[NEohioPAL]Cyrus Eaton Foundation Helping to Bring In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks to Life at Dobama Theatre

[Marjorie Preston, PR/Marketing Director]

*Cyrus Eaton Foundation Helping to Bring In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks to
Life at Dobama Theatre*

Dobama’s March production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood has received a
generous sponsorship from the Cyrus Eaton Foundation which will principally
be used toward funding actors’ and director’s salaries.

In the Blood is a 2000 Pulitzer Prize nominee, and its author, Suzan-Lori
Parks, has written over 15 plays.  In 2001 she won the prestigious McArthur
Grant, and she has since gone on to become the first African-American woman
to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 2002, for her play Topdog/Underdog.

Returning to Dobama’s stage will be RaSheryl McCreary.  Ms. McCreary’s last
appearance at Dobama was in the one-woman play, Truth.  She has been seen on
Cleveland stages in Pretty Fire, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,
Antigone, The Madwoman of Chaillot and The Changeling.  She is a gifted
singer, actress and writer.

In the Blood will be directed by Sonya Robbins, a freelance director and
theatre-educator.  Her work at Dobama includes How I Learned to Drive, Three
Days of Rain, W;t, and last year’s Refuge.  She has worked in various
capacities at most of the area theatres and also co-founded a company of
local, professional artists called Moving Spaces.  This last summer she
directed Sarah Morton’s Night Bloomers as part of her fellowship with the
Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

“Suzan-Lori Parks asks questions about the way we live today and draws a
line between rhetoric and behavior,” says Robbins.  “She engages us in a
dialogue that plays with stereotypes of class and race.”

featuring Kevin Brewer*, Victor Dickerson, Renee Matthews-Jackson, RaSheryl
McCreary*, Anthony Nickerson and Cassandra Vincent*
*member Actors’ Equity Association

Performances:
March 7-30
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 3/9 at 7:30 p.m.; 3/16, 3/23, 3/30 at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets $11-$18

For more information, call Dobama Theatre at (216) 932-6838.
For reservations, call Dobama’s box office at (216) 932-3396.

*Ask about our two NEW subscription opportunities!  Half Flex Pass-$85
Theatre/Dinner Pass-$155
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Dobama Theatre is proud to present "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" by
Charles Busch -- EXTENDED through February 15!  Directed by Fred Sternfeld.
"As full of laughs as Zabar's is full of lox" -- Tony Brown, Plain Dealer

Upcoming productions:
In the Blood
By Suzan-Lori Parks, Directed by Sonya Robbins
featuring RaSheryl McCreary
original music by Bill Ransom
March 7-30
"Here and elsewhere, Parks has a voice that mixes distinctive lyricism with
a pungent wit." Variety

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By Nicky Silver, Directed by Russ Borski
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FREE Performances June 6-8

13th ANNUAL OWEN KELLY ADOPT-A-PLAYWRIGHT PROGRAM
June 27-29

For reservations, call Dobama's box office line: (216) 932-3396.