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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">June 6, 2012</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Ensemble
Theatre announces it’s 33^rd consecutive season.<span style>  </span><b style><i style>“Discover The HUMAN Element”.</i></b><span style>   </span>This season’s selection of plays
will explore the fundamentals of the human experience.<span style>  </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:13.5pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:13.5pt;text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:black">Ensemble
will embark on its second season in our NEW SPACE with Larry Kramer’s <b style><i style>“The
Normal Heart”</i></b>.<span style>  </span>WINNER of
numerous Tony Awards ® in 2011 including<span style> 
</span>“Best Revival of a Play”,<span style>  </span><b style><i style>“The
Normal Heart”</i></b> </span><span style="color:black">unfolds
like a real-life political thriller—as a tight-knit group of friends refuse to
let doctors, politicians and the press bury the truth of an unspoken epidemic
behind a wall of silence.<span style>   </span>A
quarter-century after it was written, this outrageous, unflinching, and totally
unforgettable look at the sexual politics of New York during the AIDS crisis
remains one of the theatre’s most powerful evenings ever.<span style>  </span>Directed by Sarah May, <b style><i style>“The
Normal Heart”</i></b> will open Friday, September 28^th and runs
through Sunday, October 21^st.<span style> 
</span>Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.<span style>  </span>There will be numerous surrounding
activities and talkbacks inspired by the topics that are addressed in this classic
but still very relevant piece.<span style>  </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">            It’s three
days before Christmas. While wrapping gifts, an obsessive-compulsive
kindergarten teacher receives jarring news from a stranger setting off a series
of events involving missing relatives, a drunken drag queen, broken hearts,
Bette Davis movies, mistaken identities, Midrashic parables and why Jesus is
having a really bad day. In short, everything you might not expect in a
heart-warming holiday story.<span style> 
</span>Nonetheless, a holiday COMEDY not to be missed</span><span style="color:black">!<span style>  </span>Written by Jonathan Wilhelm, <b><i style>“Miracle and Wonder”</i></b> was discovered through Ensemble’s <i style>“Stage Wrights”</i> workshop.<span style>  </span>This will be a WORLD PREMIERE by a
Cleveland Playwright!<span style>  </span>Opening Thursday
November 15^th and running through Sunday December 2^nd, <b><i style>“Miracle and Wonder”</i></b> will perform
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays @8pm and Sundays at 2pm.<span style>  </span><i style>(There
will be no performance on Thanksgiving Thursday the 22^nd). </i><span style> </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#0d0d0d"><span style>            </span></span><span style="color:#0d0d0d">Recipient of the 2004 <i>Jeff Award</i> for <i>Best New Work</i> for
his <i>“Free Man of Color”, </i>part of our critically acclaimed 10’-11’ season,
Ensemble will again present Cleveland audiences with the masterful work of
Charles Smith.<span style>  </span></span><span style="color:#0d0d0d">Based on real events, <b><i style>“The Gospel According to James”</i></b> </span><span style="color:#0d0d0d">is set in 1930.<span style>  </span>James Cameron and Mary Ball emerge as
the sole survivors of racial crimes in Marion, Indiana.<span style>  </span>Teenagers when the crimes occurred,
they look back on those events and their lives in this work commissioned by the
Indiana Repertory Theatre. As their past and present lives intermingle, Cameron
and Ball discover that their remembrances of that day differ even if their
experiences were the same – challenging us all to wrestle with the tensions
between memory, history and redemption.<span style> 
</span>Directed by Ensemble Artistic Director, Celeste Cosentino, <b style><i style>“The
Gospel According to James”</i></b> opens Friday January 25^th and
runs through Sunday February 17^th, 2013.<span style>  </span>Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at
2pm.<span style>  </span>There will be student
matinees as well as talkbacks and events scheduled surrounding the topics in this
production.<span style>  </span></span><span style="color:#0d0d0d"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#2a2a2a"><span style>            </span>Celebrating
a very successful inaugural year in 2012 and entering into its second season, <b style><i style>“The
Colombi New Plays Festival”</i></b>, will again present a platform for local
playwrights to see productions of their works.<span style>   </span>These are scripts that are developed in the Ensemble
“Stage Wrights” workshop which assembles weekly.<span style>  </span>The scripts for this year’s festival will be chosen and announced
soon!<span style>  </span>Productions of the scripts
chosen will run March 7^th through March 24^th.<span style>  </span>Performances will be Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays @2pm.<span style> 
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conclude this “ambitious” 2012-2013 season, Ensemble will present Eugene
O’Neill’s American Classic <b style><i style>“The Iceman Cometh”</i></b> currently
playing to a SOLD OUT RUN at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.<span style>  </span>This epic play “</span><span style>welcomes the audience
to Harry Hope's saloon, home to a ragtag band of drunks and dreamers who celebrate
the arrival of Hickey, the charismatic traveling salesman whose raucous
presence always ensures a grand good time. But when a newly sober Hickey blows
in with a renewed outlook on life, his zealous attempts to fix the lives of his
old friends lead to a series of events that are at once devastatingly comic and
heartbreaking—and culminate with a revelation that threatens to shatter the
tenuous illusions that fuel their lives.“ (Chicago Sun-Times).<span style>  </span>Directed by Ian Hinz, <b><i style>“The Iceman Cometh”</i></b> will open Friday
April 19^th and run through Sunday May 12^th.<span style>  </span>Performances are Fridays and Saturdays
at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm. <b><i style><span style> </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-autospace:none"><span style><b><i style>(<u>7pm curtains times are ONLY for “The
Iceman Cometh”</u>)</i></b></span></p>

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our website at: <span style> </span><a href="http://www.ensemble-theatre.org">www.ensemble-theatre.org</a>.<span style>  </span>Click on the “Box Office” link.<span style>   </span></span></p>

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theatregoers with a unique and unforgettable season!<span style>  </span>We look forward to <i style>seeing</i>
you in our audience!<span style>  </span></span></p>

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