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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">cleveland PUBLIC theatre</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">presents two fan favorites this spring!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/the-body-play/"><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#467886">The Body Play
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">By Madison Wetzell</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Directed by Paige Conway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Through April 13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> “…a creative, devastatingly accurate show depicting what it’s like to live with chronic illness.”
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">“[The Body Play] accurately portrays the exhaustion, frustration, angst, guilt and moments of hope that those of us with chronic, invisible illnesses
experience on a daily basis. Cleveland Public Theatre’s world premiere production is a fine example of how theater can act as an emotional and
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">intimate vehicle in which we can explore unique versions of the human experience.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">—Gwendolyn Kochur,
<b><i>Cleveland Scene</i><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">About the Play<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Amy, and Amy's body, take us through a physically comedic journey through chronic illness, unresponsive
medical personnel, and an unstable healthcare system while questioning the absurdity of being embodied and what it might mean to be a body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Featuring:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Day Ash, Andrea de la Fuente, Kelly Dunn, Rachel Gold, Erin K. Moran</span><b><span style="color:#222222;text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">(New) Post-show Talkbacks —</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Join
us on this <b>Sun., April 6</b> (face masks required) <b>as we discuss <i>The Doctor-Patient Connection</i></b> with Dr. Anne Wise</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">, Neighborhood Family Practice,
who will be joined by Cleveland Pandemic Response Co-Organizer Angela Manella to discuss how patients and doctors can work together towards diagnosis with special emphasis on chronic illness. Join us
<b>Mon., April 7 for a discussion on Arts & Health</b> with panelists including Linda Jackson, Director, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.metrohealth.org/patients-and-visitors/office-of-patient-experience/center-for-arts-in-health"><span style="color:#777777;background:white">Center
for Arts in Health at MetroHealth</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">; Dr. Nora Singer, Division Director of Rheumatology, MetroHealth; and Paige Conway, CPT Associate Producer &
director of <i>The Body Play</i>. <u>Ticket purchases to these performances are required.</u>
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Covid-Conscious Performances</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">—Masks
are required for all Sunday performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Audiences are Loving
<i>The Body Play</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">IG:
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH_bswkIRpf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">
Testimonials</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C7ZMEFKSz/">Testimonials</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/el-coqui-espectacular-and-the-bottle-of-doom/"><span style="color:#467886">El Coquí Espectacular
and the Bottle of Doom</span></a></span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">by Matt Barbot
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Directed by Fabio Polanco</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Through April 5, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Closes this Saturday!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">"</span></b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">El
Coquí Espectacular</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> is a wildly informative, yet still enjoyable piece about cultural pride. No matter what umbrella you fall under,
this is one play that everyone can identify with."</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">
<span style="background:white">–</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://stagebuddy.com/theater/theater-review/review-el-coqui-espectacular-bottle-doom"><i><span style="color:#777777;background:white;text-decoration:none">Stage
Buddy</span></i></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">By day, Alex is a struggling comic book artist tempted by the allure of a steady job, but by night he is "El Coquí
Espectacular," a superhero on a mission to save his fellow Puerto Ricans; while his advertising exec brother, Joe, reluctantly becomes the "voice" of Spanish-speaking people everywhere, and he doesn’t even speak Spanish. See how the brothers discover their
true identities in this comic book come to life. Co-produced with <b><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/education/teatro-publico-de-cleveland/"><span style="color:#467886">Teatro Público de Cleveland</span></a></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom<br>
</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">was originally produced by Two River Theater<br>
John Dias, Artistic Director / Michael Hurst, Managing Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Featuring:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Roxana
Bell, Nathalie Bermudez, Alisha Caraballo, Angelluis Centeno, Alejandro Martinez Jr., Elena Grace Thomson (Understudy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Audiences are loving “<i>El
</i></span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Coquí”:
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</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHt5B8qpOq2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">Testimonials</a></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18s3FEvFfe/">Testimonials</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Ticket Information and specials for both productions!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-other"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Cleveland Public Theatre utilizes a
<a href="https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatre-announces-expanded-choose-what-you-pay-ticketing-practice/">
<span style="color:blue">Choose What You Pay</span></a> policy with tickets starting at $1 with no handling fees, allowing patrons the option to select their own rate. Tickets may be purchased online, over the phone, and at the Box Office at 216.631.2727 ext.
501. For more information on both productions and to get tickets go to <a href="http://www.cptonline.org/">
<span style="color:#467886">www.cptonline.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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includes FREE post-show beverages following every Friday night performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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