Thank you, Cleveland, for making Mamai Theatre Company's 2016 Benefit, WOMEN ON FIRE, at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage <http://www.maltzmuseum.org/>, a huge success! We are so looking forward to sharing our 2016 Season with You! View photos of the festivities here <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1045975598807768.1073741834.250331941705475&type=3>! The exciting evening culminated in a rarely performed staged reading of Women on Fire, by Irene O'Garden <http://www.ireneogarden.com/>, directed by Cleveland playwright, actor, and director, Juliette Regnier, and featured Ursula Cataan*, Maryann Elder, Katrice Head, Julia Kolibab*, Tracee Patterson*, and Jeanne Task (*Member Actors Equity Association). Listen to WCPN's Dee Perry interview with Irene O'Garden here <http://wcpn.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-applause/mamai-theatre-irene-ogarden> . 2016 Season is Nigh! Mamai is thrilled to return downtown to The Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center <http://www.paccleveland.com/>, 3615 Euclid Avenue at E. 36th Street, with free and ample parking in an onsite gated lot, air-conditioning, and ADA-accessibility. Mamai will mount all three of its 2016 productions on the beautiful 1920s proscenium stage inside the DeMolay Room. Top Girls By Caryl Churchill Directed by Jaime Bouvier June 2-19, 2016 Scenic Design by Don McBride Costume Design by Suzy Campbell Lighting Design by Rob Peck Sound Design by Carlton Guc Properties Design by Monica Plunkett Top Girls transgresses ancient to modern femininity in two distinct acts. Act One features an imagined restaurant table full of ladies who lunch... in a time-traveling dialogue from various centuries and cultures in womankind's history! Act Two is a springboard departure into family drama-- a personal examination of relationships between mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. With... Courtney Brown, Rocky Encalada+, Lisa Langford*, Anne McEvoy,Cassandra Miller, Isabel Wang Member, Actors Equity Association + Equity Membership Candidate Talk Back with special guests Chris Cotton and Chuck Kelly, Shaker Heights High School <http://www.shaker.org/> International Baccalaureate English Faculty, on Sunday, June 12. Lady Windermere's Fan By Oscar Wilde Directed Bernadette Clemens July 14-31, 2016 Scenic Design by Don McBride Costume Design by Suzy Campbell Lighting Design by Rob Peck Sound Design by Carlton Guc Properties Design by Monica Plunkett Oscar Wilde fans the flames of Edwardian social change with his typical adroitness. Comedy and manners offer a tongue-lashing, suspenseful assault on Victorian values. An attractive stranger invades the domestic bliss of Lady & Lord Windermere, and her past has the potential to drastically alter their future. Lord Darlington plays a hand. All bets hinge on chance, fate, accident... and a fan. With... Mary Alice Beck, Heather Anderson Boll*, Tari Lyn Bergoine, Lynna Metrisin, Skyler Gahley, Benjamin Gregg, Robert Hawkes, Stuart Hoffman, Doug Kusak, Rachel Lee Kolis+, Jill Levin, Nate Miller, Patrick Mooney, Chris Ross, Laura Starnik+, Carrie Williams * Member, Actors Equity Association + Equity Membership Candidate The Woman Hater - U.S. Premiere! By Fanny Burney Directed Christine McBurney August 18-September 4, 2016 Scenic Design by Don McBride Costume Design by Angelina Herin Lighting Design by Rob Peck Sound Design by Richard Ingraham Properties Design by Monica Plunkett An absurdly satirical indictment of the excesses of both men and women, this 1802 comedy remained unproduced until 2003. When Sir Roderick is jilted by Lady Smatter, he proclaims himself a woman-hater and is determined to keep his young heir away from the opposite sex. Identities are mistaken, social pretensions are deliciously exposed, and the gender constructs of wifely and daughterly duties are boldly upended — bringing forth a new kind of heroine. With... Rocky Encalada+ ,TJ Gainley*, Benjamin Gregg, Khaki Hermann, Rachel Lee Kolis+, Doug Kusak, Gus Mahoney, Marcia Mandell, Meg Martinez, John Polk, Michael Regnier, Shannon Sharkey, Evan Thompson, Natalie Welch, Carrie Williams, Dayton Willison * Member, Actors Equity Association + Equity Membership Candidate You can sponsor <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!tickets-2016/c13ai>, join our mailing list <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/#!tickets-2016/c13ai> or purchase tickets <https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=mtco> online! TICKETS: <http://sic.brownpapertickets.com/>www.mamaitheatreco.org or 440.394.8353 Adults: $22 Seniors (65 & older): $20 Students (25 & under): $15 In 2013 The Plain Dealer announced, “Mamai Theatre Company...has made a howling entrance onto the city’s artistic scene” and named their inaugural production, Medea, a top-10 theatre event of the year. In 2014 LandofCleve.net added, “In only a few short years, Mamai Theatre Company has established themselves as a major player in the Cleveland theatre community." We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. ww.mamaitheatreco.org <http://www.mamaitheatreco.org/>