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Auditions-Theatre in the Circle
by Bill & Mark Corcoran via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Theatre in the Circle presents Tom Jones’ and Harvey Schmidt’s “I Do! I Do!” Directed by Bill Corcoran AUDITIONS SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2017 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Judson Manor Loegler Lounge MICHAEL (Age: 25-40; Range: G2-Eb4) AGNES (Age: 25-40; Range: G3-Eb5) Please send headshots and resumes to info(a)theatreinthecircle.com <mailto:info@theatreinthecircle.com>, or bring to audition. Be prepared to read from the script and sing in two contrasting styles. Bring sheet music in the appropriate key. An accompanist will be provided. Please provide list of potential conflicts. If you can’t make auditions or have additional questions call Bill Corcoran at (216) 282-9424. Equity Actors please call (216) 282-9424 for an appointment. Show dates: June 22, 23, 24 & 25, 2017. www.theatreinthecircle.com <http://www.theatreinthecircle.com/> THEATRE IN THE CIRCLE a bright light in University Circle 1890 E. 107th Street, Cleveland Ohio 44106 Judson Manor Theatre in the Circle 1890 East 107th Street Cleveland, OH www.theatreinthecircle.com 216.282.9424

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AUDITIONS: The Oberlin Summer Theater Festival
by Joe Natt via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

The Oberlin Summer Theater Festival will be holding auditions for its 2017 Season, Saturday and Sunday, March 4th & 5th, 1 – 4 pm; and Monday, March 6th, 7 – 9 pm. Auditions held at Oberlin College, Warner Center, Studio 2. Please email ostf(a)oberlin.edu to request an audition slot, include recent picture and resume. (Please, no actors under 21 at this time!) Limited number of AEA Guest Artist contracts. Non-equity actors are also paid. 2017 Season: “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson. Rehearsals begin 5/25, opens 6/16, runs in rep thru 7/30. 10 weeks. “Barefoot in the Park” by Neil Simon. Rehearsals begin 5/30, opens 6/30, runs in rep thru 7/29. 9 weeks. “The Winter’s Tale” by William Shakespeare. Rehearsals begin 6/13, opens 7/14, runs in rep thru 7/29. 7 weeks.

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Canal Fulton Players- Two into One by Ray Cooney opens March 3
by via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

The Canal Fulton Players proudly present Ray Cooney's raucous comedy Two into One MARCH 3-5, 10-11, 2016 SALT BOX MINISTRIES 408 WEST MARKET ST. CANAL FULTON, OHIO FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 7:30 PM SUNDAY AT 3:00 PM ADMISSION- $10.00 ADULTS $8.00 SENIORS DUE TO MATURE THEME, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN UNDER AGE OF 12 TICKETS AND INFORMATION- 330-854-4387; 330-494-1022

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ACT Spring Break Teen Workshop
by Aurora Community Theatre via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

AURORA COMMUNITY THEATRE *Spring Break 2017 Workshop for Teens * *MAR 25 – 27* featuring *Romeo **& **Juliet:* *Six Very Busy Days* by Robert Wing *Spring Break Performance Workshop* *Open to students in grades 6-12* At the audition, 20 to 30 participants will be selected for roles in the 40-minute adaptation of *Romeo **& **Juliet: **Six Very Busy Days* Those who accept roles will be charged a $130 registration fee which includes a full week of intensive rehearsals under *Artistic Director Debbie Cluts * two full performances with audience, cast party and script to keep *AUDITIONS* *Sunday Mar. 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. * Actors should come prepared to perform a one-minute funny monologue If possible, actors should bring a resume and current headshot. *REHEARSALS* *Mar. 25 — 31* *PERFORMANCES* *1 pm and 3 pm Saturday Apr. 1* *Auditions, Rehearsals and Performances take place at* *Aurora Community Theatre 115 E. Pioneer Trail * Everyone knows the story of Romeo and Juliet, but few realize that Romeo and Juliet fall in love, marry, and die all within six days of meeting each other! *Romeo **& **Juliet: **Six Very Busy Days* riotously re-imagines the tale of these iconic star-crossed lovers. This fast-paced and fun play is farcically irreverent yet surprisingly faithful to Shakespeare's language and storyline. For more information on *SPRING BREAK WORKSHOP *contact Michelle at 248-895-0515

