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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>COACH HOUSE THEATRE</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Box Office: 330-434-7741</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>732 W. Exchange Street</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Akron, OH 44302</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>coachhousetheatre.com<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;
text-indent:11.25pt'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>Coach House closes its
season with classic thriller!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>"Sleuth" plays
May 12-June 5, 2011</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>Thursdays, Fridays,
Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>$12 Preview Performance,
Thursday, May 12 only, 8 p.m.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>Saturday matinee, May 21
at 2:30 p.m.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:11.25pt'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Coach House closes its season with <i>Sleuth</i>,
a classic thriller!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Andrew Wyke (</span><b><span
style='font-family:"Times LT Std","serif"'>Terry Burgler</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>) is an immensely successful mystery
writer, whose manor home reflects his obsession with games and game-playing. He
lures his wife’s lover, Milo Tindle (<b>Andrew Cruse</b>), to the house
and convinces him to stage a robbery of her jewelry, a proposal that sets off a
chain of events that leaves the audience trying to decipher where Wyke’s
imagination ends and reality begins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Sleuth</span></i><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> will be presented May 12 to June 5.
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. There will be
a special $12 preview performance Thursday, May 12 (only) at 8 p.m. There will
also be a Saturday matinee May 21 at 2:30 p.m.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Tickets
are $18. 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
may be made by calling our box office at 330-434-7741, or online at
www.coachhousetheatre.com.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>The Cast</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span style='font-family:
"Times LT Std","serif"'>Terry Burgler</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>,
one of Coach House’s two Artistic Directors, has worked as an actor,
director and producer nationally and internationally, performing at the Globe
Theatre in London, and winning accolades for his work as Artistic Director at
Porthouse Theatre and Ohio Shakespeare Festival. He was named Outstanding
Theatre Artists in 2007 by Arts Alive! for his theatrical achievements, and he
has won many awards as an actor and director. He is also one of the two
Artistic Directors of Ohio Shakespeare Festival, which performs each summer at
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, as well as periodically at Coach House and the
Players Guild of Canton. For Coach House, Terry appeared on stage in last
season's <i>Deathtrap</i>. He directed our hit productions of <i>You Can't Take
It With You, Witness for the Prosecution, Light up the Sky, Lettice and Lovage </i>and
<i>Not Now, Darling! </i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>
Andrew Cruse</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> is a
professional actor and director in the area. 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, to name a few. He serves as associate artistic
director of Ohio Shakespeare Festival. He directed this season's murder mystery
at Coach House, <i>The Unexpected Guest, </i>and was the assistant director for
last season’s <i>Witness for the Prosecution</i>. He was seen on stage in
last season’s <i>Deathtrap</i> at Coach House, and in <i>The Taming of
the Shrew</i> and <i>King Lear</i> last summer at Ohio Shakespeare Festival, as
well as <i>Humble Boy</i> at Dobama this past year. 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><b><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>The Director</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> Nancy
Cates</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> is the second of our
two Artistic Directors. She also directed two hit shows at Coach House this
season: <i>Present Laughter </i>and <i>The Gin Game</i>. In past seasons she
has directed <i>Deathtrap, Doubt: A Parable, Steel Magnolias</i>, <i>Barrymore’s
Ghost, Tonight at 8:30, Oh Coward!</i>, and Royal Coach Award winners for Best
Production <i>Hay Fever </i>(2006-2007), <i>Driving Miss Daisy, </i>(2007-2008)
and <i>Leading Ladies</i> (2009-10). She is also one of the two Artistic
Directors of the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, which performs each summer at Stan
Hywet Hall & Gardens, as well as periodically at Coach House and the
Players Guild of Canton.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Nancy
is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:6.75pt'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:6.75pt'><span
style='font-family:"Times LT Std","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>The Playwright</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span style='font-family:
"Times","serif"'>Anthony Shaffer</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>
was born in Liverpool and graduated with a law degree from Trinity College,
Cambridge. He adapted the Tony award-winning <i>Sleuth</i> for the 1972 film
version of the same name, which starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, and
was nominated for several Oscars. Shaffer received Edgar Awards from the
Mystery Writers of America for both versions: for Best Play in 1971, and Best
Screenplay in 1973. His other major screenplays include the Hitchcock thriller <i>Frenzy</i>
(1972) and the British cult thriller <i>The Wicker Man</i> (1973). Director Kenneth
Branagh and writer Harold Pinter later adapted <i>Sleuth</i> into a 2007 film,
this time starring Caine and Jude Law.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> Shaffer, who
died in 2001, was the identical twin brother of writer and dramatist Peter
Shaffer, whose play <i>Lettice and Lovage</i> was directed by Terry Burgler at
Coach House earlier this season.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Mark your calendars now, for Coach House's
fantastic, just-announced 2011-2012 season:</span></b><span style='font-family:
"Times","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Shipwrecked! An Entertainment</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>: <b>The Amazing Adventures of Louis de
Rougemont (as told by himself)</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>by Donald Marguiles</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>September 29-October 16</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>The Philadelphia Story</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>by Phillip Barry</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>November 25-December 18<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>And Then There Were None</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>by Agatha Christie</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>January 26-February 19</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>A Moon for the Misbegotten</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>by Eugene O’Neill</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>March 22-April 7</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Move Over, Mrs. Markham</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>by Ray Cooney and John Chapman</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>May 10-June 3</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:6.75pt'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Visit us at </span></b><a
href="http://www.coachhousetheatre.com/"><b><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>www.coachhousetheatre.com</span></b></a><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>— END —</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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