[NEohioPAL] Matthew Wright in I LOVE A PIANO at Actors' Summit

[Neil Thackaberry]

*Oberlin Faculty Member*

*Joins Actors’ Summit for*

*Irving Berlin Musical*


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*I LOVE A PIANO***

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Matthew Wright, professional actor and Associate Director of Theater and
Dance at Oberlin College is joining the cast of *I Love a Piano* at Actors’
Summit, Hudson’s professional theater. *I Love a* *Piano*, a new musical
featuring 62 songs by Irving Berlin. The show was conceived and written by
Ray Roderick and Michael Berkeley. Matthew is an actor, director and theater
educator whose work has taken him across the United States

*An Educator*

Matthew is a well regarded teacher and has served on the faculties of The
Ohio State University, Wright State University, and Florida Atlantic
University where he headed the graduate actor training program for ten
years. He is currently the Program Director and Associate Professor of
Theatre at Oberlin College.

*National Credits*

Mr. Wright's acting talents have taken him across the United States. He has
appeared at such nationally acclaimed regional theatres as The La Jolla
Playhouse, The McCarter Theatre, The Clarence Brown Company, The Studio
Arena Theatre of Buffalo, Trinity Repertory Theatre, The New Theater,
Actors' Playhouse and Florida Stage.

*Cleveland-area credits*

Matthew moved to the Cleveland area about seven years ago and since then he
has appeared with numerous local companies including Great Lakes Theater
Company in *The Mystery of Edwin Drood *and *Twelfth Night. *At The Beck
Center for the Arts he has

appeared in *Equus, Urinetown: The Musical, A Man of No Importance, The Fix,
Reefer **Madness *and *The Imaginary Invalid. *Other credits include *Das
Barbecu *at Cleveland Opera; *King Lear *at College of Wooster; *Ragtime *the
Cleveland Jewish Community Center/Tri-C collaboration; and in *Romeo and
Juliet, The Illusion *and *Assassins *at Oberlin College.

For the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival, Mr. Wright has appeared in a variety
of roles, including Prospero in *The Tempest. *In July, he will appear as
Leonato in *Much Ado About Nothing *for the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival.

*About the Play*

*I Love a Piano* is a musical tribute to the talent and creativity of the
king of American song, Irving Berlin. The play follows a piano from its
delivery to a music store in 1910 to its final home as a rehearsal piano for
a summer stock theater in the 1950’s. The story provides an opportunity for
six talented actors to present 62 of Berlin’s classic melodies.



Ranging from “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” through “God Bless America,” to the
score of the musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” the virtuosity of this giant of
American popular music shines through.  Following the lives of the piano’s
multiple owners over forty years provides the audience with an historical
panorama of fabulously tuneful music – the kind that you can actually sing
along with and whose melody stays with you.



*Performance Days & Times:*

*I Love a Piano* is scheduled for a preview performance on Thursday, March
18, 2010, followed by the official opening on Friday, March 19.  The play
will run Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sunday afternoons at
2:00 PM through April 11 at the theater in downtown Hudson. There will be no
performance on Easter Sunday, April 4, but there will be an added matinee at
2:00 PM on Wednesday, March 31. The theater is located at 86 Owen Brown
Street, Hudson, Ohio.



*Ticket Prices*

Preview tickets (March 18) are $16.  Regular performance tickets are $29 on
Fridays & Saturdays, $26 on Thursdays & Sundays, with seniors receiving a $3
discount at regular Thursday and Sunday performances.  Additional discounts
are available to groups of ten or more.



ALL full time student tickets (with ID) are $7 at all performances.



Season subscriptions are still available.



Tickets can be purchased by phone at (330) 342-0800 or from the website at *
www.actorssummit.org*.



*Web site**
*Actors’ Summit Theater can be found on the web at www.actorssummit.org.
Actors’ Summit is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts
organization.
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