October 2025 - NEohioPAL - lists.neohiopal.org

Set designer/Builder and stage manager
by John Roberts 18 Oct '25

18 Oct '25

The Parma Schools Foundation will be producing the musical The Music Man next summer with performances on July 31, Aug 1 and August 2. Rehearsals run starting on June 8 Monday thru Friday from 8-12. We are in need of a set designer/builder and a stage manager. These are both paid positions. . If you have an interest in either position, please email me at john.d.roberts21(a)gmail.com with a letter of interest and your resume. The production will take place at Valley Forge High School in Parma Hts. The show will be under the direction of Katie Fox and the producer of the show is John (Jack) D. Roberts.

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Tiny terrariums free community activity in Gordon square.
by Selena Awesome 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Tiny Terreriums is back! Join Peter Rabbit Project on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from 4:30pm-6:30pm for one of our most popular activities. (This activity is free and open to community) Community members are invited to make their own tiny terrariums. Materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring any additional plants, soil, glass containers, or decor to use in to your DIY terrariums. Join Peter Rabbit Project member and native plant enthusiast Justine as she leads us in this accessible community fun. Info Provided: terrarium care & set up Location: west 67th street bocce courts. 1267 west 67th street. Cleveland, ohio 44102 Accessibility Note: There are NO stairs to enter the bocce court. This is an outdoor event There will be some seating but feel free to bring a lawn chair. There will NOT be access to a restroom facility for this event. We will have KN95 Masks available for if/when folks are within close proximity to others. Safety: The nearest public Restroom is in one of the businesses along Detroit (g-beans coffee, brew nuts , etc) The Nearest public access to an AED is inside G-Beans Coffee on the corner of Detroit at west 65th street. Register via Email or DM. PeterRabbitproject(a)gmail.com 216-369-9393 Registration is not required but it is helpful for preparation purposes. Selena Awesome Vicarío (She/they)

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Dia de Muertos Returns to Cleveland Public Theatre Nov. 1, 2025!
by Kim Furganson 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

cleveland PUBLIC theatre<https://www.cptonline.org/> teatro PÚBLICO de cleveland<https://www.cptonline.org/education/teatro-publico-de-cleveland/> & Día de Muertos Ohio<https://diademuertosohio.com/> present DÍA DE MUERTOS (DAY OF THE DEAD) <https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2025-2026/dia-de-muertos-9/> Saturday, November 1 / Sábado, 1 De Noviembre 11am to 10pm, Cleveland Public Theatre Campus Parade / Desfile (3:30 pm - 4:15 pm) Día de Muertos Artistic Director: Héctor Castellanos Lara Location: Cleveland Public Theatre grounds, Church and Parish Hall at 6205 Detroit (next to the main building). It's that time of year when the grounds of Cleveland Public Theatre turn into a graveyard and celebration for those who have entered the spirit world at our annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead). The free event is inspired by the Mexican holiday Día de Los Muertos. Featuring: Altar (Ofrenda) Installations, Arts & Crafts, Latin Food, Live Music, and FREE Entertainment for All Ages. / Con instalaciones de Altares, artes & manualidades, comida latina, música en vivo y entretenimiento GRATIS para todas las edades. Featuring Musical/Dance Performances by: Dueto Maravilla|Patricia Bussert|Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center Danza Group| and more! This year's Skulls & Skeletons Parade Grand Marshal is Antonio Parente and "Burlesque Queen" Bella Sin will be the Catrina, the traditional skeleton figure who represents the Day of the Dead representing that death is a part of life and that everyone is equal regardless of status. For more information visit www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org>.

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Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Twin Masks opens Friday, October 31
by Claudia Lillibridge 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Twin Masks Performing Arts Center (TMPAC) is pleased to announce its upcoming production of Dead Man’s Cell Phone, written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Marc C. Howard. TMPAC is located at 9076 Church Street, Suites 2 and 3, in Twinsburg, Ohio. Tickets can be purchased online via our website, *www.twinmasks.org <http://www.twinmasks.org/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExdllEbjBjVzFaTFJh…>*, or by calling 330.888.3211. Tickets are also available at the door on performance nights. Performances are at 8pm, opening on Friday, October 31 with remaining performances on Saturday, November 1, Friday, November 7, Saturday, November 8, Friday, November 14 and closing on Saturday, November 15. Dead Man's Cell Phone is a dark comedy that revolves around a woman named Jean who answers a ringing cell phone belonging to a man who has just died in a café. This act of compassion leads her into a web of the deceased man's mysterious past and unresolved issues. The play explores themes of morality, redemption, and isolation in a technology-driven society, highlighting how our lives are intertwined through communication devices. It premiered in 2007 and has been recognized for its imaginative storytelling and thought-provoking content. Cast includes Dylan Brown as Gordon, Emmy Cohen as Jean, Andrew Konjevich as Dwight, Madison Roe as the Mysterious/Other Woman, Kate Smith as Hermia and Debbie Tinsley as Mrs. Gottlieb. TMPAC is a registered 501c3 non profit entity and all participants are non paid volunteers. Rights secured through Concord Theatricals.

