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<p class="Default" align="center" style="margin-top:.1pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stunning new play at Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="margin-top:.1pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">explores “America’s improbable experiment”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="margin-top:.1pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/american-falls/">AMERICAN FALLS</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="margin-top:.1pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Written by Miki Johnson :: Directed by Raymond Bobgan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="margin-top:.1pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Onstage through December 20<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">About the Show<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">A day in the lives of six living people and two dead ones in American Falls, Idaho. From a ghost drinking
beer in a lawn chair to a Native American shoe salesman, the population of American Falls is the product of “America’s improbable experiment.” As these paths traverse in and out of each others’ stories, the play carries us from Bruce Willis in
<i>Moonlighting</i> to the actual moon; from conceiving babies while drunk on Budweiser beer to the difficulties of those babies, and the adults they become; and from the cool pain of alienation to the warm embrace of belonging.
<i>American Falls</i> asks ancient, unanswerable questions: What is it to live? What becomes of the child on the road to adulthood? What is it like to grow old? What does it mean to die? Told in a poetic and sensuous interplay of stories, monologues and one
horrifying makeover, Miki Johnson’s <i>American Falls “</i>reminds us what great theatre has always been about is great storytelling." (<i>Houston Chronicle</i>)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<b><i>“Miki Johnson has suddenly become my favorite young playwright. [American Falls]<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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<b><i>is like electro-shock therapy – it clears your brain of anything that has come before it.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">-<a href="http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2014/12/darkness_and_light_life_and_de.html">The Plain Dealer</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">“For </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">those
of you who have had enough of tinsel, mistletoe and holly and need some gritty earth grounding theater, Cleveland Public Theatre has the show for you…<span class="apple-converted-space">[American Falls]</span> will firmly sock you in the gizzard.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white"><a href="http://www.axs.com/cleveland-public-theatre-s-american-falls-will-shake-your-gumdrops-32203">-Examiner.com<o:p></o:p></a></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">Shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Monday at 7:00, CPT’s James Levin Theatre. Onstage Dec 4-20.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">Tickets $12 - $28<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white">Thursdays & Mondays just $12!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org">www.cptonline.org</a> | 216-631-2727 x501<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">**EVERY FRIDAY</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is Free Beer Friday – mingle with
artists after the show and enjoy your drinks on us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">Tickets available at
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org"><span style="background:white">www.cptonline.org</span></a><span style="color:#222222;background:white"> or (216) 631-2727 x501. (And no ticket fees,
ever.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cathleen O’Malley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Director of Audience Engagement & Media Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(216) 631-2727 x 212<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">See what's playing tonight, go to
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:blue">www.cptonline.org</span></i></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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