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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Community theater
reviews to appear in clevelandjewishnews.com</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Starting this week,
the CJN will be providing weekly reviews of community theater productions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Talented, industrious and often
unheralded, the directors, designers and actors who make up the string of
amateur, community-based storytellers across Northeast Ohio will have their work
reviewed and posted on our website. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Other local
newspapers that will be printing or posting these reviews include the
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="face: georgia" face=Georgia>News-Herald, the </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT style="face: georgia"
face=Georgia>Morning Journal, the </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT style="face: georgia"
face=Georgia>Chagrin Valley Times, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT style="face: georgia"
face=Georgia>Solon Times and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT style="face: georgia"
face=Georgia>Geauga Times Courier.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Crossing Cuyahoga,
Summit, Stark, Lorain, Ashtabula, Geauga, and Lake counties, CJN’s corp of
designated critics will be offering more complete coverage of the local theater
scene. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Our community
theater critics consist of students trained and experienced in arts journalism
from Cleveland State University, under the guidance of CJN theater columnist Bob
Abelman.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are supported by a
CSU Civic Engagement Grant designed to creatively connect the campus with the
community by fostering partnerships outside of the university.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">Nikolet Hermida and Tommy Carosielli’s co-authored
initial review of Cassidy Theatre’s “Big: The Musical” can be found at <A
title=http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/culture/theater/cassidy-theatre-s-big-the-musical-capitalizes-on-little-things/article_3f286d52-686a-11e6-a9ff-5f35f3079e78.html
href="http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/culture/theater/cassidy-theatre-s-big-the-musical-capitalizes-on-little-things/article_3f286d52-686a-11e6-a9ff-5f35f3079e78.html">http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/culture/theater/cassidy-theatre-s-big-the-musical-capitalizes-on-little-things/article_3f286d52-686a-11e6-a9ff-5f35f3079e78.html</A>.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">Hermida’s review of Weathervane Playhouse’s “You Can’t
Take It With You” can be found at <A
title=http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/culture/theater/weathervane-s-you-can-t-take-it-with-you-delights/article_f7b8bb50-6d93-11e6-bdcd-ffd9e206f2b4.html
href="http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/culture/theater/weathervane-s-you-can-t-take-it-with-you-delights/article_f7b8bb50-6d93-11e6-bdcd-ffd9e206f2b4.html">http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/culture/theater/weathervane-s-you-can-t-take-it-with-you-delights/article_f7b8bb50-6d93-11e6-bdcd-ffd9e206f2b4.html</A>.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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