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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Tune in to WCPN 90.3 FM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">for an exclusive interview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">with award-winning playwright<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">John Guare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">AROUND NOON<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">with Dee Perry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thursday, March 28<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">And then order your tickets to see<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Guare’s Obie Award winning dark comedy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The House of Blue Leaves</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">now through April 21 at Beck Center for the Arts</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0033CC">A man’s home is his castle, unless it’s a zoo!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#3333FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing:1.0pt">Beck Center for the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;letter-spacing:1.0pt">presents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:1.0pt">Obie Award Winner for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;letter-spacing:1.0pt">BEST AMERICAN PLAY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#0033CC;text-shadow:auto">The House of BLUe LeAVes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Written by</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">John Guare</span> / <span style="font-size:10.0pt">
Directed by </span>Russ Borski<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Now through April 21<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Mackey Main Stage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">8 pm Fri & Sat and 3 pm Sun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">(no performance March 31)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:2.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Buy tickets
<a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER">
online</a> or<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>call 216.521.2540 x10.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:4.0pt;color:#3333FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:#0033CC"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0033CC">About the Show<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Artie Shaughnessy is an aspiring songwriter who works as a zookeeper by day, performs in seedy lounges at night and lives in Queens with his schizophrenic wife, Bananas, much to the chagrin of his mistress, Bunny. When an old school buddy,
now a successful Hollywood movie director, arrives back in town, Artie plans to escape the life he despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives. <b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0033CC;background:white">About the Playwright<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">JOHN GUARE</span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white"> is an American playwright whose works include:<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Lydie Breeze</span></em>,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bosoms and Neglect</span></em>, and
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The House of Blue Leaves</span></em> which won the 1971 Obie Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play and four Tony Awards for the 1986 Lincoln Center revival of the play;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Six
Degrees of Separation</span></em>, which received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1991 for its LCT production and the Olivier Best Play Award in 1993. Grove Press publishes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Landscape
of the Body</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A Few Stout Individuals</span></em>. He wrote the lyrics and co-authored the book for the
1972 Tony-winning Best Musical,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Two Gentlemen of Verona</span></em>. His screenplay for Louis Malle's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Atlantic
City</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>earned him an Oscar nomination. In 2003 he won the PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award; in 2004, the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2005 the Obie Award for
sustained excellence. He is a council member of the Dramatists Guild and co-editor of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Lincoln Center Theater Review</span></em>.</span>
<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white">~ Excerpts from the American Theatre Wing website</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i>The House of Blue Leaves</i> runs
<b>March 22 through April 21, 2013</b> on the Mackey Main Stage. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. There is no performance on Sunday, March 31. Directed by
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Russ Borski</span></strong>,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The House of Blue Leaves </span>
</em>features Equity actors Robert Ellis as Artie and Juliette Regnier as his mentally ill wife, Bananas. “I am thrilled to direct this zany farce,” remarked Borski, “that explores the dark side of the American dream, the humiliation of our dreams, and examines
our collective obsession with celebrity and how we pin our hopes on lives distant from our own.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#3333FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#0033CC"><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WhosWho_HouseBlueLeaves.pdf"><span style="color:#0033CC">Who’s Who in the Company</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Tickets are $28 for adults and $25 for seniors (65 and older) with an additional $3 service fee per ticket applied at time of purchase<span style="color:#1F497D">.
</span>Student tickets are $15 with valid I.D. (includes service fee).<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. Purchase tickets online at
<span style="color:#3333FF"><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org"><span style="color:#3333FF">beckcenter.org</span></a></span> or call Customer Service at 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center for the Arts is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten
minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This production of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The House of
Blue Leaves </span></em>is presented through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. and is sponsored by VIP Restoration, the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and the Ohio Arts Council.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions,
arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and free gallery exhibits featuring local, regional, and international artists.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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