May 2016 - NEohioPAL - lists.neohiopal.org

Final shows for Coach House Theatre's "Lend Me a Tenor"
by Nancy Cates via NEohioPAL 30 May '16

30 May '16

'It doesn't get any better than LEND ME A TENOR' The hysterical comedy by farce-master Ken Ludwig Continuing at Coach House Theatre in Akron through Sunday, June 5 Directed by Nancy Cates Starring Adrienne Jones, Scott Shriner, Tom Stephan, Dede Klein, Timothy Champion, Benjamin Fortin, Kelsey Tomlinson, Victoria Benyo and Karen Wood "It doesn't get any better than 'Lend Me a Tenor,' which has taken Coach House by storm. This is what a good evening in the theater should be. First, Ken Ludwig wrote a spectacular script that combines wit and physical humor. Second, a talented director, Nancy Cates, keeps the action at a breakneck pace . Third, the cast includes some of the best performers in Akron. . This is one of those rare times in the theater where everything falls in place." -- West Side Leader "Top notch. . [Nancy Cates] has thoroughly earned her reputation as a Ludwig specialist. . [Ludwig's] comedic gems have been longtime favorites in the Akron theater scene, and Coach House's fast-paced, delightfully over-the-top rendition of 'Lend Me a Tenor' is no exception." -- Akron Beacon Journal "Director Nancy Cates has done remarkable work, never missing the opportunity for every gag, every joke and every chance she can get to keep her audience in stitches. She has assembled the perfect cast. 'Lend Me a Tenor' offers barrels of laughs. . laugh out loud comedy." -- Chagrin Valley Times "'Lend Me a Tenor' wraps up Coach House's 2015-16 season on a hilarious high note. . top notch cast." -- Stow Sentry Continuing now through Sunday, June 5! Performances on Thursday-Friday-Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. www.coachhousetheatre.com <http://www.coachhousetheatre.com/> COACH HOUSE THEATRE Box Office: 330-434-7741 732 W. Exchange Street Akron, OH 44302

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Looking For TEEN Cameraman to work with teen directors
by Carson Coombs via NEohioPAL 29 May '16

29 May '16

HI THERE! I’M WORKING ON A YOUTUBE PRODUCTIONS CHANNEL AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR A PERMANENT CAMERA OPERATOR. WE WILL BE ACCEPTING TEENAGERS AS WE ARE TEENAGERS AND IT WOULD CREATE A BETTER WORK ATMOSPHERE WITH US ALL BEING AROUND THE SAME AGE. So, are you in your schools tech club? Do you like to take pictures? If you answered yes, please email Carson at carson_coombs(a)yahoo.com <mailto:carson_coombs@yahoo.com> Have a great night and I hope to here from you! Carson

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Classified Ad To Member List
by Peacock via NEohioPAL 29 May '16

29 May '16

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Mamai Theatre Company opens its 2016 Season with Caryl Churchill's TOP GIRLS This Weekend!
by Christine via NEohioPAL 29 May '16

