[NEohioPAL]Cleveland State University Professional Summer Repertory Theatre - June 14--July 15

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  Dr. Michael L. Mauldin, Director of Cleveland State University’s Dramatic Arts Program, announces the 2007 Summer Repertory Theatre’s inaugural productions scheduled to run from June 14th through July 15th at CSU’s Factory Theatre. The company features a mix of professional guest artists from New York and Los Angeles, local professionals and CSU students.

  Mauldin will direct the first offering, the Tony award winning The Robber Bridegroom, a rollicking bluegrass musical by Alfred Uhry adapted from the novella by Eudora Welty. Los Angeles director Carl Whidden will direct Booth, by Ohio native Austin Pendleton. Booth is the story of ambition and jealousy between a famous father and his even more famous son. 
  The Robber Bridegroom is set in 1795 Mississippi and tells the zany upbeat story of a charming gentleman bandit and his pursuit of the daughter of a rich plantation owner. There are talking goats and ravens, a wicked stepmother (who plots to kill her step-daughter) and a rival bandit who carries around his brother’s talking head in a trunk -- the antics of all driven by a rousing bluegrass score by Robert Waldman.

  The cast of The Robber Bridegroom includes four professional guest artists: Andrew C. Call of New York stars as the swashbuckling Jamie Lockhart. Hall’s credits include regular appearances on As The World Turns. He starred in the National Tour of Saturday Night Fever and was in the first National Tour of the Off-Broadway smash hit Altar Boyz as well the Broadway production, High Fidelity: The Musical. 

  New Yorker actress/choreographer Jessica Anderson is Rosamund, Jamie’s love interest, her stepmother’s hate interest and the only daughter of Clemment Musgrove, a wealthy plantation owner. Anderson’s performance credits include the role of Cassie in A Chorus Line; Ella in Mack & Mabel at the Goodspeed Opera House as well as Sister Mary Hubert in Nunsense, Aurora/Spiderwoman in Kiss of the Spiderwoman and Owen in Translations. Among other venues, Anderson’s choreography has been seen at the Danny Kaye Theater, the Nokia Theatre in New York’s Times Square, Sesame Place, PBS and the Today Show. 

  Everett Quinton plays the role of Rosamund’s step mother and Musgrove’s second wife, Salome in The Robber Bridegroom and the role of Page in Booth. In addition to his award-winning one person adaptation of Oliver Twist, Quinton has received numerous awards for his work in regional theatres including Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage and the Cleveland Playhouse. He has appeared in over 70 plays as a member of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company. His television credits include appearances in Law & Order, Miami Vice and Guiding Light. Film credits include Wurlitzer in Natural Born Killers directed by Oliver Stone and James Johnson in Pollack directed by Ed Harris.

  Wealthy Plantation owner Clemment Musgrove is played by actor/director Carl Whidden whose extensive credits include television appearances in All My Chidren, One Life To Live, Guiding Light, As The World Turns and Rage of Angels. Selected plays in national repertory include: Heaven Can Wait, Hay Fever, A Man For All Seasons, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Misalliance. Leading and supporting roles in national repertory include such productions as Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Shenandoah, and Oklahoma.  

  Whidden also directs the second Summer Repertory Theatre production of Booth, a story within the story of a famous family made infamous by the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln. At the play’s center, the father, Junius, is the leading actor of American theatre. An illness forces his youngest son, Edwin, to stand in for his ailing father, propelling the youngest Booth to instant stardom and igniting a feuding rivalry between father and son both on and off the stage.

  Mauldin will trade his director’s cap for the lead role of the larger-than-life Junius Booth. In addition to a distinguished career in academia, Mauldin has a long and diverse background in performance and directing. Clevelanders will remember his local debut in the fall season when he appeared as the Duke in Cleveland Public Theatre’s M4M. For this, local critics mentioned Mauldin’s “towering and gutty performance”, and “Mauldin’s ambivalent Duke is a must-see”. He received the Times Newspaper’s Theatre Tribute for his performance. Spending nearly 20 years in New York City as a professional actor and director, he appeared on Broadway in Les Miserables and The Tempest, Off Broadway in Tonight at 8:30, The Three Sisters, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Othello, among others, and in a number of national commercials. He has appeared at numerous regional theatres across the country, including the Guthrie and the Arena. He is an award winning director, including his productions
 of The Bacchae, The 9/11 Project, and The Secret Garden.  His two one-person plays, An Evening With Mark Twain and as Edgar Allan Poe in On The Wings of Israfel have had several national tours as well as airings on PBS, ABC and NPR. 

  A graduate from Kent State University in 2003, the younger Booth is played by Ohioan Geoff Knox. His local credits include the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Public theatre and the Great Lakes Theatre Outreach Tour. His New York credits include Achilles in Iphegenia at Aulis, Chauvaue in The Queen’s Knight, Mickey in Northeast Local and Angelo in Measure for Measure. Knox holds a certificate in Shakespearean Acting form the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.

