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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Welcome to Week 2</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> of the 2015 New Ground Theatre Festival – you won’t want to miss the upcoming offerings in CPH’s annual showcase of new works!
Tickets are on sale now at <a href="clevelandplayhouse.com">clevelandplayhouse.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><a href="http://clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2014/my-mother-has-4-noses">My Mother Has 4 Noses</a> –</span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> A new play with music – May 14-16,
2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Folk rock singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke was always close to her mother Darren, a Christian Scientist and poet, even when they didn't see eye to eye on religion. So when Darren is diagnosed
with Alzheimer's, Jonatha puts her life on hold and becomes her caretaker. Together they embark on this new "adventure" where faith is tested and poetry discovered in the unlikeliest of places. With humor and honesty,
<i>My Mother Has 4 Noses</i> interweaves original music with personal narrative to tell a beautiful, poignant mother-daughter love story.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">FREE TalkBacks after the Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon performances</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><a href="http://clevelandplayhouse.com/shows/2014/play-reading--soups-stews-and-casseroles-1976">Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976</a></span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt">
by Rebecca Gilman, 2015 Roe Green Award Winner – Play reading – </span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">May 16, 2015 at 5pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Big change is coming to the small town where Kim and Kat are raising their teenage daughter. Monroe, Wisconsin, is known for its pungent limburger cheese and not much else. But that’s
all about to change when Monroe’s largest employer is bought out by a national corporation and Kat befriends the new boss’s cosmopolitan wife. While their neighbors prepare to strike, Kat and Kim climb the social and corporate ladder…but at what cost? Flavored
with plenty of laughs and small town charm, <i>Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976</i> is an absorbing, poignant story of community and the changing times.</span><i><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Behind-the-Scenes</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">:
<b>In Conversation – 2015 Roe Green Award Winner Rebecca Gilman</b> – <i>Free & open to the public!<o:p></o:p></i></span></u></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Saturday, May 16, 2015 – 3:30-4:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Rebecca Gilman is the fourth recipient of the Roe Green Award, a prize that brings the country’s best playwrights to Cleveland to develop new work. Join Gilman and CPH Artistic Director
Laura Kepley, for an intimate and insightful discussion with this acclaimed playwright.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">RSVP required to
<a href="http://clevelandplayhouse.com/inside-cph">http://clevelandplayhouse.com/inside-cph</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt">.<span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Wild Abandon
</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">– A reading of a new musical –
</span></u></b><i><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Free & open to the public!<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Sunday, May 17, 2015 – 5-6pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Lynn is a sweet church lady who advocates the healing power of Jesus and vegetables. According to her daughter Leenya, she’s also "a sitcom character cast in a Greek tragedy." Though Leenya means
"Little Lynn," and both women are artists, the two couldn’t be more different—or so they think. Using Lynn’s artwork and Leenya’s original songs this quirky, autobiographical one-woman musical examines the most universal and complicated of human relationships:
the bond between mother and daughter. This new piece is written and performed by Leenya Rideout, who can also currently be seen as Molly Flemmingsen in
<i>Fairfield</i>! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">RSVP required to
<a href="http://clevelandplayhouse.com/calendar/2015/05/17/wild-abandon">http://clevelandplayhouse.com/calendar/2015/05/17/wild-abandon</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">NOW at the Outcalt Theatre:
<i>Fairfield,</i> Cleveland playwright Eric Coble’s hilariously dark comedy about a young teacher’s misguided attempts to celebrate Black History Month. Through May 31. Tickets for students are $15, and tickets for anyone under 35 are $25 – for more</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">information, please go to <a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/">
clevelandplayhouse.com</a><span style="background:white">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;background:white">And
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">with our <b>FREE</b> InsideCPH programs you’ll get up-close-and-personal with the people and processes that make our work happen, all in a fun, informal and interactive setting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Pre-Show Conversations -
</span></u></b><i><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Free for all ticketholders!</span></u></i><b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">These fun and interactive 25-minute conversations happen right before the show in the Allen Theatre Complex. Pull back the curtain early and connect with the world of the play in an engaging and relaxed setting,
beginning 45 minutes before every performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">TalkBacks
</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">– <i>Free for all ticketholders after every performance of
</i>Fairfield<i>!<o:p></o:p></i></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Stay after the show to continue the conversation our plays start! TalkBacks offer the chance to interact with your fellow audience members and CPH Artistic Staff in an open and lively
Q&A about the play and the questions it raises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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