[NEohioPAL]Actors' Summit Theater presents Yiddish Scholars At Free Lectures

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For Immediate Release
For additional information contact:=20
Neil Thackaberry 330-342-0800


Hudson, Ohio=20
October 4, 2004
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Actors' Summit Theater presents=20
Yiddish Scholars
At Free Lectures=20
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Actors=E2=80=99 Summit Theater announces two free lectures in conjunction wi=
th the=20
run of Laughter in 3 Languages starring Dorothy & Reuben Silver. The product=
ion=20
is part of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the establishment of=20
the first Jewish congregation in North America, and the 150th anniversary of=
 the=20
establishment of the first Jewish congregation in Summit County.
=20
On October 10 at 3:30 PM, immediately following the performance of Laughter=20
in Three Languages, Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein will speak on "Jewish Words in=20
America."  On October 17 at 3:30 PM, Dr. Joshua Halberstam will speak on=20=
=E2=80=9C
Jewish-American or American-Jewish Self Image.=E2=80=9D
=20
Both lectures are free and open to the public and are presented with the=20
support of the Ohio Humanities Council and the Ohio Arts Council.
=20
Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein
Dr. Hellerstein is the Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in Yiddish and Jewish=20
Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Wellesley, Brandeis,=20=
and=20
Stanford, Hellerstein is known as a poet and a translator, as well as a scho=
lar=20
of Yiddish poetry.=20
Hellerstein's books include her translation and study of Moyshe-Leyb=20
Halpern's poems, Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky, and Jewi=
sh=20
American Literature: A Norton Anthology, of which she is co-editor.  She is=20=
also a=20
major contributor to American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (Univers=
ity=20
of California Press, 1986). =20
Hellerstein's many scholarly articles on Yiddish literature, and most=20
recently, on women poets in Yiddish, are published in journals, anthologies,=
 and=20
encyclopedias, including Prooftexts, Shofar, Source, Chulyot,. Borders, Boun=
daries=20
and Frames...: Essays from the English Institute, Jewish Women in America: A=
n=20
Historical Encyclopedia, and Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish=20
Literature. =20
Individual translations by Hellerstein have been published in Forward,=20
Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Der Pakn Treger, Two Lines, Princeton Univer=
sity=20
Library Chronicle. Her own poems have appeared in the journals Poetry, Tikku=
n,=20
Bridges, Religion and Literature, Judaism, Gastronomica, and the anthologies=
=20
Without a Single Answer, Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality, and=20
Reading Ruth. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review a=
nd The=20
New York Review of Books. =20
Kathryn Hellerstein's current projects include Anthology of Women Yiddish=20
Poets and a critical book, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish,=20
supported in 1999-2000 by a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
=20
Dr. Joshua Halberstam.
Joshua Halberstam, Ph.D., is the author of Schmoozing: The Private=20
Conversations of American Jews, Everyday Ethics: Inspired Solutions to Real-=
Life=20
Dilemmas, and Work: Making a Living Making a Life. He has also written on st=
udent=20
success in: A Parent's Guide to Standardized Tests in School: How to Improve=
 Your=20
Child's Chances for Success, and Acing College: Virtues and Values.
          Dr. Halberstam has taught philosophy at New York University, and i=
s=20
now coordinator of the Policy Forum at Teachers College, Columbia University
=20
The Show
    Dorothy and Reuben Silver drew on a rich legacy of work by American=20
Jewish writers, mainly humorists, to create Laughter in 3 Languages, a colle=
ction=20
of stories that recount the joys and sorrows of learning new customs, a new=20
language and all the other mysteries of a new land. The immigrants of the ta=
les=20
are Jewish, but the humor and pathos that unfold demonstrate the universalit=
y=20
of the immigrant experience. The vignettes are performed simultaneously in=20
English and Yiddish, so the material is easy to understand as it entertains.=
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Occasionally, the Silvers will employ =E2=80=9CYinglish,=E2=80=9D that immig=
rant blend of the=20
mother tongue and English.