  The role of Junius Booth’s mistress, Mary Anne, is played by Holly Holsinger, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Cleveland State University, specializing in acting, voice, movement and experimental theatre techniques. As a professional actress, her past performances have been described by critics as “magic,” “captivating,” and “a tour de force”. Her one-woman show, Frankenstein’s Wake, received “an exhilarating bravura performance” by Time Out New York, as well as critical raves in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago and was featured at the Grotowski at Irvine and Beyond conference. Her work has been featured in national and international publications such as The Drama Review, American Theatre Magazine, and Canadian Theatre Review. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Romania, Belgium and Brazil.

  Jill Levin will play the role of Adelaide, the legal wife of the elder Booth. Levin last appeared onstage in Cleveland Public Theatre’s production of Fefu and her Friends. She was also seen in CPT’s Nickle and Dimed, a co-production with Great Lakes Theatre Festival; Summer and Smoke, The Designated Mourner and The Hairy Ape, among others. Jill has performed in Chicago, New York City and Tokyo. Currently she is a consultant with Trial in Action, a company which trains trial attorneys in persuasion techniques.

  Everett Quinton rounds out the Booth cast in the role of Mr. Page with Andrew Call playing the part of Baxter.

  Playing in repertory, The Robber Bridegroom plays June 14, 15, 16, 28, 30, July 6, 12, 14 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m. 

  Booth plays June 21, 22, 23, 29, July 5, 7, 13 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 8 at 2:00 p.m. 

  The Factory Theatre, home of these inaugural downtown summer theatre productions, is located on East 24 th Street between Chester and Payne Avenues. Parking is free.

  General admission for each show is $15.00 with special group rates available. Tickets may be purchased by contacting Ticketmasters at (216) 241-5555 or ticketmaster.com. For any other additional information, call the Factory Theatre Box Office Hot Line at 687.210l.

Any questions can be directed to Ginger Williams.

