<p>This romantic farce follows the engagement and impending marriage of Karen Baedeker, who has met her beloved Max Aphelion all of two times, but who shares emails, text messages, IMs and other various media multiple times a day.<!--more-->Add in Karen\u2019s Luddite father Wally, her controlling sister Francine, Francine\u2019s schmoozing husband Michael, and friends, the globe-trotting Stuart and flighty Lizzie, and this show promises abundant laughs as well as a timely commentary on how we relate to one another in the techno-age.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jan Dial directs a cast of CAC regulars \u2013 Colleen Hyder (Karen), Pat Cunningham (Wally), Susan DeJesus (Francine), Bill Colclough (Michael), Jeff Wellington (Stuart) and Amanda Jennison-Sousa (Lizzie), assisted by Stage Manager Pam Halchisek.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $30.00 plus tax and include dinner with a choice of two entrees.<\/p>\n<p>Reservations are required, so call 931.552.1106.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Cell phones, instant messaging, email, social media \u2026 has the communication technology of the 21st Century brought us closer together or farther apart? \u201cLove in the Age of Communication\u201d could easily be the subtitle of \u201cFor Better,\u201d Eric Coble\u2019s two-act show presented by the Cumberland Arts Centre on February 10th, 11th, 17th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12655,3816,3856,825,12656,5765,9674,12657,12658,12659,9814,9821,12660,10790,8719,4516,5768],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2zW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}