    "It's fun and it works,=E2=80=9D Dorothy says of the presentation, to wh=
ich=20
Reuben adds, =E2=80=9CMost American Jews today don=E2=80=99t understand Yidd=
ish, but they love it.=E2=80=9D
 So, the Silvers are finding, do non-Jewish audiences. When first performed=20
in 2002 -- as a benefit for the Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland -- Laughter in=
 3=20
Languages played to four sell-out crowds. The Actors=E2=80=99 Summit product=
ion comes=20
in the second month of a yearlong celebration of the 350th anniversary of th=
e=20
arrival of the first permanent Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam (Sept. 12,=20
1654) and, coincidentally, 150 years after the arrival of the first Jewish=20
settlers in Akron. In 1865, this latter group, 20 strong, organized the Akro=
n Hebrew=20
Association, which has been known as Temple Israel since 1911.
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Performance Schedule
Laughter in 3 Languages opens with a preview performance at 8 p.m. Thursday,=
=20
Oct. 7. Performances are given Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 and=
=20
Sundays at 2 PM through Oct. 17.=20
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Tickets
Tickets are $25 on Fridays and Saturdays and $22 on Thursdays and Sundays.=20
College students and seniors receive a $4 discount. Students under age 18 ar=
e=20
admitted for half price. Group discounts and season subscriptions are still=20
available. Tickets can be purchased by phone by calling 330-342-0800. =20
=20
Web site=20
Actors Summit Theater can be found on the web at www.actorssummit.org.=20
Actors' Summit is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts=20
organization. We are seeking volunteers and board members. For more details=20=
please=20
call MaryJo or Neil at 330-342-0800.=20
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Actors' Summit is working under a developmental agreement with Actors' Equit=
y=20
Association (the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers.)=20
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e=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Actors=E2=80=99 Summit Theater <SPAN style=3D"COLOR=
: black">announces two free lectures in conjunction with the run of </SPAN><=
I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; ms=
o-bidi-font-weight: bold">Laughter in 3 Languages </SPAN></I><SPAN style=3D"=
BACKGROUND: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">starring Dorothy & Reuben=
 Silver<I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">. </I><SPAN style=3D"mso-bid=
i-font-style: italic">The production is part of the celebration of the 350<S=
UP>th</SUP> anniversary of the establishment of the first Jewish congregatio=
n in </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-=
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<SUP>th</SUP> anniversary of the establishment of the first Jewish congregat=
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<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3D3><SPAN styl=
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bidi-font-style: italic">On October 10 at </SPAN><st1:time Hour=3D"15" Minut=
e=3D"30"><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font=
-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">3:30 PM</SPAN></st1:time><SPAN s=
tyle=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; m=
so-bidi-font-style: italic">, immediately following the performance of <I>La=
ughter in Three Languages</I>, Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein will speak on </SPAN>=
<SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">"Jewish Words=
 in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial;=
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=3D"15" Minute=3D"30"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size:=
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i-font-size: 12.0pt">, Dr. Joshua Halberstam will speak on =E2=80=9CJewish-A=
merican or American-Jewish Self Image.=E2=80=9D<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMIL=
Y: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3D3>Both lectures are free=20=
and open to the public and are presented with the support of the Ohio Humani=
ties Council and the Ohio Arts Council.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style=3D"mso-bidi-font=
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<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style=3D"mso-bidi-font=
-weight: normal"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=
=3D3>Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT=
 size=3D3><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr. Hellerstein i=
s the Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in </SPAN><U><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #3366f=
f; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href=3D"http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german/yiddish/y=
iddish.htm"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #000099">Yiddish</SPAN></A></SPAN></U><SPA=
N style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and </SPAN><U><SPAN style=3D"C=
OLOR: #3366ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href=3D"http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst=
/"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #000099">Jewish Studies</SPAN></A></SPAN></U><SPAN=20=
style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> at the </SPAN><SPAN style=3D"COL=
OR: #3333ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href=3D"http://www.upenn.edu/"><SPAN sty=
le=3D"COLOR: #000099">University of Pennsylvania</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN styl=
e=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. Educated at </SPAN><U><SPAN style=
=3D"COLOR: #3333ff; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href=3D"http://www.wellesley.edu/=
"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #000099">Wellesley</SPAN></A></SPAN></U><SPAN style=
=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #3333ff=
; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href=3D"http://www.brandeis.edu/"><SPAN style=3D"CO=
LOR: #000099">Brandeis</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FA=
MILY: Arial">, and </SPAN><U><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #3333ff; FONT-FAMILY: Ari=
al"><A href=3D"http://www.stanford.edu/"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #000099">Stan=
ford</SPAN></A></SPAN></U><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,=
