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Second weekend of performances of ORPHANS at Twin Masks Performing Arts Center
by Claudia Lillibridge 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Twin Masks Performing Arts Center (TMPAC) continues its run of ORPHANS this weekend!! Orphans is directed by Kate Tonti and cast includes Greg Hinkle, Vincent Sarowatz and Derek Amato. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm; August 10, 11, 17 and 18. TMPAC is located at 9076 Church Street, Ste 2 and 3, in Twinsburg. Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for seniors and students. Tickets available online at www.twinmasks.org or at the door. Doors open at 7:30pm. PLEASE NOTE THE PRODUCTION CONTAINS STRONG ADULT LANGUAGE AND SITUATIONS AND IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 WITOUT PARENTAL CONSENT/ ACCOMPANIMENT. THE STORY: Two grown orphan brothers live in an old dilapidated row house in North Philadelphia—deserted in childhood by an unfaithful father and by the death of their mother. Older brother Treat, brutal and violent, provides for his younger brother Phillip by being a petty thief—interpreting the role of father. With the love and protectiveness of an older brother and an orphan's fear of abandonment, Treat takes away Phillip's chances to grow up, depriving him of knowledge and forcing him to live in a world of illiteracy and innocence: relegating him to their lost childhood. As Treat is out stealing to put food on the table, Phillip never leaves the house, thinking he will die from something outside because of a near deadly allergic reaction he had as a child. Haunted by the death of their mother, he spends his time lying in her closet filled with unworn clothes. Curious about the world, he secretly attempts to understand things by watching reruns of The Price Is Right and underlining words in newspapers and old books he finds lying around. Treat kidnaps and ties up a Chicago gangster named Harold. Harold, an orphan himself, with the prowess of an escape artist, loosens the ties that bind him, turns the tables around, and with gun in hand, puts himself into the role of teacher, healer and surrogate parent. Orphans is directed by Kate Tonti and cast includes Greg Hinkle, Vincent Sarowatz and Derek Amato. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm; August 10, 11, 17 and 18. Twin Masks Performing Arts Center is a registered 501c3 non-profit entity and proud member of the Twinsburg Chamber of Commerce, Twinsburg Historical Society and OCTA. For any further questions, please contact us at 330-888-3211 or via email at claudia(a)twinmasks.org. We look forward to seeing you!!

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Dark Room at CPT August 14th - Open Mic and Free Beer!
by Mindy Herman 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

*The Dark Room at CPT * *Tuesday, August 14th* *This Month: Open Mic! *The Dark Room is a place where writers take center stage and their work has a chance to grow. The Dark Room is an ongoing event held on the second Tuesday of each month. The Dark Room affords emerging and veteran playwrights the space and resources to develop new works. It offers a venue to workshop plays, novels, poems, or any other written work in a supportive, yet critical environment. *Tuesday, August 14th* *The Church at CPT* (Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office) Cleveland Public Theatre 6415 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 *FREE Great Lakes Beer!* *7:00pm: *Sign-up begins for writers and actors (space is limited). Writers can bring up to 10 pages of work to be read; actors will be cast on the spot! *Actors* *must arrive by 7:15pm* to be considered. *7:30pm: *Open Mic Session readings begin Suggested donation of $5 is welcomed at the door, but not required. Open session readings are first come, first serve until all slots have been allotted. All submissions should be made to Mindy Herman at herman.mindy(a)gmail.com <https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd9…> or to John Busser at jpbusser(a)gmail.com <https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd9…> See you in the Dark Room! -- Mindy Childress Herman www.mindychildress.com herman.mindy(a)gmail.com

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Auditions - BLOODY, LITTLE PIECES - Blank Canvas Theatre
by info＠blankcanvastheatre.com 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