29 May '16

*TOP GIRLS* *By Caryl Churchill Directed by Jaime Bouvier Scenic Design by Don McBride Costume Design by Suzy Q. Campbell Lighting Design by Robert Peck Sound Design by Carlton Guc Properties Design by Monica Plunkett* *June 2 - 19 *Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center <http://www.clevelandmasonicauditorium.com/> DeMolay Room, 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland *Top Girls transgresses ancient to modern femininity in two distinct acts. Act One features an imagined restaurant table full of ladies who lunch... in a time-traveling dialogue from various centuries and cultures in womankind's history! Act Two is a springboard departure into family drama-- a personal examination of relationships between mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend.* *With...* * Courtney Brown, Rocky Encalada**+** Lisa Langford* Anne McEvoy, Cassandra Miller, Amy Schwabauer, Isabel Wang* ** Member, Actors Equity Association * + *Equity Membership Candidate **Tickets at www.mamaitheatreco.org <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> or 440.394.8353 <440.394.8353>* *Subscribe or Become a Sponsor <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!tickets-2016/c13ai> and see all 3 Summer Productions!* *LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN* *By Oscar Wilde Directed by Bernadette Clemens **Scenic Design by Don McBride Costume Design by Suzy Q. Campbell Lighting Design by Robert Peck Sound Design by Carlton Guc Properties Design by Monica Plunkett* *JULY 14 - 31 * Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center <http://www.clevelandmasonicauditorium.com/> DeMolay Room, 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland *Oscar Wilde fans the flames of Edwardian social change with his typical adroitness. Comedy and manners offer a tongue-lashing, suspenseful assault on Victorian values. An attractive stranger invades the domestic bliss of Lady & Lord Windermere, and her past has the potential to drastically alter their future. Lord Darlington plays a hand. All bets hinge on chance, fate, accident... and a fan.* *With...**Mary Alice Beck, Tari Lyn Bergoine, Heather Anderson Boll*, Hannah Cohen Robert Hawkes, Stuart Hoffman, Rachel Lee Kolis+, Doug Kusak Jill Levin, Lynna Metrisin, Nate Miller, Patrick Mooney Chris Ross, Laura Starnik+, Carrie Williams, Tony Zanoni+* ** Member, Actors Equity Association *+ *Equity Membership Candidate * *THE WOMAN HATER - **U.S. Premiere!* *By Fanny Burney Directed by Christine McBurney **Scenic Design by Don McBride Costume Design by Angelina Herin Lighting Design by Robert Peck Sound Design by Richard Ingraham Properties Design by Monica Plunkett AUGUST 18-SEPTEMBER 4 * Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center <http://www.clevelandmasonicauditorium.com/> DeMolay Room, 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland *An absurdly satirical indictment of the excesses of both men and women, this 1802 comedy remained unproduced until 2003. When Sir Roderick is jilted by Lady Smatter, he proclaims himself a woman-hater and is determined to keep his young heir away from the opposite sex. Identities are mistaken, social pretensions are deliciously exposed, and the gender constructs of wifely and daughterly duties are boldly upended — bringing forth a new kind of heroine.* *With...* *Rocky Encalada+, Dylan Freeman, TJ Gainley*, **Khaki Hermann Rachel Lee Kolis+, Doug Kusak, Gus Mahoney, **Marcia Mandell Meg Martinez+, Nate Miller, John Polk, Michael Regnier **Shannon Sharkey, Evan Thompson, Natalie Welch, Carrie Williams *** Member, Actors Equity Association * + *Equity Membership Candidate* *A RETURN TO THE CLEVELAND MASONIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER <http://www.clevelandmasonicauditorium.com/> at 3615 Euclid Ave., in Cleveland, *which features ample free parking, air conditioning. Check out our new restaurant picks *here <http://media.wix.com/ugd/c0e070_6a4d8fe37f2f4fc7af654001e7d3c79c.pdf>*! *Tickets at www.mamaitheatreco.org <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org> or 440.394.8353 <440.394.8353> Dates & Times: **Thursdays-Saturdays @7:30pm, Sundays @2:30pm * *New Youth Education Outreach Program: Mamai Matinees!* Co-Founder Wendy Kriss returns to staff as Mamai's first Education Associate. She will steer the new Mamai Matinee program conceived by Co-Founder Derdriu Ring, which invites children ages 5-7 to an interactive workshop full of storytelling, movement, music and visual artwork with new friends. Children will experience a collage of art activities designed to promote self-expression, comfort and confidence in the creative process, and the development of collaboration skills. Register your child ages 5-7 for a drama workshop in our building while you enjoy Mamai’s Sunday 2:30pm matinee performance! (1) adult admission included with each child registration fee. Co-Founder and Education Associate Wendy Kriss & guest teaching artists Khaki Hermann, Tim Keo or Katelyn Cornelius will entertain, enrich, and enliven your child, and send them home with an arts experience & gained skills. This project is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. *Top Girls - June 12th* *Lady Windermere’s Fan - July 24th* *The Woman Hater - August 28th* Register* here <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!youth-outreach/cqdu>!* *Mamai Adult Outreach Events~Play Readings* Join Mamai Theatre Company's General Manager Michael Parker, PhD, and guests,to discuss Mamaí’s 2016 season plays. *July 6 Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde* *August 3 The Woman Hater by Fanny Burney* The Cuyahoga County Public Library, Beachwood Branch <http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Events/Event-Results/Event-Detail.aspx?id=87…> 25501 Shaker Blvd. Beachwood, OH Register here <http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Branches/Beachwood.aspx> or call 216-831-6868. This event is free and open to the public. *~Talk Backs* June 5: Join special guests Chris Cotton and Chuck Kelly, Shaker Heights High School <http://www.shaker.org/highschool_home.aspx> International Baccalaureate English Faculty, and the company of *Top Girls*. July 17: Join the company of *Lady Windermere’s Fan*. August 21: Join the company of T*he Woman Hater*. *Mamai Theatre Company's mission is to create intelligent, relevant classical theatre that offers an artistic home for Cleveland's theatre artists, and equal opportunity for women in the professional theatre community. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.*

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AUDITIONS FOR AUDIENCE-INTERACTIVE ORIGINAL DRAMA.
by Mark Little via NEohioPAL 29 May '16

29 May '16

AUDITIONS FOR AUDIENCE-INTERACTIVE ORIGINAL DRAMA. NEEDED: MALES AND FEMALES AGED 16 T0 100 JUNE 8TH 6:00 P.M. TO 8:00 P.M JUNE 9TH 6:00 P.M. TO 8:00 P.M OLD TOWN HALL IN NORTH OLMSTED JUST SOUTH OF LORAIN ON DOVER CENTER ROAD IN NORTH OLMSTED CAST AND CREW MEMBERS WILL RECEIVE BETWEEN $ 250 AND $ 1,000 IN FREEE LEGAL SERVICES (NO BANKRUPTICIES, PATENTS OR WORKERS COMP) CALL GREGORY J. LAVELLE AT (440) 724-4538 OR EMAIL AT lavellearb(a)aim.com FOR SIDES, MORE INFO OR TO SCHEDULE A PRE-AUDITION. PERFORMANCE DATES, AUGUST 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28

