<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div id="yiv1994065969"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759570" size="3"><span id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759592" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Joanna Glass’ TRYING Concludes This Weekend At Kennedy’s, PlayhouseSquare </span><br style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"></font><span></span></div><br><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759570" size="3">The Cesear’s Forum production of Joanna McClelland Glass’ TRYING, about aging U.S. <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font
size="3">Attorney General Francis Biddle, will conclude it’s Cleveland limited engagement run this <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">weekend. TRYING premiered at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre followed by a
<br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">successful transfer to the Promenade Theatre in Manhattan in 2005. The Cleveland <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">production features Glenn Colerider and Tricia Bestic. The story, inspired by playwright <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">Glass' own experience as Biddle's personal secretary from 1967-68, focuses on the <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">inevitability of decline with dignity and how two strangers, at dramatically different <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">places in their lives, can unexpectedly and forever influence each other.<br><br>“<span style="font-style: italic;">Colerider & Bestic fashion a friendship between their characters
that feels genuine </span><br style="font-style: italic;"></font></div><div style="font-style: italic;" id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">and significant.” -- Christine Howey, Cleveland Plain Dealer<br><br>“The performances are first rate…Colerider & Bestic play off each other with <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: italic;">compassionate fidelity.” --Roy Berko, CoolCleveland </span><br><br> Final performances Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10 at 8 pm, Kennedy’s <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3">Down Under, PlayhouseSquare, 1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. $15. Go to <br></font></div><div id="yiv1994065969yui_3_2_0_14_132320888759540"><font size="3"><a target="_blank" href="http://playhousesquare.org">playhousesquare.org</a> or call 216-241-6000.
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