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<h2 style="line-height:normal">A calendar of Fall, 2013 Cleveland, Ohio theatre
offerings</h2>
<p class="" style="line-height:14pt"><span style>Roy
Berko</span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:14pt"><span style="font-size:10pt">(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland
Critics Circle)</span></p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">216-241-6000
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">or go to <a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com">www.clevelandplayhouse.com</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Sept 13-Oct 6</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">WOODY SEZ:<span style>
</span>THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">A musical that uses over 25 legendary songs in an
examination of Woody Guthrie’s life.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Nov 1-24</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">VENUS IN FUR</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">The award winning script, which is based on a novel
by the man who named sado-masochism, is a <span style> </span>two-person comedy which acts out power games in a play within
a play blurring reality and fantasy.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Nov 29-Dec 22</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">A CHRISTMAS STORY</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">In honor of the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
Cleveland based film, CPH reinvents one of its previous “must see” shows.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">DOBAMA</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">216-932-3396
or <a href="http://dobama.org">dobama.org</a></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Sept 6-Oct 6</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">TIME STANDS STILL</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Focuses on a photojournalist and a foreign
correspondent who return to Brooklyn and find themselves trying to find balance
and happiness after being physically and emotionally scarred while covering
conflicts in the Middle East.</span><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Oct 25-Nov 23</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">COCK</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">A drama which takes a playful, candid look at hetero-,
bi- and homo sexuality and the difficulties that arise when people realize they
have a choice</span><span style="color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Dec 6-Jan 5, 2014</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">THE BIG MEAL</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">Set at a single restaurant table and spanning over 80
years, it tells the story of five generations of a family through one unending
metaphoric meal, starting from a young couple’s first meeting and ending with a
visit from their great-grandchild.</span><span style="color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">PLAYHOUSESQUARE</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">216-241-6000
or go to </span><a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.playhousesquare.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Oct 1-13</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">SLEEPING BEAUTY, A GOTHIC ROMANCE</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Michael Bourne’s record breaking West End London
production of the classic ballet with a gothic twist.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Nov 12-24</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">ONCE</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">A tale of living your dreams rather than your fears, this
winner of eight Tony Awards tells the tale of a Dublin street musician who’s
about to give up on his dreams when a young woman takes an interest in his
haunting love songs.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Dec 4-Jan 5, 2014</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">WICKED</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Broadway’s blockbuster is back by popular demand!<span style> </span>Long before that girl from Kansas
arrived in Munchkinland, two girls met in the land of OZ….the rest is
theatrical and fantasy history!</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(53,53,53)">Sept. 7; Oct. 5; Nov.
2 </span><span style="color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">FREE PLAYHOUSESQUARE TOURS</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">90-minute backstage and on the
stage tours which relate not only the visual aspects of PlayhouseSquare’s 10
theatres, but facts and anecdotes. </span><span style="color:rgb(53,53,53)">No reservations are needed for
individual participants, but groups of 10-or-more are asked to call ahead at
216-771-4444.</span><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase">Beck
Center</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">216-521-2540
or <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">http://www.beckcenter.org</a></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Sept 7-8</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG IN
CONCERT</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">A Sondheim provocative
musical about the friendship of three young artists and what happens when the
composer’s idealism is challenged by temptations.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Songs include;<span style> </span>“Not a Day Goes By,” “Good Thing Going”
and “Our Time.”</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Sept 20-Oct 20</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">SHE LOVES ME</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Sheldon Harnick and Jerry
Bock’s romantic musical about a pair of feuding clerks in a 1930s European
parfumerie who secretly find romance in an unexpected way. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Oct 11-Nov 17</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">33 VARIATIONS</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Written by the author of THE
LARAMIE PROJECT, concurrently examines the creative process behind Beethoven’s
DIABELLI VARIATIONS and the journey of musicologist Katherine Brandt to
discover why Beethoven was compelled to write thirty-three distinct variations
on a simple theme.<span style> </span>It features
Stuart Raleigh on piano.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Dec 6-Jan 5, 2014</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">ANNIE</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Leapin’ Lizards! The sun will
come out tomorrow, and Miss Hannigan, the orphans, Sandy, Daddy Warbucks and
the schemes of the comic book characters, are reprised once again!<span style> </span>It’s back on Broadway, why not at Beck?