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Hiring summer Art, Dance and Music Teachers- Beck Center Outreach
by Rachel Spence via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, Ohio is looking to hire art, dance and music teaching artists for summer dates. Hours are sporadic and minimal (less than part-time hours) and applicants must be available during the day weekdays only. Applicants would be teaching our summer Arts Sampler field trips . Each event is approximately two hours each and each teaching artist would only need two or three 30 minute lesson plans. Requirements: * 18 or older. * Reliable transportation and cellphone. * Education and experience of your art discipline. * Some teaching experience in your field. Duties: * Create and teach a quick, engaging age appropriate lesson plan for students ages 4 - 12. Most students are ages 7-10. * ART - must create one or two brief 30 minute make it and take it lesson plans. * DANCE - teach jazz, hip-hop, or musical theatre style. * MUSIC - general music, vocal music, must be able to play piano and/or play and own a guitar. Please send resume to Rachel Spence, Associate Director of Outreach Education, Beck Center for the Arts RSpence(a)beckcenter.org

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REVIEW: Sister Act at Players Guild Theatre
by Tom Wachunas via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

S I S T E R I C A LBy Tom Wachunas Oh my flabby abs! Be still, my Philly soul!If I have one complaint about the current Players Guild Theatre production of Sister Act, it’s that I split a gutlaughing so much, all the while stinging my hands from so many spontaneousoutbursts of applause. I hereby charge director Jonathan Tisevich,choreographer and co-director Michael Lawrence Akers, music director andconductor Steve Parsons and his orchestra, scenic designer Joshua Erichsen,lighting and sound designer Scott Sutton, costume designer Stephen Ostertag,the entire cast, and crew, with first-degree felonious exuberance. Yikes. Whodo they think they are, Broadway professionals? And well they should. This business of thePlayers Guild mounting sprawling stage musicals with crazygreat local talentcontinues to be a very good habit in these parts. Nun but the best, I alwayssay. Bless me Father, for I have punned. Based on the 1992 film comedy starringWhoopi Goldberg (and debuting on Broadway in 2011), the setting is 1977Philadelphia, and tells the story of a vivacious night club entertainer andrising disco diva named Deloris Van Cartier, “as in Cartier’s,” says the sassy singer with a snap of her fingers. Aftershe inadvertently witnesses bad-guy club owner, Curtis, commit a murder, sheneeds to enter protective custody and hide. “You mean I gotta go incognegro?”she wryly asks Eddie, the timid cop who harbors romantic feelings for her. He promptly whisksher away to the unlikeliest of places - Queen of Angels Church and convent.There, life will fast become raucously… unconventional for her and newfoundsisters, initially much to the dismay of the righteous Mother Superior. Mother, however, begrudgingly finds a wayfor Deloris, disguised as Sister Mary Clarence, to temporarily fit into thecommunity by letting her sing with thechoir. When the eager Deloris asks if the sisters sing well, the weary Motherreplies simply, “There are no words.” Indeed, when we first encounter thisapparently tone-deaf ensemble, we hear arguably the scariest aural cacophony toever grace a stage. Hey, it requires great skill to sound this horrific. But Deloris dutifully transforms the group into averitable choral phenomenon that can regale us with heavenly harmonies, as inthe song “Bless Our Show,” as well as execute electrifying disco dance gyrationsin the show-stopping “Raise Your Voice.” Speaking of a vocal phenomenon, watching JoyEllis in her role of Deloris is to be immersed in a marvelously radiantpresence. She is eminently gifted with a very refined technical prowess alongwith a finessed and invigorating emotive power. In her facile joining of thoseaspects, her fervor becomes infectious, generating all the dimensionality of,appropriately enough, a spiritual experience. Theshow is consistently enriched by many remarkable passages. Among them, MegHopp, as Mother Superior, is a genuinely gripping character throughout, and nomore so than when, with urgent warmth,she intones her frustrations in “I Haven’t Got A Prayer.” Likewise, playing the sweetly nervouspostulant Sister Mary Robert, Sarah Marie Young is riveting and robust when shequestions her decision to be a nun in “The Life I Never Led.” Julie Connair, as Sister Mary Patrick, leadsher giddy cohorts in the hilariously biting “It’s Good To Be A Nun,” and isotherwise all bubbly mirth when she’s on stage. Both Demetrius Rodriguez as Eddie, andWillis Gordon as Curtis, smoothly render sinewy shades of classic Soul and R&Bmusic. Rodriguez’s ballad, “I Could Be That Guy,” is utterly heartrending.Curtis’s “When I Find My Baby” is a chilling study in malicious intent.Meanwhile, Curtis sends his trio of inept thugs - played to the hilt by MicahHarvey as Joey, Brandon Talbert as TJ, and Russell Jones as Pablo - to find andeliminate Deloris. Their schmaltzy, fumbling postures as would-be seducers in“Lady In The Long Black Dress” is itself a piece of comedic genius. If ever there was a benevolent Players Guildconspiracy to rattle our funny bones, warm our hearts with unfettered glee, andbrightly illuminate the astonishing abundance of serious theatrical and musicaltalent in our own back yard, this is it. Here’s to wondrously raised voices andspreading the love around. I rest my case. SISTERACT, at Players Guild Theatre, 1001 Market Avenue N., Canton, Ohio /THROUGH MARCH 12 / Shows at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday / Tickets$27 adult, $24 seniors 55 and older, $19 ages 17 and younger / Availableat www.playersguildtheatre.com orcall box office at 330- 454- 8172 For other commentaries by Tom Wachunas onthe performing and visual arts in the greater Canton area, please visit ARTWACHat www.artwach.blogspot.com

