<div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><font size="4"><b><i>PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</i></b></font></font></div><div><font style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><b><i>Monday June 1, 2015.</i></b></font></div><div><font style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><font size="4"><br></font></font></div><div><font style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><font size="4">Ensemble Theatre 2015-16 Season<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">- A REBIRTH OF WONDER</div></font><br></font><b style="font-family:georgia,serif">(From the Poem "I am Waiting" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti) </b><b style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </b><font style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><br></font><div style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><br></div><div><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><font size="4">Farragut North<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"></div></font></b><font style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:13px"> by <b>Beau Willimon</b></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:13px;display:inline"><b></b> (House of Cards)</div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"></div> 8/27 to 9/6</b><br>Directed by Kyle Huff in the <b>Playground Theater<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> (</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">TheatreCLE)</div></b><br><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif">Stephen Bellamy is a wunderkind press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age would envy. During a tight presidential primary race, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. FARRAGUT NORTH is a timely story about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it.</font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><i><font face="georgia, serif">"FARRAGUT NORTH is juicy entertainment. A whip-smart insider look at the soul-sucking world of political campaigns…the play's taut scenes crackle with pithy talk, gripping plot turns and intriguing revelations." -Variety.</font></i><font style="font-size:13px"><br><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="font-size:13px"><b><font size="4">Death of a Salesman</font></b> by <b>Arthur Miller</b> </font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>9/18 to 10/11</b><br>Directed by Celeste Cosentino on the <b>Main Stage<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> Theatre (MainStage Season)</div></b><br><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif">The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> about </div>the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains <b><i>one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre</i></b>. *</font><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. </i><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br><b><font size="4">Ages of the Moon</font></b> by <b>Sam Shepard </b></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>11/13 to 12/6</b><br>Directed by Stephen Vasse-Hansell on the<b> Main Stage<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> Theatre (MainStage Season)</div></b><br><br>A gruff, affecting and funny play by Sam Shepard. Byron and Ames are old friends, reunited by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun.<br><br><i>"A poignant and honest continuation of themes that have always been present in the work of one of this country's most important dramatists, here reconsidered in the light and shadow of time passed." —NY Times.</i><br><br><font size="4"><b>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</b> </font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif">12/4 to 12/13</b><br><font face="georgia, serif">Dramatized by <b>Joseph Robinette</b> from the story by <b>C.S. Lewis</b></font><br><font face="georgia, serif">Directed by Celeste Cosentino in the </font><b><font face="georgia, serif">Playground Theater<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> (TheatreCLE)</div></font></b><br><br><font face="georgia, serif">This new dramatization of C.S. Lewis' classic, set in the land of Narnia, faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his struggle with the White Witch, and the adventures of four children who inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the exciting, never-to-be-forgotten Narnia. The intense action features chases, duels and escapes as the witch is determined to keep Narnia in her possession and to end the reign of Aslan. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div>This story of love, faith, courage and giving, with its triumph of good over evil, is a true celebration of life.</font><br><br><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font size="4">Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues</font></b> by <b>Charles Smith. </b> </font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif">(W<i>ill run concurrently with Slow Dance on the Killing Ground</i>) </font><b style="font-family:georgia,serif">2/<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">5</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div> to 2/28</b></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">D</div>irected by Ian Wolfgang Hinz in the </font><b><font face="georgia, serif">Playground Theater<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> (MainStage Season)</div></font></b><br><br><font face="georgia, serif">Developed by American Blues Theatre Company in Chicago in 1987, Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues is a story of a young African American boy and an old Jewish man who are thrown together because of circumstances beyond their control. The two form an unusual friendship when they discover through stories and music that they have more in common than anyone would ever believe. Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues illustrates how our basic needs and human emotions transcend the barriers of race, religion, and age.</font><br><br><b style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Slow Dance on the Killing Ground</font> </b><font face="georgia, serif">by <b>William Hanley.</b> </font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif"></font></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="georgia, serif">(Will run concurrently with Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues) </font></div><b style="font-family:georgia,serif">2<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">/5</div> to 2/28</b></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">D</div>irected by Greg White on the <div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b>MainStage Theatre (MainStage Season)</b></div></font><br><br><font face="georgia, serif">As the curtain rises on a poor dusty shop with its dirty window obscuring the dark hostile night,<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div>the storekeeper is taking inventory. The door is flung open, letting in a lithe young black man<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">. </div>In this dance for two, the characters make hesitant approaches, circle, feint, threaten each other with gun and ice pick but scarcely make contact. The young man is obviously a hunted man. The storekeeper is a non-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, is close-mouthed, suspicious, anxious to avoid self-involvement.