<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Optima; ">Ever wonder why Sherlock Holmes never had a romantic relationship? </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Optima; "><i><b> ROUGE ÉTUDE OR HOW SHERLOCK HOLMES BECAME A MISOGYNIST</b> </i>(<i>our nickname for the show is "<b>50 Shades of Strad</b>"</i>) answers that question and more <b>this week only</b>, February 12-14, 2015 in <a href="http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/week-6-feb-12-14-rouge-etude-or-how-sherlock-holmes-became-a-mysogynist/">Big Box ’15</a>, Cleveland Public Theatre’s series of new works. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Optima; "> Victorian-era violinist rockstar Wilma Norman-Neruda (<b>Mary Alice Beck</b>) cougars it up with young Sherlock (<b>Bryan Ritchey</b>). Holmes’ Stradivarius violin, the third character in the triangle, is personned by <b>Katie Simón Atkinson</b>. A very nosey Mrs. Hudson (<b>Jean Cummins</b>) provides comic relief, and and musician <b>Janice Lee</b> “violin-syncs” in real-time, directed by <b>Brian Pedaci</b>. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Optima; "> Please join us for my world-premiere workshop-production, <b>three performances only, February 12, 13, 14 at 7pm</b>. Tickets for Big Box '15 ($12-15) are available <a href="http://boxoffice.printtixusa.com/cpt/eventcalendar?v=0&i=0&g=0&g2=0&m=2&y=2015">online</a>, by phone (216-631-2727), or at the CPT box office (6415 Detroit Ave., Cleveland Ohio). </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Optima; "> See the <u>first-ever</u> <u>workshop-performance</u> <u>Thursday</u>, bring your <u>Valentine</u> to this tale of love gone awry on <u>Saturday</u>, and don't forget <u>Free Beer Friday</u>! </p><div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Optima">Cheers,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Optima">Deborah Magid</font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; "><div style="margin: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Garamond; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Playwright, composer, lyricist, director, Broadway actor/singer, journalist, tech writer/editor, poet, and all-round energetic sort, Deborah is a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights’ Unit, a Cleveland Public Theatre Artist for the seventh consecutive year, has served on the International Centre for Women Playwrights Board of Directors and in 2012 helped found the ICWP 50/50 Applause Award for theaters that achieve gender parity among produced playwrights in a given season, founded SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day-CLE, and is a Dramatists Guild member. Over the seven short years she has been writing, her works have been produced, workshopped, awarded, and read worldwide, and comprise long, short, drama, comedy, musical, SciFi, rock opera, chamber opera, and <i>Richard Wagner’s Entire Ring Cycle in Ten Minutes with Sock Puppets</i>. Deborah’s theater musings can be found at </span><a href="https://miseentheatre.wordpress.com/">miseentheatre.wordpress.com</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; "><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">ROUGE ÉTUDE OR HOW SHERLOCK HOLMES BECAME A MISOGYNIST </span><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">Workshop production in Ohio, </span><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2014-2015/week-6-feb-12-14-rouge-etude-or-how-sherlock-holmes-became-a-mysogynist/" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">Cleveland Public Theatre BigBox'15</a><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">, 12-14 February 2015 7pm; </span><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">Staged reading in New York, </span><a href="http://www.dramatistsguild.com/" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">Dramatists Guild Friday Night Footlights</a><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">, 13 March 2015 6pm. </span><font face="Optima" size="2">THE SECRET LIFE OF BIRDS </font><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">Staged reading in New Mexico, </span><a href="http://www.teatroparaguas.org/" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">Teatro Paraguas</a><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: small; ">, 1 March 2015 5pm</span></p><div><font face="Optima" size="2"><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>