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Watch a real local indie movie on Amazon
by alexpmichaels＠prelude2cinema.com via NEohioPAL 29 May '16

29 May '16

This is what a real indie movie looks like. Now on Amazon for rent $1.99 or buy $12.99 https://bloodkisssoul.wordpress.com

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Review of "Steel Magnolias" at Playhouse Square/Cleveland Play House
by Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL 29 May '16

29 May '16

Southern comfort comedy ‘Steel Magnolias’ both hilarious and historic Bob Abelman Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal Member, International Association of Theatre Critics Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias,” currently on stage at the Allen Theatre, is a mani-pedi of a play – an estrogen-driven, southern comfort comedy set exclusively in Truvy’s Beauty Shop in Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana. The drawling dialogue revolves around local gossip, recipe exchanges, and Shelby. Shelby (Allison Layman) is an endearing, head-strong young women whose diabetes and disappointing marriage lead to personal setbacks, medical complications, and tough-love doled out by her ever-vigil but adoring mother, M’Lynn (Erika Rolfsrud). The play also features the salon owner Truvy Jones (Elizabeth Meadows Rouse), her born-again assistant Annelle (Devon Caraway), and a duo of lovable and devoted locals – Clairee (Charlotte Booker) and Ouiser (Mary Stout) – who come in for a wash and a rinse, but stay to dish and offer astute observations about life and love. Throughout the play, these women share in Shelby’s pain and pleasure and, by doing so, invite us to do the same. For more of this review, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/.

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Berko review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS
by Roy Berko via NEohioPAL 28 May '16

28 May '16

To read Roy Berko's review of STEEL MAGNOLIAS @ Cleveland Play House/PlayhouseSquare go to www.royberko.info

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UNIQUE SUMMER THEATER CAMP WITH CIRQUE DU SOLEIL ARTIST!
by Natalie Jennings via NEohioPAL 28 May '16

28 May '16

MOON FARM ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS: SUMMER THEATRE CAMP - WORKSHOP by It's here everyone! Camp We Create. Work with award winning artist, actor and musician Craig Jennings. Craig has been traveling the world creating, coaching and performing characters who sing with Cirque du Soleil for the past seventeen years. As co-founder of Camp- We-Create, Craig would like to invite a small group of talented young actors on a theatrical journey. This summer we will use the same acting techniques used by Craig while working on such stages as the Royal Albert Hall in London to the Tokyo dome in Japan. First and foremost, we want our camp to be fun. Our aim is to provide a summer program which comes from a place of play and self discovery. Confidence, creativity, focus, teamwork and problem solving are all benefits of the theatre. Acting classes can help teach life skills to children who explore the stage. It's our greatest delight to share these techniques as we're looking forward to a fun, theatrical summer with an enthusiastic group of talented young artists. *Camp begins June 13th Monday-Friday 9am-4pm (11 weeks) *$225 a week *We are excited offer a 10% discount to campers who book 3 or more weeks. *20% discount for campers booking the entire 11 week workshop. *$25 discount a week for additional family members. CONTACT: campwecreate(a)gmail.com

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CALL FOR ARTISTS
by Shaker Arts Council via NEohioPAL 28 May '16

28 May '16

The Shaker Arts Council is seeking artists of all disciplines for its 2016-2017 AHa! (At Home with the Arts) series. This series of paying engagements features local professional talent in intimate performance settings aimed at providing a comfortable milieu in which Shaker Heights and Cleveland area audiences can experience diverse art forms and engage with artists. Past series performances have included classical music, popular music, dance, poetry and improv comedy. AHa! events take place in Shaker Heights venues on Friday evenings, beginning with a reception at 7 p.m., followed by a performance of 1-1 ½ hours. Dates for the 2016-17 season are: * October 7, 2016 * February 4, 2017 * May 5, 2017 * August 20, 2017 Please send an e-mail with the following materials to: jimsimler(a)hotmail.com . * Resume including your full contact information and performance/exhibition/presentation history * One-paragraph description of the performance/content you would offer * Work samples (links to websites or online video/audio clips preferred; attached Word, jpeg or PDF files acceptable) * Two references, including phone numbers * Date availability (see dates above) Application due date: June 15, 2016. For further information, call 216-916-9360 and ask for AHA! Someone will respond quickly. *---* *Amara Romano* *Administrative Assistant ** Shaker Arts Council** shakerartscouncil.org <http://shakerartscouncil.org>*

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