<font size="6"><font size="4">Cleveland Play House invites you to check out</font>...<br><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Local InFusion</span>, part of <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">FusionFest 2011</span></font><br>
<br><font size="4">Marigold Wars</font><br>by Robin VanLear<b></b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>Thursday, 4/14 at 8 p.m.<br>Saturday, 4/16 at 2 p.m.<br>Sunday, 4/17 @ 7 p.m.</b><br><br><b>Tickets $20 | Students $10</b><br><br><b>Buy Tickets</b>: <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHMarigoldWars" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHMarigoldWars</a><br>
<br><b>Online offer for NEOhioPal!</b> Get 2 free tickets for Thursday's performance when you order with code <b>CPPR</b>. <b>Online only</b>. Enter code at <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHMWpromo" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHMWpromo</a><br>
<br><font size="4"><br>CPH New Play Reading #1: Silent Sky</font><br>by Laura Gunderson<br><br>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.<br><br><b>Featuring: Eva Gil, Dan Hendrock, Kim Krane, Deb Magid, Kelli Ruttle<br></b><br><b>Sunday, 4/17 at 1 p.m.</b><br><br><b>Tickets: $10</b><br><br><b>Buy Tickets:</b> <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHSilentSky" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHSilentSky</a><br>
<br><b>Online offer for NEOhioPal!</b> Get 2 free tickets for Sunday's reading when you order with code <b>CPPR</b>. <b>Online only</b>. Enter code at <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHSSpromo" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHSSpromo</a><br>
<br><br><font size="4">CPH New Play Reading #2: The Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile</font><br>by George Brant<br><br>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. <br><br><b>Featuring: Cathy Albers, Tim Crowe, Andrew Gorell, Chuck Kartali<br></b><br><b>Sunday, 4/23 at 5 p.m.</b><br><br><b>Tickets: $10</b><br><br><b>Buy Tickets:</b> <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHLobotomobile" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHLobotomobile</a><br>
<br><br><font size="4">TaKe A hArD RIDE</font><br>Presented by Karamu House<br><br><i>TaKe A hArD RIDE</i> is an original trilogy written by three of Cleveland's leading African-American playwrights: <i><br>Part 1</i>: <b>ANY MAN and FIVE CENTS will pay a COLORED GIRLS FARE all the way to nowhere</b> by Cornell Calhoun III <i><br>
Part 2</i>: <b>Truth Out</b> by Mary Weems <br> <i>Part 3</i>: <b>Hunger is a Wanderer</b> by Michael Oatman (member of CPH Playwrights' Unit)<br><br><b>Sunday, 4/17 at 4 p.m.</b><br><br><b>Tickets: $10</b><br>
<br><b>Buy Tickets:</b> <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHHardRide" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHHardRide</a><br><br><br><font size="4">Eyes Forward<br>Dorothy Silver Playwriting Winner</font><br>by Philip Gerson<br>Presented by The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland<br>
<br>In <i>Eyes Forward</i>, 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.<br><br><b>Thursday, 4/21 at 7 p.m.</b><br><br><b>Tickets: $10</b><br><br><b>Buy Tickets</b>: <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHDorothySilver" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHDorothySilver</a><br><br><br><font size="4">Local Explosion<br>
</font><br>New this FusionFest, Local Explosion invites local artists to collaborate on premiere FusionFest works.<br><br><b>Genius Child</b><br>by JR Fralick (singer) and Megan Pitcher (choreographer)<br>original music by Ricky Ian Gordon<br>
text by Langston Hughes<br><br>Fusing: piano, vocals, dance, and poetry. <br>A young woman's questioning and exploration of her future.<br><br><b>Men In Hats</b><br>by Lisa K. Lock (choreographer) and Ron E. Shelton (hat designer)<br>
<br>Fusing: fashion, hat design, dance, vocals, music. <br>A whimsical fashion show exploring masculinity.<br><br><b>Somewhere</b><br>by Bellamy Printz (visual artist) and Eric Schmiedl (playwright)<br><br>Fusing:
visual arts, printmaking, vocals. <br>A PowerPoint presentation for an
important client goes horribly wrong but wonderfully right.<br><br><b>Saturday, 4/23 at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.</b><br><br><b>Tickets: $10</b><br><br><b>Buy Tickets:</b> <a href="http://bit.ly/CPHLocalX" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/CPHLocalX</a><br>
<br><br>For more information about any FusionFest event and to see the complete schedule, please visit <a href="http://bit.ly/eF4dZh" target="_blank">ClevelandPlayHouse.com</a>. Tickets are also available by calling <a href="tel:%28216%29%20795-7000" value="+12167957000" target="_blank">(216) 795-7000</a> x4.<br>
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