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase">Actor’s
Summit</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">330-374-7568
or go to <a href="http://www.actorssummit.org">www.actorssummit.org</a></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Oct 10-Nov 3</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">A tribute to Rogers and
Hammerstein with songs from CAROUSEL, OKLAHOMA!, THE KING AND I, SOUTH PACIFIC
and SOUND OF MUSIC.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Nov 27-Dec 22</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">THE FARMDALE AVENUE HOUSING
ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY<span style> </span>PRESENTS “A CHRISTMAS CAROL”</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:13pt"><span style="color:windowtext">A holiday farce, in
the tradition of Monty Python, when the ladies of TFAHETGDS tackle Dickens for
a loss. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">216-631-2727
or go on line to </span><a href="http://www.cptonline.org"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">www.cptonline.org</span></a></p>
<p class="">Sept 26-Oct 6</p>
<p class="">SPRINGBOARD</p>
<p class="">Presentations of new scripts by local artists with post-show
discussions.</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="">Oct10-26</p>
<p class="">INSOMNIA:<span style> </span>THE
WAKING OF HERSELVES</p>
<p class="">A woman joined onstage by two other parts of herself
fighting for some cohesive identity.<span style>
</span>(A revival of CPT’s 2010 production.)</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="">Oct 17-19</p>
<p class="">LEAP/CONCEIVE</p>
<p class="">A showcase which features short segments from larger
works-in-progress and asks for audience feedback.</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="">Nov 8-9</p>
<p class="">TEATRO PUBLICO DE CLEVELAND</p>
<p class="">CPT’s new program to create original theatre with artists
from the local Latin American community.</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="">Nov 14-17</p>
<p class="">Y-HAVEN PROJECT</p>
<p class="">CPT artists and the residents of Y-Haven, a program for
homeless men with drug and alcohol problems, collaborate to create an original
lay.</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="">Nov 29-Dec 14</p>
<p class="">DOUG IS A D-BAG</p>
<p class="">An interactive work that asks the audience to turn ON their
cell phones and join the trials and tribulations of Lorie & Doug as they
fall out of love.</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="">Nov 29-Dec 21</p>
<p class="">THE LOUSH SISTERS DO THE NUTCRACKER</p>
<p class="">Singing siblings Jolly and Butter Rum are back with more
booze, bawdy fun and Christmas memories.<span style>
</span>World premiere.</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">ENSEMBLE THEATRE</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">216-321-2930
or <a href="http://www.ensemble-theatre.com">http://www.ensemble-theatre.com</a></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Sept. 27-Oct 20</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Clevelander Rajiv Joseph’s
play about a world-renowned origami artist who, when she opens her studio to a
teenage prodigy and his school teacher, discovers that life and love can’t be
arranged as neatly as finding the perfect fold!</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Nov 21-Dec 15</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">PRELUDE TO A KISS</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">At Peter and Rita’s wedding, a mysterious old man
insists on kissing the bride with fascinating consequences</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Times;color:windowtext">!</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Times;color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">GREAT LAKES THEATRE</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org">http://www.greatlakestheater.org</a>
or 216-241-6000</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Sept 27-Nov 3</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">RICHARD III</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">The rise and fall of
Shakespeare’s</span><span style="color:rgb(38,33,31)"> most diabolical villain – a homicidal hunchback--on a
bloody campaign to seize the English crown.</span><span style="color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(38,33,31)"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(38,33,31)">Oct 4-Nov 2</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(38,33,31)">SWEENEY TODD</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(38,33,31)">Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical tells
the tale of an unjustly exiled barber’s quest to avenge the wrongs done to him
and his family by a lecherous judge. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">none-too-fragile</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.nonetoofragile.com">www.nonetoofragile.com</a>
or 330-671-4563</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Sept 13-28 </span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext"></span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">NERVE</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Adam Szymkowicz’s romantic comedy about on-line
dating, which alludes to the author’s idea that sociopaths also deserve love.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Nov 15-30</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">LAST OF THE BOYS</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Steven Dietz’s dark comedy about two soldiers who
were on a road outside Dak To, Vietnam, in 1967, and then find each other
thirty years later in a trailer park in California and celebrate one last
hurrah. </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">convergence continuum</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"><a href="http://convergence-continuum.org">convergence-continuum.org</a>
or 216-687-0074</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Aug 23-Sept 12</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Ethan’s world is turned comically upside down when a
Hollywood producer wants to turn one of his plays into a big-budget horror
movie.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Oct<span style>
</span>11-Nov 2</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">LILIES, OR THE REVIVAL OF ROMANTIC DRAMA</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">A drama, which takes place in 1952 in the church of a
prison where the jailed Simon Doucet makes a confession to his old friend,
Bishop Bilodeau. </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Nov 29-Dec 21</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">LOVE FOR LOVE</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Sam Shepard’s classic humorous study of love, hate
and the dying myths of the Old West.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><b style><span style="font-family:Chalkduster;color:windowtext">BLANK
CANVAS</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">440-941-0458
or</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"> </span><a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">www.blankcanvastheatre.com</span></a></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none">Aug 23-Sept 7</p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none">FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIRE de LUNE</p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Terence McNally’s Broadway hit illuminates how two
people navigate the insecurities of modern romance. Their journey is as timely
as a tweet and as timeless as the full moon spilling through a window.</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">Oct 11-Nov 2, midnight show Oct 26 and 31</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">TEXAS CHAINSAW MUSICAL</span></p>
<p class="" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:windowtext">A return engagement of this theatre’s award winning
musical relates the coming of age story about a handsome serial killer, his
overly affectionate Momma, the woman he loves, and the pantywaist runt that ruins
everything.<span style> </span>If you don’t want to
get covered in the over 15 gallons of blood spilled each night, ask to be
seated in the “splatter free zone.”</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">Dec 6-21</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">GODSPELL</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext">A contemporary rock musical centering on THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, and featuring a score by Stephen Schwartz, which
includes <i style>Day By Day</i>.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b style><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext">To see a composite of the reviews of members of the Cleveland
Critics Circle, go to </span></b><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.clevelandtheaterreviews.com">www.clevelandtheaterreviews.com</a></span></span></p>
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