[NEohioPAL] "Blue Leaves" playwright John Guare on Around Noon

[Fran Storch]

Tune in to WCPN 90.3 FM
for an exclusive interview
with award-winning playwright
John Guare
on
AROUND NOON
with Dee Perry
Thursday, March 28

And then order your tickets to see
Guare's Obie Award winning dark comedy,
The House of Blue Leaves
now through April 21 at Beck Center for the Arts.

A man's home is his castle, unless it's a zoo!

Beck Center for the Arts
presents
Obie Award Winner for
BEST AMERICAN PLAY
The House of BLUe LeAVes
Written by John Guare / Directed by Russ Borski
Now through April 21
Mackey Main Stage
8 pm Fri & Sat and 3 pm Sun
(no performance March 31)

Buy tickets online<http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER> or call 216.521.2540 x10.


About the Show
Artie Shaughnessy is an aspiring songwriter who works as a zookeeper by day, performs in seedy lounges at night and lives in Queens with his schizophrenic wife, Bananas, much to the chagrin of his mistress, Bunny. When an old school buddy, now a successful Hollywood movie director, arrives back in town, Artie plans to escape the life he despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives.

About the Playwright
JOHN GUARE is an American playwright whose works include: Lydie Breeze, Bosoms and Neglect, and The House of Blue Leaves which won the 1971 Obie Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play and four Tony Awards for the 1986 Lincoln Center revival of the play; Six Degrees of Separation, which received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1991 for its LCT production and the Olivier Best Play Award in 1993. Grove Press publishes Landscape of the Body and A Few Stout Individuals. He wrote the lyrics and co-authored the book for the 1972 Tony-winning Best Musical, Two Gentlemen of Verona. His screenplay for Louis Malle's Atlantic City earned him an Oscar nomination. In 2003 he won the PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award; in 2004, the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2005 the Obie Award for sustained excellence. He is a council member of the Dramatists Guild and co-editor of The Lincoln Center Theater Review.  ~ Excerpts from the American Theatre Wing website

The House of Blue Leaves runs March 22 through April 21, 2013 on the Mackey Main Stage. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. There is no performance on Sunday, March 31. Directed by Russ Borski, The House of Blue Leaves features Equity actors Robert Ellis as Artie and Juliette Regnier as his mentally ill wife, Bananas. "I am thrilled to direct this zany farce," remarked Borski, "that explores the dark side of the American dream, the humiliation of our dreams, and examines our collective obsession with celebrity and how we pin our hopes on lives distant from our own."

Who's Who in the Company<http://www.beckcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WhosWho_HouseBlueLeaves.pdf>


Tickets are $28 for adults and $25 for seniors (65 and older) with an additional $3 service fee per ticket applied at time of purchase. Student tickets are $15 with valid I.D. (includes service fee). Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. Purchase tickets online at beckcenter.org<http://www.beckcenter.org> or call Customer Service at 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center for the Arts is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available.


This production of The House of Blue Leaves is presented through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. and is sponsored by VIP Restoration, the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and the Ohio Arts Council.



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 free gallery exhibits featuring local, regional, and international artists.


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