[NEohioPAL] Media Request for Book Club

via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Tue Feb 24 11:33:56 PST 2015


Hello, Neil:
Is it possible to get two media tickets for the opening this Friday?
Thanks,
Fred Dolan
Arts On The Heights
WJCU-FM & wjcu.org

---- Neil Thackaberry via NEohioPAL <neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org> wrote: 
> *“Book Club is like Lord of the Flies with wine and dip.”*
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> *THE BOOK CLUB PLAY*
> 
> *Opens at Actors’ Summit*
> 
> *with stellar cast.*
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> Actors’ Summit, Akron’s professional theater, announces the opening of *THE
> BOOK CLUB PLAY* by Karen Zacarias.  The comedy marks another regional
> premiere for Akron’s professional theater.
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> 
> The show will have a preview performance on February 26 with the official
> opening on Friday night, February 27.  *THE BOOK CLUB PLAY* is currently
> scheduled for a 12 performance run, closing on March 15.  Performances are
> given Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8:00 P.M. and Sundays at 2
> PM, and take place at Greystone Hall, in downtown Akron.  The show is
> appropriate for all ages.  A free dessert reception with the cast follows
> the opening night performance on Friday, February 27.
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> 
> *The Cast*
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> Of the six cast members, five are members of the Actors’ Summit company,
> and have performed a total of 76 roles.  Danea Rhodes is making her Actors’
> Summit debut.
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> 
> *   Rachel Gehlert *(Jennifer) is happy to return to Actors' Summit stage,
> where she previously played Samantha in Eric Coble’s world premiere of *The
> Girls Guide to Coffee*.  Most recently, she appeared in *Every Christmas
> Story Ever Told (And Then Some)* at Weathervane Playhouse.  Additional
> Stage Credits:  *Tigers Be Still* (Dobama), *The Farndale Avenue House
> Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of A Christmas
> Carol *(Weathervane), *The Man Who Came To Dinner, You Can't Take it With
> You, Pipe, God's Favorite, Top Girls*.  Rachel previously served as
> Educational Director for Israel Horowitz's Gloucester Stage Company.
> Rachel holds her undergraduate degree in Photography and English from
> Fordham University.
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> *   Sally Groth* (Anna) has performed in over 30 productions at Actors’
> Summit, most recently on our stage in *Photograph 51*.  Other local
> credits: Cleveland PublicTheater (*Ancestra, Rusted Heart Broadcast, The
> Book of Grace*), Beck Center (*The Underpants*), Dobama Theater (A* Civil
> War Christmas*), Ensemble Theater (Louisa) and Porthouse Theater (*Twelfth
> Night*).  Regional/ NYC:  Shakespeare Theatre in D.C. (*Macbeth, Merchant
> of Venice*), the Denver Center Theater (*Beethoven’N’Pierrot*), a national
> tour of *The Little Prince*, the *Hotkeys* series at Naked Angels Theater.
> She has an MFA from the University of South Carolina.
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> 
>    *Bob Keefe* (Alex) is a native Clevelander.  Chicago: Demetrius in *A
> Midsummer Night’s Dream* (Pegasus Players), *What the Butler Saw* (Theatre
> Shoppe), and *Where’s Charlie? directed by Gary *Griffin (*Apple Tree*).
> He toured as Stanley in *A Bed Full of Foreigners* (The Old Creamery
> Theatre).  Since returning to Cleveland a decade ago, Bob has appeared
> frequently at Actors’ Summit, and occasionally at Cleveland Public Theatre,
> the Cleveland Play House, Lakeland Theater, and in two long running
> improvisational shows at Playhouse Square; *We Gotta Bingo*, and *Flanagan’s
> Wake*.  His most recent stage work was at Dobama Theatre in *A Civil War
> Christmas*.
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>    *Danéa Rhodes* (Lily) was born and raised in Akron, OH.  She is an
> alumna of Miller South School, Firestone High School and Kent State
> University and is working on her MBA at Indiana Wesleyan University.  Most
> recently, she was seen in *Crazy Man* (Regina) at Weathervane Playhouse.
> Danéa works with the Docherty Agency, and has appeared for Goodyear, Rue
> 21, Comcast, and others.
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> 
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> *   Scott Shriner* (Will) last appeared at Actors' Summit in 2005's *The
> Herbal Bed*.  Locally, Scott is a company member of Ohio Shakespeare
> Festival and a frequent performer at both Weathervane Playhouse and Coach
> House Theatre.  Past productions include *Rabbit Hole* (Howie), *All My
> Sons* (Chris), *Lend Me A Tenor* (Max), *Proof* (Hal), *Who's Afraid of
> Virginia Woolf *(Nick), *Angels in America Part II* (Joe), *Noises Off*
> (Garry), *Present Laughter* (Roland), *Othello* (Cassio) and *A Midsummer
> Night's Dream* (Theseus).
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> *   Keith E. Stevens** (Rob) is a graduate of The Actors Studio Drama
> School (MFA) and Cleveland State (BA).  Favorite AS credits include:  *MMLJWW,
> Manning Up, Photograph 51, Freud’s Last Session, Proof, Macbeth* and *I
> Love a Piano*.  NYC credits:  *The Snob* (Actors Studio), *Audience*
> (Brooklyn Playwright’s Collective), *Fool for Love, The Honey Makers*, the
> world premiere of *2:51 *(all at Circle in the Square Downtown), *Deserters*
> (Bernie West Theater), *Loader #26 *(Theater for a New City) and *Big
> Al *(ASDS).
> Keith is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and a proud company member
> at Actors’ Summit.
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> *Keith Stevens and Sally Groth are members of Actors’ Equity.
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> “Loads of laughter and literature collide in this smart comedy about books
> and the people who love them.”
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> *The Play *
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> Ana lives in a letter-perfect world with an adoring husband, the perfect
> job, and her greatest passion: Book Club.  But when her cherished group
> becomes the focus of a documentary film, their intimate discussions about
> life and literature take a turn for the hilarious in front of the
> inescapable camera lens.  Add a provocative new member along with some
> surprising new books titles, and these six friends are bound for
> pandemonium.  A delightful new play about life, love, literature, and the
> side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.
> 
> Karen Zacarías comically explores the pervasive past time of book clubs
> that has exploded in recent years, embraced by women, men, people from all
> demographics, walks of life, political views, and interest areas.  What
> makes them so popular?  In the play, a “famous documentarian” is tackling
> that very question by installing a camera in Ana’s living room to record
> what goes on in her inner book club sanctum and unlock its secrets.  Of
> course, under the inescapable eye of the camera and this witty playwright’s
> pen, the stakes and comedy rise, and the perfect book club goes haywire.
> 
> *Tickets:*
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> Tickets for *THE BOOK CLUB PLAY* are on sale now through the box office at
> 330-374-7568 and online at www.actorssummit.org.  Preview tickets (February
> 26) are $20.  Tickets for all other performances: $33 for adults, $28 for
> seniors over 65; and $10 for all full time students under 30.  Special
> discounts are available for book clubs attending as a group.
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> *The Theater:*
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> The theater is located on the sixth floor of historic Greystone Hall in
> downtown Akron. The facility features barrier free access and free parking.
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> More information is available at the Actors’ Summit website:
> www.actorssummit.org.



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