 Hellerstein is known as a poet and a translator, as well as a scholar of Yi=
ddish poetry. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN=
 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3D3>Hellerstein's boo=
ks include her translation and study of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's poems, <I>Pape=
r Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky</I>, and <I>Jewish American Li=
terature: A Norton Anthology</I>, of which she is co-editor.  </FONT></=
SPAN><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3D3>She is=20=
also a major contributor to <I>American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Antholog=
y</I> (University of California Press, 1986).  <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN=
></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3D3><SPAN styl=
e=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hellerstein's many scholarly articles=
 on Yiddish literature, and most recently, on women poets in Yiddish, are pu=
blished in journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias, including <I>Prooftexts=
</I>, <I>Shofar</I>, <I>Source</I>, <I>Chulyot</I>,. <I>Borders, Boundaries=20=
and Frames</I>...: <I>Essays from the English Institute</I>, <I>Jewish Women=
 in </I></SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><I><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black=
; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN></I></st1:place></st1:country-region><SP=
AN style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: <I>An Historical Encyclopedi=
a</I>, and <I>Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature</I>.&n=
bsp; <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN=
 style=3D"COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3D3>Individual transl=
ations by Hellerstein have been published in <I>Forward</I>, <I>Partisan Rev=
iew</I>, <I>Kenyon Review</I>, <I>Der Pakn Treger</I>, <I>Two Lines</I>, <I>=
Princeton University Library Chronicle</I>. Her own poems have appeared in t=
he journals <I>Poetry</I>, <I>Tikkun</I>, <I>Bridges</I>, <I>Religion and Li=
terature</I>, <I>Judaism</I>, <I>Gastronomica</I>, and the anthologies <I>Wi=
thout a Single Answer</I>, <I>Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality<=
/I>, and <I>Reading Ruth</I>. Her work has also appeared in The New York Tim=
es Book Review and The New York Review of Books.  <o:p></o:p></FONT></S=
PAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: bla=
ck; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3D3>Kathryn Hellerstein's current project=
s include <I>Anthology of Women Yiddish Poets </I>and a critical book, <I>A=20=
Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish</I>, supported in 1999-2000 by=
 a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: bla=
ck; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3D3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 318.5pt"><FONT=
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ack; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr. Joshua Halberstam</SPAN></B><SPAN style=3D"COLO=
R: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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tyle=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Joshu=
a Halberstam, Ph.D., is the author of <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: norma=
l">Schmoozing: The Private Conversations of American Jews, Everyday Ethics:=20=
Inspired Solutions to Real-Life Dilemmas</I>, and </SPAN><I style=3D"mso-bid=
i-font-style: normal"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; mso-=
bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Work: Making a Living Ma=
king a Life.</SPAN></I><SPAN style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black; mso=
-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> He has also written on=
 student success in: </SPAN><I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN s=
tyle=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">A Parent's Guide to=
 Standardized Tests in School: How to Improve Your Child's Chances for Succe=
ss, </SPAN></I><SPAN style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bol=
d">and </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN class=3Dserif1><I style=3D"mso=
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AN class=3Dserif1><I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style=3D"FO=
NT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> </SPAN><=
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e: normal"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-=
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T-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">: Virtues=20=
and Values</SPAN></I></SPAN><SPAN class=3Dserif1><I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-s=
tyle: normal"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold=
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      </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Ari=
al">Dr. Halberstam has taught philosophy at </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName=
><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">New York</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN sty=
le=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY:=
 Arial">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAM=
ILY: Arial">, and is now coordinator of the Policy Forum at Teachers College=
, </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Columb=
ia</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><st1:Pla=
ceType><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><=
/st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=3D"Comic=20=
Sans MS" size=3D3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p></o:p><STRONG><SPAN=20=
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The Show</SPAN></STRON=
G></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style=3D"FO=
NT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"></SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style=3D"FO=
NT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">    <FONT size=
=3D3>Dorothy and Reuben Silver drew on a rich legacy of work by American Jew=
ish writers, mainly humorists, to create </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3D3><EM>La=
ughter in 3 Languages,</EM><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-=
style: italic"> a collection of stories that recount the joys and sorrows of=
 learning new customs, a new language and all the other mysteries of a new l=
and. The immigrants of the tales are Jewish, but the humor and pathos that u=
