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Canal Fulton Players- Auditions for the original play, An American Family
by David Van Gaasbeek via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

An American Family opens on June 19 with auditions on April 27-28 Life for Jack Van Wert, recently divorced at the age of sixty, and for Janice Loeffler, recently jilted at the altar at the age of twenty two, could not get any worse. However, on a fateful night, Jack, thinking he is going to meet a forty five year old woman on a blind date, and Janice, thinking she is going to meet a twenty eight year old man also on a blind date, come to Petra and Scott Thomas’ apartment for dinner only to discover that Scott got the days mixed up. Jack was supposed to be the next night and not that night. Furious over being matched together, they leave the apartment without dinner. When they cool off, Jack offers to buy Janice a sandwich at a local restaurant he frequents. What happens next starts as one character states in the play, a whole new life and a whole new relationship. This comedy which explores numerous modern social issues is written by David Van Gaasbeek. After his mother died in 2012, Mr. Van Gaasbeek to cope with the grief began writing a play based on a discarded improvisational skit in which a blind date is botched. What comes forward is how a family totally destroyed by divorce rebuilds itself entirely through a new relationship. The play deals with various adult themes through comedy and parents are cautioned to contact Mr. Van Gaasbeek at 330-494-1022 or 330-854-4387 to discover if the issues are appropriate for their child. For those over the age of eighteen, be prepared to laugh as Jack and Janice go through some very interesting events in their lives as they and their families come to grip with the results of a botched blind date. The play will be presented at the SALT Box Ministries, 408 West Market Street, Canal Fulton, Ohio on June 19-21, 26-28. Auditions will be held on April 27 and 28 at 7:00 pm at Community Connections, 2381 South Locust Street, Canal Fulton, Ohio. The parts are: Scott Thomas, a young attorney in Jack Van Wert’s law firm Petra Thomas, Scott Thomas’ wife and a chef Janice Loeffler, a twenty two year old woman who is a teacher Jack Van Wert, a sixty year old man who is a civil rights attorney Helen Whiteside, a forty five year old divorce attorney Debra Van Wert, Jack Van Wert ex-wife Tom Van Wert, Jack and Debra Van Wert’s son Gretchen Van Wert, Jack and Debra Van Wert’s daughter Harry Loeffler, Janice Loeffler’s father Jeannette Loeffler, Janice Loeffler’s stepmother Lesly Morrison, Jack and Debra Van Wert’s granddaughter Blythe Morrison, Jack and Debra Van Wert’s granddaughter Kate Morrison, Jack and Debra Van Wert’s oldest daughter Roger Morrison, Kate Morrison’s husband Julie Fielding, Debra Van Wert’s secretary All people auditioning should be prepared to read from the script. For further information, call David Van Gaasbeek.

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LAKESHORE BALLET THEATRE AUDITIONS- DANCERS, SINGERS, MUSICIANS
by LAKESHORE DREAMDANCE SCHOOL via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Lakeshore Ballet Theatre and Professional Arts Entertainment will be holding auditions for "An Evening of Elegance". This professional show will premiere on Thursday evening June 18th. We welcome all performing artists for this collaboration of the arts. Singers, Dancers, Musicians must come prepared with a comp card, resume and 1 minute audition piece. Solos, Duos, Trios, Quartets allowed. Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz and Modern dance artists welcome. Artists must be 17 years of age or older. Must present photo ID at audition. College students welcome. Professional performance pay at competitive rates. Audition Date : Saturday April 25th 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at 379 Lear Road sute 200, Avon Lake, Ohio . Call 440-371-8282 for more informaiton and to register for audition. Note: This is a professional performance and no exceptions will be made for children or teens under the age of 17. Without valid ID, you will not be able to audition for this show. Thank you!

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Summer Theatre Camp in Strongsville
by Ted via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

The Fun continues! What? A theatre camp that has it ALL? Join SCYT this summer for a comprehensive theatre education experience! SCYT returns this summer with the usual fun, games, friendships and laughter, PLUS an opportunity to to deconstruct and rewrite a classic folktale for a performance that will be all your own! YOU WILL: PLAY a huge variety of theatre games emphasizing voice, movement and character creation; MOVE indoors and out, in games and theatre activities meant to encourage your confidence and creativity; WRITE a collaborative piece for performance, based on a classic folktale; PERFORM in the piece you wrote; CREATE your own masks, and help design costumes and set pieces! Registration:To register, kindly go to http://StrongsvilleCommunityTheatre.com/YouthTheatre.htm <http://StrongsvilleCommunityTheatre.com/YouthTheatre.htm> for more information including a link to print our registration form. Please return the /_Registration,Permission and Policy Form_/ and /_Medical form_/ with anonrefundable $50 deposit. Registrations will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis until camp is filled orJune 20, whichever comes first. We expect the camp to fill, so early enrollment is encouraged ! The tuition balance is due on the first day of camp. Questions? Please contact Leslie Moder at jlmoder(a)wowway.com <mailto:jlmoder@wowway.com>