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FINAL WEEKEND: Fierce & funny new play puts audiences inside the Arab immigrant experience in America
by Caitlin Lewins via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Cleveland Public Theatre presents I CALL MY BROTHERS<http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2016-2017/i-call-my-brothers/> By Jonas Hassen Khemiri Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 4 Something has happened. A car. An explosion. And a city is paralyzed with fear. But Amor has an important errand to run. He walks the streets with his backpack and his cell phone, doing his best to blend in. But what looks normal? In this funny and fierce showdown with paranoia, I Call My Brothers offers an intense 24-hour journey inside the head of a young Arab-American man, suddenly a stranger in his own city. What happens when the lines between reality and fantasy, love and fear, criminal and victim, become increasingly blurred? **Please be advised, show contains profanity and reference to adult topics.** CAST Salar Ardebili, Andrea Belser, Rocky Encalada and Abdelghani Kitab. CREATIVE PRODUCTION TEAM Raymond Bobgan (Producer); Evren Odcikin (Director, 2015 National Directors Fellow), Wes Calkin (Lighting Designer); Douglas Puskas (Scenic Designer); Alison Garrigan (Costume Designer); James Gillen Kosmatka (Sound Designer) and Jesse Reagan Hernon (Stage Manager). Tickets are $12 - $30. Students/Seniors receive $3 off on Friday and Saturday nights. All Thursdays and Mondays are $12. Friday/Saturday previews are $20. 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland OH 44102 CPT is located in the heart of the Gordon Square Arts District. Tickets available at www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org> or CPT Box Office (216) 631-2727 ext. 501. (Order early at CPT - no sneaky ticket fees, ever.) Caitlin Lewins Interim Director of Audience Engagment & Media Relations Cleveland Public Theatre 6415 Detroit Ave Cleveland OH, 44102 (216) 631-2727 x211

