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S</font><span>haker Arts Council’s January AHa!
performance will feature improv comedy in a fresh,
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</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><font><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font>As part of its innovative 2012-13 season</font>,
offering an adventurous variety of artists and venues, the Shaker Arts
Council’s AHa! (At Home with the Arts) program will present the improv-comedy
troupe <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Big Dog Theater at Shaker’s
Launch House, 3558 Lee Rd., 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11</b>. <o:p></o:p></font></font></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The evening will start convivially with
hors d’oeuvres, beverages and live jazz music in the cutting-edge atmosphere of
Launch House, Shaker’s incubator for entrepreneurs and their next-wave ideas. Then
Big Dog Theater,</font> </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">the
East Side improv-comedy troupe whose lightning wit brings thunderous laughs,
will take the stage.</font> </font></span><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Based at the former Centrum movie
theater at Coventry Road and Euclid Heights Boulevard,</font> <font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Big Dog stars some of
the Cleveland area’s best improv talent, including its founder, Don Mitri.</font> <o:p></o:p></span></font></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Tickets for the January Big Dog Theater
performance are $30 ($25 for Shaker Arts Council members). Call 216-916-9360
for more information; to purchase tickets, <var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>go to </font><a href="http://www.shakerartscouncil.org/"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">www.shakerartscouncil.org</font></a><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> or send </font></span><span style='color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">a check made out to
Shaker Arts Council to PMB 232, 16781 Chagrin Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44120.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
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