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28 of 383 *Free* Monthly Performance Exchange in Akron - This Month's Topic: Meditation in Actions: Investigating The Theatre of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
by Wandering Aesthetics via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Wandering Aesthetics presents… *The Open Door: Akron**’**s Performance Exchange * (April 6, 2015 – Akron, Ohio – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Wandering Aesthetics is proud to announce the next *The Open Door: Akron’s Performance Exchange. * The third of these free monthly workshops will be held on Sunday, April 26th from 6 pm – 8 pm at Lifesource Yoga located at 300 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd., Suite 2 in Akron, Ohio. *The Open Door is a free event and open to the public. ($5 Suggested Donation) *This month’s session will be: *Meditation in Actions: Investigating The Theatre of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche* led by JT Buck. For more information visit www.tinyurl.com/OpenDoor3 or email watheatre(a)gmail.com *About the Open Door:* Drawing from the rich artistic traditions within Akron, our mission is to introduce community members to diverse forms of creative expression, building community by crossing boundaries, enriching lives and opening the door to the imagination. The Open Door is a free monthly workshop. Led by a different master teacher, each session will highlight a different area associated with performance. From physical action to voice to dance, anyone can benefit from these skills. No experience necessary!!! *About the Session:* Chogyam Trungpa was a Tibetan monk and master meditation teacher who fled to the west after the Tibetan Uprising in 1959. He ultimately settled in North America, founding Naropa University in Boulder, CO and an international network of Shambhala meditation centers. His writings and teachings touch on virtually every subject, and in the mid 1970's, working with a group of American students, he developed a series of exercises and theatre texts designed to explore group dynamics drawing upon meditation, monastic dance and western theatrical principles. This workshop will present some of the basic elements of Mudra Space awareness, including a group exploration of physical actions and readings/discussions of selected Trungpa performance texts. The role of mindfulness meditation in the actor's creative process will also be explored in practice and discussion. * About the Instructor: * JT Buck is a stage director, writer, musician, producer and meditator. After 16 years of work in the field, including hundreds of productions, classes and events across 5 states, he went back to school in 2013 for an MA in Arts Admin. from the University of Akron. He practices meditation in the Shambhala lineage, and plans to continue putting artists to work by developing stronger neighborhoods and communities. -- Wandering Aesthetics www.facebook.com/WATheatre

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Apology...Faustus staring Robert Hawkes opens this Thurs for 1 weekend only
by convergence-continuum via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

convergence-continuum presents: Robert Hawkes as Dr. John Faustus in the one-weekend-only performance of AN APOLOGY FOR THE COURSE AND OUTCOME OF CERTAIN EVENTS DELIVERED BY DR. JOHN FAUSTUS ON THIS HIS FINAL EVENING by Mickle Maher. Robert Hawkes performs an ingenious one-man retooling of the Faust legend, with Ray Caspio as the silent and menacing Mephistopheles. One weekend only: Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm, April 23, 24, 25. Faust, a skittish, self-aggrandizing schmuck facing his final hour on earth delivers an extravagant, hilarious, and ultimately unnerving monologue about the sublime meaninglessness of nearly all human endeavors. A lean, tragicomic version of the Faust story, AN APOLOGY. presents Doctor Faustus in the last hour of his final night on earth irritated, whining, drunk, and repentant of nothing save his failure to keep a proper diary. Over the course of the evening, he rails against his silent servant Mephistopheles and tells the fantastic tale of his lifea life filled with wonders, as well as an immeasurably vast evil. At the Liminis theater, 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood, April 23-25. Tickets: $15 general admission, $12 seniors, $10 students. Reservations at http://www.convergence-continuum.org or 216-687-0074.

