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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Contact Tim Tavcar – at </span></b><a href="mailto:artsbear401@gmail.com"><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>artsbear401@gmail.com</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> or by phone at 216-857-0717<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>On Friday, October 29<sup>th</sup> at 7:30 p.m. - just in time for the Halloween season, WordStage Literary Concerts presents a double bill of mystery, romance and murder adapted from literary masterpieces written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The program will feature dramatic treatments of Hawthorne’s romantic and tragic short story, <b>“Rappaccini’s Daughter”</b> by Christopher P. Nolan and Jeffrey Hatcher’s masterful mélange of many excerpts from the Poe canon in his one act play, <b>“Murder by Poe”</b>, performed by ten of the talented WordStage Company Members.</span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>These chilling tales will be accompanied by poignant and malevolent music from the pens of Erik Satie, Camille Saint-Saens, and Edvard Grieg, played on the Wright Chapel’s Steinway grand Piano by Patrick Wickliffe.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>WordStage performances are in the Wright Chapel of the Lakewood Presbyterian Church – 14502 Detroit Ave. in Downtown Lakewood, OH. The Church and Chapel are fully accessible and ADA compliant. We request that all our audience members come with a masked unless medical reasons prevent them from doing so. We will have free masks available at our Box Office for anyone who needs them.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Tickets are $20.00 for adults/$10.00 for students and seniors, WordStage also maintains a policy of “pay what you can” so that our performances are accessible to all who wish to see them. Currently, our box office accepts cash or check only.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Reservations can be made by calling 440-857-0717 or purchased at the door the evening of the performance. You can also visit our website at </span><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.wordstageoh.com"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>www.wordstageoh.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'> and leave us a message on our “Contact Us” page.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>