Bay Village Community Theater is holding auditions for its next Staged Reading, Anton Chekov’s The Bear. Auditions will be held on Wednesday, April 11th at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Bay Village (corner of Wolf and Bradley, parking lot on Wolf Road). Described by Chekov as “a joke in one act”, director Tim Jones is seeking two men and one woman for the following roles: • Elena Ivanovna Popova, a landowning little widow, with dimples on her cheeks • Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a middle-aged landowner • Luka, Popova's aged footman Rehearsals will be once a week. There will be two performances: Saturday, May 19th at 2 PM and Sunday, May 20th at 6 PM. For further information, please contact John Hnat at bay.village.community.theater@gmail.com or 216-408-9130.