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Cleveland Celtic Ensemble and VIP Reception- October 25, 2025
by Thomas Sigel Hotmail 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Tickets are going fast for the main concert, but there are still some spots available for the amazing VIP Reception that will be held at the lovely home of Betsy Gilder at 5 pm before the Cleveland Celtic Ensemble Concert. Order online at https://ormaco.org/z-fall-2025-world-tour-of-music-the-cleveland-celtic-ens… or call 419-853-6016.

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The Martians are Coming on October 30th!
by Margaret Reardon 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

*We're excited to announce that tickets are going fast for Radio on the Lake Theatre's next production - the iconic masterpiece War of the Worlds. * *We'll be performing the same script Orson Welles terrorized the world with 87 years ago - to the day! * *We're pulling out all the stops for this performance, including moving to a larger space within the Negative Space Gallery, serving refreshments, designing a video presentation and planning all sorts of Halloween-themed fun (and we have it on good authority that Legos may be involved). * *The excitement starts at 7:30 pm on October 30. Don;t miss out! Get your tickets on Eventbrite <https://sjuvgy5ab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001cUx5MKWOwlfVD2HaDeaGOhkoqSpcFr78ac…> today!* -- Margaret Reardon | she/her Development Coordinator Radio on the Lake Theatre (216) 802 8595 radioonthelaketheatre.org <https://www.radioonthelaketheatre.org/>

