<br><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"></span><br><font size="4"><b><br>A calendar of Fall, 2012 Cleveland, Ohio theater offerings</b></font><br>
<br>Heres a partial list of whats on the boards this fall in Clevelands professional theaters:<br><br><i><b>CLEVELAND PLAYHOUSE</b></i><br>216-795-7000 or go to <a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com">www.clevelandplayhouse.com</a>.<br>
<br>September 14 - October 7<br>LOMBARDI
is a play not only about Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi,
but a family drama about integrity, fathers and sons.<br><br>November 2 - 25<br>THE
WHIPPING BOY, which is set at the end of the Civil War, the play upends
all the clichιs of that period, drawing the audience into a world
theyve never seen before.<br><br>November 23 - December 23<br>A CAROL
FOR CLEVELAND, a world premiere play by Cleveland playwright, Eric
Coble, is based on a story by Clevelander Les Roberts.. It is a modern
take on the Dickens classic and is for the entire family.<br><br><i><b>DOBAMA</b></i><br>216-932-3396 or <a href="http://dobama.org">dobama.org</a><br><br>September 14 - October 7<br>THE
MOTHERF**KER WITH A HAT, which was nominated for 7 Tonys, is a dark
comedy which centers on Jackie, a petty drug dealer, who is just out of
prison and trying to stay clean with the help of Ralph, his AA sponsor.<br><br>October 26 - November 18<br>A
BRIGHT NEW BOISE takes place in a corporate break room of a craft store
in Idaho, where we find a disgraced Evangelical minister who has fled
his rural hometown. It is a deeply empathetic comedy that won the 2011
OBIE AWARD.<br><br>December 7 - January 6<br>4000 MILES concerns 21
year-old Leon, who comes to his feisty 91 year old grandmother for
solace. In a single month they infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately
reach each other.<br><i><b><br>PLAYHOUSESQUARE</b></i><br>216-241-6000 or go to <a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org">www.playhousesquare.org</a>.<br><br>October 2 - 14<br>ANYTHING
GOES is the so delightful, so delicious, so de-lovely Tony Award
winning musical with such songs as I Get A Kick Out of You and Youre
the Top.<br><br>October 12 and 13<br>THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS! is C.S. Lewis funny, provocative and witty tale of spiritual warfare from a demons point of view.<br><br>October 16 - November 4<br>DIXIES
TUPPERWARE PARTY returns to the 14th Street Theatre to throw Tupperware
Parties filled with outrageous tales. (For a review of the previous
showing go to <a href="http://www.royberko.info">www.royberko.info</a>)<br><br>November 6 -18<br>DISNEYS
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is the classic musical story of Belle, a young
woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince
trapped in a spell placed by an enchantress. Can Belle succeed in
getting the Beast to love and be loved, so the curse will end?<br><i><b><br>BECK CENTER</b></i><br>216-521-2540 or <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">http://www.beckcenter.org</a><br><br>September 24 - October 14<br>XANADU
is a musical based on Greek muse, Cilio, who descends from Mt. Olympus
to Venice Beach, California on a quest to inspire a struggle artist to
achieve the greatest creation of his lifea roller disco.<br><br>October 5 - November 11<br>THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED is a farce that examines the scandalous world of celebrities.<br><br>December 7 - January 6<br>ANNIE
is the comic book inspired story of a spunky Depression-era orphan
determined to find the parents who abandoned her on the doorstep of a
New York City orphanage.<br><i><b><br>ACTOR'S SUMMIT</b></i><br>330-374-7568 or go to <a href="http://www.actorssummit.org">www.actorssummit.org</a><br><br>October 4 - 28 (No performance October 19)<br>WILL
ROGERS U.S.A. is a one-man play about one of Americas great folk
humorists which uses Rogers actual quotes to comment on current events.
<br><br>November 29 December 23 <br>MY
MOTHERS LESBIAN JEWISH WICCAN WEDDING is the answer to the question,
What do you do when you are a straight white male and discover your
mother is a lesbian? You write a musical based on a true story that
celebrates love in all its forms.<br><i><b><br>CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE</b></i><br>216-631-2727 or go on line to <a href="http://www.cptonline.org">www.cptonline.org</a><br><br>October 4 20 <br>STANDING
ON CEREMONY: The Gay Marriage Plays is a new work by 8 of the nations
best playwrights (Jordan Harrison, Moisιs Kaufman, Mo Gaffney, Neil
LaBute, Wendy McLeod, Josι Rivera, Paul Rudnick, Doug Wright), which is
staged to promote gay marriage rights and explore our ever evolving (and
sometimes not) society.<br><br>October 4 - 20<br>THE KARDIAC KID is a
one-person show in which Cleveland playwright Eric Schmiedl shares his
love of the Browns and his shared disgrace at their 1981 defeat after
the fateful Red Right 88 play.<br><br>October 11 21<br>SPRINGBOARD
features staged readings (not actors standing at podiums) in which
audience members give feedback and engage in post-show discussions to
help local playwrights improve their work.<br><br>November 1 3 <br>LEAP/CONCEIVE
is a developmental series intended to support work that is at the
midpoint in the creation process by featuring 15 minute segments from
larger works-in-progress.<br><i><b><br>LAKELAND THEATRE</b></i><br>440-525-7526<br><br>September 21-October 7<br>PROOF
is a psychological mystery surrounding the authorship of a potentially
revolutionary mathematical proof and the relationship between a father
and his daughter.<br><br><i><b>ENSEMBLE THEATRE</b></i><br>216-321-2930<br>September 28 - October 21<br><br>NORMAL
HEART is Larry Kramers political play about a tight group of friends
who wont let doctors, politicians and the press bury the truth of an
unspoken epidemic (AIDS).<br><br>November 15-December 2<br><br>MIRACLE
AND WONDER, written by Clevelander Jonathan Wilhelm, is set three days
before Christmas when a kindergarten teacher receives jarring news about
missing relatives, a drag queen, broken hearts, a Bette Davis movie,
mistaken identity and Midrashic parables.<br><i><b><br>GREAT LAKES THEATRE</b></i><br><a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org">http://www.greatlakestheater.org</a> or 216-241-6000<br><br>September 28 - November 4<br>THE
WINTERS TALE, Shakespeares epic of romance and renewal tells the
story of a royal family ripped apart by suspicions of infidelity and
exile.<br><br>October 5 - November 3<br>THE IMAGINARY INVALID is
Molieres comedy, with music, about a house-bound hypochondriac who
fears he has every illness he can imagine. <br><i><b><br>BLANK CANVAS</b></i><br><a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com">www.blankcanvastheatre.com</a><br><br>October 5th - October 21st<br>NEXT
FALL looks at faith, commitment and unconditional love through the
actions of Adam who is older, neurotic and an atheist and Luke who is
impulsive, a struggling actor and a devout Christian.<br><br style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"></span><br>
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