[NEohioPAL] Local InFusion, part of FusionFest 2011 at Cleveland Play House

[Jessica Bixby]

Cleveland Play House invites you to check out...
Local InFusion, part of FusionFest 2011

Marigold Wars
by Robin VanLear**

Fusing together sculpture, theatre, puppetry, dance and original music,
award-winning local artist and designer Robin VanLear (artistic director,
UCI's Parade the Circle) leads a team of collaborators in creating a
world-premiere interactive performance event about the struggle to find
reason, peace and beauty amid the ravages of war.

*Thursday, 4/14 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, 4/16 at 2 p.m.
Sunday, 4/17 @ 7 p.m.*

*Tickets $20 | Students $10*

*Buy Tickets*: http://bit.ly/CPHMarigoldWars

*Online offer for NEOhioPal!*  Get 2 free tickets for Thursday's performance
when you order with code *CPPR*.  *Online only*. Enter code at
http://bit.ly/CPHMWpromo


CPH New Play Reading #1: Silent Sky
by Laura Gunderson

She stared at the heavens, and what she saw there changed the course of
astronomy.  But when Henrietta Leavitt arrives at the Harvard Observatory in
the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or even express an
idea.  Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars
for an astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time
for Henrietta’s probing theories.  But as she measures the light of distant
stars, she must also take the measure of her life on earth, answer questions
of love, family and the hope of heaven in this exquisite new play—a homage
to the beauty of the earth and the glory of the skies.

*Featuring: Eva Gil, Dan Hendrock, Kim Krane, Deb Magid, Kelli Ruttle
*
*Sunday, 4/17 at 1 p.m.*

*Tickets: $10*

*Buy Tickets:* http://bit.ly/CPHSilentSky

*Online offer for NEOhioPal!*  Get 2 free tickets for Sunday's reading when
you order with code *CPPR*.  *Online only*. Enter code at
http://bit.ly/CPHSSpromo


CPH New Play Reading #2: The Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile
by George Brant

Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile is a play about the inventor of the
American lobotomy, Dr. Walter J. Freeman, and his tireless, deluded, and
ultimately tragic quest to spread the good news of his medical procedure
across America.   The play presents Freeman’s life in a triptych of scenes -
home, work, and retirement – and explores the dark side of the American myth
of the confident genius, the brilliant inventor who will stop at nothing to
achieve his dream.

*Featuring: Cathy Albers, Tim Crowe, Andrew Gorell, Chuck Kartali
*
*Sunday, 4/23 at 5 p.m.*

*Tickets: $10*

*Buy Tickets:* http://bit.ly/CPHLobotomobile


TaKe A hArD RIDE
Presented by Karamu House

*TaKe A hArD RIDE* is an original trilogy written by three of Cleveland's
leading African-American playwrights: *
Part 1*: *ANY MAN and FIVE CENTS will pay a COLORED GIRLS FARE all the way
to nowhere* by Cornell Calhoun III *
Part 2*: *Truth Out* by Mary Weems
*Part 3*: *Hunger is a Wanderer* by Michael Oatman (member of CPH
Playwrights' Unit)

*Sunday, 4/17 at 4 p.m.*

*Tickets: $10*

*Buy Tickets:* http://bit.ly/CPHHardRide


Eyes Forward
Dorothy Silver Playwriting Winner
by Philip Gerson
Presented by The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland

In *Eyes Forward*, a valuable painting stolen by the Nazis during WWII is
the flash-point for two tense love stories seven decades apart.  A young
American takes his father back to Germany to claim a portrait of his
grandmother, and finds himself unwillingly drawn to the troubled young woman
who now possesses it.  To get the painting, he must solve the powerful,
surprising mystery of the painting’s creation and its fall into enemy hands.

*Thursday, 4/21 at 7 p.m.*

*Tickets: $10*

*Buy Tickets*: http://bit.ly/CPHDorothySilver


Local Explosion

New this FusionFest, Local Explosion invites local artists to collaborate on
premiere FusionFest works.

*Genius Child*
by JR Fralick (singer) and Megan Pitcher (choreographer)
original music by Ricky Ian Gordon
text by Langston Hughes

Fusing: piano, vocals, dance, and poetry.
A young woman's questioning and exploration of her future.

*Men In Hats*
by Lisa K. Lock (choreographer) and Ron E. Shelton (hat designer)

Fusing: fashion, hat design, dance, vocals, music.
A whimsical fashion show exploring masculinity.

*Somewhere*
by Bellamy Printz (visual artist) and Eric Schmiedl (playwright)

Fusing: visual arts, printmaking, vocals.
A PowerPoint presentation for an important client goes horribly wrong but
wonderfully right.

*Saturday, 4/23 at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.*

*Tickets: $10*

*Buy Tickets:* http://bit.ly/CPHLocalX


For more information about any FusionFest event and to see the complete
schedule, please visit ClevelandPlayHouse.com <http://bit.ly/eF4dZh>.
Tickets are also available by calling (216) 795-7000 x4.
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