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THIS WEEKEND: “Fearless” dark comedy by acclaimed playwright Robert O’Hara
by Caitlin Lewins via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Cleveland Public Theatre presents BARBECUE<http://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2016-2017/barbecue/> by Robert O’Hara FEBRUARY 16 – MARCH 11 In this hilarious and devastating comedy by Robert O’Hara (Bootycandy, Antebellum), the pill-popping, chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling and foul-mouthed O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their trainwreck of a sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness has forced her siblings to stage an open-air intervention. When the story twists to reveal two parallel families – one white, one black – the event becomes raucous and unpredictable. Racial politics collide with family stereotypes, survival, and America’s fascination with self-destruction as entertainment. Regional Premiere. CAST Ashley Aquilla, Tonya Broach, Scott A. Campbell, Teresa DeBerry, Maryann Elder, Sally Groth*, Katrice Monee Headd, Jill Levin, Ray McNiece & Pamela Morton *Actor appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. CREATIVE PRODUCTION TEAM Raymond Bobgan (Producer); Beth Wood (Director), Benjamin Gantose (Lighting Designer); Ryan T. Patterson (Scenic Designer); Inda Blatch-Geib (Costume Designer); Kerry McCarthy (Sound Designer), India Nicole Burton (Assistant Director); TiaMarshae E. Sanford (Stage Manager). Tickets are $12 – $30. Students/Seniors receive $3 off on Friday and Saturday nights. All Thursdays and Mondays are $12. Friday/Saturday previews are $20. 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland OH 44102 CPT is located in the heart of the Gordon Square Arts District. Tickets available at www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org> or CPT Box Office (216) 631-2727 ext. 501. (Order early at CPT – no sneaky ticket fees, ever.) Caitlin Lewins New Play Associate Cleveland Public Theatre 6415 Detroit Ave Cleveland OH, 44102 (216) 631-2727 x211

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Daren Stahl Head Shots
by via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

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Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival March 23 - 25!
by Playwrights Local via NEohioPAL 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

PLAYWRIGHTS LOCAL PRESENTS THE MAC WELLMAN HOMECOMING FESTIVAL A three-day celebration of a groundbreaking playwright hailing from Cleveland, Ohio. Recognized among the most influential figures of the Off-Off-Broadway era, Mac Wellman has been described as an “avatar of alternatives” (American Theatre) and “James Joyce reborn as a rap artist” (The New York Times). Mac Wellman is an essential presence in the lineage of dramatists from the Cleveland area -- join us in giving him this long-overdue recognition! March 23 - 25, 2017 Cleveland State University & Additional Locations All events are open to the public, and most events are free. (Reservations and/or tickets for all events at Cleveland State University are not required.) Recommended for adults and teens. For more info, visit http://playwrightslocal.org/. ------------------------------ Presented by Playwrights Local In partnership with Cleveland State University Department of English, the NEOMFA Creative Writing Program, and the Michael Schwartz Library. With performances by Playwrights Local, Theater Ninjas, convergence-continuum, CSU Department of Theatre & Dance, Baldwin Wallace University Department of Theatre and Dance, and The Manhattan Project – Cleveland Lab, and contributions by many others. Curated by David Todd ------------------------------ Featuring: - Performances of Cleveland, Bitter Bierce, and other classic pieces - An exhibit of set models, props, and other memorabilia - Panel discussions and talkbacks - New short plays by local writers - A special Q&A with Mac Wellman himself! ------------------------------ For more information, see: Event homepage: http://playwrightslocal.org/mac-wellman-homecoming-festival/ Schedule: http://playwrightslocal.org/festival-program-information/ Mac Wellman Press Pack: http://playwrightslocal.org/mac-wellman-press-pack/ ------------------------------ Support for this festival is provided in the form of a Project Support II grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Support for Playwrights Local is provided by The AHS Foundation, The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, The Cyrus Eaton Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, and The Ohio Arts Council.

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