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Workshop Players Auditions: Night Watch, by Louise Fletcher
by Workshop Players 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Auditions for Night Watch by Lucille Fletcher, directed by Pat Price Sunday, August 19 and Monday, August 20 at 7:00 at Workshop Players Theater Synopsis: Unable to sleep, Elaine Wheeler paces the living room of her Manhattan townhouse, troubled by unsettling memories and vague fears. Her husband tries to comfort her, but when he steps away for a moment Elaine screams as she sees the body of a dead man in the window across the way. The police are called, but find nothing except an empty chair. Elaine's terror grows as shortly thereafter she sees still another body—this time a woman's—but by now the police are skeptical and pay no heed to her frantic pleas. Her husband, claiming that Elaine may be on the verge of a breakdown, calls in a lady psychiatrist, who agrees with his suggestion that Elaine should commit herself to a sanitarium for treatment. From this point on, the plot moves quickly and grippingly as those involved—Elaine's old friend and house guest Blanche; the inquisitive and rather sinister man who lives next door; and the nosy German maid Helga—all contribute to the deepening suspense. Elaine Wheeler - Leading Role (30s-50s) A beautiful, married heiress with a troubled past. Elaine is strong-willed yet given recent events, on the edge of sanity with what she sees and struggles with whom she can trust. Often times frantic and full of fear, this actress must be able to drive the true suspense and mystery of this story. (3 rehearsal units) John Wheeler - Leading Role - Elaine's second husband. Very dominating and in control. He is concerned, yet exasperated by Elaine’s visions. The audience will come to have mixed feelings about his responses to her plight. (3 rehearsal units) Helga - Nosy and bold. Works as a maid for the Wheeler family. Must have a German accent. (3 rehearsal units) Blanche Cook - Beautiful young nurse. Elaine’s best friend. Sympathetic and seemingly truly concerned, Blanche must gain the audience’s trust if not Elaine’s! (3 rehearsal units) Vanelli - A handsome, young Italian cop with an interest in art. (1 rehearsal unit) Lieutenant Walker - Assigned to investigate Elaine's claims. Grows increasingly frustrated and believes Elaine has no evidence to warrant what she has seen. (1 rehearsal unit) Curtis Appleby - Nosy neighbor that lives in the apartment across the way. Elaine is suspicious of his activity. Somewhat creepy. (2 rehearsal units) Dr. Tracey Lake - Dr. Tracey come to evaluate Elaine. Oddly calls Elaine who is 10 years her senior “child". She is calm, professional and somewhat cool. (1 rehearsal unit) Sam Hoke - Local business owner, famous for his potato salad. Sam is very infuriated by Elaine's claims as it is severely affecting his business. This character must make a splash! (1 rehearsal unit) Performance dates: November 8, 9, 10, 11 and 16, 17, 18 For more information, contact the director at joeandpatprice(a)centurytel.net -- Workshop Players 44820 Middle Ridge Road, Amherst, OH 44001 Box Office: 440-988-5613 (Box Office hours: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.) contact(a)workshopplayers.com www.workshopplayers.com "If all the world's a stage, I want better lighting!"

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Rhythm Nation Master's Session in Improvisation
by Andrea Belser 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

The Rhythm Nation Master's Sessions have so far explored various dance with Teaching Artists Jezebel Shuvani, Barbara Barrett, and Yin Tang. Now, let's smooth things out with Improvisation! Saturday, August 25th at the Olmsted Community Center from 2:30pm-4pm! Led by Executive Artistic Director Andrea McCormick, clients will enjoy the creativity of blending jazz, modern, hip hop, and contemporary into their own style of movement and choreography. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! $20 per person. Join us Saturday, August 25th at the Olmsted Community Center from 2:30pm-4pm for this creative dance session you won't want to miss! RSVP by emailing AmalgamArtsWellness(a)outlook.com or by clicking the Facebook link below! https://www.facebook.com/events/305401973349529/?ti=cl PS: Missed a session? No worries! We offer private and semiprivate sessions in almost all of the dances offered. Visit our website www.AmalgamArtsWellness.com or find us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @AmalgamArtsWell or Instagram @AmalgamArtsWellness to make an appointment and keep up with our upcoming events! Sincerely, Andrea Belser McCormick Performance Artist/Instructor and Reiki Practitioner www.AndreaRBelser.com www.AmalgamArtsWellness.com