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<div><A href="http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/">http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/</A></div>  <div> </div>  <div>Dr. Michael L. Mauldin, Director of Cleveland State University’s Dramatic Arts Program, announces the 2007 Summer Repertory Theatre’s inaugural productions scheduled to run from June 14th through July 15th at CSU’s Factory Theatre. The company features a mix of professional guest artists from New York and Los Angeles, local professionals and CSU students.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>Mauldin will direct the first offering, the Tony award winning <EM>The Robber Bridegroom</EM>, a rollicking bluegrass musical by Alfred Uhry adapted from the novella by Eudora Welty. Los Angeles director Carl Whidden will direct <EM>Booth</EM>, by Ohio native Austin Pendleton. <EM>Booth</EM> is the story of ambition and jealousy between a famous father and his even more famous son. </div>  <div><EM>The Robber Bridegroom</EM> is set in 1795 Mississippi and tells the zany upbeat
 story of a charming gentleman bandit and his pursuit of the daughter of a rich plantation owner. There are talking goats and ravens, a wicked stepmother (who plots to kill her step-daughter) and a rival bandit who carries around his brother’s talking head in a trunk -- the antics of all driven by a rousing bluegrass score by Robert Waldman.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>The cast of <EM>The Robber Bridegroom</EM> includes four professional guest artists: Andrew C. Call of New York stars as the swashbuckling Jamie Lockhart. Hall’s credits include regular appearances on <EM>As The World Turns</EM>. He starred in the National Tour of <EM>Saturday Night Fever</EM> and was in the first National Tour of the Off-Broadway smash hit <EM>Altar Boyz</EM> as well the Broadway production, <EM>High Fidelity: The Musical</EM>. </div>  <div> </div>  <div>New Yorker actress/choreographer Jessica Anderson is Rosamund, Jamie’s love interest, her stepmother’s hate interest and the only
 daughter of Clemment Musgrove, a wealthy plantation owner. Anderson’s performance credits include the role of Cassie in <EM>A Chorus Line</EM>; Ella in <EM>Mack & Mabel</EM> at the Goodspeed Opera House as well as Sister Mary Hubert in <EM>Nunsense</EM>, Aurora/Spiderwoman in <EM>Kiss of the Spiderwoman</EM> and Owen in <EM>Translations</EM>. Among other venues, Anderson’s choreography has been seen at the Danny Kaye Theater, the Nokia Theatre in New York’s Times Square, Sesame Place, PBS and the Today Show. </div>  <div> </div>  <div>Everett Quinton plays the role of Rosamund’s step mother and Musgrove’s second wife, Salome in <EM>The Robber Bridegroom</EM> and the role of Page in <EM>Booth</EM>. In addition to his award-winning one person adaptation of <EM>Oliver Twist</EM>, Quinton has received numerous awards for his work in regional theatres including Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage and the Cleveland Playhouse. He has appeared in over 70 plays as a member of
 Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company. His television credits include appearances in <EM>Law & Order</EM>, <EM>Miami Vice </EM>and <EM>Guiding Light</EM>. Film credits include Wurlitzer in <EM>Natural Born Killers</EM> directed by Oliver Stone and James Johnson in <EM>Pollack</EM> directed by Ed Harris.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>Wealthy Plantation owner Clemment Musgrove is played by actor/director Carl Whidden whose extensive credits include television appearances in <EM>All My Chidren</EM>, <EM>One Life To Live</EM>, <EM>Guiding Light</EM>, <EM>As The World Turns</EM> and <EM>Rage of Angels</EM>. Selected plays in national repertory include: <EM>Heaven Can Wait, Hay Fever, A Man For All Seasons, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, </EM>and <EM>Misalliance.</EM> Leading and supporting roles in national repertory include such productions as <EM>Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Shenandoah, </EM>and <EM>Oklahoma.  </EM></div>  <div> </div>  <div>Whidden
 also directs the second Summer Repertory Theatre production of <EM>Booth</EM>, a story within the story of a famous family made infamous by the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln. At the play’s center, the father, Junius, is the leading actor of American theatre. An illness forces his youngest son, Edwin, to stand in for his ailing father, propelling the youngest Booth to instant stardom and igniting a feuding rivalry between father and son both on and off the stage.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>Mauldin will trade his director’s cap for the lead role of the larger-than-life Junius Booth. In addition to a distinguished career in academia, Mauldin has a long and diverse background in performance and directing. Clevelanders will remember his local debut in the fall season when he appeared as the Duke in Cleveland Public Theatre’s <EM>M4M</EM>. For this, local critics mentioned Mauldin’s “towering and gutty performance”, and “Mauldin’s ambivalent Duke is a must-see”. He
 received the Times Newspaper’s Theatre Tribute for his performance. Spending nearly 20 years in New York City as a professional actor and director, he appeared on Broadway in <EM>Les Miserables</EM> and <EM>The Tempest</EM>, Off Broadway in <EM>Tonight at 8:30</EM>, <EM>The Three Sisters</EM>, <EM>All’s Well That Ends Well</EM>, and <EM>Othello</EM>, among others, and in a number of national commercials. He has appeared at numerous regional theatres across the country, including the Guthrie and the Arena. He is an award winning director, including his productions of <EM>The Bacchae, The 9/11 Project</EM>, and <EM>The Secret Garden.</EM>  His two one-person plays, <EM>An Evening With Mark Twain </EM>and as Edgar Allan Poe in <EM>On The Wings of Israfel </EM>have had several national tours as well as airings on PBS, ABC and NPR. </div>  <div> </div>  <div>A graduate from Kent State University in 2003, the younger Booth is played by Ohioan Geoff Knox. His local
 credits include the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Public theatre and the Great Lakes Theatre Outreach Tour. His New York credits include Achilles in <EM>Iphegenia at Aulis</EM>, Chauvaue in <EM>The Queen’s Knight</EM>, Mickey in <EM>Northeast Local</EM> and Angelo in <EM>Measure for Measure</EM>. Knox holds a certificate in Shakespearean Acting form the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>The role of Junius Booth’s mistress, Mary Anne, is played by Holly Holsinger, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Cleveland State University, specializing in acting, voice, movement and experimental theatre techniques. As a professional actress, her past performances have been described by critics as “magic,” “captivating,” and “a tour de force”. Her one-woman show, <EM>Frankenstein’s Wake</EM>, received “an exhilarating bravura performance” by Time Out New York, as well as critical raves in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago and was
 featured at the Grotowski at Irvine and Beyond conference. Her work has been featured in national and international publications such as <EM>The Drama Review, American Theatre Magazine, </EM>and<EM> Canadian Theatre Review</EM>. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Romania, Belgium and Brazil.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>Jill Levin will play the role of Adelaide, the legal wife of the elder Booth. Levin last appeared onstage in Cleveland Public Theatre’s production of <EM>Fefu and her Friends</EM>. She was also seen in CPT’s <EM>Nickle and Dimed,</EM> a co-production with Great Lakes Theatre Festival; <EM>Summer and Smoke</EM>, <EM>The Designated Mourner</EM> and <EM>The Hairy Ape</EM>, among others. Jill has performed in Chicago, New York City and Tokyo. Currently she is a consultant with Trial in Action, a company which trains trial attorneys in persuasion techniques.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>Everett Quinton rounds out the <EM>Booth</EM>
 cast in the role of Mr. Page with Andrew Call playing the part of Baxter.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>Playing in repertory, <EM>The Robber Bridegroom</EM> plays June 14, 15, 16, 28, 30, July 6, 12, 14 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m. </div>  <div> </div>  <div><EM>Booth</EM> plays June 21, 22, 23, 29, July 5, 7, 13 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 8 at 2:00 p.m. </div>  <div> </div>  <div>The Factory Theatre, home of these inaugural downtown summer theatre productions, is located on East 24 th Street between Chester and Payne Avenues. Parking is free.</div>  <div> </div>  <div>General admission for each show is $15.00 with special group rates available. Tickets may be purchased by contacting Ticketmasters at (216) 241-5555 or ticketmaster.com. For any other additional information, call the Factory Theatre Box Office Hot Line at 687.210l.<BR> <BR>Any questions can be directed to <A href="mailto:g.williams at csuohio.edu">Ginger
 Williams</A>.</div><p> 
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