Beck Center Announces 2017- 2018 Theater Season Beck Center Theater Season includes 50th Anniversary Production of Hair, a Broadway Triumph, and an Existential Masterpiece Beck Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its 2017-2018 professional theater season filled with their signature eclectic titles that include classics, a regional premiere, and the seventh collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Musical Theater program. "This is an especially exciting slate of plays and musicals as they collectively have such an amazing pedigree. Artists and audiences will be exhilarated and challenged all season long with these terrific pieces." says Scott Spence, Beck Center Artistic Director (now heading into his 28th season at Beck). Subscriptions and Flex Passes for the 2017-2018 season are on sale now and range from $100 to $267. For more information, call Beck Center Customer Service at 216.521.2540 x10. Individual tickets may be purchased beginning Tuesday, August 1, 2017. Curtain times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays; however, performance times vary for The Little Mermaid, and Hair. Preview performances are the Thursdays before opening night. For more information visit beckcenter.org<http://www.beckcenter.org/>. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Written by Dale Wasserman, Book by Ken Kesey Directed by William Roudebush September 15 - October 8, 2017; Mackey Theater "Scarifying and powerful" - The New York Times Waiting for Godot Written by Samuel Beckett Directed by Eric Schmeidl October 6 - November 5, 2017; Studio Theater "...a witty and poetic conundrum" - The Guardian Disney'sThe Little Mermaid, ENCORE PRODUCTION Music by Academy Award winner Alan Menken; Lyrics by Howard Ashman Directed by Scott Spence; Musical Direction by Larry Goodpaster; Choreography by Martín Céspedes; Featuring Kathleen Rooney as Ariel and Natalie Blalock (Broadway's The Scarlet Pimpernel) at Ursula December 1 - 31, 2017; Mackey Theater; Special Sensory-Friendly Performance Thursday, December 14 2016 Cleveland Critics Circle Awards Winner for Best Musical Direction and Best Projection Design HAIR Music by Galt MacDermot; Book and Lyrics by James Rado & Gerome Ragni Directed by Victoria Bussert In collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program February 9 - February 25, 2018; Mackey Theater "Hair has a history of defying expectations" - The New York Times My First Time, REGIONAL PREMIERE Written by Ken Davenport Directed by Scott Spence March 30 - April 29, 2018; Studio Theater "Funny and touching to sweet, sexy and silly!" - The Village Voice Bent Written by Martin Sherman Directed by Matthew Wright June 1 - July 1, 2018; Studio Theater "Powerful and provocative." - The New York Times Gypsy Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Jule Styne Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by Scott Spence; Musical Direction by Larry Goodpaster; Choreography by Martín Céspedes July 6 - August 12, 2018; Mackey Theater "Broadway's own brassy, unlikely answer to King Lear." - Variety