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<p class="s12" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span class="s13"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center For The Arts Paints A Picture With
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<p class="s12" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span class="s13"><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Andy Warhol In Iran
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<p class="s12" style="margin:0in"><span class="s9"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lakewood, OH</span></b></span><span class="s10"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">–</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/"><span class="s11"><span style="color:blue">Beck
Center for the Arts</span></span></a><span class="s10"> is pleased to produce the timely theater piece<b>
<i><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/shows/andy-warhol-in-iran">Andy Warhol in Iran.</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Andy Warhol, having become a portrait painter of the rich and famous, travels to Tehran when commissioned to take polaroids of the Shah’s wife. Warhol meets a young revolutionary who throws his
plans into chaos and opens the pop icon’s eyes. This fictionalized portrait on this famous visit leaves the audience asking, “who was the artist and who was the revolutionary?”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Written by Brent Askari,
<b><i>Andy Warhol in Iran</i></b> is directed by local legend Sarah May. Running in the Studio Theater from October 3 through November 2, 2025, this play is presented in arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt">“<b><i>Andy Warhol in Iran</i></b> will resonate for anyone who cares about history. Or the present. Or the future.”
<i>The Chicago Sun-Times</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director Sarah May shared, "I am thrilled to bring this wonderful play to life at Beck Center! Persian American playwright Brent Askari has written a ‘feel good’ play for our troubled times.
It's a comedy and a thriller; it makes us think while we laugh and ultimately leaves us feeling hopeful. Audiences are in for a joyride when we journey back to exotic Tehran in 1976 with the
<i>Godfather of Pop Culture</i> Andy Warhol who has come to do portraits of the Shah and his wife. Caught in a country on the verge of revolution, our clueless artist has a frightening encounter with a young Iranian activist. Trapped in a hotel room, these
two men from different worlds talk of home and family, life and death, art and poetry, and ultimately form a surprising bond.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s16"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tickets start at $15 Smart Seats,
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">$43 (adults), $39 (for seniors 65 and older), $20 for students with valid ID, and $17 for children under 12 years of age, plus ticket fees. A $3 service fee per single ticket will be applied
at time of purchase at 216-521-2540, in person at Beck Center, and <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/shows/andy-warhol-in-iran">
Beckcenter.org.</a> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt">For Group Sales discounts please contact Kristina Edleman at
<a href="tel:+12165212540"><span style="color:black">(216) </span></a>424-7600 or
<a href="mailto:KEdleman@beckcenter.org">KEdleman@beckcenter.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s16"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays.
</span></span><span class="s17"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Preview performances are 7:30 p.m. the Thursday before opening night, with general admission seating for just $15. For more information on the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season
please visit </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater">beckcenter.org.</a><span class="s17"><span style="color:red">
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<p class="s15" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span class="s25"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All performances are at theaters inside </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/"><span class="s29"><span style="color:blue">Beck
Center for the Arts</span></span></a><span class="s16"> located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free on-site parking is available. For more information visit </span><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/"><span class="s29"><span style="color:blue">beckcenter.org</span></span></a><span class="s16">.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center for the Arts is proud to be a part of Northeast Ohio’s professional theater landscape, operating under a letter of agreement with Actors’ Equity Association. We are a Small Professional
Theater (SPT) based on the number of seats, number of our performances, and the maximum weekly hours of work we provide to actors. We produce every show on our stages, by choosing the play, casting and rehearsing it, building the sets, props, and costumes,
directing and performing the live music, and designing lights and sound. We proudly utilize regional resources and talent.
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Beck Center for the Arts also offers arts education for all ages, all skill levels, and all abilities with classes and lessons in music, dance, visual arts, and theater, as well
as creative arts therapies. Financial assistance is offered to qualified applicants so that these programs can be enjoyed by all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="s15" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span class="s10"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Programming at Beck Center for the Arts is made possible through the generous support of First Federal Lakewood, and the Ohio Arts Council. </span></span><span class="s26"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck
Center gratefully acknowledges the generous funding provided by the citizens of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="s15" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span class="s27"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions</span></i></span><span class="s21"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> on
two stages, </span></i></span><span class="s27"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for individuals with disabilities, free gallery exhibits
year-round, and outreach education programming.</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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