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Need headshots/free pictures
by Darryl Epp via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

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THIS Friday - Yasmina Reza's GOD OF CARNAGE at None Too Fragile
by None Too Fragile via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Debuting THIS Friday: GOD OF CARNAGE, by Yasmina Reza Directed by Sean Derry Featuring: Bob Ellis*, Jeffrey Grover*, Jen Klika and Jacqi Loewy* *Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association, The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, appearing under Special Appearance Contract. FULL SCHEDULE: 4/24/15 - 8:00 pm 4/25/15 - 8:00 pm 4/26/15 - 2:00 pm 4/26/15 - 8:00 pm 4/27/15 - 8:00 pm 4/30/15 - 8:00 pm 5/1/15 - 8:00 pm 5/2/15 - 8:00 pm 5/8/15 - 8:00 pm 5/9/15 - 8:00 pm ~Doors open 1/2 hour before show time Tickets are $20.00 each and will available via our website now, or "Pay-As-You-Can," in cash, at the door. THE STORY: A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters. Winner of the 2009 Tony Award. "[A] streamlined anatomy of the human animal…delivers the cathartic release of watching other people's marriages go boom. A study in the tension between civilized surface and savage instinct, this play is itself a satisfyingly primitive entertainment." —NY Times. "Elegant, acerbic and entertainingly fueled on pure bile. It's Reza's sharpest work since 'Art'." —Variety. "Brutally entertaining…in another of Christopher Hampton's exquisite translations, [Reza] cannily manipulates social observations that appeal to vast audiences and creates characters that bring out the best in actors." —NY Newsday. "Reza has established herself as a master [of] magnificently constructed plays." —Entertainment Weekly.

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Monologue Coach
by Bill Finley via NEohioPAL 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

In search of monologue coach

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Review of "Bad Jews" at Actors' Summit
by Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

More lows than chais in Actors' Summit's 'Bad Jews' Bob Abelman Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal Member, International Association of Theatre Critics "Bad Jews" - the purposefully provocative title of what has become one of the nation's most produced new plays - typically refers to members of the tribe who eat on Yom Kippur, text on the Sabbath, and have their kids bow out early from Sunday school to beat the traffic. But Joshua Harmon's tenacious, acid-washed comedy digs much deeper. The play features the young, devout Diana Feygenbaum (Brittany Gaul), who goes by her Hebrew name Daphna as if it were a calling card for her sanctimony. She believes that her connection to her faith and heritage makes her the rightful heir of a religious relic left behind by her just-departed grandfather. The gold ornament - a chai that the grandfather kept safe during his years in a concentration camp - is in her cousin Liam's (Kyle Huff) possession. The chai has only sentimental value for Liam, who is a contemptuous and secular Jew. He and his shiksa girlfriend, Melody (Gabi Shook), arrive late for the funeral by the time they enter Liam's younger brother Jonah's Upper West Side studio apartment, where they are confronted by Daphna. Lacking the family gene for hyper-articulate confrontation, Jonah (Nate Miller) wants nothing more than to be left out of the discussion about who should get the chai. All this is a recipe for a battle royale between cultural and religious Judaism; a heated, take-no-prisoner debate about what faith means to many third-generation Jewish-Americans. And both Daphna and Liam make interesting arguments. Says the formidable Daphna: "And so now, when it's easier to be Jewish than it has ever been in the history of the world, now when it's safest, now we should all stop? I can't." Says the uptight Liam: "I'm sorry, but I can't get worked up about preserving a totally watered down version of something that wasn't even true to begin with, and I'm not going to allow it to dictate how I live my life or who I choose to live my life with so I can genetically or biologically pass on something I don't even believe in." And by having this debate take place in one scene in one act in one room between two very intelligent but emotionally stunted cousins, we see what happens when a philosophical and political argument turns into something personal. Better yet, because the debaters possess an arsenal of insight into each other's soft-spots and pressure points - garnered from a lifetime of sitting at the kid's table at family gatherings for the high holidays - all the baiting, bickering and biting results in nonstop comedy. But not so much on the Actors' Summit stage. For more of this review, go to: http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/

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BAD JEWS @ Actors' Summit
by Roy Berko via NEohioPAL 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

•••••••••••••••••• To read Roy Berko's review of BAD JEWS @ Actors’ Summit go to www.royberko.info (Roy Berko's commentaries and reviews appear on coolcleveland.com, artsamerica.org, with selected reviews posted on broadwayworld.com and BWWdanceworld.com, and referenced on neohiopal.com) To add you name to the direct delivery option of the website go to www.royberko.info and scroll down the right hand column to the subscribe section. ••••••••••••••••••

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