[NEohioPAL] "Black Coffee" Preview and Opening

[Nancy Cates]

COACH HOUSE THEATRE

Box Office: 330-434-7741

732 W. Exchange Street

Akron, OH 44302

 <http://coachhousetheatre.com> coachhousetheatre.com

 

Detective Hercule Poirot is on the case!

 

Coach House Theatre presents

Agatha Christie's

"Black Coffee"

 

Directed by Andrew Cruse

January 24-February 17, 2013

($12 Preview Performance, Thursday, Jan. 24 only!)

 

It's winter in Akron, and that's means it's time for a chilling and
thrilling murder mystery at Coach House Theatre from the Queen of Crime,
Agatha Christie!

Black Coffee features Detective Hercule Poirot, one of Agatha Christie's
most beloved and long-lived characters. When Sir Claude Amory is robbed of
his new invention (the formula for a weapon of mass destruction created by
splitting the atom) and then is poisoned with cyanide in his coffee (in a
locked room!), Poirot is called in to solve the case. Christie's first play,
written in 1930, Black Coffee has not been available for performance in the
United States in decades.

Christie's murder mysteries at Coach House have become a hugely popular
Akron tradition, and our four-week run will likely sell out quickly. So
please reserve your seats early!

Black Coffee will be presented January 24 to February 17. Curtain times are
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.
Dinner or Brunch is available to all theatre patrons prior to every
performance at the Akron Woman's City Club next door. (Reservations
required.)

 

There will be a special $12 preview performance Thursday, Jan. 24 only, at 8
p.m. 

The official opening night is Friday, Jan. 25. Group rates are also
available.

 

Tickets are $18, with $12 student tickets available to all performances
(space available). The box office opens one hour before the show. Coach
House Theatre is located at 732 W. Exchange Street, in Akron, next to the
Akron Woman's City Club, and at the corner of W. Exchange and N. Portage
Path. Reservations are available through our box office at 330-434-7741, or
online at www.coachhousetheatre.com.

 

 

The Cast

 

Tredwell --- Henry Bishop

Lucia Amory (Jan. 24-Feb. 3) --- Holly Humes

Lucia Amory (Feb. 7-Feb. 17) --- Melanie Korman

Miss Caroline Amory --- Karen Wood

Richard Amory --- Derrick Winger

Barbara Amory --- Tess Burgler

Edward Raynor --- Daniel Rylander

Dr. Carelli --- Mark Stoffer

Sir Claude Amory --- Timothy Champion

Hercule Poirot --- Ross Rhodes

Capt. Arthur Hastings --- Jim Fippin

Dr. Graham --- Alfred Anderson

Inspector Japp --- Michael Cranston

Johnson --- Ed Conrad

 

The Director

 

Andrew Cruse is a professional actor and director in Cleveland. A native of
Allentown, Pa., he has worked on stages large and small in New York City and
across the country, including Playwrights Horizons, The Kennedy Center,
North Shore Music Theatre, The Public Theatre of Maine, and The Cape
Playhouse, Dobama Theatre and Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland. He serves as
associate artistic director of Ohio Shakespeare Festival, and was the
director for the 2011 murder mystery at Coach House, The Unexpected Guest.
He was seen on stage in Deathtrap and Sleuth at Coach House. Andrew earned a
BFA in Theatre from Boston University, and an MFA from Kent State. He has
been a proud member of Actors' Equity since 1989.

 

The Playwright

Plays authored by Dame Agatha Christie are longtime favorites of Coach House
audiences. In recent years, the theater has staged sell-out productions of
Witness for the Prosecution, The Unexpected Guest, The Mousetrap, And Then
There Were None, Murder on the Nile, A Murder is Announced, and Appointment
with Death. Often referred to as the "Queen of Crime," Christie is
considered one of the most important and innovative writers in the murder
mystery/crime genre.

 

 And don't miss the rest of Coach House's fantastic 2012-13 season: 

Sea Marks by Gardner McKay, March 14-April 7

The Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig, May 9-June 2

 

Visit us at  <http://www.coachhousetheatre.com/> www.coachhousetheatre.com!

 

 

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