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<br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:7.5pt 15pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.radioonthlakthatr.org" target="_blank"><b>Radio on the Lake Theatre</b></a>, Northeast Ohio's only professional theater company
exclusively dedicated to the audio arts, is thrilled to announce the start of
its new live radio play series. The Audio Gallery Series at Negative Space
will spotlight classic and contemporary audio drama with actors and sound
effects artists bringing great stories to life, thanks to generous grants
from the Ohio Arts Council and the Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation.
This fall, three plays will be performed at the Negative Space Art Gallery,
located at 3820 Superior Avenue, 2nd Floor, in Cleveland's Asia Town
district.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The first play in the
new series is<b><i> <a href="https://www.wwfm.org/show/a-tempo-with-rachel-katz/2025-08-18/radio-theatre-includes-1940s-dramas-highlighting-african-americans-in-upcoming-season">Destination Freedom: An Evening of African American Radio Plays</a></i></b> on September 11 at 7:30 pm. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,55,55)">Between 1948 and 1950, a radio
series called <i>Destination Freedom</i> aired on WMAQ, a local
Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham created <i>Destination
Freedom</i> in an attempt to profile significant African American
historical figures and their contributions to American democracy and freedom.
Durham was an African American journalist, poet, dramatist, labor organizer,
and one-time Communist Party member, who began his career as part
of the Writer’s Project of the WPA and later worked as a writer
for <i>The Chicago Defender.</i> In an era when African Americans
were increasingly visible in the arts, though not always in positive roles,
Durham’s scripts attempted to reclaim a triumphant narrative of African
American history. Two of Durham’s scripts – <i>Railway to Freedom</i> and <i>The
Death of Aesop</i> – will be performed on September 11. The plays will be
followed by a discussion of the life and work of Richard Durham and the
legacy of African American radio plays in this country. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(55,55,55)">“</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">It is
an honor to team with Radio on the Lake to bring Richard Durham’s Destination
Freedom plays back to life as live radio theatre”, said the play’s director
Darelle Hill. “Both Railway to Freedom and The Death of Aesop celebrate
voices that refused to be silenced; Harriet Tubman, whose courage reshaped
history, and Aesop, whose perceptive yet humorous wit challenged power. My
hope is that people leave inspired, entertained, and reminded of the courage
it takes to speak up”.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></i></b></p>
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Gallery Series at Negative Space are $15, and are on sale now on </span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,1)"><a href="https://sjuvgy5ab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Vh8ktXpY5da9-smPVzzjEJommbe6FXVVINzgxo-M8aJx6IX_Hcb6J_yg431Ds6HgL89NV8B1Xvea1sH2uTAXYTzRRAXwUnA0ntXD8FP-gVR35U1Dqe95sV92G-PGzm2r3pHDYxRVMdjt1o-8dQm8jBwgMF0cPDXXcm8s8ZWzswFIZoc7eVzLIE75HolNJrx_HY8EYYl_Q87e5tkucrdalckTyDPxuTSSlNvPk_slQqo=&c=mGUXb1jef8OSCD8P9GHV_Y228ZaT-wrsUuCuv9pn0fZxaG5REgB9DA==&ch=cnXa8Ju0WPvShR3K150zEHTN36tgftMjpS4tPxzP3kGLnlolhzQ5og==" target="_blank">Eventbrite</a>.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">For more information
about the series and Radio on the Lake Theatre, please send an email to </span><a href="mailto:info@radioonthelaketheatre.org" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">info@radioonthelaketheatre.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p>
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