[NEohioPAL] THURSDAY - $10 Preview Night of Mark Twain comedy at Beck Center

[Fran Storch]

Beck Center for the Arts

presents

the Cleveland premiere of

 

Is He Dead?

A "new" comedy by

Mark Twain

As adapted by

David Ives

Directed by

Matthew Earnest

 

~ $10 PREVIEW NIGHT ~

Thursday, February 4

8:00 pm

Mackey Main Stage 

 

Preview night admission is $10.  Advance tickets go on sale at 10 am on
Thursday, February 4 and are available at the door based on
availability.  Doors open approximately 15 minutes prior to curtain.
General admission seating. To reserve tickets with a credit card, call
216.521.2540 x10.

 

About the Show

What happens when a group of poor artists stage the death of a friend to
drive up the price of his paintings? A fake funeral, cross-dressing, and
lovers' deceptions, to name a few. 

 

Beck Center for the Arts presents the Cleveland premiere of the Mark
Twain comedy, Is He Dead?, on the Mackey Main Stage, February 5 through
28, 2010. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m.
Sundays. Special 10 a.m. weekday matinees will take place February 11,
18, and 19.

 

Written by Twain in 1898, Is He Dead? richly intermingles elements of
burlesque, farce, and social satire. Discovered by a Mark Twain scholar
in 2003, Is He Dead? was adapted for modern audiences by talented
playwright David Ives and staged on Broadway in December 2007 to strong
critical reviews. 

 

Playing Millet and Widow Tillou is the highly talented comedic actor
Nicholas Koesters. Joining him as co-conspirators in the deception are
Tom Woodward as Dutchy, Adam Thatcher as Chicago, and John Peters as
O'Shaughnessy. For a complete cast list and bios, go to
http://www.beckcenter.org/theater/index.html and click on Who's Who in
the Company.

 

Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors (65 and older), $17 for
students (with valid ID), and $10 for children (12 and under). An
additional $3 service fee per ticket is applied at the time of purchase.
Preview night on Thursday, February 4, is $10 with general admission
seating. Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. 

 

For tickets, call the Beck Center box office at 216.521.2540, ext. 10,
or request seats online at www.beckcenter.org
<http://www.beckcenter.org/> . Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit
Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free
onsite parking is available.

 

Beck Center's production of Is He Dead? is produced through special
arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. and is sponsored by Martha Holden
Jennings Foundation, Cox Communications, the Ohio Arts Council, and
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. 

 

Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that
offers professional theater productions, arts education programming in
dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts
therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring
local and regional artists.

 

Posted by:

Fran Storch

Beck Center for the Arts

Publications Manager

17801 Detroit Avenue

Lakewood, OH  44107

(216) 521-2540 x20

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