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div>The third dancer is Rosie, an eigh-teen-year old from Riverdale, <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">who </div>has wandered into the shop after losing her way. Rosie has no illusions about her homeliness or about the encounter that has led to her troubles. The laconic German and the flowery young man react to her with a sensitivity and concern that seem to diminish the furies within them. But not for long.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div>Finally the German is driven to revealing the truth about himself<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> </div>as the young man, <div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">at last, faces</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div> his inexorable fate out there on the killing ground.</font><br><br><b><font face="georgia, serif" style="font-size:large">CNPF 2016 :</font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="4"> </font>(MainStage Season)</font></div></b><br><font face="georgia, serif"><b><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> Choices or </div>When to Hold ‘em</b> by <b>Cynthia Dettlebach </b></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> <b> </b></div><b>3/17- 3/25.</b> Director by TBA on the<b> Main Stage<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> Theatre</div></b> and Livestream<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">ed</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">.</div></font></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:georgia,serif">Their firstborn son brings home a Muslim girlfriend; the family’s finances</span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px;font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> </div><font face="georgia, serif">are in free-fall, and those are not the biggest bombshells to rock the</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px;font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> </div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:georgia,serif">foundations </span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:13px;font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:georgia,serif">of this upper middle class Jewish family.</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br><font face="georgia, serif"><b><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div>A Kind of Courage </b>by<b> Rannigan Walsh </b></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div>3/31- 4/10. Directed by Celeste Cosentino in the <b>Playground Theater </b>and Livestream<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">ed. </div></font><br><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"></div><font face="georgia, serif">A thirty-year old woman, Jennifer, is in a serious relationship with Ben, a</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div><font face="georgia, serif">thirty-seven year old male college professor. Jennifer has a dark secret</font><br><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div>about her past which could destroy their future together.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"> </div></font><br><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font size="4">JERUSALEM</font></b> by Jez Butterworth </font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">4/</div>29 - <div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">5/</div>22</b></font><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">D</div><font face="georgia, serif">irected by Ian Wolfgang Hinz on the<b> </b></font><b><font face="georgia, serif">MainStage<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> Theatre (MainStage Season)</div></font></b><br><br><font face="georgia, serif">On St. George's Day, the morning of the local county fair (deriving its sense of place and community from the annual carnival week at Pewsey, Wiltshire) Johnny "Rooster" Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, while his son, Marky, wants his dad to take him to the fair, Troy Whitworth wants to give him a serious kicking and a motley crew of mates want his ample supply of drugs and alcohol. The play makes frequent allusions to Blake's eponymous poemfrom which its title is derived.</font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div><i><font face="georgia, serif" style="font-size:13px">Fantastic, Shocking & Fresh! -Daily Mail. Bold & </font><font face="georgia, serif">Hilarious. -The Times. </font></i></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b><font face="times new roman, serif"></font></b></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b><font face="times new roman, serif">All </font><font face="georgia, serif">Performances are Fridays & Saturdays @<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">8pm</span></span>. Sundays @<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">2pm</span></span>.</font></b></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Please Note: </font></b></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>*Farragut</b><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><b> North </b>will open<b> Thursday <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">August 27th</span></span> </b>and have an <b>Industry Monday Night Performance on <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">August 31</span></span>. Curtain @<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">8pm</span></span>.</b></div></font><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>*The Lion, The With & The Wardrobe will have a <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">7pm</span></span> curtain for all perfomance as well as a <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">3pm</span></span> Matinee on the two Saturdays.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>*Ensemble has switched to a NEW ticketing system! Tixato! Please call or email us with any questions regarding purchase. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Single Tickets range from $24-$12</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Subscriptions range from $175-$50.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Subscribe today! </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><a href="tel:216.321.2930" value="+12163212930" target="_blank">216.321.2930</a> (Box Office MainStage) <a href="tel:216.202.0938" value="+12162020938" target="_blank">216.202.0938</a> (Box Office TheatreCLE)</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><a href="mailto:tickets@ensemble-theatre.org" target="_blank">tickets@ensemble-theatre.org</a></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><a href="http://www.ensembletheatrecle.org/" target="_blank">www.ensembletheatrecle.org</a> to purchase tickets online. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Information</font></b></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><a href="mailto:info@ensemble-theatre.org" target="_blank">info@ensemble-theatre.org</a><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">2843 Washington Blvd. Cleveland Hts., OH 441118</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><a href="tel:216-321-2930" value="+12163212930" target="_blank">216-321-2930</a>/<a href="tel:216-202-0938" value="+12162020938" target="_blank">216-202-0938</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><b><a href="http://www.ensembletheatrecle.org" target="_blank">www.ensembletheatrecle.org</a></b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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