nfold demonstrate the universality of the immigrant experience. The vignette=
s are performed simultaneously in English and Yiddish, so the material is ea=
sy to understand as it entertains. Occasionally, the Silvers will employ=20=
=E2=80=9CYinglish,=E2=80=9D that immigrant blend of the mother tongue and En=
glish.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3D3><SPAN styl=
e=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">    "It=
's</SPAN><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> fu=
n and it works,=E2=80=9D Dorothy says of the presentation, to which Reuben a=
dds, =E2=80=9CMost American Jews today don=E2=80=99t understand Yiddish, but=
 they love it.=E2=80=9D So, the Silvers are finding, do non-Jewish audiences=
. When first performed in 2002 -- as a benefit for the Ensemble Theatre in <=
/SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-=
style: italic">Cleveland</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style=3D"FONT-ST=
YLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> -- </SPAN><EM>Laughter in 3 Langu=
ages</EM><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> pl=
ayed to four sell-out crowds. The Actors=E2=80=99 </SPAN><st1:City><st1:plac=
e><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Summit</SP=
AN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-s=
tyle: italic"> production comes in the second month of a yearlong celebratio=
n of the 350<SUP>th</SUP> anniversary of the arrival of the first permanent=20=
Jewish settlers in </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-=
bidi-font-style: italic">New Amsterdam</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT=
-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> (</SPAN><st1:date Month=3D"9"=20=
Day=3D"12" Year=3D"1654"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-st=
yle: italic">Sept. 12, 1654</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: norm=
al; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">) and, coincidentally, 150 years after the=20=
arrival of the first Jewish settlers in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN st=
yle=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Akron</SPAN></st1:pl=
ace></st1:City><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: itali=
c">. In 1865, this latter group, 20 strong, organized the Akron Hebrew Assoc=
iation, which has been known as </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style=
=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Temple</SPAN></st1:Plac=
eType><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> </SPA=
N><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: ita=
lic">Israel</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-STYLE: nor=
mal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> since 1911.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<H3 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bi=
di-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><o:p><FONT size=3D3>&nbsp=
;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></H3>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style=3D"mso-bidi-font=
-weight: normal"><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT=
 size=3D3>Performance Schedule</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: w=
hite; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><FONT size=3D3><I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style=
: normal"><SPAN style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Laughter in 3 Languages=
 </SPAN></I>opens with a preview performance at </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3D3=
><st1:time Hour=3D"20" Minute=3D"0"><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-F=
AMILY: Arial">8 p.m.</SPAN></st1:time><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT=
-FAMILY: Arial"> Thursday, Oct. 7. Performances are given Thursday, Friday a=
nd Saturday nights at 8 and Sundays at </SPAN><st1:time Hour=3D"14" Minute=
=3D"0"><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2 PM</SPAN></st=
1:time><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> through Oct. 1=
7. <B><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style=3D"BACKGRO=
UND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3D3> </FONT></o:p></SPA=
N></B></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style=3D"BACKGRO=
UND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3D3>Tickets</FONT></SPAN></B><SPA=
N style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold=
"><BR><FONT size=3D3>Tickets are $25 on Fridays and Saturdays and $22 on Thu=
rsdays and Sundays. College students and seniors receive a $4 discount. Stud=
ents under age 18 are admitted for half price. Group discounts and season su=
bscriptions are still available. Tickets can be purchased by phone by callin=
g 330-342-0800.  </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: white; FONT-F=
AMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMIL=
Y: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3D3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2 style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3D3>Web site </FONT></H2>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3D3><SPAN styl=
e=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Actors Summit Theater can be found on the web at ww=
w.actorssummit.org. Actors' </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-=
FAMILY: Arial">Summit</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMIL=
Y: Arial"> is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts orga=
nization. We are seeking volunteers and board members. For more details plea=
se call MaryJo or Neil at 330-342-0800. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMIL=
Y: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3D3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3D3><SPAN styl=
e=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Actors' </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style=3D"=
FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Summit</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style=3D"FONT-=
FAMILY: Arial"> is working under a developmental agreement with Actors' Equi=
ty Association (the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Uni=
on</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> of professional Act=
ors and Stage Managers.) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=3D3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></BO=
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