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And Then There Were None Auditions in ONE WEEK!
by Avenue Arts Marketplace & Theatre 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Avenue Arts Marketplace and Theatre announces auditions for Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Located at 324 Cleveland Ave. NW Canton, Ohio 44702 SYNOPSIS: Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme. Directed by: Joseph Soriano Stage Manager: Sloan Kyler Auditions will be held August 14th and 15th from 7-9pm. All auditioners are asked to come prepared to cold read from the script. We also ask that you bring a current headshot/resume. All Avenue Arts Actors are considered volunteers and will be unpaid. Rehearsals will begin August 19th and will generally run Sun-Thursday evenings. Show dates are October 12,13, 19, 20th at 8pm and 14th at 2pm CHARACTERS: Anthony Marston (Male, 18-25) - killed two young children (John and Lucy Combes) while driving recklessly, for which he felt no real remorse nor did he accept any personal responsibility, complaining only that his driving license had been suspended as a result. He was the first island victim, poisoned with potassium Cyanide slipped into his drink while the guests were listening to the fateful gramophone recording. ("One choked his little self ...") Mrs. Rogers (Female, 30-40) - cook/housekeeper and Thomas Rogers' wife, described as a pale and ghostlike woman who walks in mortal fear. She was dominated by her bullying husband, who withheld the medicine of their former employer (an elderly spinster, Miss Jennifer Brady) to collect an inheritance they knew she had left them in her will. Mrs Rogers was haunted by the crime for the rest of her life, and was Owen's second victim, dying in her sleep peacefully from an overdose of Chloral Hydrate in her brandy. ("One overslept himself ...") General Mackenzie (Male, 40-50) - retired World War I war hero, who sent his late wife's lover (a younger officer, Arthur Richmond) to his death by assigning him to a mission where it was practically guaranteed he would not survive. Leslie Macarthur had mistakenly put the wrong letters in the envelopes on one occasion when she wrote to both men at the same time. The general fatalistically accepts that no one will leave the island alive, which he tells Vera Claythorne. Shortly thereafter, he is bludgeoned while sitting along the shore. ("One said he'd stay there...") Thomas Rogers (Male, 30-40) - butler and Ethel Rogers' husband. He dominated his weak-willed wife and they killed their former elderly employer by withholding her medicine, causing the woman to die from heart failure and inheriting the money she bequeathed them in her will. He was killed when bludgeoned with an axe as he cut firewood in the woodshed. ("One chopped himself in halves ...") Emily Brent (Female, 50-70) - an elderly, religiously rigid, socially respectable spinster who accepted the vacation on Soldier Island largely due to financial constraints. Years earlier, she had dismissed her young maid, Beatrice Taylor, for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Beatrice, who had already been rejected by her parents for the same reason, drowned herself, which Miss Brent considered an even worse sin. She refuses to discuss the matter with the gentlemen, telling them, "I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself." Later, she confides what happened regarding Beatrice Taylor to Vera Claythorne, who tells the others shortly before Miss Brent is found dead herself. She was sedated with chloral hydrate in her coffee, leaving her disorientated, before being injected in the neck with potassium cyanide while left alone in the kitchen, with one of Dr Armstrong's hypodermic syringes ("A bumblebee stung one...") Dr. Armstrong (Male, 40-60) - doctor, responsible for the death of a patient, Louisa Mary Clees, after he operated on her while drunk, many years earlier. Armstrong foolishly trusts Wargrave, and, while rendezvousing with the judge on a rocky cliff, is pushed into the sea and drowns ("A red herring swallowed one..."). His body goes missing for a while, leading the others to believe he is the killer, but his corpse is found at the end leading to the climax. William Blore (Male, 40-50) - retired police inspector and now a private investigator, accused of falsifying his testimony in court for a bribe from a criminal gang too dangerous to double-cross, which resulted in an innocent man, James Landor, being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and who died in prison. Blore arrives using the alias "Davis" and claiming to have arrived from South Africa, as he was instructed to do by Isaac Morris, who hired him for "security" work, but is confronted about his true name which was revealed on the gramophone recording, and he acknowledges his true identity. He denies the accusation against him from the gramophone recording but later privately admits the truth to Lombard. His skull was crushed by a bear-shaped clock dropped from Vera's bedroom window onto the terrace below. ("A big bear hugged one...") Philip Lombard (Male, 30-40) - soldier, he comes to the island with a loaded revolver, as suggested by Isaac Morris. Lombard is accused of causing the deaths of a number of East African tribesmen, after stealing their food and leaving them to starve. He, along with Marston, are the only guests to openly and immediately confirm that the accusations against them are true; neither feels remorse. Lombard fulfilled the ninth referenced verse of the rhyme, shot by Vera, who believed him to be the murderer but survives to kill the real killer. ("One gets frizzled up...") Vera Claythorn (Female, 18-25) - cool, efficient, resourceful former teacher and governess, who has taken mostly secretarial jobs since her last job as a governess ended in the death of her charge, whom she intentionally allowed to swim out to sea – as the child had wanted to do but had theretofore been denied as too dangerous – and drown. She did this so her lover could become the family heir, inherit the estate and marry her. She swam out to sea to "save" the child to make it seem he had disobeyed her – as she had consistently told him it was too dangerous – but knowing she would not arrive in time. Hugo, however, who loved his nephew, abandoned her after he somehow sensed what she had done. She is one of the only survivors but was meant to be the 10th little Soldier. ("One little Soldier Boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.") Sir Lawrence Wargrave (Male, 50-60) - retired judge known for liberally awarding the dealth penalty in different murder cases, and is revealed at the end to be the killer on the island. Wargrave fakes his own death as the sixth murder on the island, with Armstrong's help, creating an enormous red herring that fools everyone, and then kills Armstrong once the doctor's verdict of his death is accepted by the other visitors. Killed by Lombard saving Vera in the end. Fred Narcott (Male, 18-65) - brings people and supplies to the island. To Sign Up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-agatha <https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4bafa82ca3fe3-agatha> Please email Avenueartstheatre(a)gmail.com <mailto:Avenueartstheatre@gmail.com> with any questions

