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<span style="" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-8db766ea-7fff-af1c-7e1f-b9eda21a0dca"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>OPENS FRIDAY!!!!</b></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Western Reserve playhouse is thrilled to be bringing to its stage “Terms of Endearment”, adapted for the stage by Dan Gordon and based on the Oscar-winning film by James L. Bret. This wonderful play runs</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">August 17-September 1, 2018 (Fridays & Saturdays at 8PM; with a 2PM Matinee on Sunday August 26th). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Challenges in life and love test the resilience of a mother-daughter relationship in the stage adaptation, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry and the 1983 film. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Though Emma is often exasperated by her highly-opinionated mother, Aurora, they talk every day about their problems, from Aurora finding unexpected love even as she becomes a reluctant grandmother, to Emma’s struggle in her troubled marriage. When they need one another most, will they be able to find courage in each other? This funny and touching story captures the delicate, sometimes fractured bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and lovers, both old and new.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Karen Rose directs this stage adaptation of the emotional movie, filled with tenderness and comedy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This show features the amazing acting works of Kerry Scanlon, Annette Fernandez, Craig Webb, Corey East, Lisa Rupple, and Austin Sasser.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Showtimes: 8PM Fridays and Saturdays and with a 2PM Matinee on Sunday August 26th.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tickets are $17.00 for Adults and $15.00 for Seniors and Students.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reserve tickets at <a href="http://westernreserveplayhouse.org">westernreserveplayhouse.org</a> or call 330-620-7314. </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

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