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Another Great Review for the Cesear’s Forum Production of “Canadian Gothic, American Modern” Running at Playhouse Square Oct. 18-25
by Bestic, Patricia 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Two Plays on Canadian and American Prairies: Cesear’s Forum’s “Canadian Gothic” and “American Modern OCTOBER 14, 2025<https://theatrereviewskurahashi.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/two-plays-on-canad…> Cesear’s Forum is currently staging Joanna McClelland Glass’s Canadian Gothic (1972) and American Modern (1973), two one-act plays at Kennedy’s Down Under under the direction of Greg Cesear. As the program note states, the two plays frame an intersection of American and Canadian perspectives from 1910 to 1976 with nods to current events. Canadian Gothic concerns family life on the prairie in Saskatchewan (the playwright’s home province), filled with quiet racism, prejudice, and a sense of unfulfillment and dissatisfaction. “Current events” might be the isolation of people, the increasing absence of communications, and undiagnosed and untreated mental illnesses. In both plays, McClelland Glass gives the audience a glimpse of the lives of small, remote townspeople, filled with mundane chores and repetition. Canadian Gothic, set in a town in Saskatchewan, McClelland Glass’s home province, depicts the couple’s apathy, followed by the wife’s death and their daughter’s interracial dating. These events lead to a violent incident that determines the characters’ future, contrary to their expectations or wishes. In American Modern, the wife copes with her depression by consuming herself with super-busy, mundane tasks. Her additional coping mechanism includes scavenging and holding what she discovers in her neighborhood. In both plays, the husband character is quite passive and unfeeling (or he tries to suppress his feelings), as many of us do—“do nothing.” Director Greg Cesear added another “Father” (portrayed by the same person as the character) in Canadian Gothic to make the staging more interactive, abstract, absurd, and metaphorical. The beginning scene resonates with familiar scenes from Ionesco’s works (Greg Cesear’s favorites). Cesear adds “silent characters” to American Modern, a play with two performers; two actors appear—Graceyn Cecelia Dowd as Cindy Lou, Mike’s secretary, with whom Mike has an affair. Jonathan Duran, as an Indigenous man, also comes on stage while Pat (the wife in American Modern) shares her personal anecdote with her husband Mike, the therapist, and the audience. Cesear’s directorial approach is to blur the separation between the characters, performers, and the audience, bringing them all into the metaphysical world where everything is melded and possible. Daniel Telford packed Kennedy’s Down Under stage with many objects, including chairs, a door-opening, curtains, and triangle prisms, to reflect what the characters and their ancestors have accumulated. This material abundance paradoxically and tragically demonstrates the absence of spiritual fulfillment and satisfaction that the characters are suffering. Andrew Kaletta’s lighting adds changes in dramatic and dramaturgical textures as subtly indicated in McClelland Glass’s scripts. Sound designer Lisa Wiley prepared music for Pre-show and Intermission, using music from different decades and genres, including Joni Mitchell’s “Paprika Plains” and “A Case of You,” and “You Turn Me On I’m a Radio,” Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo,” Sarah Vaughan’s “In a Sentimental Mood,” Bette Midler’s “Skylark” Carly Simon’s “Mockingbird,” James Taylor’s “Her Town Too,” and Alexandro Querevalú’s “The Last of the Mohicans.” The show itself is done without music; thus, these music pieces become a great oasis for the audience to ponder the ambience and the shows, heightening the “Americana” landscape with a variety of instruments from piano to harmonica. Sarah Russell’s costumes incorporate colors and designs that reflect how the characters have lived up to that point. Bestic, as the wife, wears different but similar white one-piece dresses—one is a sundress, and the other has a slightly more formal shape, reflecting the character’s semi-consciousness, which is cloudy and blurry while differentiating the difference in circumstance and location. Tricia Bestic, as the wife for both plays, is magnetic, delicately and overtly spilling out different levels of the characters’ emotions. By talking to the other characters (on or off stage) or to the audience, Bestic’s superb on-stage communication reveals the core of the characters’ traumas, captivating the audience. Graceyn Cecelia Dowd illustrates the daughter’s doomed trajectory in Canadian Gothic, while Mike’s paramour aspires to marry and settle in American Modern. Gilgamesh Taggett, as Mike, portrays this character as a “passive” husband with no intention to engage with other people actively. Joseph Milan, as the father in Canadian Gothic, is portrayed as a blinded man who continues to depend on his daughter, perhaps fulfilling his ultimate revenge and punishment against her. Jonathan Duran’s Ben, an Indigenous man in Canadian Gothic, offers a refreshing perspective on the character as the cultural and racial “other” on the prairie. These short plays, which possess Joyce Carol Oates-ian colors, textures, and moods, are an excellent addition to Cesar’s Forum’s work by McClelland Glass’s canon. Cesear’s Forum produced McClelland Glass’s autobiographical play Trying (2004) at Kennedy’s Down Under in 2011, featuring Tricia Bestic and Glenn Colerider. In Trying, Colerider’s character, Judge Francis Biddle, and his secretary, Sarah Schorr, whom Bestic portrayed, acknowledge their complete ignorance of “black people” and see it (ignorance) as “the root of the problem.” Canadian Gothic and American Modern are McClelland Glass’s earlier works that examine people’s lack of connections—as actual human beings—with those outside their small cocoon. CANADIAN GOTHIC & AMERICAN MODERN, two one-act plays by Joanna McClelland Glass: September 26th through October 25th, Friday and Saturday at 8pm. Two Sunday Matinees at 3 pm on October 12th and 19th, Kennedy’s Down Under, Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Call 216-241-6000 or visit http://www.playhousesquare.org<http://www.playhousesquare.org/>. Ticket price is: $28 for adults, $15.00 for students. Visit Cesear’s Forum<https://cesearsforum.com/> for details. Sponsored in part by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Bonne Belle Family Foundation Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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THE CHILDREN Opens Next Friday! / FREE Tickets Available!
by Craig Joseph 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Seat of the Pants is excited to kick off our 2025-2026 season with a production of Lucy Kirkwood's *The Children, *being performed at LatinUs Theater Company, located in The Pivot Center, from October 24 - November 9. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 PM, Sunday matinees are at 2:30 PM; *this season, SotP is proud to offer a single Monday night performance for each of our shows. This one will take place on Monday, November 3 at 7:30 PM and there will be a pay-what-you-can option at the door.*Tickets range from $20-$32 and can be purchased at thechildrensotp.eventbrite.com. *FREE TICKETS are available to those who can help usher on October 25 or 26, or November 8 or 9. To claim one of these tickets, please e-mail craig(a)seatofthepants.org <craig(a)seatofthepants.org>.* *About the Show: *In this suspenseful ecological drama, two aging nuclear scientists reside in an isolated cottage by the sea, as the world crumbles around them. Then, an old friend arrives with a frightening request. With dry humor, mystery, and surprising tenderness, “The Children raises profound questions about whether having children sharpens, or diminishes, one’s sense of social responsibility … a genuinely disturbing play: one not simply about nuclear power but about the heavy price we may pay in the future for the profligacy of the present.” Directed by Craig Joseph, produced by Geoff Short, and stage managed by Lisa L. Wiley, with scenic design by Al Costa, costume design by Mia Jones, lighting design by Micah Harvey, sound design by Angie Hayes, props design by Erin Ocampo, projection design by Wayne Smith III, intimacy direction by Julia Fisher, and dialect coaching by Matt Koenig. Starring Nanna Ingvarsson, Laura Starnik, and Tom Woodward*. *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Content Advisory: adult themes, mild profanity, mild sexual references

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Berko review: HELL'S KITCHEN (KEY BANK SERIES)
by Roy Berko 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••* *The touring production of HELL’S KITCHEN is special. It far exceeds the expectations for a juke-box musical. The director, choreographer, music-supervisor, technical staff, cast and crew well-**deserved the extra-long-standing ovation the production received. It is a show I could see again and again and be satisfied each time. Bravo!* *To read the entire review go to: *https://royberkinfo.blogspot.com/ *To read the capsule judgements of the other Cleveland reviewers go to: * https://clevelandtheaterreviews.blogspot.com/ *••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*

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Insurance for the Arts
by mail＠unquoting.com 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

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