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Director Lou Bellamy to Helm Radio Golf at Cleveland Play House

January 31, 2012 by Lisa Craig, Public Relations Manager

CLEVELAND, OH (January 25, 2012) – Lou Bellamy, Artistic Director of the acclaimed Penumbra Theatre, will direct the Cleveland Play House production of Radio Golf, the Tony Award®-nominated finale of playwright August Wilson's unprecedented ten-play cycle chronicling African-American life in the 20th century. Bellamy, recipient of 2007 Obie for Best Direction of the off-Broadway production of Two Trains Running at Signature Theatre, has been described as the foremost living interpreter of work of Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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MFA Acting Program: Casting News

January 20, 2012 by Lisa Craig, Public Relations Manager

Congratulations to Yan Tual (Class of 2012) for being cast in the role of Antoine Fourcroy in an upcoming "The Mystery of Matter" episode for PBS. You can see Yan's final Graduate Ensemble performance in The Winter's Tale this March.

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'In Arabia We'd All Be Kings' Crowns Debut of Graduate Ensemble

January 18, 2012 by Lisa Craig, Public Relations Manager

CLEVELAND, OH (January 18, 2012) – The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program will present In Arabia We’d All Be Kings in the new Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre at PlayhouseSquare from February 1 – 11, 2012. Directed by Chair and Director of the MFA program, Ron Wilson, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings is a gritty exploration of a seedy NYC bar’s clientele penned by Tony®-nominated playwright Stephen...

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2011 Highlights in Theater (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

January 3, 2012 by Plain Dealer staff

We're proud that three of our productions from calendar year 2011 made the Top Ten list of Cleveland's Plain Dealer. Click here for the full list.

(as excerpted from Plain Dealer)

Change was in the air in 2011 for Cleveland's professional-theater scene. Great Lakes Theater Festival chopped off its last name to become Great Lakes Theater but added a fifth show to its regular season this spring....

http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2012/01/2011_highlights_in_theater.html

The Envelope, Please (Cleveland Scene)

January 3, 2012 by by Christine Howey, Cleveland Scene

CPH kicked off its inaugural season downtown with Brecht's THE LIFE OF GALILEO. Cleveland Scene dubbed it the best drama of 2011. For the full list, click here.

(as excerpted from Cleveland Scene)

The Envelope, Please
Presenting the best (and worst) from the theater year gone by
by Christine Howey

The good news is the world didn't end in 2011. The bad news is that...

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-envelope-please/Content?oid=2784643

Related Shows: The Life of Galileo

Region's best theater of 2011 (News-Herald)

December 30, 2011 by by Bob Abelman, News-Herald

We're grateful for so many mentions in the Lake County News-Herald's "Best Theater of 2011" list, including Best Drama and Best Musical. Click here to read the full list.

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Every year, local theaters devote themselves to putting on the best shows possible. Although some theaters have deeper pockets, more equity contracts or a grander facility than others, truly superb work is created regardless and, in some cases, in...

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