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Audition Notice: Pop-Cleveland! - The Comedic Quiz Show That Tests How Cleveland You Are!
by Common Room Theatre 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Common Room Theatre is seeking actors from diverse backgrounds to launch their first sketch show this fall! *About the show:* Pop-Cleveland! Is a mix of sketch comedy and interactive mobile games. The audience will laugh along with the cast through scenes depicting the sunny side of Cleveland and then compete amongst themselves to see who takes the crown as the new King or Queen of Cleveland. *Process:* 3 weeks of rehearsal starting in September. *Show dates for 2018:* 9/27, 10/25, 11/21, 12/27. A small stipend will be given for performances. Actors will also be given first choice to stay on in 2019 as we expand to weekly performances! *Audition Details: * Actors: Male/Female (ages 21 and up) Prepared Material: Please bring a hardcopy of your headshot and resume. Scripts will be provided for cold reads. When: Sunday August 19th, 2 - 4 pm and Monday August 20th 7:30 - 9:30 pm. Audition slots are booked on the half hour. (2:00, 2:30, 3:00 and so on) Where: The Edison Conference Room (6060 Father Caruso Dr. Cleveland, 44102) *Sign up:* Please email commonroomtheatre(a)gmail.com with your HS and Resume with desired date and time. We look forward to working with you! Beau Buccilli and Ryan Santa - Artistic Directors of Common Room Theatre -- Common Room Theatre www.commonroomtheatre.com commonroomtheatre(a)gmail.com 216-714-3371

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Berko: Review of The Shaw Festival (Canada)
by Roy Berko 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

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SINGING ANGELS OPEN AUDITIONS!!!
by Carol Thompson 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

The Singing Angels announce 2018 OPEN AUDITIONS Wednesday, August 29th, 4:00pm - 7:00pm Saturday, September 1st, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Auditions are first come, first served. Girls and Boys 4th grade thru age 16 No experience necessary- seeking children who love to sing! Come prepared to sing a song of your choice, no accompaniment. 2nd or 3rd Graders-call to enroll in The Littlest Angels Training Chorus!! Auditions are held at our rehearsal studios: Masonic Temple, 4th Floor 3615 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115 Parking lot available; enter from Euclid Avenue For further information: www.singingangels.org<http://www.singingangels.org> charles(a)singingangels.org<mailto:charles@singingangels.org> (216) 432-5555 x.1500 or contact Charles Eversole for video auditions, or if an alternate audition date is needed.

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Seeking Actors for a New Musical with NYC Writing Team!
by Dane CT Leasure 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Rubber City Theatre is accepting submissions for the workshop production of *The Anxiety Project,* a new musical by Rachel Dean and David Brush. ( http://www.deanandbrush.com) The workshop rehearses for two weeks, starting August 26th through September 6th (Sundays from 4pm-9pm, Monday through Thursday from 6:30pm-10:00pm.) Performances are Sept. 7th at 7:30pm, and Sept. 8th at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. Talk backs following the performances. Seeking 4 men and 9 women (between the ages of 18-50s) for the workshop. To be considered for the workshop, please email casting(a)rubbercitytheatre.com with your headshot and resume and a short video of you singing 16-32 bars of a musical theatre song. If you recently auditioned for our production of *Guys and Dolls*, you do not need to submit a video. Submissions will be accepted through 8/9/18. We will be casting after that deadline and you will be notified if we will be extending you an role for the workshop. There are no stipends available at this time.

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