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<span style="font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br>
March 2, 2012<br>
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<font size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MYSTERIES SOLVED </span></font><br>
<font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Conversation with Writer/Producer Les Roberts</span></font><br style="font-weight: bold;">
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<font style="font-style: italic;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Great Lakes Theater presents a pre-show discussion/performance event
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">featuring Cleveland’s most famous mystery writer before
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Mousetrap</span></font><font style="font-style: italic;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></font><br>
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CLEVELAND, OH – Great Lakes Theater (GLT), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cleveland’s Classic Company, will present a pre-show discussion and performance event with acclaimed writer, producer and northeast Ohio resident, Les Roberts, entitled
<span style="font-style: italic;">Mysteries Solved</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">,</span> in conjunction with the company’s production of the iconic, Agatha Christie murder mystery The Mousetrap, at the
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare on Friday, March 23rd</span>. Commencing at 6:00 p.m. with a pre-show discussion featuring Les Roberts in the Hanna Theatre’s Salon, the event will culminate in a performance of Great Lakes Theater’s
main stage production of The Mousetrap at 7:30 p.m. as part of GLT’s Classics and Conversations audience engagement series.<br>
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A Cleveland Arts Prize (literature) and Sherwood Anderson Literary Award-winner, Les Roberts is the author of twenty-three novels, a dozen short stories, eight screenplays and countless newspaper articles. He is renowned in northeast Ohio for his fourteen mystery
novels which feature the Slovenian detective, Milan Jacovich. <span style="font-weight: bold;">
In addition to his literature writing, during his twenty-four years in Hollywood, Roberts wrote and/or produced more than two-thousand half-hours of network and syndicated television, including
<span style="font-style: italic;">The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
</span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Hollywood Squares</span> (the game show’s first producer)</span>. Complete biography information is available at
<a href="http://www.lesroberts.com/about/" target="_blank">www.lesroberts.com/about/</a>.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tickets </span>for the discussion/performance event
<span style="font-weight: bold;">range in price from $20-$50 </span>and are available by calling (216)
<span style="font-weight: bold;">241-5490 x302 or by ordering online at </span><a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/event/mystery" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">www.greatlakestheater.org/event/mystery</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
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Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland’s Classic Company, has brought the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience since 1962. The first resident company of PlayhouseSquare, GLT celebrates its 30th year in downtown Cleveland
this season. On its main stage and through its extensive education programming, Great Lakes Theater positively impacts 85,000 adults and students annually.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Todd Krispinsky</span><br>
Marketing and Public Relations Director<br>
Great Lakes Theater<br>
1501 Euclid Avenue, Suite 300<br>
Cleveland, OH 44115<br>
(216) 241-5490 x317<br>
www.greatlakestheater.org<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Great Lakes Theater</span><br>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Cleveland's Classic Company @ the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare</span><br>
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